A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies

Its falling from the sky and in the air we breathe. Its in our food, our clothes, and our homes. Its microplastic and its
everywhereincluding our own bodies. Scientists are just beginning to discover how these tiny particles threaten health,

but the studies are alarming.

In A Poison Like No Other, 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 fishs muscle tissue before it becomes dinner.

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.


A Poison Like No Other 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.
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