Why is the worlds biggest landfill in the pacific ocean. This video is a very well produced mockumentary which follows the journey of a plastic bag from a california city to the ocean with its final destination of the great pacific garbage patch. May 17, 2011 the south pacific islands survey pop quiz. A 2009 new york times article described it as light bulbs, bottle caps, toothbrushes, popsicle sticks and tiny pieces of plastic, each the size of a grain of rice, inhabit the pacific garbage patch, an area of widely dispersed trash that doubles in size every decade and is now believed to be roughly twice the size of texas. Captain charles moore, of all people, thinks such an effort would be futile source. Us nov 22, 2011 by izea 10 comments when environmental journalist and recent stanford grad lindsey hoshaw had the chance to cover the great pacific garbage patch, a vast accumulation of garbage floating in the ocean, for the new york times, she knew the threeweek reporting trip would be worth it. This was the problemnot that there was a garbage island or that the fragments were. Lindsey hoshaw light bulbs, bottle caps, toothbrushes, popsicle sticks and tiny pieces of plastic, each the size of a grain of rice, inhabit the pacific garbage patch, an area of widely dispersed trash that doubles in size every decade. While cleaning up the great pacific garbage patch would undoubtedly do wonders for the health of the oceans and their inhabitants, fisheries, ecosystems and food supplies, the logistics of such an undertaking would strain the resolve of the most aquaticminded individual. Lets talk about garbage namely, freelance journalist lindsey hoshaws project on the great pacific garbage patch and no, im not calling the project garbage, which culminated with the new york times publication of a story she wrote. Lindsey hoshaw is an interactive producer for kqed science.
The garbage patch media event has already contributed to plastic bag bans. Nov 16, 2009 last week the new york times published a story by freelance journalist lindsey hoshaw on a plastic garbage patch in the pacific ocean thats twice the size of texas. A journalist raises money for her or his story on the spot. Her work has appeared in the new york times, the boston globe and scientific american. For many people, national geographic reported, the idea of a garbage patch conjures up images of an island of trash floating on the ocean. In the end they didnt run it as the copy for their project went. Captain moore joked, the garbage patch is like a box of chocolates, you never know what youre going to get. Several hours after i published yesterdays post about lindsey hoshaws crowdfunded story in the. Lindsey hoshaw for the new york times plastic is the most common refuse in the patch because it is lightweight, durable and an omnipresent, disposable product in. For decades, the oceans were an overlooked domain when it came to environmental awareness. Great pacific garbage patch, photo author lindsey hoshaw flickr. November 10, 2009 afloat in the ocean, expanding islands of trash. The great pacific garbage patch, also described as the pacific trash vortex, is a gyre of marine debris particles in the northcentral pacific ocean.
Why the decline and rebirth of environmental journalism. Lindsey hoshaw, a young journalist and former student. Oct 25, 2014 referencr to a new project, the biggest marine dump yard. May 30, 2017 yet in reality, the great pacific garbage patch is nearly invisible to the naked eye. Great pacific garbage patch first affirmative leadership blog. The best way to stem the growth of the patch is to use less plastic and recycle it more often. Garbage patch cleanup, realistically howstuffworks. These garbage patches not only degrade the quality of the ocean, but also result in the deaths of millions. Under the surface, great pacific garbage patch, 2009, photo. May 25, 2011 lindsey hoshaw light bulbs, bottle caps, toothbrushes, popsicle sticks and tiny pieces of plastic, each the size of a grain of rice, inhabit the pacific garbage patch, an area of widely dispersed trash that doubles in size every decade and is now believed to be roughly twice the size of texas. The environment for the robot swarm system is the worlds oceans, which are currently polluted with millions of tons of plastic particulates in large garbage patches.
Nov 10, 2009 lindsey hoshaw for the new york times plastic is the most common refuse in the patch because it is lightweight, durable and an omnipresent, disposable product in both advanced and developing. Us, a san franciscobased website to crowdfund journalism. Great pacific garbage patch, photo author lindsey hoshaw. The severity of sea plastic garbage issue can be seen in this pile of waste. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover lindseys. Lindsey hoshaw is a freelance journalist based in boston who writes about technology and the environment. While cleaning up the great pacific garbage patch would undoubtedly do wonders for the health of the oceans and their inhabitants, fisheries, ecosystems and food supplies, the logistics of such an undertaking would. As my second marathon and first one in boston it was an incredible experience. Lindsey hoshaw ux writer verily life sciences linkedin. Gyres and garbage patches the plastic litter defacing the beaches of the world, alarming in hawaiian archipelagos for instance, led, only two decades. The patch is characterized by exceptionally high concentrations of pelagic plastics, chemical sludge, and other debris that have been trapped by the currents of the north pacific gyre. A journey to the the great pacific garbage patch motley.
Facebook gives people the power to share and makes. Aboard the alguita, 1,000 miles northeast of hawaii in this remote patch of the pacific ocean, hundreds. Researchers explore growing ocean garbage patches the. While large patches of plastic exist, much of it is small and suspended.
National geographic perhaps best captures the real and imagined seascapes of the garbage patch. I thought of the eastern pacific garbage patch, a large area of garbage floating in the pacific ocean. The author of that article is lindsey hoshaw, a freelance journalist who spent three weeks this summer aboard the oceanographic research vessel alguita on an expidition led by captain charles moore to explore that great swatch of plastic in the sea. November 10, 2009 afloat in the ocean, expanding islands.
The south pacific islands surveypop quiz scientific. Nov 11, 2009 several hours after i published yesterdays post about lindsey hoshaws crowdfunded story in the. There were over 20,000 people who ran and close to 4,000 banditspeople who didnt register but jumped in anyway. See more ideas about great pacific garbage patch, plastic pollution and ocean garbage patch. Lindsey hoshaw for the new york times plastic is the most common refuse in the patch because it is lightweight, durable and an omnipresent, disposable product in both advanced and developing. Us, writes about what researchers speculate might be. Lindsey hoshaw, a young journalist and former student of mine. Today in the new york times science section youll find a piece written by lindsey hoshaw about the pacific garbage patch and an accompanying photo slide show. There is a common misconception that the trash is simply on the surface, but the facts are a bit more disturbing. Great pacific garbage patch photos plastic pollution photos the daily green garbage in the. Opinion one newspaper, many checkbooks the new york times. Nov 11, 2009 related in the article afloat in the ocean, expanding islands of trash, freelance journalist lindsey hoshaw, whose travels and reporting for this story were partially funded by readers of spot. Afloat in the ocean, expanding islands of trash by lindsey hoshaw aboard the alguita, 1,000 miles northeast of hawaii in this remote patch of the pacific ocean, hundreds of miles from any national boundary, the detritus of human life is collecting in a swirling current so large that it defies precise measurement. A few weeks ago globalpost asked me to write up an eye witness account of the garbage patch.
Extinction, it seemed, was something that happened on land and pollution, primarily anyway, was a fate for air, lakes and rivers. This was the problemnot that there was a garbage island or that the fragments were too tiny to bother cleaning up, it was the unpredictability. Jan 14, 2011 the garbage patch media event has already contributed to plastic bag bans in san francisco and elsewhere, and has both led to and been reflected in the improbable spectacle of at least two different awarenessraising voyages in vessels constructed of castoff plastic water bottles, complete with a clownish battle over rights to the ships. Yes, the same garbage patch that contributing writer rebecca tolin wrote about when a group of scripps institution of oceanography researchers visited in the summer. The great pacific garbage patch holds over 700 million tons of trash. The great pacific garbage patch sounds like something out of a roald dahl or dr. Garbage patch, photo author lindsey hoshaw by duncan kinney is. This week kqed, a northern california radio station and npr affiliate, published 25 photos from the garbage patchsome of them that i hadnt. Among other things, this panel took up the article panelist lindsey hoshaw wrote about the garbage patch for the new york times and some of the reaction to it including from panelist miriam. Did you catch the nyt piece on the garbage patch last week andor check out the accompanying slide show. Researchers explore growing ocean garbage patches the new. Before joining kqed, lindsey was a science correspondent for the new york times, the boston globe, forbes and scientific american. New york times reporter lindsey hoshaw filed a story this week from the socalled great pacific garbage patch in the north pacific gyre.
The story was written by a freelance journalist lindsey hoshaw. Reporter lindsey hoshaw recently returned from a trip to the pacific garbage patch. Lindsey hoshaw, a freelance journalist in palo alto, calif. Last week the new york times published a story by freelance journalist lindsey hoshaw on a plastic garbage patch in the pacific ocean thats twice the size of texas. Yes, the same garbage patch that contributing writer rebecca tolin wrote about when a group of scripps institution of oceanography researchers visited in the summer for the uninitiated, the garbage patch is a collection of floating. From the article see what lurks in the great pacific garbage patch photos.
Lindsey hoshaw kqed kqed public media for northern ca. Related in the article afloat in the ocean, expanding islands of trash, freelance journalist lindsey hoshaw, whose travels and reporting for this story were partially funded by readers of spot. Thoughts on trash talk matters of varying insignificance. Jul 19, 2009 lindsey hoshaw, a freelance journalist in palo alto, calif. Us community members just a quick note about our reporter, lindsey hoshaw, and her progress reporting on the great pacific garbage patch.
Tempest in a garbage patch the last word on nothing. Her trip to examine the garbage patch was partially funded through spot. Afloat in the ocean, expanding islands of trash on the tide. These garbage patches not only degrade the quality of the ocean, but also result in the deaths of millions of oceanic. However, while the plastic garbage project made its great tour, numerous organizations and initiatives have arisen and knowledge about the problem has increased. Lindsey hoshaw in papeete tahiti on the eve of pacific. It is located roughly from 5w to 155w and 35n to 42n. Nov 10, 2009 today in the new york times science section youll find a piece written by lindsey hoshaw about the pacific garbage patch and an accompanying photo slide show. One should not miss lindsey hoshaws gruesomely fascinating article in tuesdays ny times, about the vast garbage islands in the pacific most of us had heard about these giant floating garbage collections, but somehow hoshaw has gone the needed distance to make us feel how impossibly and fantastically awful these land masses of refuse in the ocean really are. Report on the pacific garbage patch a toxic garbage soup over twice the size of texas sits in the pacific ocean, and ive been given an opportunity to write about it for the new york times.
The collection of plastic and floating trash originates from the pacific rim, including countries in asia, north america, and south america. Join facebook to connect with lindsey hoshaw and others you may know. The key stakeholders in the garbage patch story have been exploring the many dimensions of. Nov 10, 2009 new york times reporter lindsey hoshaw filed a story this week from the socalled great pacific garbage patch in the north pacific gyre. The project had been receiving a lot of attention in the journalism sphere primarily because it was. Yet in reality, the great pacific garbage patch is nearly invisible to the naked eye. From persontoperson coaching and intensive handson seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, poynter helps journalists sharpen skills. Nov 10, 2009 one should not miss lindsey hoshaws gruesomely fascinating article in tuesdays ny times, about the vast garbage islands in the pacific most of us had heard about these giant floating garbage collections, but somehow hoshaw has gone the needed distance to make us feel how impossibly and fantastically awful these land masses of refuse in the ocean really are. Aboard the alguita, 1,000 miles northeast of hawaii in this remote patch of the pacific.
When the mermaids cry gyres and garbage patches children. Oct 10, 2011 the great pacific garbage patch sounds like something out of a roald dahl or dr. View lindsey hoshaws profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Lindsey hoshaw for the new york times 1 silverman, j. A nightmare at sea it comprises the plastic flotsam collected from the beach cleaning operations in the north sea, hawaii, the baltic sea and the rest of the world. Plastic is the most common refuse in the patch because it is lightweight, durable and an omnipresent. Great pacific garbage patch, photo author lindsey hoshaw photo author, lindsey hoshaw. Gyres and garbage patches the plastic litter defacing the beaches of the world, alarming in hawaiian archipelagos for instance, led, only two decades ago, a couple of private and public teams of en. Us and a community of over 100 people hadnt come together to fund her trip. Quest reporter amy standen talks with journalist lindsey hoshaw, who has recently returned from a trip to the pacific garbage patch, about.
Journalist lindsey hoshaw said, light bulbs, bottle caps, toothbrushes, popsicle sticks, soda pop plastic bottles, water bottles and tiny pieces of plastic, each the size of a grain of rice, inhabit the pacific garbage patch, an area of widely dispersed trash that doubles in size every decade just in the pacific garbage patch and is now. At the bottom of this post are some photos, but i will warn you, some of them are disturbing. Her dream was to report and publish a story about the great pacific garbage patch, a swirl of marine litter, mostly plastic, estimated to be roughly two times the size of texas. May 25, 2011 the story was written by a freelance journalist lindsey hoshaw. She was the only journalist on a scientific expedition led by charles moore, who discovered the patch 12 years ago. Dec 09, 2009 captain moore joked, the garbage patch is like a box of chocolates, you never know what youre going to get. Despite its size and density, the patch is not visible from satellite photography, since it consists primarily of suspended particulates in the upper water column. You might find a journalism crowdfunding platform that meets your needs on this helpful list you will now be redirected to. Several hours after i published yesterdays post about lindsey hoshaw s crowdfunded story in the.