In 2010 scientists Marcus Eriksen and Anna Cummins), who are
studying plastic pollution in the world’s oceans, visited
Bermuda to study the Atlantic “Garbage Patch” [pictured] which
exists in the waters off the island. Similar to one in the
Pacific identified in the 1990s, the floating garbage from the
North American mainland — extending over thousands of square
miles but difficult to spot from the surface and spun together
by a convergence of ocean currents — is harmful for fish, sea
mammals and possibly even humans even though much of the plastic
is broken into almost microscopic particles. Now the man who
started it all, Captain Charles Moore, is coming to Bermuda next
week to give a talk sponsored by environmental group Greenrock.
Captain Moore, who discovered the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”,
is the founder of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation and
has logged over 100,000 miles of research voyages studying
marine plastics pollution. He will speak about his years of
research investigating the growin