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What makes Plastic: A Toxic Love Story such a compelling -- and troubling -- read, is her honest assessment of plastic's finer attributes, which largely get ignored in the debates over those much-despised flimsy shopping bags and single-use water bottles.

Kerry Trueman: You May Not Be Into Plastic, But Plastic Is Way Into You Kerry Trueman 2011

The message, however, is also a positive one: that each of us can take actions to reduce the larger impact reduce, reuse... and then recycle; make smart choices about what plastics to accept into your life and also to reduce plastic's impact on our own lives.

A. Siegel: Don't 'Bag It': Get to the DC Environmental Film Festival A. Siegel 2011

Given plastic's elasticity, there's less chance of the plastic shattering.

Cracking the Case of the Troublesome iPhone 4 Glass Tom Kaneshige 2010

What makes Plastic: A Toxic Love Story such a compelling -- and troubling -- read, is her honest assessment of plastic's finer attributes, which largely get ignored in the debates over those much-despised flimsy shopping bags and single-use water bottles.

Kerry Trueman: You May Not Be Into Plastic, But Plastic Is Way Into You Kerry Trueman 2011

The last is brought to prominence as the film follows Joe Berrier through an odyssey from unawareness of plastic's issues into substantive knowledge and concern.

A. Siegel: Don't 'Bag It': Get to the DC Environmental Film Festival A. Siegel 2011

What makes Plastic: A Toxic Love Story such a compelling -- and troubling -- read, is her honest assessment of plastic's finer attributes, which largely get ignored in the debates over those much-despised flimsy shopping bags and single-use water bottles.

Kerry Trueman: You May Not Be Into Plastic, But Plastic Is Way Into You Kerry Trueman 2011

Ironically, Americans spend $18 billion on bottled water, much of which is actually tap water but has the added bonus of the plastic's toxic chemicals leaching into the water.

Sarah Newman: 10 Tips for a Sustainable Thanksgiving Sarah Newman 2010

Ironically, Americans spend $18 billion on bottled water, much of which is actually tap water but has the added bonus of the plastic's toxic chemicals leaching into the water.

Sarah Newman: 10 Tips for a Sustainable Thanksgiving Sarah Newman 2010

Ironically, Americans spend $18 billion on bottled water, much of which is actually tap water but has the added bonus of the plastic's toxic chemicals leaching into the water.

Sarah Newman: 10 Tips for a Sustainable Thanksgiving Sarah Newman 2010

And then, go! she'd zipped down the funnel, thrown slickly back and forth, the dark absolute, the air cool, the plastic's seams hitting her body with a hurting, soothing rhythm.

Round the World Now zoe zolbrod 2010