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&#8220Inormed, utterly blindsiding account.&#8221- Booklist, starred reviewIt&#8217sfalling from the sky and in the air we breathe. It&#8217sin our food, our clothes, and our homes. It&#8217smicroplastic and it&#8217severywhere&#8212inluding 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 &#8211its toughness &#8211means 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&#8217smuscle 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

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