What is Project Kaisei?
I recently came across an unusual and touching fundraiser put on by Project Kaisei. If you haven’t heard of them, Project Kaisei is a California based NGO that focuses on cleaning up plastic waste from the North Pacific Gyre. This company also concentrates on integrating technologies to turn the plastic they collect into fuel or secondary products. Project Kaisei strives to bring awareness, education and showcase new technologies. So far they have taken 2 expeditions into the N Pacific Gyre to study the impacts and issues that result from plastic waste. The plastic waste found there is a mixture of new trash and small plastic pieces that have been broken down by the sun. Most of the plastic is not biodegradable plastic or does not have a chance to, and if it has not washed up on a shore somewhere or sunk to the bottom of the ocean it is still floating at sea.
To learn more about Project Kasei visit their website http://www.projectkaisei.org
The Campaign “Save Kai”
In order to take another expedition Project Kaisei has come up with a facebook fundraising campaign that involves a Goldfish named Kai.
On the Save Kai page you can watch Kai 24 hours a day swimming around in a aquarium protected by a plastic wall. After 30 days from the start of the campaign Kai will be removed from his safe home and into a new home, known as the Plastic Vortex. You can learn more about the waste filled Plastic Vortex on the Save Kai page http://on.fb.me/savekaino
With every donation, Project Kaisei will remove a piece of plastic from Kai’s future plastic polluted home. This may seem cruel but it’s there way of convincing people to help clean up the Plastic Vortex and save millions of sea life. Whether you plan to donate or not you should check out the page to learn more about this campaign and the amazing work done by Project Kaisei.
Help Spread the word!
ENSO Biodegradable Plastics appreciates this cause because we have a passion for making plastics Earth Friendly.
Please visit Kai on the Save Kai Facebook page http://on.fb.me/savekaino
Tweet & Facebook post about Kai!
Check out this Video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO5asmSvrL0