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Emily Tripp Senior Writer A recent study published on June 27 in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series found plastic in the stomachs of nine percent of fishes living in the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” The study was completed by a group of graduate students from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Two [...]
Mary Crowley, co-funder of Project Kasei and one of the members of the team that studies the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and sailed along the SEAPLEX expedition – see our report about the expedition – last August, is dreaming of converting the little pieces of plastic, that are being ingested by marine life, into fuel or building materials while cleaning the ocean.
