Consumed, 9781785122163
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Plastic took over our lives; now it’s consuming us.
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Consumed

how big brands got us hooked on plastic

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    368 pages

  • Release Date

    8 September 2025

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Summary

Consumed: How Single-Use Plastic Hooked Us and What We Can Do About It

Over the past seventy years, McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, Unilever and other consumer goods makers have harnessed single-use plastics to turbocharge their profits. They’ve poured billions of dollars into convincing us we need disposable diapers, cups, bags, bottles, shampoo in sachets and plastic-packaged ultra-processed foods.

We were never clamouring for any of these items, but this shif…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781785122163
ISBN-10:1785122169
Author:Saabira Chaudhuri
Publisher:Bonnier Books Ltd
Imprint:BLINK Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:8 September 2025
Weight:526g
Dimensions:235mm x 154mm x 33mm
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Critics Review

‘This book will change the way you see the world and could change the world itself’ CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ULTRA-PROCESSED PEOPLE‘A must read for anyone who buys anything plastic’ MICHAEL MOSS, PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF SALT, SUGAR, FAT ‘Eye-popping, engaging and rigorous’ MIKE BERNERS-LEE, AUTHOR OF A CLIMATE OF TRUTH ‘As alarming as it is entertaining … brilliant’ HUGH FEARNLEY-WHITTINGSTALL, HOST OF WAR ON PLASTIC WITH ANITA AND HUGH

About The Author

Saabira Chaudhuri

Saabira Chaudhuri has covered consumer goods companies for the Wall Street Journal for the past decade, reporting on plastics, waste and sustainability, among other topics, from the US, India, UK and elsewhere in Europe. She has an MA in business and economic reporting from New York University and a BA in sociology from Mount Holyoke College. Saabira lives in London with her husband, two children and dog. She grew up in Bangalore, India, where she first developed her fascination with what we throw away.

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