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Thicker than water : the quest for solutions to the plastic crisis /
Much of what you've heard about plastic pollution may be wrong. Instead of a great island of trash, the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made up of manmade debris spread over hundreds of miles of sea--more like a soup than a floating garbage dump. Recycling is more complicated than we we...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Island Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / Carl Safina
- Preface: Out to sea
- Part I: The missing plastic
- 1. Welcome to the gyre
- 2. Below the surface
- 3. The ocean's canaries
- 4. From ship to shore
- Part II: Little poison pills
- 5. Pick up the pieces
- 6. Troubled waters
- 7. The plastic within us
- Part III: People and the plastic industry
- 8. Welcome
- 9. Plastic and our warming world
- Part IV: Solutions
- 10. Cleaning it up
- 11. Closing the loop
- 12. Circular thinking
- Conclusion: Giants do fall.