On how we humans have become flesh, bone and plastic

We consume the equivalent of one credit card a week.

We live surrounded by plastic. It’s in what we buy, in what we eat, in the water we drink and even in the air we breathe. We manufacture it, we use it, we throw it away and then it comes back to us in the form of microplastics.

We know it’s there. We recycle. We try to consume less. There is a growing body of research into the effects it may have on our organisms. And yet, we continue to produce plastic at a dizzying rate: it is estimated that global production of virgin plastic will reach 1,100 million tonnes by 2050.

How did we get here? What is happening inside our bodies? And, above all, can we do anything to change it?

This book is a journey into an increasingly plastic world. An invitation to understand how we have come to be made of flesh, bone and plastic, and to ask ourselves what we can do – as individuals and as a society – to stop being so.

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