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EPISODE · Dec 23, 2011

Plastic Ocean-InfoTrak: Plastic Ocean

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Environmental researcher Captain Charles Moore, author of Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans shared his story of accidently discovering a 1000 square mile mass of plastic scraps in the Pacific Ocean in1997. He explained where this “plastic soup” is originating and why it collects in that one location.

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