there are also tinier pieces, hard to see, but everywhere. i m finding little pieces like this throughout. the pieces that you actually are located down there. each time we got into the water, we found countless plastic pieces, all different shapes and sizes. most plastic is not dumped directly into the ocean. much of what you see has been discarded on land, traveling thousands of miles and breaking up along the way. the sargasso sea in the north atlantic is the world s only body of water without shores. it s defined by the currents of the north atlantic gyre, currents that also carry with them our plastic filth, making one of the five ocean garbage
treatment that contributes to the contamination of the oceans. it s estimated 7% of plastics entering the municipal waste treatment is recycled and another 80% is landfilled. but that s just what s collected. a large amount disappears into the environment and sooner or later washes out into the oceans. there it gets stuck in a gyre, a large system of rotating currents. there s five big gyres around the world. today, i m here in bermuda to see one of them. the north atlantic gyre. hi. nice to meet you. marcus is the executive cofounder of the five gyres institute and he along with marine ecologist j.p. skinner have spent their careers studying the ecological effecting of plastic marine pollution. what are we doing today? we re going to look for a plastic in the middle of the sea. let s get to work. the five gyres institute is
yes, it s another waste treatment that contributes to the contamination of the oceans. it s estimated 7% of plastics entering the municipal waste stream is recycled and another 80% is land filled but that s just what s collected. a large amount disappears into the environment and sooner or later washes out into the oceans. there it gets stuck in a gyre, a large system of rotating currents. there s five big gyres around the world. today, i m here in bermuda to see one of them. the north atlantic gyre. martin jp. hi. nice to meet you. marcus is the executive cofounder of the five gyres institute and he along with marine ecologist j.p. skinner spent careers studying the ecological effects of plastic marine pollution. what are we doing today? we re going to look for a plastic in the middle of the sea. get the boats ready and ready to ship out. let s get to work.