As a producer for the award-winning and wildly popular YouTube channel AsapSCIENCE, Salt is accustomed to taking big, complicated concepts and translating them into entertaining and easy-to-understand segments. She applies the same methodology to The Plastic Problem.
Readers of any age will emerge from this book with a thorough understanding of the problem, its individual and global impacts, and - most importantly - hope for the future. In 18 bite-sized chapters, Salt walks readers through the invention and globalised creation of plastic, its impacts and uses in our day-today lives, and its importance to the larger global economy. She then examines the how and why of what makes plastic so harmful to our planet and, just in case there was any doubt, Salt reinforces this danger by providing chapters on the planet-choking results of our plastic habit. Salt finishes this vital book with a message of hope. All is not lost. We can make changes - both at home and on a global scale.
