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Beth Gardner is an environmental journalist, and for years, she carried around a reusable water bottle or brought a canvas bag to the grocery store.

You know, daily actions to reduce the plastic in her life.

Plastics come from petrochemicals, which are made by the fossil fuel industry.

And reading the news that the industry planned to make even more plastic stopped Beth Huffman.

in her tracks.

Planted the seed for her new book, Plastic Ink.

Today on the show, the proliferation of plastic, its history, its connection to climate change, and what kind of action could truly reverse the plastic tide.