While consumers are trying to cut down on the use of plastics, the oil, gas and petrochemical companies are ramping up their plastic production.
In her new book, award-winning journalist Beth Gardiner details the plastic industries manipulation of consumers and the government, while continuing to damage the environment in multiple ways. The book is Plastic, Inc.: The Secret History and Shocking Future of Big Oil’s Biggest Bet.
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Beth Gardiner is an American journalist based in London. Her first book, Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution, was named one of 2019’s best by The Guardian. It was a finalist for the National Association of Science Writers’ Science in Society book award, and a winner of the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature. Her work has been published in outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, The Washington Post, Scientific American, Smithsonian and Yale Environment 360. Beth is a former longtime Associated Press reporter, a three-time grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and a recipient of the City University of New York journalism school’s McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism.
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