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