03563cam a2200553 4500 2675361371 TxAuBib 20260205120000.0 ||||||s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781642832365 1642832367 B0BMDFD5YX Amazon dfa5151b-9b95-41be-ae7f-af7e02d8dbfb OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9112480 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Simon, Matt. A Poison Like No Other [Libby eBook] : How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies. Island Press, 2022. endocrine disrupting chemicals EDC. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. great pacific garbage patch. Environmental health. single-use plastic. plastic pollution. synthetic fabrics. carbon emissions. toxic chemicals. plastic bottles. bisphenol A BPA. plastic bag ban. Climate change. Air Pollution. Fossil Fuels. Nanoplastics. Polystyrene. microfibers. Recycling. obesogens. polymers. HTML:<b>"Informed, utterly blindsiding account." - <i>Booklist</i>, starred review</b><br /> <br /> It's falling from the sky and in the air we breathe. It's in our food, our clothes, and our homes. It's microplastic and it's everywhere—including our own bodies. Scientists are just beginning to discover how these tiny particles threaten health, but the studies are alarming.<br /> <br /> In <i>A Poison Like No Other</i>, Matt Simon reveals a whole new dimension to the plastic crisis, one even more disturbing than plastic bottles washing up on shores and grocery bags dumped in landfills. Dealing with discarded plastic is bad enough, but when it starts to break down, the real trouble begins. The very thing that makes plastic so useful and ubiquitous – its toughness – means it never really goes away. It just gets smaller and smaller: eventually small enough to enter your lungs or be absorbed by crops or penetrate a fish's muscle tissue before it becomes dinner.<br /> <br /> Unlike other pollutants that are single elements or simple chemical compounds, microplastics represent a cocktail of toxicity: plastics contain at least 10,000 different chemicals. Those chemicals are linked to diseases from diabetes to hormone disruption to cancers.<br /> <br /> <i>A Poison Like No Other</i> is the first book to fully explore this new dimension of the plastic crisis, following the intrepid scientists who travel to the ends of the earth and the bottom of the ocean to understand the consequences of our dependence on plastic. As Simon learns from these researchers, there is no easy fix. But we will never curb our plastic addiction until we begin to recognize the invisible particles all around us. Nonfiction. Science. Nature. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-02-04 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=dfa5151b-9b95-41be-ae7f-af7e02d8dbfb&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=dfa5151b-9b95-41be-ae7f-af7e02d8dbfb&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) BTCLS