Paradise Trashed and Aloha Vanishing

[Carey]

One of the reasons that has been given for the tons of plastic debris that wash ashore onto Kamilo Beach, just east of Southpoint, is that it is at the confluence of both of the Pacific gyres. There are fairly frequent cleanups of this beach:
2007 cleanup
http://honoluluweekly.com/diary/2007/12/sea-of-plastic/
2006 cleanup
http://www.pbase.com/charleswilliam3/beach_cleanup
Article in NOAA 200th anniv issue
http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/maga...lcome.html
News on a debris float
http://kgmb9.com/main/content/view/1706/40/
Info on the RV Algalita that is collecting data on the Pacific Gyre
http://www.algalita.org/
Sea Grant or UHH Marine Studies usually have a couple of cleanup trips there, from Hilo, a year... Matson has volunteerd containers & transport for the debris for some of the cleanups