Plastic ocean : how a sea captain's chance discovery launched a determined quest to save the oceans / Charles Moore with Cassandra Phillips.
Moore, Charles, 1947-; Phillips, Cassandra.
2011
GC1085 .M67 2011 (Mapit)
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Title Plastic ocean : how a sea captain's chance discovery launched a determined quest to save the oceans / Charles Moore with Cassandra Phillips.
Author Moore, Charles, 1947-
ISBN 9781583334249
1583334246
Imprint New York : Avery, c2011.
Language English
Description x, 358 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Call Number GC1085 .M67 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.738
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Phillips, Cassandra.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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