Plastic Ocean How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans

Name: Plastic Ocean How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans
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ISBN: 9781583335017

ISBN-10: 1583335013

ISBN-13: 9781583335017

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Authors: Charles Moore, Cassandra Phillips

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A prominent seafaring environmentalist and researcher shares his shocking discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and inspires a fundamental rethinking of the Plastic Age.In the summer of 1997, Charles Moore set sail from Honolulu returning home after competing in a trans-Pacific race. To get to California, he and his crew took a shortcut through the seldom-traversed North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a vast “oceanic desert” where winds are slack and sailing ships languish. There, Moore realized his catamaran was surrounded by a “plastic soup.” He had stumbled upon the largest garbage dump on the planet—a spiral nebula where plastic outweighed zooplankton, the ocean’s food base, by a…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/4/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.20" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English



A Note to the Reader



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


Afterword


Acknowledgments


Sources and Resources


Index