Project Kaisei consists of a team of innovators, scientists, environmentalists, ocean lovers, sailors, and sports enthusiasts who have come together with a common purpose. To study how to capture marine debris in the North Pacific Gyre and to study retrieval and processing techniques that could be potentially employed to detoxify and recycle these materials into diesel fuel. This first research Mission, scheduled for the summer of 2009, will be critical to understanding the logistics that would be needed to launch future clean-up operations and testing existing technologies that have never been utilized under oceanic conditions.
Project Kaisei will examine the largest area of the Plastic Vortex, an ocean gyre, situated to the North East of Hawaii, and approximately five days by boat from the States (San Francisco area). The Mission will consist of a large pass through the Plastic Vortex, with the aim to collect plastic and other debris samples from the ocean in order to showcase some of the new technologies that will be used for processing and recycling.
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