How to reduce your chemical footprint
If you’ve been to the seaside recently, you’re sure to have seen it: every kind of litter – from bottles and bags to straws and take-away containers – washed up on the shore. In fact, few of us head to the beach without a bin bag along with our buckets and spades these days, to collect the rubbish we come across. But the plastic you see strewn across the beach or blowing down the street is only part of a much bigger pollution story.
While researching for my book, (Michael O’Mara Books, £14.99), I delved into the science behind the synthetics used in every part of the home, from the bathroom cabinet to the garden shed. The impact of harmful or hazardous synthetic substances is much less tangible than plastic litter – but plastic is just the tip of
