| Description |
xv, 232 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword by Carl Safina -- Preface: Out to sea -- Part I. The missing plastic. Welcome to the gyre ; Below the surface ; The ocean's canaries ; From ship to shore -- Part II. Little poison pills. Pick up the pieces ; Troubled waters ; The plastic within us -- Part III. People and the plastic industry. Welcome ; Plastic and our warming world -- Part IV. Solutions. Cleaning it up ; Closing the loop ; Circular thinking ; Conclusion: Giants do fall. |
| Summary |
"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. Less than nine percent of the plastic we create is reused, and microplastic fragments are found almost everywhere, even in our bodies. 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. New technologies and awareness bring some hope, but Cirino shows that we can only fix the problem if we begin to repair our throwaway culture. Thicker Than Water is an eloquent call to reexamine the systems churning out waves of plastic waste."-- Provided by Publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Subject |
Plastic scrap -- Environmental aspects.
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Plastics -- Environmental aspects.
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| ISBN |
9781642832891 (paperback) |
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1642832898 (paperback) |
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