Books, Films & Videos

BOOKS

If you’re looking for highly detailed reference guides on plastic-free living and the all-around world of plastics, then you should have the following two seminal reference works for your plastic-free bookshelf:

• Susan Freinkel’s Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.

• Beth Terry’s Plastic Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too, New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2012 (updated in 2015).

Other Helpful Books:

• Andrady, Anthony L., ed., Plastics and the Environment, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2003.

• Beavan, Colin, No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2009.

• Braungart, Michael and William McDonough, Cradle to Cradle: Re-Making the Way We Make Things, London: Vintage, 2009.

• Colborn, Theo, Dianne Dumanoski and John Peterson Myers, Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story, New York: Penguin, 1997.

• Dadd, Debra Lynn, Toxic Free: How To Protect Your Health and Home from the Chemicals That Are Making You Sick, New York: Penguin, 2011.

• Gillespie, Manda Aufochs, Green Mama: Giving Your Child a Healthy Start and a Greener Future, Toronto: Dundurn, 2014.

• Humes, Edward, Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash, New York: Penguin, 2012.

• Imhoff, Daniel, Paper or Plastic: Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World, San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 2005.

• Johnson, Bea, Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste, New York: Scribner, 2013.

• Leonard, Annie, The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession With Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health - and a Vision for Change, New York: Free Press, 2010.

• Moore, Captain Charles, Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain’s Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans, New York: Penguin, 2011.

• Smith, Rick and Bruce Lourie, Slow Death By Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health, Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2009.

FILMS & VIDEOS:

• Open Your Eyes (youtu.be/9znvqIkIM-A)

• Plastic Paradise (plasticparadisemovie.com)

• Plastic Planet (www.plasticplanet-derfilm.at)

• Plastic Shores (plasticshoresmovie.com)

• Plastic State of Mind (youtu.be/koETnR0NgLY)

• Straws (www.strawsfilm.com/media-horizon)

• Tapped (tappedmovie.com)

• The Story of Bottled Water (storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-bottled-water)

• The Story of Microfibers (storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-microfibers)