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Turning the Tide on Plastic
- How Humanity (and You) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again
- Narrated by: Lucy Siegle, Hugo Tagholm
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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Summary
Enough plastic is thrown away every year to circle the world four times.
More than 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year.
300 million tonnes of new plastic is produced every year.
An estimated 15-51 trillion pieces of plastic now litter the world's oceans.
38.5 million plastic bottles are used every day in the UK.
A million plastic bottles are used per minute around the world.
500 million plastic straws are used per year.
Plastic flows into our lives from every direction and most of it is not recycled. Instead it is incinerated or ends up in landfill, where it will sit for hundreds of years, or enters the world's seas where it fragments into tiny pieces to become microplastics - the environmental scourge of our times. Without big action, at the current rate, pieces of plastic will outnumber fish in the ocean by 2050. That is the legacy we are leaving our children and grandchildren.
Turning the tide on Plastic is here just in time. Journalist, broadcaster and eco lifestyle expert Lucy Siegle provides a powerful call to arms to end the plastic pandemic along with the tools we need to make decisive change. It is a clear-eyed, authoritative and accessible guide to help us to take decisive and effective personal action. If only 12 of us adopt Lucy's 'reduce, rethink, refill, refuse' approach, we could potentially ditch 3K-15K single items of plastic in a year. When we consider our power as influencers - whether at school, the hairdressers, at work or on the bus - we suddenly become part of something significant. So now is the time to speak up, take action and demand the change you want to see in the ocean, in the supermarket aisles and on the streets. It's time to turn the tide on plastic, and this book will show you how.
This audio edition features exclusive extra material, including:
An interview with Hugo Tagholm, CEO of Surfers Against Sewage
An interview with Emily Penn, Mission Director and co-founder of eXXpedition, recorded live from Hawaii ahead of eXXpedition's voyage through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the densest ocean plastic accumulation zone on the planet.
Tips from Fiona Llewelyn, Chair of Plastic Free St.Agnes, for how your community can cut down plastic use.
Written and Read by Lucy Siegle.
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"Lucy is one of the true plastic-pollution pioneers." (Hugo Tagholm, CEO Surfers Against Sewage)
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- Dan Kirby
- 14-11-18
Shocking truth of plastic revealed
This book is as shocking as it is encouraging. It really opened my eyes to the issue with plastic waste in the modern world. It is an issue we are all kind of aware of but don’t fully understand and so often or not we decide we don’t want to know more because it will worry us. However this book open our eyes to the issue but balances this by providing many real ways to reduce reliance on plastic. At the end of the book I am feeling energised to take necessary steps to reduce plastic in my everyday life.
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- Kirsten Ball
- 02-10-22
lots of information
i learnt a lot from this book. well worth a read for anyone interested in the plastic problem and how we got here. lots of solutions are offered too
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- Steve Gargett
- 03-10-21
Love this book
Inspiring and the interviews at the end are a real bonus. This is one of the few audiobooks I will listen to twice.
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- Simon
- 20-09-21
Excellent read
Loved this book, lots of great tips, advice and information. For such a depressing subject, it's presented in a positive light and I really feel empowered to get out there and make a difference... I'd love to see copies of this book given to every school child...
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- teresa
- 15-10-18
eye-opener!
a must read..get yourself a copy and share. its an issue we must all address.
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- Amazon Customer
- 22-11-20
Done with plastic
Really enjoyed. Facts to help me communicate with friends. Practical tips and changes. Loved it!
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- patrick
- 07-08-18
Well current & accurate
Lucy does well here with a subject that seems to still be developing; the extra bit of the audio book is even greater in impact that the main body of the book
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- 06-10-21
Just what I was looking for
I have been irritated for years by the flow of plastic throw my life and wanted to educate myself and stumbled across this title on a search in Audible. Perfect. I now feel informed and equipped to tackle the problem at a personal scale and get involved at a community level. Already started organising a beach clean up! Was surprised that polystyrene does not feature - would live a solution for using that as well. Thanks so much for the inspiration and encouragement Lucy, read in a great style and great writing too. Highly recommend if you want to make a change
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- Rachel_1104
- 27-11-18
Informative and Accessible
I wish I could become an eco warrior rather than and eco worrier. This book has really pushed me to look at my own actions and has genuinely useful suggestions on changes everyone can make. It's also informative about the history and future of plastics and about the science behind it's creation, recycling processes and decomposition. I would highly recommend this book to anyone that wants a little push and useful tips on how to make valuable changes to their plastic choices.
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- Anonymous User
- 18-08-21
Thank you! Eye opening…
I am a little overwhelmed but thankful for reading this book about a week or so ago… I can’t believe the amount of plastic that has come with me in the last week, I’ve only been to the shops a couple of times and I thought I was aware of it before but oh my, this book is eye opening… Single use plastic is everywhere and in every thing we seem to do. At home I am very cautious but the minute I step outside into my wider social society it gets much harder…
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