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Pollution: air pollution: An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming: Nigel Lawson: 2008: Global warming: ISBN 978-0-7156-3786-9 ISBN 978-1-59020-084-1: Aqueous Wastes from Petroleum and Petrochemical Plants: Milton R. Beychok: 1967: Waste: oil refinery and petrochemical wastewaters: Atlas of Our Changing Environment: United Nations ...
Plastic pollution is the accumulation of plastic objects and particles (e.g. plastic bottles, bags and microbeads) in the Earth's environment that adversely affects humans, wildlife and their habitat. [1] [2] Plastics that act as pollutants are categorized by size into micro-, meso-, or macro debris. [3]
Category:Books by Frederik Pohl: Michael Pollan: M: 1955– Food: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals: Category:Books by Michael Pollan: Carl Pope: M: Various themes: Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress (co-authored) Richard Posner: M: 1939– Various ...
[49] [50] The book ranked #1 on Time [5] and Entertainment Weekly's top 10 non-fiction books of 2007 and was listed in the Hudson Booksellers' "Best Books published in 2007". [ 51 ] [ 52 ] [ 53 ] In the Amazon.com "Best Books of 2007" , it placed #4 overall in the United States and #1 in the non-fiction category in Canada.
Hannah Testa, a sustainability advocate and freshman at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, explains in her book Taking on the Plastics Crisis that "plastic is designed to be durable and long ...
Farrelly was awarded Massey University medals for Exceptional Research Citizenship, and Excellence in Teaching. [1] She was a finalist in the New Zealand Women of Influence Awards in 2021 and in 2023, she won the WasteMINZ Award 'Excellence in Product Stewardship' for "her longstanding and ongoing work to end plastic pollution".
Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo is a 1966 book by the anthropologist and cultural theorist Mary Douglas.It is her best known work. In 1991 the Times Literary Supplement listed it as one of the hundred most influential non-fiction books published since 1945.
The Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty is a network of international, independent scientific and technical experts on plastic pollution. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They aim to provide scientific information to countries involved in the negotiations towards a global agreement to end plastic pollution . [ 1 ]