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Saabira Chaudhuri

@saabirac

WSJ consumer goods reporter, author of CONSUMED: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic

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There’s no need to stick with chemically coated "nonstick" pans. For happier and healthier cooking, there’s a tried-and-true method to keep food from clinging. on.wsj.com/3A2UtDU

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Here’s why recycling plastic in the U.S. is so complicated—and what you can do to keep more plastic out of the landfill on.wsj.com/4eLAqZK on.wsj.com/4eLAqZK

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Whiskey fungus, a black mold offshoot of the aging process, is causing headaches for small and large distilleries alike. No more so, than in this small Maine town. on.wsj.com/3UBL5y2

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Could everyday chemicals be contributing to falling fertility rates? Saabira Chaudhuri from The Wall Street Journal takes us behind the headline. Gordon Deal #AmericasFirstNews thismorningwithgordondeal.com/n/llxvvr

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#Trump in bringing back the #plasticstraw misses the point. Most people don't need straws for most drinks. Both paper and plastic straws speak to a culture of mindless consumption predicated on cheap disposability. How did we get here? Read CONSUMED, pubbing May!

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This feels pretty significant given we're never going to be able to get plastic out of our lives or bodies completely theguardian.com/environment/20…

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Breaking news: The Trump administration plans to handpick the reporters who can ask the president questions, breaking decades of precedent in the White House. nyti.ms/3DkgyPQ

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Four years ago I wrote about how the customers of a hot biodegradable straw maker were making inflated marketing claims about how quickly their bioplastic straws and bags would "disappear" in the ocean. My reporting provoked a backlash from the company and its investors. Now that

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Thanks to the lovely #FPA for having me come by to talk about how we ended up in a world wrapped in plastic, why your "biodegradable" dog poo bag is in fact a terrible buy, and why we should all be pressing the world's biggest consumer goods companies to do better!

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Feeling blown away, and a bit like I have a fairy godmother, after this incredible endorsement of Consumed today from Chris van Tulleken šŸ³ļøā€šŸŒˆ ! instagram.com/reel/DJwMJKaIk…

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Also on the page are pointers to this week's Books & Authors podcast with Saabira Chaudhuri, author, 'Consumed; How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic' and to a review of 'My Palestine; An Impossible Exile' by Mohammad Tarbush

Also on the page are pointers to this week's Books &amp; Authors podcast with <a href="/SaabiraC/">Saabira Chaudhuri</a>, author, 'Consumed; How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic' and to a review of 'My Palestine; An Impossible Exile' by Mohammad Tarbush
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"Ultimately, it comes down to pressing companies to pay to manage the waste created by their packaging" - Saabira Chaudhuri, author, 'Consumed; How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic' talks to me on the Books&Authors #podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/0kUlj2…

"Ultimately, it comes down to pressing companies to pay to manage the waste created by their packaging"
- <a href="/SaabiraC/">Saabira Chaudhuri</a>, author, 'Consumed; How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic' talks to me on the Books&amp;Authors #podcast:
open.spotify.com/episode/0kUlj2…
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#BookReview | Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastics The book ends with a useful section titled FAQs, where the author addresses basic but important questions that many do not have reliable answers to, writes Chintan Girish Modi. Saabira Chaudhuri mybs.in/2enhKOj

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.Saabira Chaudhuri, the author of Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic talks about how corporations didn’t just respond to a demand for disposable plastic; they created it. Read more: tinyurl.com/38ybfpu6 #WorldEnvironmentDay #PlasticPackaging #Corporates

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In Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic, Saabira Chaudhuri explores how global giants like Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, and Unilever turned plastic into a profit engine—convincing us that disposability was essential to modern life. This incisive book unpacks how plastic has

In Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic, <a href="/SaabiraC/">Saabira Chaudhuri</a> explores how global giants like Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, and Unilever turned plastic into a profit engine—convincing us that disposability was essential to modern life.

This incisive book unpacks how plastic has
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A new book, ā€˜Consumed’ by Saabira Chaudhuri reveals the scale of corporate complicity in the proliferation of single-use plastic and the truth about recycling. sundeepkhanna reviews the book livemint.com/mint-lounge/id…