Decision Making in the Age of Plastic
A choose-your-own-adventure style guide to purchasing while balancing your health, the environment and your budget.
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Plastic Inc: The Secret History and Shocking Future of Big Oil’s Biggest Bet
This book is a great behind-the-scenes look at the plastic industry and the people fighting the present and future glut of plastic. It is a perfect complement to another new book, “The Problem with Plastic”.
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They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals
They Poisoned the World delivers a gripping, deeply reported exposé that reads like a thriller as it uncovers the global devastation wrought by PFAS and other toxic chemicals—and the corporate deception that enabled their spread.
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The Junkyard Planet
Adam Minter travels deep into a vast, often hidden, five-hundred-billion-dollar industry that’s transforming our economy and environment.
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The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late
More than a critique, The Problem with Plastic emphasizes the urgent need for action against plastic’s toxic legacy.Â
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A Year of No Garbage
In this book, Eve O. Schaub tackles her most difficult challenge to date: garbage. Schaub and her family attempt the seemingly impossible: living in the modern world without creating any trash at all. For an entire year. And- as it turns out- during a pandemic. Recommended by Beyond Plastics.
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Count Down
By Shanna H. Swan and Stacey Colino In the tradition of Silent Spring and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent, “disturbing, empowering, and essential” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) book about the ways in which chemicals in the modern environment are changing—and endangering—human sexuality and fertility on the grandest scale, from renowned epidemiologist Shanna Swan.
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Sicker, Fatter, Poorer: The Urgent Threat of Hormone-disrupting Chemicals on Our Health and Future… and what We Can Do about it.
By Leonardo Trasande A leading voice in public health policy and top environmental medicine scientist reveals the alarming truth about how hormone-disrupting chemicals are affecting our daily lives—and what we can do to protect ourselves and fight back.
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A Poison Like No Other
Matt Simon reveals a whole new dimension to the plastic crisis. The thing that makes plastic so useful–its toughness–means it never really goes away. It just gets smaller and smaller: eventually small enough to enter your lungs or penetrate a fish’s muscle tissue before it becomes dinner.
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Plastic: A Toxic Love Story
Freinkel treks through history, science and the global economy to assess the real impact of plastic in our lives through eight familiar plastic objects. Each one illuminates a different facet of our synthetic world to give us a new way of thinking about a substance that has become the defining medium—and metaphor—of our age.Â
