What is it about?
This article shows how the materaility of plastics (their density, molecular make-up, size, etc) is challenging ideas of what pollution is and how it works, and argues that those aiming to intervene in pollution need to take materiality seriously.
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Why is it important?
This article argues that action and advocacy around pollution, whether by researchers, designers, activists, managers or policy makers, needs to take materiality seriously, otherwise actions may not actually impact the material pollutants and even do more harm than good.
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This page is a summary of: Redefining pollution and action: The matter of plastics, Journal of Material Culture, December 2015, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1359183515622966.
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