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A prominent seafaring environmentalist and researcher stocks his shocking breakthrough of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Sea, which inspired a simple rethinking of the Plastic Age and an evergrowing global health turmoil. In the summertime of 1997, Charles Moore establish sail from Honolulu with the sole intention of going back home after contending in a trans-Pacific race. To access California, he and his staff took a shortcut through the seldom-traversed North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a huge oceanic "desert" where winds are slack and sailing ships languish. There, Moore noticed his catamaran was encircled by a "plastic soup". He had stumbled upon the major garbage dump on the planet - a spiral nebula where plastic material outweighed zooplankton, the ocean's food basic, by a factor of six to one. In Plastic Sea, Moore recounts his ominous findings and unveils the secret life and concealed properties of plastics. From milk jugs to polymer molecules small enough to penetrate human skin or be unknowingly inhaled, plastic material is currently suspected of contributing to a host of disorders including infertility, autism, thyroid dysfunction, and some cancers. A call to action as immediate as Rachel Carson's seminal Silent Spring and coil, Moore's sobering revelations will be embraced by activists, worried parents, and seafaring fans worried about the dangerous impact and implications of the man-made blight.
