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Author Gupta, Aniruddha Sen.

Title Our toxic world a guide to hazardous substances in our everyday lives / project by Toxics Link ; script by Aniruddha Sen Gupta ; illustrations by Priya Kuriyan
Published New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications ; New Delhi [India] : Toxics Link, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 161 pages) : chiefly illustrations
Contents Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Cast of characters; 1 -- Construction: City of bones; 2 -- Automobile pollution: Air today, gone tomorrow; 3 -- Environmental legislation: Laws of the land; 4 -- Industrial pollution: Poisonous development; 5 -- Chemicals: Killer cocktail; 6 -- Electronic waste: System failure imminent; 7 -- Plastics: Material mayhem; 8 -- Heavy metals: Trail of destruction; 9 -- Food: Toxins at your table; 10 -- Household waste: Attitudes that stink; 11 -- Recycling: The right stuff; 12 -- Festivals: Callous celebrations; Glossary; Behind the book
Summary The Sachdeva family is like many others. A father with a government job; his wife a homemaker; a son starting a career; and a daughter in high school. And like most other families in a big city, the Sachdevas are surrounded in their everyday lives by a cocktail of toxic substances they are hardly aware of. Following these four--and some others who come in and out of their circle of existence-- 'Our Toxic World' takes a close look at these hidden perils, and at what we can do to make our own lives, and the world around us, a little cleaner, a little safer
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Print version record
Subject Environmental toxicology.
Environmental health.
Ecotoxicology
MEDICAL -- Toxicology.
Environmental health
Environmental toxicology
Form Electronic book
Author Toxics Link (Organization : India)
ISBN 9788132105343
8132105346
9788132112051
8132112059
9789386042460
9386042460
1282610856
9781282610859
9786612610851
6612610859