Wu Ming-yi, an ecological novel on pollution and the”seventh continent”.
It has been mentioned for a long time that huge amounts of plastic waste were floating on the oceans. This rubbish is concentrated in areas where different ocean currents converge. Since 1997, several scientific expeditions have identified an area of several million km2 in the Pacific Ocean 1000 km north of Hawaii (1); the dustbin of our consumer society …
An island of plastic waste is one of the major themes of a pleasant novel … Lire la suite