Plastic ocean : how a sea captain's chance discovery launched a quest to save the oceans / Capt. Charles Moore with Cassandra Phillips.

By: Moore, Charles, 1947-Contributor(s): Phillips, CassandraMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Avery, c2012Edition: First trade paperback edDescription: x, 374 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 21 cmISBN: 9781583335017; 1583335013Subject(s): Marine pollution | Plastic scrap -- Environmental aspectsLOC classification: GC1085 | .M66 2012
Contents:
A plastic soup -- Synthetic evolution -- Surfing the learning curve -- Swept away : the oceans as global dumpster -- The plastic sea around us -- The invention of throwaway living -- Harm -- The plastic age -- Gonzo science -- The message finds its medium -- Net losses -- Indigestible -- Bad chemistry -- Debris forensics -- Erasing our plastic footprint -- Refuse.
Summary: A prominent seafaring environmentalist and researcher shares his shocking discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean, and inspires a fundamental rethinking of the Plastic Age and a growing global health crisis.
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A plastic soup -- Synthetic evolution -- Surfing the learning curve -- Swept away : the oceans as global dumpster -- The plastic sea around us -- The invention of throwaway living -- Harm -- The plastic age -- Gonzo science -- The message finds its medium -- Net losses -- Indigestible -- Bad chemistry -- Debris forensics -- Erasing our plastic footprint -- Refuse.

A prominent seafaring environmentalist and researcher shares his shocking discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean, and inspires a fundamental rethinking of the Plastic Age and a growing global health crisis.

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