The Atlantic Gyre research team has reportedly been coming upon more and more flotsom, windrows and general junk. Check out these video’s posted by the research team. In the first clip, the team discovers a little jelly fish embedded with plastic. (Both video’s are only about 30 seconds long).

1st Trawl in Caribbean on Vimo

This second video is from a more recent trawl.

Chasing Windrows on Vimeo
I’m sure that we can all agree that these plastic items do not belong in our oceans! If you are interested in reducing the amount of plastics that are flowing into your closest waterway, here are a few links to plastic waste solution.

All suggestions and links have been taken from Sami Ewers who writes, Sustainably Yours. To view this post, The dedicated Recycler, or other Sustainably Yours columns, you can visit weekly on the Greenery blog hosted by WEND magazine. 

What you can recycle, if you find the right place:

Styrofoam – search earth911.com and you should be able to find a center for styrofoam recycling in your city.

#5 plastic – go to Preserve.com to search for a drop-off location, or to learn how you can send your #5 plastics directly to them.

Toothbrush/razor handles —  Send these directly to Preserve by printing out a pre-paid mailing label.

Water filters — send or drop off by searching here.

Bottle caps — Ones “that twist on with a threaded neck such as caps on shampoo, water, soda, milk and other beverage bottles, flip top caps on tubes and food product bottles (such as ketchup and mayonnaise), laundry detergents and some jar lids such as peanut butter” These can be sent to Aveda to be used for new containers.