plastic ocean

How a Sea Captain’s Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans In 2009, a U.N. joint commission estimated that 6.4 million metric tons of plastic waste currently pollutes the oceans.  The U.N. also estimates that 5 million pieces of plastic enter the oceans each day from land.  Captain Charles Moore thinks these figures, as shocking as they may seem, could be woefully ...[READ MORE]