FOOD containers, garden hoses, baby bottles. What do you do when the products you use in daily life could potentially be sowing the seeds for chronic illness? In an exhaustively researched book, Susan Freinkel traces our relationship with plastic from the initial love affair to our growing disenchantment and ambivalence.
She recounts how plastic first won our hearts as a great democratiser. Combs and other luxury items once limited to those who could afford ivory and bone became widely available thanks to inexpensive plastics.
Diving head first into polymer science, Freinkel introduces the reader to a magical world of “molecular…
