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A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies by Matt Simon (2022) 252 pp., Island Press, Washington, DC, USA. ISBN 978-1-64283-235-8 (hbk), USD 30.00.
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This is a review of Matt Simon's book A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies. The book is praised as an accessible account of pervasive microplastic contamination of the environment and human body.
A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies by Matt Simon (2022) 252 pp., Island Press, Washington, DC, USA. ISBN 978-1-64283-235-8 (hbk), USD 30.00. - Volume 57 Issue 5
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