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100 1  Eriksen, Marcus,|d1967-|eauthor. 
245 10 Junk raft :|ban ocean voyage and a rising tide of activism
       to fight plastic pollution /|cMarcus Eriksen. 
264  1 Boston :|bBeacon Press,|c2017. 
300    225 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 00 |gChapter 1|tSynthetic Seas|g1 --|gChapter 2|tJunk & Gyre
       |g15 --|gChapter 3|tIMUA|g29 --|gChapter 4|tJunk-o-philia:
       Our Obsession with Stuff|g45 --|gChapter 5|tThrown Away
       |g55 --|gChapter 6|tComing Unscrewed: The Little Fish in a
       Big Sea|g67 --|gChapter 7|t"Junk In, Junk Out"|g73 --
       |gChapter 8|tGuadalupe Loop: The Recycling Myth|g81 --
       |gChapter 9|tToo Wasteful to Value: ChicoBag vs. Plastic-
       Bag Lobby|g93 --|gChapter 10|tWaves and Windmills: A Case 
       for the Eco-Pragmatist|g107 --|gChapter 11|tWasting Away: 
       The Fate, Fallacy, and Fantasy of Ocean Cleanup|g119 --
       |gChapter 12|tSynthetic Drift: Human Health and Our Trash
       |g129 --|gChapter 13|tLittle Fish Bites Big Fish|g143 --
       |gChapter 14|tA Plastic Smog|g157 --|gChapter 15|tGreat 
       Divide: The Linear vs. Circular Economy|g169 --|gChapter 
       16|tA Revolution by Design|g185. 
520    "An exciting account of an activist scientist's unorthodox
       fight in the growing movement against plastic marine 
       pollution and of his expedition across the Pacific on a 
       home-made "junk raft"  Over the past several years, the 
       news media has brought the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch"--
       the famous swirling gyre of plastic litter in the ocean--
       into the public consciousness. When Marcus Eriksen 
       cofounded the 5 Gyres Institute with his wife, Anna, and 
       set out to study marine pollution, they found that the 
       reality is even more dire: instead of a stable mass of 
       litter, they discovered that a "plastic smog" of 
       microparticles permeates the world's oceans, defying 
       simplistic clean-up efforts. What's more, these 
       microplastics and their toxic chemistry have seeped into 
       the food chain, threatening marine life and humans alike. 
       Far from being a gloomy treatise on an environmental 
       catastrophe, though, Junk Raft tells the exciting story of
       Eriksen's fight to raise awareness and solve the problem 
       of plastic pollution, contributing to a fast-growing 
       movement to stem the tide of trash. Eriksen writes of his 
       voyage from Los Angeles to Hawaii aboard his homemade 
       "junk raft," and along the way he recounts the successful 
       efforts to fight corporate influence and demand that 
       plastics producers take responsibility for a problem 
       they've created. Eriksen provides concrete, actionable 
       solutions and an empowering message: it's up to bold, 
       brash, unapologetically activist "citizen scientists" to 
       challenge the status quo for the sake of the planet"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Eriksen, Marcus,|d1967-|xTravel|zPacific Ocean. 
650  0 Plastic marine debris|xEnvironmental aspects|zPacific 
       Ocean. 
650  0 Microplastics|xEnvironmental aspects|zPacific Ocean. 
650  0 Marine pollution|zPacific Ocean.