Someone recently asked me: “What is The Gyre Cleanup Project all about?” I don’t know about you, but sometimes, it is easier to describe what we are not, prior to talking about what we are. Briefly here is a short recap of how I responded: It’s not a war on plastic, we have enough wars; It’s not a fight against poor governmental environmental policies, though we advocate change; It’s not a fight against bad manufacturing practices, though we agree much change is needed here at the source of the material; and lastly, it is not a judgment of where we are individually with our own plastic use.
What we are ALL about:
It is a call to awareness of where we are at and what’s happening in our oceans and our food chain. We believe that with new information we can make a difference and start to be a part of the positive transformation of our oceans. WE are a grassroots movement to encourage individual action and collaboration between people of this planet to help address the plastic that has gotten caught in the natural moving tides of our oceans, called ‘gyres’.