Plastics: Creative Solutions - Deirdre Mckay

This book reimagines plastics before they become waste to show how creative interventions open pathways for action, understanding, and change.

Drawing on ethnographic insight and real-world experience from participatory artmaking, creative workshops, fieldtrips, and beach cleans, the book offers a fresh, accessible way to think about power, plastics, spectacle, and science. Ideal for anyone wondering what can be done to shift public thinking on plastics, it provides critical perspective and hands-on inspiration, highlighting the importance of working with and learning from existing grassroots initiatives. The book is for people seek to build public understanding and collective momentum around the plastics challenge. It is written for readers interested in interpreting science in accessible ways and turning concern into community action.

Plastics: Creative Solutions will appeal to environmental advocates, community organisers, and scientists, as well as scholars and students in Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Geography, Science and Technology Studies (STS), and Materials Studies. By bridging critical reflection and practical engagement, it speaks to both practitioners and researchers who want to work collaboratively to build meaningful, locally grounded responses to plastics