Plastic Ocean How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans
| Author/creator | Moore, Charles Author |
| Other author | Phillips, Cassandra Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Avery [Imprint] New York : Penguin Publishing Group |
| Description | 384 p. ill 08.240 x 05.440 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Summary | Annotation 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 planeta spiral nebula where plastic outweighed zooplankton, the oceans food base, by a factor of six to one.In Plastic Ocean, Moore recounts his ominous findings and unveils the secret life and hidden proper ties of plastics. From milk jugs to polymer molecules small enough to penetrate human skin or be unknowingly inhaled, plastic is now suspected of contributing to a host of ailments, including infertility, autism, thyroid dysfunction, and some cancers. An urgent call to action, Moores sobering revelations will be embraced by activists, concerned parents, and anyone concerned about the deadly impact and implications of this man-made blight.. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781583335017 |
| ISBN | 1583335013 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9781583335017 |
| Stock number | 00109435 |
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