5 Gyers Plastic Research

We have partnered up with the 5 Gyres Ocean Plastics nonprofit who are on a mission to reduce the amount of plastics in the ocean. We are part of the 5 Gyres Trawlshare program to help with their studies they are doing to make an estimate of how much plastic is in the ocean. We do trawls with the Manta Trawl that they provided us with, and then go through the samples for plastics. We are every exited to be taking part in this important study!!!

Data sheet from one of our Long Island Sound trawls
Our data sheet from our Block Island trawl
Data sheet from one of our Long Island trawls

Data sheet from our Chesapeake Bay trawl
Other data sheet from the Chesapeake Bay trawl

One of our samples that was collected in the manta trawl.

Going through one of our samples from the Chesapeake.

My supplies that I use to go through samples and get all the little plastics out.

The samples usually look something like this.

One of our trawls in the Chesapeake.

Thin film plastics from a trawl in the Chesapeake Bay.

Fragment plastics from a trawl in Long Island Sound.

Line plastics from our Chesapeake Bay trawl.

Foam plastics from our Chesapeake Bay trawl.

Pellet plastics from our Long Island Sound trawl.

Thin film plastics from our Long Island Sound trawl.

Fragment plastics from our Long Island Sound trawl.





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