Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis Cirino Erica
Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis Cirino Erica Much of what you've heard about plastic pollution may be wrong. Recycling is more complicated than we were taught: less…
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Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis Cirino Erica
Much of what you've heard about plastic pollution may be wrong. 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. 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.
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 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.