Plastic May Be Horrible For the Environment, But Could We Survive Without It?

By Kerry Trueman, AlterNet
Posted on May 4, 2011, Printed on May 7, 2011
http://www.alternet.org/story/150836/plastic_may_be_horrible_for_the_environment%2C_but_could_we_survive_without_it

Move over, cotton; turns out that plastic is really The Fabric of Our Lives®. Does the pervasiveness of plastics in our culture get under your skin? If so, read Susan Freinkel's just-published Plastic: A Toxic Love Story. You'll realize that it's probably also in your skin, in the form of phthalates, BPA, and other possible endocrine disrupters that leach out of plastic products and into our bodies.

Oh, and it's on your skin, too, if you're wearing nylon, polar fleece, pleather, or any of those trademarked textiles owned by Tea Party funders Charles and David Koch: Spandex, Dacron, Thermolite, Cordura, Tactel, CoolMax. It's enough to make a progressive sweat.