Our Toxic World : A Guide To Hazardous Substances In Our Everyday Lives

The mode of development that the world?and India?has followed has led to a situation where we are surrounded by numerous hazardous substances in our everyday lives, affecting the health of people, of other living creatures, and of the planet as a whole. Our Toxic World is an effort to shine a keen light on these substances, and suggest alternatives that will allow readers to improve the physical quality of their lives and of their environment.

Our Toxic World takes a series of peeks into the lives of the fictional Sachdeva family and the people they come in contact with, examines the hazardous substances that affect us in our everyday lives, outlines the effect these materials can have on us, and suggests alternative routes that we can adopt.



Table of Contents

• Foreword by RAVI AGARWAL
• Introduction
• Cast of Characters
• Construction: City of Bones
• Automobile Pollution: Air Today, Gone Tomorrow
• Environmental Legislation: Laws of the Land
• Industrial Pollution: Poisonous Development
• Chemicals: Killer Cocktail
• Electronic Waste: System Failure Imminent
• Plastics: Material Mayhem
• Heavy Metals: Trail of Destruction
• Food: Toxins at your Table
• Household Waste: Attitudes that Stink
• Recycling: The Right Stuff
• Festivals: Callous Celebrations
• Glossary
• Behind the Book