Consumed, Saabira Chaudhuri

Saabira Chaudhuri’s book, Consumed, has been described as “Ultra-Processed People for plastics” tracing how big brands and petrochemicals made disposability feel normal, aspirational and inevitable. Saabira pulls together all the threads: marketing, convenience culture, regulation, health, and the systems that got us here in the first place, as well as the bogeyman of recycling.