Energy, Climate, Environment

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 09.07.01

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Purpose
  2. Introduction
  3. What Are Plastics
  4. Anything You Can Do, I Can Do BETTER!
  5. From Natural to Not So Much…
  6. Better Things for Better People - Marketing of Plastics
  7. So What Is the Big Deal??
  8. Health Concerns
  9. Out of Sight, Out of Mind
  10. Are We Really Recycling?
  11. Strategies for Implementation
  12. Stage One - You as the Consumer
  13. Stage Two - You as the Recycler
  14. Stage Three - You as the Global Citizen
  15. Reflection
  16. References
  17. Reading List for Students
  18. Materials for Classroom Use
  19. Appendix - Implementing District Standards
  20. Endnotes

Flexible Enthusiasm: Consumption and Awareness of Plastics in Our Lives

Stephanie Anaissa Brown-Bryant

Published September 2009

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Endnotes

1 Meikle, Jeffrey L. Americal Plastic: A Cultural History. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1995.

2 Ibid

3 Ibid

4 May, Eric, and Mark Jones. Conservation science: heritage materials. Kongens Lyngby, Denmark: RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) Publishing (online), 2006.

5 Gutsche, C. David. Calixarenes: An Introduction. RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) Publishing (online), 2008.

6 Meikle, Jeffrey L. Americal Plastic: A Cultural History. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1995.

7 Vieru, Tudor. Plastic in Our Cars Takes Up 100 Gallons of Oil per Vehicle. May 27, 2009. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Plastic-in-our-Cars-Takes-up-100-Gallons-of-Oil-per-Vehicle-112675.shtml (accessed July 13, 2009).

8 Ibid

9 Metabolix, Inc. National Survey Reveals More than 70% of Americans Don't Know Plastic is Made from Oil. April 20, 2007. http://ir.metabolix.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=238869 (accessed July 13, 2009).

10 Markowitz, Gerald, and David Rosner. Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Revolution. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002.

11 Meikle, Jeffrey L. Americal Plastic: A Cultural History. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1995.

12 Markowitz, Gerald, and David Rosner. Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Revolution. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002.

13 Goldstein, Inge F. and Martin Goldstein. How Much Risk? A Guide to Understanding Environmental Health Hazards. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. (accessed July 12, 2009).

14 Johansen, Bruce E. The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth's Future. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003.

15 Ibid

16 Markowitz, Gerald, and David Rosner. Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Revolution. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002.

17 Ibid

18 Ibid

19 Woodard, Colin. Ocean's End: Travels Through Endangered Seas. New York: Basic Books, 2000.

20 Johansen, Bruce E. The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth's Future. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003.

21 Ibid

22 Ibid

23 Wargo, John. Green Intelligence: Creating Environments That Protect Human Health. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.

24 Ibid

25 Vom Saal, Frederick S., and Claude Hughes. "An Extensive New Literature concerning Low-Dose Effects of Bisphenol A Shows the Need for a New Risk Assessment." Environmental Health Perspectives, 2005.

26 Wargo, John. Green Intelligence: Creating Environments That Protect Human Health. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.

27 Spiegelman, Helen and Bill Sheehan. Unintended Consequences: Municipal Solid Waste Managemeant and the Throwaway Society. Brief, Product Policy Institute, 2005.

28 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Wastes - Resource Conservation - Common Wastes & Materials. http://www.epa.gov/waste/conserve/materials/plastics.htm (accessed July 12, 2009).

29 Steingraber, Sandra. Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley (Current Publisher: Perseus Publishing, 1997.

30 Ibid

31 Johansen, Bruce E. The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth's Future. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003.

32 Wargo, John. Green Intelligence: Creating Environments That Protect Human Health. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.

33 Ryan, Peter G., Charles J. Moore, Jan van Franeker, and Coleen L. Moloney. "Monitoring the abundance of plastic debris in the marine environment." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Volume 26, no 1526 2009.

34 Wargo, John. Green Intelligence: Creating Environments That Protect Human Health. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.

35 Andrady A. L. (ed.) Plastics and the Environment. New York: Wiley, 2003

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