On August 29th I was asked to write up a Project Summary.
Basically write down what and how I envisioned this project to do in the future.
So in one page I came up with the following:
Plastic Continents Research Project
Summary
Background Information:
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“Plastic
Continent(s)” is only one out of many other aliases for a current phenomenon
that has been happening in our oceans today.
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In 1997,
Captain Charles Moore, whom was part of the Algalita Marine Research
Foundation, discovered and made the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” public.
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Since many
companies, organizations that are profit and non-profit, as well as inventors
have worked on finding solutions.
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Some
preventive: Beach clean-ups, recycling, etc...
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Other solution
revolve on recycling plastic to turn it into:
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a single type
of plastic
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Mike Biddle and
MBAPolymers Co.
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fuel
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Akinori Ito and
Cleantechnica
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awareness
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Natacha Palay
and www.Plasticcontinents.com as an intermediary website connecting all sources
into one webpage
Goal with doing a
research Program with USF:
-Research what type of research has been made on this
remarkable discovery
-collect found data
-update website
-interview known researchers who have been studying
“Plastic Continents”
-and ultimately create an Art Piece that could be
displayed on USF Campus to show involvement
in the cause and fundamentally spread awareness.
What would the ART
Sculpture entail:
-Recuperated pieces of plastic from our ocean.
-oral presentation that would explain goal and spread
awareness as well as information
-start a new type of curiosity in finding new solutions
to this known problem, the mass have been hidden from.
-and perhaps make USF the first campus have 100%
BIODegradable (biobased) Plastic.
Who could be involved:
-Chemistry Departments -Marketing
and Advertising Departments
-Biology Department -School
of Art
-Marine Biology department -Law
-Business departments -and
so many more!
-Engineering Departments
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