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View article: Confronting the material and structural leakiness of plastics: insights from multi-sited ethnography in India, Indonesia and the Philippines
Confronting the material and structural leakiness of plastics: insights from multi-sited ethnography in India, Indonesia and the Philippines Open
This article challenges the OECD’s dominant downstream-centric framework on plastic pollution by drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in India, Indonesia and the Philippines. While OECD policies emphasize mismanaged waste and litter…
View article: Addressing the toxic chemicals problem in plastics recycling
Addressing the toxic chemicals problem in plastics recycling Open
Ongoing policy negotiations, such as the negotiations for a future global plastics treaty, include calls for increased recycling of plastics. However, before recycling of plastics can be considered a safe practice, the flaws in today’s sys…
View article: Moving from symptom management to upstream plastics prevention: The fallacy of plastic cleanup technology
Moving from symptom management to upstream plastics prevention: The fallacy of plastic cleanup technology Open
Plastic removal technologies can temporarily mitigate plastic accumulation at local scales, but evidence-based criteria are needed in policies to ensure that they are feasible and that ecological benefits outweigh the costs. To reduce plas…
View article: Technology cannot fix this: To stay within planetary boundaries, plastic growth must be tackled
Technology cannot fix this: To stay within planetary boundaries, plastic growth must be tackled Open
In this Matters Arising, we respond to a recent article by Bachmann et al.1 We argue that dealing with plastics pollution as a novel entity within the planetary boundaries framework needs to consider the entirety of the plastics life cycle…
View article: Global plastic treaty should address chemicals
Global plastic treaty should address chemicals Open
In March, the global community agreed to establish a legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution. To deliver on this goal, the treaty needs to cover all issues of plastics chemicals as an inseparable part of the problem. [...]
View article: Plastic Mut(e)ability: Limited Promises of Plasticity
Plastic Mut(e)ability: Limited Promises of Plasticity Open
Plastics are supposed to be infinitely mutable. Yet the enduring legacies of plastic waste and its derivatives persist to tell a different tale. In this paper, based on empirical data from a rapidly urbanising village in Rajasthan, western…
View article: Plastic possibilities: Contrasting the uses of plastic ‘waste’ in India
Plastic possibilities: Contrasting the uses of plastic ‘waste’ in India Open
This article draws on examples of inventive plastic reuse from India and personal anecdotes of elders as an anthropological reflection on possible plastic futures. It sketches the large‐scale governmental reforms in the domain of municipal…
View article: COVID-19 as method
COVID-19 as method Open
Events like the COVID-19 pandemic can become what Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey have called ‘binding crises’: ‘events with the clarity and immediacy of a terrifying threat’ (2018: 12), impacting the rich and the poor, the powerful and the p…