Library Guides: Planet vs. Plastics: Plastic Pollution Indepth

Drowning in Plastics: Marine Litter and Plastic Waste Vital Graphics
Provides a complete overview of the global challenges related to marine litter and plastic waste, using graphic illustrations accompanied by condensed descriptions of key thematic areas.

Beyond Straw Men by Phaedra C. Pezzullo
Publication Date: 2023
Attuned to plastic attachments, Beyond Straw Men illustrates how everyday people resist unsustainable patterns of the plastics-industrial complex through imperfect but impactful networked cultures of care.
Global Plastics Outlook: Economic Drivers, Environmental Impacts and Policy Options by OECD
Publication Date: 2022
This Outlook intends to inform and support policy efforts to combat plastic leakage. The report quantifies the current production, use, disposal and key environmental impacts throughout the entire plastics lifecycle and identifies opportunities for reducing the negative externalities. It also investigates how plastics use and waste have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic across sectors and regions.
Our Plastic Problem and How to Solve It by Sarah J. Morath
Call Number: TD798 M67x 2022 (Parks Library Leisure Collection)
Plastic pollution is a global problem that defies a singular solution. This book considers plastic's harm to the environment, from its production to its disposal, and offers a spectrum of solutions. It describes the history and chemistry of plastic, illustrates its harms, and points toward specific legislation and policies to offer concrete solutions.

Plastic & Climate: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet
Amidst growing concern about the impacts of plastic on the oceans, ecosystems, and human health, there’s another largely hidden dimension of the plastic crisis: plastic’s contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.

Plastic and Microplastic in the Environment: management and health risks by Arif Ahamad; Pardeep Singh; Dhanesh Tiwary
Call Number: online
Publication Date: 2022
In this book, a team of distinguished environmental researchers delivers an up-to-date exploration of plastic and microplastic environmental contamination, conventional and advanced plastics management techniques, and the policies adopted across the globe to combat the phenomenon of plastics contamination.
Plastic Pollution by United Nations Publications
Call Number: TD798 V33x 2023 - and - free online
For plastic substitutes to become a viable solution in the mid and long-term, decisive global action is needed today. Moving away from silo policies and towards coherence and coordination between measures to address plastic pollution across the plastic life cycle and in favor of circular economies is an important initial step.
Plastic Soup: An atlas of ocean pollution by Michiel Roscam Abbing
Call Number: TD427 P62 R6713x 2019 - and - online
Plastic Soup: An Atlas of Ocean Pollution is a beautifully-illustrated survey of the plastics clogging our seas, their impacts on wildlife and people around the world, and inspirational initiatives designed to tackle the problem.
Reckoning with the U. S. Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste
Publication Date: 2022
The United States is a major producer of plastics and in 2016, generated more plastic waste by weight and per capita than any other nation. This report calls for a national strategy to reduce the nation's contribution to global ocean plastic waste at every step - from production to its entry into the environment - including by substantially reducing U.S. solid waste generation.
The Plastic Turn by Ranjan Ghosh
Publication Date: 2022
Through innovative readings of canonical modernist texts, analyses of art works, and accounts of plastic's devastating environmental impact, The Plastic Turn proposes plastic's unique properties and destructive ubiquity as a "theory machine" to explain literature and life in the Anthropocene. Introduces several new concepts (like plastic literature, plastic literary, etc.) into critical-humanist discourse.

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