Plastic Unlimited

How Corporations Are Fuelling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do about It
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5095-4946-7
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 277 g

Despite the global movement to tackle plastic pollution, demand for plastics continues to rise. As the world transitions away from fossil fuels, plastics are set to be the biggest driver of oil demand. Single-use plastics – deemed essential in the fight against COVID-19 – have been given a new lease of life. In a world beset with crisis fatigue, what can we do to curb the escalating plastics crisis?

In this book, Alice Mah reveals how petrochemical and plastics corporations have fought relentlessly to protect and expand plastics markets in the face of existential threats to business. From denying the toxic health effects of plastics to co-opting circular economy solutions to plastic waste and exploiting the opportunities offered up by the global pandemic, industry has deflected attention from the key problem: plastics production.

The consequences of unfettered plastics growth are pernicious and highly unequal. We all have a part to play in reducing plastics consumption but we must tackle the problem at its root: the capitalist imperative for limitless growth.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mah, Alice

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Politische Geographie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

1 Plastic Unlimited

2 Manufacturing Toxic Wants and Needs

3 The Corporate Alliance to (Never) End Plastic Waste

4 Hedging Against Climate Risk

5 Plastics in the Pandemic

6 How Can We Curb the Plastics Crisis?

Selected Readings

Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Alice Mah is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick.