We are choking the oceans with plastic (Opinion)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [New York Times] By Charles J. Moore August 25, 2014 -
(Charles J. Moore is a captain in the U.S. Merchant Marine and founder of the Algalita Marine Research and Education Institute in Long Beach, California.)
LOS ANGELES, The world is awash in plastic. It’s in our cars and our carpets, we wrap it around the food we eat and virtually every other product we consume; it has become a key lubricant of globalization — but it’s choking our future in ways that most of us are barely aware.
I have just returned with a team of scientists from six weeks at sea conducting research in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — one of five major garbage patches drifting in the oceans north and south of the equator at the latitude of our great terrestrial deserts. Although it was my 10th voyage to the area, I was utterly shocked to see the enormous increase in the quantity of plastic waste since my last trip in 2009.
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