New Book: Plastic A Toxic Love Story by Susan Freinkel

You may have read my Interview with Stephanie Soechtig: 'Tapped' Documentary Director in 2009 which featured the virtually unregulated business of bottled water and its lifecycle, including health, environmental, and human rights issues. Her Documentary interviews include community members, politicians, scientists, and government agency representatives.
I also interviewed David de Rothschild's on his Plastiki Expedition in 2009 at the Greener by Design conference where his “Message in a Bottle" Mission consisted of the team planning to design and navigate a boat created from plastic bottles through the Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch, a floating landfill located between California and Hawaii that's twice the size of Texas.

Here's a new book by Susan Freinkel called Plastic, A Toxic Love Story where she tells her story through eight familiar classic objects: comb, chair, Frisbee, IV bag, disposable lighter, grocery bag, soda bottle, and credit card. Here's a nice Q&A from Amazon:
Q: What are the five things people can do to improve their relationship with plastic?
A: 1. Refuse single-use freebies: Bring your own bag when shopping. Carry a travel mug for your daily caffeine fix. Tell your waiter you don’t need a straw.
2. Reuse where possible: Give that sandwich baggie a week’s workout; use that empty yogurt tub for leftovers.
3. Quit the bottled water habit. You can stay just as hydrated with a reusable bottle made of stainless steel, aluminum, or BPA-free plastic.
4. Learn what you can recycle. Find out what plastics your community recycler accepts. Explore other recycling resources: UPS stores will take back shipping peanuts; many grocery chains will take used bags and plastic film; many office supply chains will take back used printer cartridges.
5. Don’t cook in plastic. Heat can cause hazardous chemicals to leach out of some polymers, so transfer food to glass before microwaving.

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