Socially responsible plastic : is this possible?

Plastics have long been considered useful, providing such economic advantages as reduced cost and social benefits like increased hygiene and the preservation of food. However, plastic products have greatly contributed to climate change. Half of all plastic produced is single use. The discarded plast...

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Other Authors Crowther, David (Editor), Quoquab, Farzana, 1978- (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023.
SeriesDevelopments in corporate governance and responsibility ; 19.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781804559888
DOI10.1108/S2043-0523202319
Physical Description1 online resource (296 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. The dilemma of plastic / David Crowther and Farzana Quoquab
  • Chapter 2. Plastic pollution in the tourism sector: Documenting its present research status / Zhang Jiale and Farzana Quoquab
  • Chapter 3. The social rendition of plastic waste management initiatives in India / Harleen Sahni, Nupur Chopra, and Priti Gadhavi
  • Chapter 4. Challenges of reducing polythene and plastic in Sri Lanka: A case study of Attanagalla Secretariat Division / G. P. T. S. Hemakumara and T. G. Shamal Madhusankha
  • Chapter 5. As food delivery business skyrocketing, so is our environmental disaster / William Loh Wui Lun and Farzana Quoquab
  • Chapter 6. Plastic waste pollution in the Nigerian tourism sector - who is responsible? / Tosin Tiamiyu
  • Chapter 7. Changing landscape of plastic waste management in India / Sanil S. Hishan
  • Chapter 8. Reducing plastic pollution using norms perspective: Integration of moral position and place attachment / Abdul Haseeb Chaudhary, Michael Jay Polonsky, and Nicholas McClaren
  • Chapter 9. Social marketers' contribution to implementing successful retail plastic bag bans / Anne Sharp, Meagan Wheeler, and Marcia Kreinhold
  • Chapter 10. Plastic waste - can it be the undiscovered gold of Bangladesh? / Asif Mahmood, Sharlin Mahmood, and Shah Saquib
  • Chapter 11. The plastification of minds / Pedro Antonio Martín Cervantes and María del Carmen Valls Martínez
  • Chapter 12. Social responsibility and plastic / David Crowther.