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 Project Kaisei Links with BIRThe Bureau of International Recycling (BIR), Brussels, has become an official sponsor of Project Kaisei’s effort to assess the impact of and techniques for removing marine debris from the Pacific Ocean. Through the program, Project Kaisei, based in Sausalito, Calif., sent a two-boat expedition to study the issue from the U.S. West Coast.

Project Kaisei seeks to study the North Pacific Gyre and the marine debris that has collected in this oceanic region to determine how to capture the material and detoxify and recycle it into diesel fuel, according to the organization’s Web site.

"We are very excited to be supporting Project Kaisei’s first research expedition to the North Pacific Gyre," says Dominique Maguin, president of BIR. "The Project Kaisei team has ambitious plans, which are fully in line with BIR’s mission to increase recycling and recyclability. Our members across the globe are providing industry with nearly 50 percent of the raw materials needed, and we can still increase this figure. The collection of waste can be improved, and the recycling activities are indispensible for saving energy, gas emissions and natural resources. It is of paramount importance to leave a safe, clean and welcoming planet for future generations. Project Kaisei represents an innovative constructive approach to addressing a problem that would not have been there if recycling had been promoted and implemented by all nations. We believe that by collaborating together, it will bring benefits to both of our organizations, as well as for the whole planet."

Doug Woodring, Project Kaisei co-founder and project director, says,"We are very fortunate to have garnered the financial support of BIR and we are delighted that they have become one of our main sponsors. Together with the scientific endorsement and ongoing collaboration of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, BIR’s sponsorship provides us with the necessary resources to carry out our mission this summer. We hope to be able to come back with answers to the many questions surrounding the large volumes of waste in the ocean, the damage it causes to the ocean ecosystem and the ways to fight it."

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