READINGS & REFERENCES

Plastics and Oceans

“Choking the Oceans with Plastics” Charles J. Moore
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/26/opinion/choking-the-oceans-with-plastic.html

“Plastic and Marine Debris”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVwuPSLx2Xc

“Microbial Answer to Plastic Pollution?” Science Daily
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100329075919.htm

Plastics and Bodies

“In Plastics and Cans, a Threat to Women” Deborah Blum
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/in-plastics-and-cans-a-threat-to-women/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

The Plastisphere

“The Plastisphere and Other 21st Century Waste Ecosystems” Max Liboiron
http://discardstudies.com/2013/07/22/the-plastisphere-and-other-21st-century-waste-ecosystems/

Plastics and Deep Time

“Future Fossils” Rachel Nuwer
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/science/earth/future-fossils-plastic-stone.html

“Here is Today"
http://hereistoday.com/

Plastic Pollution

“Scientists Call to Classify Plastic Waste as Hazardous Waste” Max Liboiron
http://discardstudies.com/2013/02/15/scientists-call-to-classify-plastic-waste-as-hazardous-waste/

How Plastic is Made
http://science.howstuffworks.com/plastic.htm

Throwaway Culture
http://discardstudies.com/

Classification

Diagrams of plastics
http://www.chem.ucalgary.ca/courses/351/laboratory/expt353_plastics.pdf/

Plastics additives encyclopedia - the “plastipedia"
http://www.bpf.co.uk/plastipedia/additives/default.aspx

The Petroleum Manga
http://punctumbooks.com/titles/petroleum-manga/

Hopeful links (or panaceas)

Upcycling Plastic
http://www.pinterest.com/ferg89/upcycling-plastics/

Plastic Bank
http://plasticbank.org/