Addressing Marine Plastic Pollution: The Plastic Soup Foundation and the Four-Dimensional Application of the Social Quality Approach.

van der Maesen, Laurent J. G.

Plastic pollution has become a pressing environmental problem. An increasing mass of plastic products ends up in oceans and landfills. One international grassroots organization--the Plastic Soup Foundation (PSF)--tries to influence politics and policies of governments and businesses that can be held responsible for this pollution. In Michiel Roscam Abbing's recent book Plastic Soup Atlas of the World, the current problematique of plastic pollution is presented from a broad perspective and in a highly accessible way. This article's main objective is to investigate, first, what can be learned from the PSF's history and context and, second, whether this knowledge can deliver points of departure for enhancing the social quality approach to become functional for addressing environmental questions from the perspective of societal changes.

MARINE pollution; PLASTICS & the environment

International Journal of Social Quality, 2018, Vol 8, Issue 2, p47

1757-0344

Academic Journal

10.3167/IJSQ.2018.080204