Plastic ocean how a sea captain's chance discovery launched a determined quest to save the oceans
In the summer of 1997, Charles Moore set sail from Honolulu for California after competing in a trans-Pacific race. When he and his crew took a shortcut through the seldom-traversed North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a vast oceanic "desert" where winds are slack, Moore realized his ship was s...
| Main Author: | Moore, Charles, 1947- |
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| Other Authors: | Phillips, Cassandra. |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Avery,
c2011.
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Table of 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.