The New Yorkerのインスタグラム(newyorkermag) - 6月29日 00時00分

Annual global production of plastic currently runs to more than 800 billion pounds. In the form of empty water bottles, used shopping bags, and tattered snack packages, plastic waste turns up pretty much everywhere today, even at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, 36,000 feet below sea level. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a collection of floating debris that stretches across 600,000 square miles between California and Hawaii, is thought to contain some 1.8 trillion plastic shards. In 2021, researchers from Italy announced that they had found microplastics in human placentas. What is all this plastic doing to us—and what can be done about it? “If much of contemporary life is wrapped up in plastic, and the result of this is that we are poisoning our kids, ourselves, and our ecosystems, then contemporary life may need to be rethought,” Elizabeth Kolbert writes. Read her review of three new books about the plastic-pollution crisis at the link in our bio. Illustration by @anieliev.

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