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Charles Moore
American yachtsman and conservationist
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Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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…only after 1997, when yachtsman Charles Moore, returning home after participating in the biennial Transpacific Race, chose a route that took him through the North Pacific subtropical gyre. He found himself traversing a sea of plastics. When he returned to the area the following year, he discovered that the patch…
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