Plastic Inc

In Plastic Inc., Beth Gardiner has written my favorite kind of non-fiction: a readable, scrupulous, and fascinating book that strips away lies and obfuscation to show what's really happening in the world. -- Oliver Bullough * author of Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World * Gripping and essential reading! A frightening insight into how Big Plastic rivals Big Food in becoming the new global threat to our health and our planet. -- TIM SPECTOR A gripping narrative -- GARDINER HARRIS Beth Gardiner offers a powerful account of how commercial interests have conspired to keep the world awash in waste. Plastic Inc. is deeply researched, sharply written, and totally compelling. -- ELIZABETH KOLBERT * Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction * It is impossible not to compare Beth Gardiner's Plastic Inc. to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. This is a shocking and necessary book that unpacks the history, the science, the hazards, and the relentless marketing of the most pernicious and ubiquitous substance ever conceived-and sold-by modern industry. -- John Vaillant, Baillie Gifford Prize-winning author of Fire Weather This is journalism at its finest. It's a breathtaking and revelatory expose about one of the world's most reckless industries -- and also a fascinating secret history of the modern world. After reading this urgent book, you'll never see things the same way again. -- Christopher Leonard, New York Times bestselling author of Kochland and The Lords of Easy Money Beth Gardiner is an excellent and sensitive storyteller * Times Literary Supplement *