Plastic: A Toxic Love Story
- ISBN-10
- 054715240X
- ISBN-13
- 9780547152400
- Series
- Plastic
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 324
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Author
- Susan Freinkel
Description
In this probing look at how plastic built the modern world-- and the price the world has paid for plastic-- journalist Freinkel points out that we're nearing a crisis point and gives readers the tools needed through lively anecdotes and analysis.
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