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Product DescriptionProphylactics to polystyrene, viscose to Velcro, saran to cellophane: For better or worse, we’re married to plastic. In your refrigerator, your closet, your car it’s everywhere, and it’s not going away. You eat with it, work with it, play with it. Often, you even breathe it. Cheap, pliable, easily made, eminently democratic, it symbolizes everything that’s both wrong and right with our culture. In Plastic: The Making of a Synthetic Century, Stephen Fenichell takes a fresh, irreverent look at the substance we all love to hate. The book moves from the early astonishment at such inventions as celluloid film and waterproof clothing, to the nylon-stocking riots after…. Click Here to Read More