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Plastics and microplastics a reference handbook /
"Plastics and Microplastics: A Reference Handbook discusses the history and evolution of plastic and its many uses, both in the United States and around the world"--
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Language: | English |
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Santa Barbara, California :
ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC,
[2021]
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Series: | Contemporary world issues.
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xv, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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Contents:
- Background and history
- Problems, controversies, and solutions
- Perspectives
- Profiles
- Data and documents.
- Background and History. Plastics in daily life
- Plastic pollution
- Microplastics.
- Problems, controversies, and solutions. Plastics production
- Disposal of plastic wastes
- Environmental effects of plastics
- Human health
- Solutions
- Public opinion and legislation.
- Perspectives. Environmental education that empowers students / Ashlie Arkwright
- Microplastics and plankton / Cherilyn Chin-- Microplastics are everywhere: threatening the health of the planet and future of humanity / Mark Friedman
- How to be more eco-conscious / Pratibha Gopalakrishna
- Biological recycling of polyethylene shopping bags / Joel Grossman
- Impacts of plastic on sea turtles / Jake Krauss
- - What is the true cost of microplastic pollution on our health? / Kara Rogers
- Small town makes big impact / Diana Reynolds Roome
- Environmental hazards of bottled water / Ellen Rubin
- The reckoning / Das Soligo.
- Profiles. Alliance to End Plastic Waste
- Leo Baekeland (1863-1944)
- Wallace Carothers (1896-1937)
- The 5 Gyres Institute
- Greenpeace
- Walter Lincoln Hawkins (1911-1992)
- Stephanie Kwolek (1923-2014)
- Charles J. Moore (dates unavailable)
- Alexander Parkes (1813-1890)
- Boyan Slat (1994- )
- Surfrider Foundation.
- Data and documents. Global production of plastics, 1950-2015
- Disposal of plastic wastes, 1980-2015 (%)
- Plastic use by sector (2015)
- Per capita plastic waste for selected countries, 2010
- Plastic production and disposal in the United States, selected years
- Microplastic concentration at various points in the United States
- Fate of all plastics produced worldwide, 1980-2015
- Global production of various types of plastics for 2015
- Forms of polyethylene
- Marine Plastic Pollution Research and Control Act (1987)
- Policy Memorandum 11-03 ("Water Bottle Ban") (2011); Discontinuation of policy (2017)
- Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015
- Effects of Microplastics on Aquatic Organisms (2016)
- No More Plastics in the Oceans (2017)
- City of Laredo, Texas, Petitioner, v. Laredo Merchants Association (NO. 16-0748) (2018)
- Plastic Bag Bill (Connecticut) (2019); Plastic Bag Bill (Idaho) (2016)
- A Circular Economy for Plastics (2019)
- Save Our Seas Bill (S.1982) (2019)
- Plastic or Bioplastic Disposable Food Service Ware (2019)
- San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper and S. Diane Wilson v. Formosa Plastics Corp., Texas, and Formosa Plastics Corp., U.S.A. (2019)
- Udall-Lowenthal Bill (2020).