For Samantha MacBride's policy class. Plastic pollution is a "wicked problem," and policies and other interventions have to take this into account when attempting to deal with the issue. What problems do certain policies and interventions actually solve? Do they solve plastic pollution, or only one small aspect of the issue?
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Plastic pollution: policies & wicked problems
1. Plastic pollution policies? Or, how to “solve” a wicked problem.
Max Liboiron
ABD, Media, Culture and Communication
New York University
Coordinator, Plastic Pollution Coalition East Coast Chapter
9. Problems with ocean plastics: entanglements
Left: image by Jim Patterson
Right: Image by NOAA
10. Problems with ocean plastics: hitchhikers & invasive species
Left: Image from Science Safe Kid’s Museum
Right: image by Lindsay Hoshaw
11. Problems with ocean plastics: ingestion
Top: Image from 5 gyres
Lower corner: from Browne et al “Ingested Microscopic Plastic Translocates to the
Circulatory System of the Mussel, Mytilusedulis (L.)” 2008.