“Plastic Inc.” will blow readers’ mind and change the way they think about plastic.
It’s a gripping and fantastic work of journalism and research. The author Beth Gardiner makes the case that consumers are not to blame for the ever-increasing mountain of plastic trash in our lives and our world.
Plastics manufacturers had to invent the “lucrative idea of disposability,” Gardiner, an environmental journalist and former Associated Press reporter, writes. Some of the clearest consequences of plastics production are showing up in public health.
Gardiner demurs from prescribing solutions to our plastics affliction, noting, reasonably, that her job as a journalist is to lay out the facts.
