Plastic Ocean : how a sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans
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Compact discs.
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 chemistry -- Debris forensics -- Erasing our plastic footprint -- Refuse.
Read by Mel Foster.
A prominent seafaring environmentalist and researcher shares his shocking discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean, and inspires a fundamental rethinking of the Plastic Age and a growing global health crisis.
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PUBLISHED
Old Saybrook, CT : Tantor Media, Inc., 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 9 sound discs (10 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781452634609
1452634602
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Phillips, Cassandra.
Foster, Mel.
Tantor Media, Inc.
SUBJECTS
Waste disposal in the ocean.
Ships -- Waste disposal.
Plastic marine debris -- Government policy -- United States.
Marine pollution.
Plastic scrap -- Environmental aspects.