Plastic pollution policies? Or, how to “solve” a wicked problem.
Max LiboironABD, Media, Culture and Communication
New York UniversityCoordinator, Plastic Pollution Coalition East Coast Chapter
Wicked problems
Image from “Question everything blog”
Ocean plastics
NOAA
Ocean plastics: a soup
Left: image by Max LiboironRight: image from 5 Gyres
Macroplastics
Image: Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument-NOAA
Micoplastics
Image by Handsands in the Sand via Flickr
Accumulation: gyres
Plastic Oceans Foundation
Accumulation: gyres
Animation by 5 Gyres based on research by Nickoli Maximenko, 2009
Problems with ocean plastics: entanglements
Left: image by Jim PattersonRight: Image by NOAA
Problems with ocean plastics: hitchhikers & invasive species
Left: Image from Science Safe Kid’s MuseumRight: image by Lindsay Hoshaw
Problems with ocean plastics: ingestion
Top: Image from 5 gyresLower corner: from Browne et al “Ingested Microscopic Plastic Translocates to the Circulatory System of
the Mussel, Mytilus edulis (L.)” 2008.
Problems with ocean plastics: ingestion
Image by Chris Jordan
Problems with ocean plastics: ingestion
Image from Richard Thompson, Plymouth University
Source
OSPAR 2009
Chemical structure of plastic
Left: Ethene-polythene-Chem, Dept St AugustinesRight: Wypych, George, Handbook of Plasticizers 2004
Endocrine disruptors
Endocrine disruptors
Endocrine disruptors
Longevity: POPs
NRDC
Longevity: POPs
NRDC
Forever and Everywhere
Left: Barnes et al 2009. Right: EWG analysis of CDC measurements of BPA in urine from Calafat et al.
2005
MARIPOL
REACH
Green Chemistry
Precautionary Principal
bioplastics
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