The Problem with Plastic (eBook)

How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late

Judith Enck, Adam Mahoney, Beyond Plastics (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
236 Seiten
The New Press (Verlag)
978-1-62097-999-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Plastic pollution has reached crisis proportions, and false solutions abound. But as The Problem with Plastic shows, there are real solutions out there. And, fortunately, there are people like Judith Enck working to enact them. Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Sixth ExtinctionA powerful look at plastics impact on human health and the environment, and how we can fight back by putting people and the planet over plasticsPlastic is everywherewrapped around our food, stitched into our clothes, even coursing through our veins. Once a marvel of modern science, plastic has become so inextricably woven into our lives that imagining a world without it can seem impossible. Over the last seventy-five years, plastic has cradled our planet in a synthetic embrace.The Problem with Plastic critically examines the paradox of this material, first celebrated for its innovations and now recognized for its devastating environmental and public health impacts. With clarity and urgency, the book reveals how plastic pollution contributes to poisoned oceans, polluted air, a warming planet, and overwhelming waste, disproportionately impacting marginalized communities who bear the brunt of petrochemical pollution.Revealing the alarming extent of microplastics infiltrating both the natural world and the human body, this compelling narrative challenges the illusion that recycling alone will save us. It unpacks the mechanisms of environmental racism and the deceptive greenwashing strategies used by the plastics industry to maintain the status quo.More than a critique, The Problem with Plastic emphasizes the urgent need for action against plastics toxic legacy. It highlights powerful stories of frontline resistance in places like Louisiana, Texas, and Appalachia, and equips readers with practical toolsincluding a Household Waste Audit to track and reduce plastic consumption, as well as model policy guides for driving legislative change.Urgent, eye-opening, and ultimately empowering, The Problem with Plastic reminds us: plastic is a problembut together, we can be the solution.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.1.2026
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: biodegradable • Bioplastics • Cancer Alley • carcinogens • Chemical recycling • climate change • disposable • endocrine disruptors • environmental justice • Environmental Racism • forever chemicals • global warming • Microplastics • Petrochemical • Plastic • pollution • polyvinyl • PVC • Recycling • reusable • sacrifice zones • saran wrap • single-use plastic • styrofoam • synthetic turf • Toxic Plastic • vinyl chloride
• ISBN-10: 1-62097-999-3 / 1620979993
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62097-999-0 / 9781620979990