Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis

Erica Cirino

272 pages, parution le 21/09/2022

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A global tour of the plastic pollution crisis, with cutting-edge research demonstrating the depth of the problem, and what must happen to reverse it.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.Table of Contents Foreword by Carl Safina Preface: Out to Sea PART I: The Missing Plastic Chapter 1: Welcome to the Gyre Chapter 2: Below the Surface Chapter 3: The Ocean's Canaries Chapter 4: From Ship to Shore PART II: Little Poison Pills Chapter 5: Pick Up the Pieces Chapter 6: Troubled Waters Chapter 7: The Plastic Within Us PART III: People and the Plastic Industry Chapter 8: Welcome Chapter 9: Plastic and Our Warming World PART IV. Solutions Chapter 10: Cleaning It Up Chapter 11: Closing the Loop Chapter 12: Circular Thinking Conclusion: Giants Do Fall Acknowledgments Notes About the AuthorErica Cirino is the Communications Manager of the Plastic Pollution Coalition and the author of Thicker Than Water (Island Press, 2021). She has spent the last decade working as a science writer, author, and artist exploring the intersection of the human and nonhuman worlds.

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Éditeur(s)	Island press
Auteur(s)	Erica Cirino
Parution	21/09/2022
Nb. de pages	272
EAN13	9781642832891

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