5 Gyres - Understanding Plastic Pollution Through Exploration, Education, and Action

Using non-biodegradable plastic to manufacture "Throw Away" products is dumb, and results in trashed oceans.  Recently, at the California Water and the Environment Association annual conference in Sacramento, the 5 Gyres team gave a keynote address about plastic marine pollution collected from the centers of three subtropical gyres: North Pacific gyre, North Atlantic Gyre, Indian Ocean Gyre. 

On the flight home, the Sky Mall catalog of amusing products listed a "must have" item for every household - an underwater pogo stick.  It's an example of another product made from plastic, but with no post-consumer plan for recovery and use of the material it's made from.  That's dumber.