The email sent will contain a link to this article, the article title, and an article excerpt (if available). For security reasons, your IP address will also be included in the sent email.
A new book investigates our relationship with the malleable substance that's wrecking our environment and our DNA
Jessica Allen
April 25, 2011
http://www.salon.com/books/story/index.html?story=/books/2011/04/25/plastic_a_toxic_love_story_susan_freinkel
This article appears courtesy of The Barnes & Noble Review.
We're all stuck in Plasticville, intimately yoked to "a variety of synthetica" that makes our lives more livable. Yet, as the subtitle suggests, our passionate, decades-long affair has an evil flipside: This marvelously malleable material imperils the environment, wrecks our genes, and diminishes our very humanity.