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Thicker Than Water - The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis (Hardcover)
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Thicker Than Water - The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis (Hardcover)
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Much of what you’ve heard about plastic pollution may be wrong.
Instead of a great island of trash, the infamous Great Pacific
Garbage Patch is made up of manmade debris spread over hundreds of
miles of sea—more like a soup than a floating garbage dump.
Recycling is more complicated than we were taught: less than nine
percent of the plastic we create is reused, and the majority ends
up in the ocean. And plastic pollution isn’t confined to the open
ocean: it’s in much of the air we breathe and the food we eat. In
Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis,
journalist Erica Cirino brings readers on a globe-hopping journey
to meet the scientists and activists telling the real story of the
plastic crisis. From the deck of a plastic-hunting sailboat with a
disabled engine, to the labs doing cutting-edge research on
microplastics and the chemicals we ingest, Cirino paints a full
picture of how plastic pollution is threatening wildlife and human
health. Thicker Than Water reveals that the plastic crisis is also
a tale of environmental injustice, as poorer nations take in a
larger share of the world’s trash, and manufacturing chemicals
threaten predominantly Black and low-income communities. There is
some hope on the horizon, with new laws banning single-use items
and technological innovations to replace plastic in our lives. But
Cirino shows that we can only fix the problem if we face its full
scope and begin to repair our throwaway culture. Thicker Than Water
is an eloquent call to reexamine the systems churning out waves of
plastic waste.
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