Freinkel, Susan (Author)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date: 2011
Language: English
Physical Details: 336 pp.
Plastic built the modern world. Where would we be without bike helmets, toothbrushes, babies bottles and pacemakers? But a century into our love affair with plastic, we're starting to realise it's not such a healthy relationship. Plastics draw on dwindling fossil fuels, leach harmful chemicals, litter landscapes, and destroy marine life. As journalist Susan Freinkel points out in this engaging and eye-opening book, we're nearing a crisis point. We've produced as much plastic in the past decade as we did in the entire twentieth century. We're drowning in the stuff, and we need to start making some hard choices.
...MoreReview Boytim, Jacqueline (2012) Review of "Plastic: A Toxic Love Story". Chemical Heritage.
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