Trash Vortex and Ocean Hitchhiking

Greenpeace’s ‘Trash Vortex’ campaign

“The trash vortex is an area the size of Texas in the North Pacific in which an estimated six kilos of plastic for every kilo of natural plankton, along with other slow degrading garbage, swirls slowly around like a clock, choked with dead fish, marine mammals, and birds who get snared. Some plastics in the gyre will not break down in the lifetimes of the grandchildren of the people who threw them away.”

This problem is not limited to the North Pacific, 600,000 tonnes of plastic is estimated to be floating the North Sea!

Greenpeace also highlight the issue of ‘ocean hitchhiking’

“The floating plastics can also affect marine ecosystems in a surprising way, by providing a ready surface for organisms to live on. These plants and animals can then be transported on the plastic far outside their normal habitat. These ocean hitch-hikers can then invade new habitats to become possible nuisance species.”

Plastic Pacific

KP Creative’s ‘Plastic Pacific’ explores the frightening reality of plastic in our oceans. The household objects are presented as the sea creatures which these very objects destroy in our oceans.