Plastic: A Toxic Love Story
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HarperCollins 2011
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Susan Freinkel, Plastic: A Toxic Love Story. HarperCollins, 2011.

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Susan Freinkel. Plastic: A Toxic Love Story. HarperCollins, 2011.

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    Plastic built the modern world. Where would we be without bike helmets, baggies, toothbrushes, and pacemakers? But a century into our love affair with plastic, we're starting to realize 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.
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