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Author
Series
Publication) volume no. 519
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council
Pub. Date
1957
Language
English
51) Plastic ocean: how a sea captain's chance discovery launched a determined quest to save the oceans
Author
Publisher
Avery
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
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...
58) Dive
Publisher
Compeller Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Follow filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and his circle of friends as they 'dumpster dive' in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of L.A.'s supermarkets. In the process, they uncover thousands of dollars worth of good food and an ugly truth about waste in America: grocery stores know they are wasting and most refuse to do anything about it."--Container.
Series
IAEA-TECDOC volume 1814
Publisher
International Atomic Energy Agency
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English