@article{435117,
      recid = {435117},
      author = {Moore, Charles, and Phillips, Cassandra.},
      title = {Plastic ocean : how a sea captain's chance discovery  launched a determined quest to save the oceans /},
      publisher = {Avery,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {x, 358 p., [8] p. of plates :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {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 skimming through a plastic soup. He had stumbled  upon the largest garbage dump on the planet, soon to be  dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch--where plastic  outweighs zooplankton, the ocean's food base, by six to  one. Here, Moore recounts his ominous findings and unveils  the secret life and hidden properties of plastics. Moore  includes us in his maritime exploits as he collects samples  throughout the oceans, and in his struggle to get the  world's attention about the oceans' plight. He describes  how plastics gradually emerged as a planetary menace--not  just litter, but a potent threat to the ocean environment,  and thus to life on earth.--From publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/435117},
}