Plastic ocean :
Moore, Charles, 1947-
Plastic ocean : how a sea captain's chance discovery launched a quest to save the oceans / Capt. Charles Moore with Cassandra Phillips. - First trade paperback ed. - New York : Avery, c2012. - x, 374 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
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.
9781583335017 1583335013
2011034559
Marine pollution.
Plastic scrap--Environmental aspects.
GC1085 / .M66 2012
Plastic ocean : how a sea captain's chance discovery launched a quest to save the oceans / Capt. Charles Moore with Cassandra Phillips. - First trade paperback ed. - New York : Avery, c2012. - x, 374 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
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.
9781583335017 1583335013
2011034559
Marine pollution.
Plastic scrap--Environmental aspects.
GC1085 / .M66 2012