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NPR Dallas - Beware the Influence of Big Diaper
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NPR Dallas - Beware the Influence of Big Diaper
Articles and op-eds
The 'Wait Until Ready' Approach to Potty Training is Under Fire - Bloomberg
The 'Wait Until Ready' Approach to Potty Training is Under Fire - Bloomberg
The 'Wait Until Ready' Approach to Potty Training is Under Fire - Bloomberg
The UK is encouraging earlier toilet-training, challenging decades of conventional wisdom shaped alongside the rise of disposable diapers.
What Fashion Needs to Know About Climate Tipping Points | Vogue
What Fashion Needs to Know About Climate Tipping Points | Vogue
Scientists increasingly warn that tipping points can cause abrupt, cascading disruption. Fashion, like other industries, isn’t paying much attention — yet.
Unwrapping India’s plastic packaging problem: from boom to crisis - The Hindu
Unwrapping India’s plastic packaging problem: from boom to crisis - The Hindu
Transparent plastics used in packaging have turbocharged profits and reshaped consumer culture — but at a heavy cost to our environment and health
Texas Battles Wind-Turbine Recycler Over Thousands of Dumped Blades - Bloomberg
Texas Battles Wind-Turbine Recycler Over Thousands of Dumped Blades - Bloomberg
How Recycling Toothpaste Tubes Reflects an Antitrust Battleground - Bloomberg
How Recycling Toothpaste Tubes Reflects an Antitrust Battleground - Bloomberg
Opinion | Throwaway Plastic Has Corrupted Us - The New York Times
Opinion | Throwaway Plastic Has Corrupted Us - The New York Times
Opinion | A radical idea to fix plastics recycling | New Scientist
Opinion | A radical idea to fix plastics recycling | New Scientist
That Single-Use Cup Could Be on the Way Out - Wall Street Journal
That Single-Use Cup Could Be on the Way Out - Wall Street Journal
Reviews of Consumed
Telegraph: Consumed by Saabira Chaudhuri - 4 star review
Telegraph: Consumed by Saabira Chaudhuri - 4 star review
From fast-food containers to single-use sachets, Saabira Chaudhuri’s book Consumed looks at the objects killing the natural world – and us
Financial Times: Notable New Environmental Books
Financial Times: Notable New Environmental Books
Mint: How big brands fooled consumers with plastic
Mint: How big brands fooled consumers with plastic
A new book, ‘Consumed’, reveals the scale of corporate complicity in the proliferation of single-use plastic and the truth about recycling
Business Standard - Saabira Chaudhuri's Timely Probe into Brands And Greenwashing
Business Standard - Saabira Chaudhuri's Timely Probe into Brands And Greenwashing
Storizen - Book Review: 'Consumed' by Saabira Chaudhuri
Storizen - Book Review: 'Consumed' by Saabira Chaudhuri
Waste Free Planet - Book Review: Consumed
Waste Free Planet - Book Review: Consumed
Truthdig l Review l Death Before Inconvenience
Truthdig l Review l Death Before Inconvenience
The Grocer: Saabira Chaudhuri underlines true cost of plastic in Consumed
The Grocer: Saabira Chaudhuri underlines true cost of plastic in Consumed
Interviews
Bloomberg - How Plastic Took Over the World, Creating a Throwaway Culture
Bloomberg - How Plastic Took Over the World, Creating a Throwaway Culture
Author Saabira Chaudhuri writes about brands’ drive for disposability in her new book, Consumed.
BBC Radio 4 | Start the Week, Hay Festival: Exposing the Secrets of Rubbish
BBC Radio 4 | Start the Week, Hay Festival: Exposing the Secrets of Rubbish
Talking Rubbish podcast: How brands got us hooked on plastic, with Saabira Chaudhuri
Talking Rubbish podcast: How brands got us hooked on plastic, with Saabira Chaudhuri
This week’s guest, Saabira Chaudhuri, author of Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic, takes us on a fascinating journey through the meteoric rise of pl…
The Washington Post - Why Banning the Recycling Symbol is a Step Forward in the Fight Against Plastic Waste-
The Washington Post - Why Banning the Recycling Symbol is a Step Forward in the Fight Against Plastic Waste-
A new California law will ban companies from using the symbol if their products aren’t commonly recycled. Here’s how you can play your part in reducing plastic waste.
Monga Bay - Consumed by convenience: The culture of disposability
Monga Bay - Consumed by convenience: The culture of disposability
Yale E360 - Inside the Plastics Industry Playbook: Delay, Deny, Distract
Yale E360 - Inside the Plastics Industry Playbook: Delay, Deny, Distract
Big Ideas Book Club with Steve Hilton - The Impact of Microplastics with Saabira Chaudhuri
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Big Ideas Book Club with Steve Hilton - The Impact of Microplastics with Saabira Chaudhuri
This Sustainable Life Podcast - Saabira Chaudhuri on How We Got Hooked on Plastic
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Podcast
This Sustainable Life Podcast - Saabira Chaudhuri on How We Got Hooked on Plastic
Socialist Worker - How Plastics Jumped Into the Driving Seat
Socialist Worker - How Plastics Jumped Into the Driving Seat
Outlook Business - How Corporates Built Profitable Markets of Disposable Packaging
Outlook Business - How Corporates Built Profitable Markets of Disposable Packaging
Times of India - Companies Have Got Us Hooked On Plastic But India Can Lead on Reuse
Times of India - Companies Have Got Us Hooked On Plastic But India Can Lead on Reuse
HT Books and Authors Podcast - Greed, greenwashing, and the perils of convenience
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Podcast
HT Books and Authors Podcast - Greed, greenwashing, and the perils of convenience
XR Radio: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic with Saabira Chaudhuri
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Podcast
XR Radio: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic with Saabira Chaudhuri
Talk Radio Europe - Saabira Chaudhuri on her New Boook Consumed
Talk Radio Europe - Saabira Chaudhuri on her New Boook Consumed
Break Free From Plastic | Consumed How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic |
Break Free From Plastic | Consumed How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic |
Excerpts from Consumed
WIRED - Coke Designed a Plastic Bottle to Sell Us All More Soda
WIRED - Coke Designed a Plastic Bottle to Sell Us All More Soda
The modern 20-ounce bottle launched Cola-Cola’s iconic shape into the plastic era. It also held more Coke than the glass containers and cans that came before. An excerpt from the new book, 'Consumed.'
Business Insider - The Messy History Behind Your Favorite McDonald's Order
Business Insider - The Messy History Behind Your Favorite McDonald's Order
For McDonald's, 'paper or plastic?' has always been a devil's bargain
Times of India: How Plastic is 'Consuming' the World
Times of India: How Plastic is 'Consuming' the World
Saabira Chaudhuri's book 'Consumed' explores the rise of single-use plastics in India. Traditionally, India had a culture of reuse and repair. But Wes
Fast Company: How the 3-arrows 'recycling' symbol became a tool for greenwashing - Fast Company
Fast Company: How the 3-arrows 'recycling' symbol became a tool for greenwashing - Fast Company
The Wire: The High Environmental Costs of Unilever’s Shampoo Sachets
The Wire: The High Environmental Costs of Unilever’s Shampoo Sachets
Scroll: How Unilever used plastic sachets to boost sales
Scroll: How Unilever used plastic sachets to boost sales
Splainer | The shampoo sachet: How we learned to love plastic
Splainer | The shampoo sachet: How we learned to love plastic
Reader's Digest - Guard Against Greenwashing
Reader's Digest - Guard Against Greenwashing
Live events and awards listings
FT Best Books of The Year 2025
FT Best Books of The Year 2025
Pilita Clark, Clive Cookson and John Thornhill select their must-read titles
Start the Week - Hay Festival: exposing the secrets of rubbish - BBC Sounds
Start the Week - Hay Festival: exposing the secrets of rubbish - BBC Sounds
Tom Sutcliffe at Hay Festival, with Chloe Duckworth, Sarah Gabbott and Saabira Chaudhuri
2026 Winners Nautilus Book Awards
2026 Winners Nautilus Book Awards
Nautilus Book Awards Winners 2026 for Categories 1-10
Aye Write Glasgow - How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic: Saabira Chaudhuri
Aye Write Glasgow - How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic: Saabira Chaudhuri
Stratford Literary Festival
Stratford Literary Festival
Cambridge Literary Festival - Saabira Chaudhuri on How We Got Hooked on Plastic
Cambridge Literary Festival - Saabira Chaudhuri on How We Got Hooked on Plastic
FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025 — the longlist
FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025 — the longlist
Shortlist Announced in SABEW’s 2025 Best in Business Book Awards | SABEW
Shortlist Announced in SABEW’s 2025 Best in Business Book Awards | SABEW
Buy Consumed
Amazon US
Amazon US
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Barnes and Noble (US)
Barnes and Noble (US)
Amazon India
Amazon India
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