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TONIGHT - TUES DEC 27 TUNE IN TO WATCH: Ocean Voyages Institute's Cleanup Work featured in 2 hour TV ocean special on the CW Network, 8pm PST/EST/7pm Central.
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#OceanVoyagesInstitute
completes
LARGEST OPEN OCEAN CLEAN UP IN HISTORY
returning to Honolulu with 103 tons of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch after 48 days at SEA.
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We removed over 103 tons (206,000 pounds) of plastic in the largest at-sea cleanup in the North Pacific Gyre to date!
Please follow, share and support us! It is individual donations that have made our work possible!
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Another day, another load of plastic removed from the ocean. Our latest cleanup just ended in Honolulu, bringing our total to just under 800,000 pounds of plastic removed from during our at-sea cleanups. Please be part of the solution, lets end the flow of plastic into our ocean!
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With our latest cleanup completed, Ocean Voyages Institute has now removed almost 700,000 pounds of plastic during our at-sea cleanups. Everything we remove is recycled, repurposed and upcycled. Nothing ends up in a landfill or back in the ocean!
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Many people ask what happens to all the plastic we collect during our at-sea cleanups. We are committed that 100% of what we remove is upcyled, repurposed and/or reused. Nothing will end up in a landfill or back in the ocean! Each year we find new partners to help with this goal!
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Ocean Voyages Institute successfully removed over 40 tons(80,000 Lbs)of “Ghost Nets” & consumer plastics from the Pacific Gyre.This is the largest at-sea Pacific Clean Up to date
#oceanplastic
@NOAA
@SylviaEarle
@AdrianGrenier
@SeaShepherd
@Greenpeace
@UNEnvironment
#CleanOcean
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@lappupper
Some goes to labs for testing, some is given to artists for educational pieces, most however is being shipped to Southern California where is will be turned into building materials, others will go to Nor Cal and will be turned into fuel. The rest goes to H-Power for clean energy
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@RebeccaRHelm
@_Oceanography
Thank you for sharing information with your followers. We are launching another cleanup expedition within the next week. We have enough funding to for about 3 weeks but would love to increase the amount of time we have out there and the amount of plastic we can remove!
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@amidgley
Some is sent to labs for testing, some goes to artists for awareness & educational pieces, all the rest is being turned into contruction materials, turned into fuel or is used by Hpower to create clean energy. Nothing ends up in landfill or back in the ocean!
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The 2nd leg of our record breaking 2020 cleanup expedition is about 2 week in and collecting tons of consumer plastics and ghostnets from the ocean. It is through donations from individuals that our vital work is possible. Please support us:
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The 2nd leg of our 2020 Great Garbage Patch cleanup has returned to port. We removed over 340,000 lbs of plastic from the ocean over our two trips this year. Please learn more and support our work @
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Ocean Voyages Institutes Ship sails into San Fransisco bay with 96 TONS of plastic from the Pacific Garbage Patch! The 45 day expedition from Hawaii to California traversed over 4600 miles of debris filled Ocean.
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We just collected 96 Tons of garbage from the pacific garbage patch !
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@BalloonieC
Our methods are very much scaleable, the only limitation is funding. We are also increasing our efficiency and effectiveness every year. In addition to the cleanup, we are also conducting & supporting scientific research, collaborating with scientists on a variety of projects etc
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@szetoinsitu
@SMWadgymar
Unfortunately there were quite a few fish, who had been trapped and died in the ghostnets before we recovered them. There was also a turtle and only the shell remained. Our removal methods are minimally invasive and we do not have any collateral bycatch of note.
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@FeatheredSchist
Our methods are as non invasive as possible. We are not skimming or collecting large swathes of ocean, we are removing specific ghostnets by lifting them out of the ocean one at a time. These are the same ghost nets which are killing countless fish, turtles, etc.
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Ghostnets are killers! We just completed a cleanup expedition that removed over 103 tons of ghostnets and consumer plastics. But we are not done! We are going out again, departing Hawaii within the next week. Please learn more about our work and support us
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#OceanVoyagesInstitute
's 1 MILLION Pound
#plastic
promise, after record-breaking clean-up of 340,000 lbs. from Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
#plasticpollution
#plasticfree
@NOAA
@BBCEarth
@Treehugger
@EndPlasticWaste
@GuardianSustBiz
@Scripps_Ocean
@NASA
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Ocean Voyages Institute is preparing to head out to sea for another 30day cleanup expedition. We still a little short on funding and could use help. Please share our info with your friends & family. Donations of any amount are appreciated & can be made at:
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Ocean Voyages Institute has removed over 500,000 pounds of plastic from our ocean and we are just getting started! Our 2022 summer Pacific Gyre cleanup is starting this week and aims to be our largest to date! Please follow and support our vital work
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Leg 2 of our 2020 cleanup - the S/V Kwai is on its way to the Gyre to collect most ghostnets and consumer plastic. Our ! last trip brought in 206,000 pounds and we are trying to repeat! Please follow, share and support our work:
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Our cleanup vessel has arrived in San Francisco and will be processing all the plastic ghostnets and consumer plastics collected during our first cleanup of the summer! It looks like a massive haul!
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Everyone at Ocean Voyages Institute is so appreciative of the donations & massive support you have all given over the past few days!
Please keep sharing our work and increasing awareness & we will keep cleaning the ocean! Its all possible because of your support. Thank you!
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Kaneohe Bay reefs are happy. We removed 6 tons – 12,000 lbs. of discarded ghost fishing nets, including one that attached to the reef for over a year. These nets are reef killers.
#HPU
#Hawaii
#HawaiiFriends
#OceanCleanUp
#StopGhostFishing
#ProtectWhatYouLove
#CleanSeas
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A reason to celebrate!
The largest single haul deckhand Ieie, and crane operator Teitera, have ever retrieved, taking over two hours and weighing in at 8-10 tons.
#plasticpollution
#KidsAgainstPlastic
#ghostnet
#gyre
#climate
pic: Todd Yamashita/OVI
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Ocean Voyages Institute has 4 vessels currently at sea with our GPS Satellite trackers tagging ghostnets. We will be continuing our mid-ocean plastic cleanup. We wish to thank where you can donate and qualify to win $50,000 USD and other prized on Aug 31st
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As 2020 finally comes to a close, the Ocean Voyages Institute team wants to thank everyone who has followed, supported & donated to our work! Over the past two years we have removed hundreds of tons of plastic from the Pacific Garbage Patch and we are just getting started!
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Please watch the special on the plastic problem in our ocean with a focus on our cleanup work on Sunday Aug 23rd (tomorrow) on Univision 7pm EST /6 Central / 5pm PST
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Ocean Voyages Institute's 2021 "1 Million Pound Ocean Plastic Cleanup" mission is launching this summer! We will have news in the coming weeks. Please support us and share with your friends and family as we plan to remove over 3x our record last year of 340,000lbs of plastic!
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Thank you
@MissionBlue
for your kind words, support and of course all the great work Sylvia Earle and the whole team do, day in and day out! We are all in this together trying to save the ‘Blue Heart’ of our Planet!
Three cheers for our partner, Ocean Voyages Institute
@oceancleanup
, who have just completed the largest open ocean clean-up ever! They successfully removed over 103 TONS of discarded fishing nets and plastic. Amazing work! 🙌💙
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OVI is cleaning up
#ghostnets
from the
#Gyre
so
#humpback
#whales
can migrate from
#Hawaii
to
#Alaska
, and not risk a gauntlet of
#Plastic
to reach their feeding grounds.
To support:
#PlasticFreeJuly
Tx
@pamfoundation
Pics:
#CRWhaleandBearExcursions
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Please SHARE this post and help spread the word about the Pacific Garbage Patch and cleanup efforts!
Our Sailing Cargo Vessel KWAI is on its way to the garbage patch with a fantastic international crew and we look forward to sending you updates from the ship!
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Calling Artists for help! We are looking for some graphic artists who would be willing to donate a little time to create art which incorporate plastic and the ocean/sea life for use in videos, social media, for fundraising, etc.
Please email Ryan
@oceanvoyagesinstitute
.org
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Plastic pollution in our oceans, seas and waterways is one of the most urgent environmental issues facing our planet. In addition to removing plastics, our cleanup work furthers education & awareness, supports leading scientific research & develops new remediation technology.
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Great news! Ocean Voyages Institute
@OceanCleanUp
& Kwai crew have conducted the largest cleanup of ocean plastics to date!
#plastic
#plasticpollution
#oceanplastic
#SaveOurOceans
#SaveOurPlanet
#PacificOcean
#Hawaii
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@TrevorABranch
Thank you Trevor for your kind words! We have removed just under 800,000 pounds of plastic during our at-sea cleanups in the last few years and we are proud to have done this using sailing cargo vessels, reducing our carbon footprint, our fuel usage and over all costs
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A nice article from
#SFGate
. They point out something important, we are able to scale up our cleanups now and the only limit on how much we remove is financial support. We have been fully funded thus far by individuals and Foundations.
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Everything we remove from the ocean is upcycled, reused and repurposed. We are excited to partner with ByFusion in our vital ocean cleanup work.
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#BenLecomte
stepping on land after swimming for 80 days from Hawaii to SF, thru the
#PacificGarbagePatch
, to raise awareness for
#oceanplastic
#oceanhero
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@_iamafish_
Thanks for the shout-out! Yes we were able to double the amout of plastic we removed this year compared to last year’s expedition, but we also were able to raise enough money to send out cleanup vessel out again, so. stay tuned, we will be returning to port next month with more!
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Ghostnets and Plastic Pollution is our oceans are killing all forms of marine life. It is heartbreaking to remove one of these killer nets only to find sea turtles, fish, etc who we were were not able to save. Please join us and support our cleanup work.
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This
#internationalwomensday2021
we celebrate
Mary T Crowley:
Ocean clean-up pioneer, sailor, mother, business owner and Founder of Ocean Voyages Institute.
Mary makes things happen! We love you, thank you for all you do!
#IWD2021
#InternationalWomensDay
#endplasticwaste
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Ocean Voyages Institute Commits to Removing 1 Million Pounds of Plastic From the Ocean
Read the full release here:
#Plastic
#plasticpollution
#plasticfree
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Happy
#GivingTuesday
🌊Help us remove more toxic consumer plastics and ghost nets from our ocean in the new year! Donate at the “donate” button in the top left hand corner on our website and you can help to restore our ocean today!
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Great article featuring Ocean Voyages Institute on the Galapagos Islands and effects mass finishing fleets are having on the islands and sealife. Expanding the Marine Sanctuary to 350miles offshore is an important step to protecting this unique ecosystem.
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@benogeh
@CLEANUPKENYADAY
@JamesWakibia
@theflipflopi
@EarthBeauty17
@ecoforlifeeu
@LitterFreeKenya
@EndPlasticWaste
@EnvironmentalGr
@OurOcean
@TheOceanCleanup
Having conducted research and cleanup expeditions in the North Pacific Gyre the past 11 years we can attest to the damage plastic is causing marine life. When we remove ghostnets the one thing they all have in common is the fish, turtles, etc who were
@entrapped
and killed.
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🌊Ocean Voyages Institute's 2020 Gyre cleanup expedition launched from Hilo Hawaii yesterday. Help us remove toxic consumer plastics and ghost nets from our ocean! Donate at the “donate” button in the top left hand corner on our website
#GivingTuesday
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SV Kwai crew
#freedive
to recover a
#ghostnet
for storage in the ship's hold.
This year, Ocean Voyages Institute recovered 340,000 lbs of plastic from the GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH.
#kidsagainstplastic
#plasticfree
photo: Jackson McMuldren/OVI
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TUNE IN TOMORROW TUES DEC 27: Ocean Voyages Institute's Cleanup Work featured in 2 hour TV ocean special!
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We share Sylvia’s love and commitment to Galapagos as a “hope zone” and to increase the limits of the marine sanctuary!
I first came to the Galápagos as a scientist in 1966. It seems like a different world. It is in fact, a different world. Here in the Galápagos Islands, it’s a miracle that so much is still the way it likely was a thousand years ago.
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Long days scanning the horizon lead to a welcome catch, as crew haul
#plastic
debris in the GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH.
#OceanVoyagesInstitute
is committed to removing 1 Million lbs. of plastic from the Gyre.
pic: J. McMuldren/OVI
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We are back with tons of plastic cleaned up from the pacific garbage patch! Come say hi to us in San Francisco today and tomorrow at the US Army Corps of Engineers dock at the Sausalito Bay Model Visitors Center!
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Thank you
#huffpost
for this in depth coverage on
#PlasticPollution
and OVI’s recent efforts.
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We agree 100% on this. The existing Marine Sanctuaries in many cases need to have size increased. For example we have been advocating for the Galapagos Sanctuary to be extended to 350miles to protect the fragile ecosystem and marine life from the damage of huge fishing fleets.
World leaders pledged to preserve biodiversity and increase ocean protection.
One piece of the puzzle: more and stronger marine protected areas.
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Thank you,
@NobelPeaceOslo
, for recognizing the importance of cleaning up plastic pollution from the world’s oceans, and the work of Ocean Voyages Institute.
#plasticfreejuly
The Good News of the Week: Every minute, 15 tons of new plastic end up in the words’ oceans, according to WWF. Removing all this plastic again seems like an impossible quest. But last month, an encouraging record was set by
@oceancleanup
in the North pacific.
#GoodNews
#PeaceDove
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⛵️Ocean Voyages Institute is excited to be launching the first of our 2022 Pacific Garbage Patch Cleanup Voyages in the last days of May! ⛵️
🐠We hope to break the record we set in 2020 by removing over 340,000 pounds of plastic. We will be launching soon and sending updates!
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@ysrthgrathe
@FeatheredSchist
Our cleanup methods are minimally invasive. We are not skimming the ocean or collecting indiscriminately from wide swaths of ocean surface. We are removing targeted plastic in bulk.
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One of the biggest ways people can help is by sharing our work with their friends, family and colleagues. We need support and for more people to hear about this vital problem facing our oceans and ourselves!
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#MaryCrowley
greeting
#BenLecomte
upon his arrival in SF after an 80 day swim. Ben and his team deployed GPS Satellite Trackers to large
#ghostnets
that Mary and
@oceancleanup
#OceanVoyagesInstitute
will retrieve on their next expedition.
#VortexSwim
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40 Tons of Fishing Nets Retrieved in Pacific Ocean Cleanup
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Ghost nets kill and untold number of fish and marine mammals. This is a big reason why we are out in the Pacific Garbage Patch collecting plastic debris.
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@puentemuniz
@RobRobbEdwards
Sadly during both legs of our ocean cleanup expedition this year we have found many turtles killed after becoming trapped in plastic ghostnets :(
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Since 2009 when we started working on the problem of plastic pollution in our ocean, we have endeavoured to raise awareness to this urgent problem. We will continue to scale up our ocean cleanups efforts, but the flow of plastic in the ocean needs to stop
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Thank you for bringing attention to our work! We have been working on the problem of plastic pollution our global ocean since 2009 and each year our technology has become more effective and efficient. How much plastic we remove from the ocean is now only dictated by funding!
The marine plastic recovery vessel has pulled 103 tons of trash from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by itself. 😮
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Great job Mary, Brad, S/Y Kwai and Ocean Voyages Institute team!
#OceanVoyagesInstitute
completes
LARGEST OPEN OCEAN CLEAN UP IN HISTORY
returning to Honolulu with 103 tons of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch after 48 days at SEA.
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This year we have partnered with ByFusion
@ByFusionPBC
who are converting plastic we remove from the ocean into construction materials.
We are also working with Resynergi, HPower, Bracenet and a variety of companies in Europe who are converting these materials into many uses.
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We are excited for this support in cleaning our oceans!
Let's rid our oceans of toxic plastics and ghost nets! We're proud to announce the latest
@wintogetherorg
campaign - the Clean Oceans campaign. Launches June 14!
@causes
@oceancleanup
@discover_film
$tdac
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Our expedition just returned to Honolulu and we removed over 103 tons (206,000 pounds) of consumer plastics and ghostnets from the North Pacific Gyre this year!
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Thank you for sharing our vital work with your network. Ocean Voyages Institute has been working on the problem of plastic pollution in the ocean for over a decade and it was great to more than double the amount from our cleanup last year! 2nd 2020 cleanup is currently underway!
Hawaii Group (
@oceancleanup
) Pulls Record Amount of
#Plastic
From Ocean
Ocean Voyages Institute said it recently removed 103 tonnes of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, double its best-ever haul.
#plasticpollution
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In the middle of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, crew members Frank, Annika and Ieie strap a line to a large
#plastic
net, before hauling on board S/V Kwai. This debris will be repurposed into building blocks and…
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@ClearBlueSeaOrg
Thank you
@ClearBlueSeaOrg
for your kind words of encouragement! We saw you featured in the WAPO article and would love to learn more about your FRED device! Innovation and dedication is needed to save our oceans!
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This is a great article, thought sadly it has taken over a decade for the world to start to take notice of the severity of this problem. Our 1st scientific expedition in the North Pacific in 2009 took hundreds of samples and we found plastic in every water & biologic sample.
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#Plastics
are a risk to whales, turtles and many species of marine life in the
#GreatPacificGarbagePatch
.
Sailing cargo Kwai is no exception as a
#GHOSTNET
snags the propeller during a debris retrieval operation.
#kidsagainstplastic
#plasticfree
@seekandsaunterphoto
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Thank you
@Benioff
for your support in preserving the health of the oceans! ❤️🌊🐋🦑🐠🐟🦞🐳🦐🐡🦀🌊❤️
In a mission to clean up trash floating in the ocean, environmentalists pulled 40 tons (36 metric tons) of abandoned fishing nets from an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
@oceancleanup
@TheOceanCleanup
@FriendsofOcean
@UCSBenioffOcean
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This is one reason, we and many others have been advocating the marine sanctuary limits in Galapagos need to be extended to 350 miles offshore or more!
New evidence suggests China’s ‘dark’ vessels poached in Galápagos waters
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Thank you to
@AATCC
California for the wonderful Sustainable Textiles and Apparel Conference! Our founder, Mary Crowley, spoke about our important work, removing toxic ocean plastic. We also heard from
@weareouterknown
and
@ECONYL
on ways it can be reused in the apparel industry.
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We appreciate everyone's support in our ongoing work! It is through individual donations we have gotten this far, much more to do though! visit us at
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In 2009 we launched our 1st gyre expedition.
"Twenty years from now we can't be harvesting the ocean for trash. We need to... stop the problem from growing and hopefully reverse the course".
11 yrs later and I am feeling like a broken record...
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It was great being included in the Univision program on plastic pollution in our oceans. We appreciate Univision's focus on the health of our planet!
The incredible Mary Crowley from
@oceancleanup
speaking about the the dangers of plastic pollution.
#InundadosEnPl
ástico 🌊
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Shoutout to Broton who will be donating his income from Twitch to us! Our cleanup expeditions have been funded by the generous donations of individuals like
@TheRealBroton
, Organizations and Foundations around the world. Thank you all for making our work possible!
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Ocean Voyages Institute's 2022 gyre plastic pollution cleanup is underway. Follow us on social media and share with friends and family:
WEBSITE:
FACEBOOK:
INSTAGRAM:
YOUTUBE:
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Ocean Voyages Institute is focused on removing
#ghostnets
and
#consumerwaste
from the
#World
’s
#Oceans
. Less known, is the important scientific work undertaken on board these expeditions.
@smithsonian
@Nature
@BBCWorld
@BBCScienceNews
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@RobRobbEdwards
Thank you Rob for tweeting about our work and your support! We are excited to have removed over 103 tons of ghostnets and consumer plastic from the North Pacific Gyre in May/June! FYI - we just launched the 2nd leg of our summer cleanup, so stay tuned in 30 days for more results!
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If you thought 42 tons of recovered ghost nets was a lot. Wait until 2020. We’re aiming to remove 400 tons! More news at press conference tomorrow 9:00 am at HPU’s Aloha Tower Marketplace.
#HPU
#Hawaii
#HawaiiFriends
#OceanCleanUp
#StopGhostFishing
#ProtectWhatYouLove
#CleanSeas
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Stop the flow of plastic into the ocean, cleanup our rivers, watersheds & shorelines and begin the process of cleaning our oceans. Global action is necessary NOW!
EPA chief calls plastic waste 'top priority'
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Check out our successful
#OceanCleanUp
expedition in this beautiful video.
#OceanPlastic
#PlasticPollution
@UNEnvironment
@SylviaEarle
@Benioff
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Come follow our Ocean Clean Up story! Ocean Voyages is excited to share our success in achieving the largest ocean plastic cleanup to date! Press release at 10:30 am at the St Francis Yacht Club SF
@StFYC
.
#PacificGyre
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