This BBC video shows just one example of a scenario duplicated at hundreds of smaller and even larger waste dumps around the world – many even in the US. This environmental disaster could be turned into an economic benefit for every region in which it occurs (see post below).
Much of the world could be cleaned up with an investment smaller than the Facebook IPO.
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This coming July, Tom Jones will do a 500-mile SUP event circumnavigating Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia. This event will be to benefit the Safe Surfin’ Foundation which protects children from Internet predators, and will also help raise funds for next year’s paddle across the open Pacific from California to Hawaii.
ORCA Expedition to launch April 2013. Tom Jones will standup paddle across the open Pacific from California to Hawaii directly through the Northern pacific Gyre. The accompanying support and research vessel will be the home for a scientific team from one of the world’s leading marine science institutions for more than four months at sea. Check out the events section for details on this incredible ultra-endurance challenge and ocean-breaking research on new threats discovered in plastic waste. Microbes at sea – Friend or Foe?
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"Tom Jones' first world-record paddle resulted in much of the coverage and awareness of water-borne plastic that you see today."
