Plastic Unlimited. Alice Mah

      1  Cover

      2  Praise for Plastic Unlimited

      3  Title Page

      4  Copyright Page

      5  Abbreviations

      6  Acknowledgements

      7  1 Plastic Unlimited The Plastic Facts Origin Stories Unlimited Plastics Corporations Across the Plastics Value Chain Confronting Crisis Notes

      8  2 Manufacturing Toxic Wants and Needs Overcoming Limits Creating Markets Protecting Markets Expanding Markets Corporate Responsibility and ‘Wishcycling’ Notes

      9  3 The Corporate Alliance to (Never) End Plastic Waste The Marine Plastics Crisis The Circular Economy Solution The Promise and Peril of Chemical Recycling Plastics and Waste Colonialism The Trials of the Alliance The Real Value of Plastic Waste Notes

      10  4 Hedging Against Climate Risk Is Plastic Pollution a Global Heating Problem? Degrees of Denial The Plastics Exception The Reluctant Race to Net Zero Poised for a Downturn? Notes

      11  5 Plastics in the Pandemic Weathering the Storm Ballooning Plastic Facts Top Polluters The Regulatory Front of Green Recoveries Notes

      12  6 How Can We Curb the Plastics Crisis? A Paris Agreement for Plastics Holding Corporations Accountable Challenging the Enablers The Trouble with Growth Rethinking Systems Halfway Optimism Notes

      13  Selected Readings The History and Politics of Plastics – General Corporations and Sustainability – General Plastics Industry and Corporate Power Plastics and Health Plastics, Fossil Fuels, and Climate Plastics and the Circular Economy Marine Plastics Crisis Plastics, Waste, and Recycling Environmental Justice and Plastic Pollution Plastics and the Pandemic Plastic-Free Lifestyles Degrowth and the Limits to Growth

      14  Index

      15  End User License Agreement

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