Plastic ocean : how a sea captain's chance discovery launched a determined quest to save the oceans...
Plastic ocean : how a sea captain's chance discovery launched a determined quest to save the oceans...
Plastic ocean : how a sea captain's chance discovery launched a determined quest to save the oceans / Charles Moore with Cassandra Phillips.
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Publisher
New York : Avery, c2011.
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N363.738/34
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English
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Physical content
x, 358 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill., col. maps ; 22 cm.
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 chemist...
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Publisher
New York : Avery, c2011.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c2011.
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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 lar...
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Plastic ocean : how a sea captain's chance discovery launched a determined quest to save the oceans / Charles Moore with Cassandra Phillips.
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Includes bibliographical references and webography (p. [343]-350) and index.
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c2011.
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N363.738/34
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74VvjlQKpmkO
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ISBN
1583334246 (hbk.)
9781583334249 (hbk.)
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363.738
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991015324169702626
