Environmentalist Author Upset After His Book About Reducing Plastic Is Wrapped In Plastic

Points for trying?

Environmentalist Martin Dorey wrote a book about reducing plastic. It’s titled, “No. More. Plastic.”

Something awkward happened. His new book was wrapped in plastic. He posted about it on Instagram.

“So here’s my book. We toiled hard on this. We worked with the printer to make it one of the UK’s most environmental books this year,” he wrote. “It’s an absolute shambles, undoes all our hard work and proves, once again, that we are using plastic with our eyes closed.”

Here’s the full post:

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SLEEPWALKING INTO OBLIVION. So here's my book. We toiled hard on this. We worked with the printer to make it one of the UK's most environmentally books this year. And then this. It's an absolute shambles, undoes all our hard work and proves, once again, that we are using plastic with our eyes closed. We are sleep walking into oblivion, using plastic without thinking because it's what we've been doing, it's the way we do things. The thing is that EVERYTHING HAS TO CHANGE if we are to avoid fucking it up for good. We have to reassess everything. Your reusable mug will not be enough to save the world! We all have to do everything at every level to stop the stupid senseless use of plastic. I know my publishers are working hard to stop this in future but it still happens further down the line. It makes me very sad indeed that we are so clever, and yet so stupid. More news when I get it, but for now we don't know who is responsible. #2minutebeachclean #2minutesolution

A post shared by Martin Dorey (@martindorey) on Nov 29, 2018 at 2:52am PST

I totally get why he’s upset, but I can’t help but think that it’s accidentally hilarious.

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rial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;” target=”_blank”>HALLELUJAH!!!! Big love to my publishers @eburybooks and @penguinrhuk for delivering copies of my book NOT WRAPPED IN PLASTIC for the @2minutebeachclean Shop!!!! Phew! @nicky2minutehq #2minutesolution

A post shared by Martin Dorey (@martindorey) on Nov 29, 2018 at 5:54am PST

The publishers Penguin has reportedly contacted distributors of the book in America to stop the books from being covered in plastic.

A Penguin spokesman said: ‘We worked very hard to ensure our book was environmentally friendly at every stage of the book process.

How about that as your “LOL” story of the day?

h/t Daily Mail