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.
An urgent call to action, Moore s sobering revelations will be embraced by activists, concerned parents, and anyone concerned about the deadly impact and implications of this man-made blight..
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.
In Plastic Ocean, Moore recounts his ominous findings and unveils the secret life and hidden proper ties of plastics.
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 factor of six to one.
There, Moore realized his catamaran was surrounded by a Plastic soup.
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.
In the summer of 1997, Charles Moore set sail from Honolulu returning home after competing in a trans-Pacific race.
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
