Copyright © 2021 Trisia Farrelly, Sy Taffel, and Ian Shaw

Published by AU Press, Athabasca University

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https://doi.org/10.15215/aupress/9781771993272.01

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Interior design by Sergiy Kozakov

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: Plastic legacies : pollution, persistence, and politics / edited by Trisia Farrelly, Sy Taffel, and Ian Shaw.

Names: Farrelly, Trisia, editor. | Taffel, Sy, editor. | Shaw, Ian C., editor.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20210215879 | Canadiana (ebook) 20210215941 | ISBN 9781771993272 (softcover) | ISBN 9781771993289 (PDF) | ISBN 9781771993296 (EPUB)

Subjects: LCSH: Plastic scrap. | LCSH: Plastic scrap—Environmental aspects. | LCSH: Plastic scrap—Social aspects. | LCSH: Plastics—Environmental aspects. | LCSH: Plastics—Social aspects. | LCSH: Plastics industry and trade—Environmental aspects. | LCSH: Plastics industry and trade—Social aspects.

Classification: LCC TD798 .P53 2021 | DDC 363.72/88—dc23

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