Project Kaisei Exposes Plastic Waste The Plastic Disclosure Project, an investor-led initiative, will ask corporations to measure and reveal their production and use of plastic and plastic wastes.

Project Kaisei and Covanta Energy hope to process nonrecyclable plastic waste from the country-sized garbage patch in the Pacific and convert it into diesel. There is nothing new or good about the ...

Project to Clean Up North Pacific Garbage Patch Now in its fourth year, Project Kaisei has come to rely upon satellite communications for effective communication with colleagues ashore as well as ...

Project Kaisei Links with BIR The Bureau of International Recycling (BIR), Brussels, has become an official sponsor of Project Kaisei’s effort to assess the impact of and techniques for removing ...

Ocean Voyages Institute founder Mary Crowley, also the co-founder of Project Kaisei, said the group's 151-foot vessel, along with another research boat from the San Diego area, performed tests ...

Still Crowley and her team of researchers keep trying.Next year, Kaisei will bring back 100 tons of garbage to process into oil by pyrolysis. A scratch on the surface, to even be charitable.

2011 marks the third Project Kaisei expedition that Marlink and Sea Tel will support with the donation of VSAT equipment and services. “2009 was the first expedition that Marlink and Sea Tel ...

Kaisei belongs to the Ocean Voyages Institute, a nongovernmental organization that is backing Project Kaisei, another California-based NGO dedicated to studying the plastic vortex and cleaning it up.

Woodring hopes that Project Kaisei will awaken people to the fact that the plastic they throw in the garbage doesn’t just disappear. “Anyone who has ever been on the beach and seen plastic ...

In the expeditions it is planning for 2010, Project Kaisei will focus on picking out big, derelict fishing nets, which can snare marine life in a process known as "ghostfishing." ...

The 5 Gyres Project, a collaboration between AMRF, Livable Legacy and Pangaea Explorations, is determined to travel to each of the planet’s major vortexes and document the extent of plastic ...