A display of ceanic flotsam (all plastic). Note the Looptworks Deer Grazer Tee.
“After a temporary break in the weather and a fairly brutal night, the crew was up and in science mode again. Just around 11 am, the sun broke and Marcus and Anna spotted what’s called a wind row or flotsam line. The sea was fairly calm, and we followed the row.” -Stiv Wilson from WEND magazine.
The research crew supported by WEND, Surfrider, Aquapac, Looptworks and Patagonia has not yet reached the heart of the Atlantic Gyre and already, has come across Wind Row’s or Flotsam Lines of debris. According to Stiv’s article these lines either wash ashore or gather in the gyre which is still two nautical days of sailing away from their current location.
Maybe you wonder what you can do to reduce the input of plastics into our beautiful oceans? Here are a few suggestions:
1. Make sure all your plastic debris is either recycled or placed in municipal garbage cans.
2. Pick up plastic (bottle caps, plastic bags, ect) and other trash from the streets and make sure it makes it to a proper disposal area. One of the major contributors to the worlds gyre’s is storm drain runoff.
3. Don’t litter.
4. Choose not to support plastic with your dollars. Use reusable bags! Buy can soda! Use a wooden toothbrush!
This is a serious problem that needs serious attention. One thing that Looptworks does to reduce our plastic footprint is never utilizing poly-bag shipment methods. With almost every apparel company out there, when receiving new garments from warehouses and factories, the garments are individually wrapped in plastic called poly-bags, this is done so that the garment dosen’t get dirty. It is an added cost to the company that is in turn added to the cost of the garment. Looptworks does not allow any of our shipped garments to be poly-baged, instead we ask our warehouseman to wash their hands before handling garments.
To read the rest of Stiv’s article please click here.
Anna and Marcus come upon some floating debris. Yes, that is a rubber boot.
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