Plastic is everywhere. It is interwoven with every part of human life, of course—I am typing this on plastic and virtually all of you are reading it on plastic; it wraps our food and our deliveries, delivers our medicines; even the desk I write at is part-polymer, as are our chairs, cushions, blankets—even most buildings built in the twenty-first century. It also is interlaced with our bodies, circulating in our blood and embedded in our cell walls; plastic runs through the food chain and agglomerates into geological formations. There is no environment on Earth—from the stratosphere to the deep oceans—that Read more