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    Plastic Pollution and Waste Colonialism
    Peryman M; Cumming R; Farrelly T; Ngata T; Fuller S; Borrelle S
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    What happens to New Zealand's Plastics Exports?
    (Break Free From Plastic and Massey University Political Ecology Research Centre, 2020-06-22) Farrelly T
    Following China’s National Sword Programme, most of Aotearoa New Zealand’s (NZ) post-consumer plastics now go to Indonesia and Malaysia. In 2019, 40% of New Zealand’s ethylene went to Indonesia (15,000 tonnes) and just under 40% of our styrene went to Malaysia (16,000 tonnes). New Zealand also sends other plastic resins to a range of other countries, but these two countries are by far the most significant receiving countries overall.
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    ‘We're Hands-On People’: Healing Diabetes in the Absence of Traditional Healers in an Aboriginal Community in Northern Territory, Australia.
    (Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa New Zealand (ASAANZ), 2021-03-12) Mitchell AE; Farrelly T; Andrews R
    This study of a remote Aboriginal community in Australia’s Northern Territory in 2014 sought to understand diabetes from a local Aboriginal perspective. Participants drew on a variety of holistic healing methods in the absence of an individual or individuals identified as holding a healing role in the community. The study offers an alternative to the common assumption that all communities can identify specific individuals as Aboriginal healers who are central to maintaining Aboriginal beliefs and wellbeing who contribute to holistic health (Clarke 2008; Maher 1999; McDonald 2006; Seathre 2013; Williams 2011). This research found the seven adult Aboriginal diabetes patients participating in the longitudinal ethnographic study actively engaged in self-healing strategies. Moreover, diabetes clinicians could combine local remedies and biomedical treatment to heal diabetes within the clinic, as well as actively engaging the patient in their own treatment, effective to reduce the symptoms and prevalence of diabetes in Aboriginal populations.
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    Redressing the Faustian Bargains of Plastics Economies
    (Athabasca University Press, 2021-07-13) Farrelly T; Ian S; Holland J; Farrelly, T; Taffel, S; Shaw, I
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    Where There's A Will...Contesting Our Plastic Inheritance
    (Athabasca University Press, 2021-07-13) Farrelly T; Farrelly, T; Taffel, S; Shaw, I
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    Introduction: Our Plastic Inheritance
    (Athabasca University Press, 2021-07-13) Farrelly T; Taffel S; Shaw I; Farrelly, T; Taffel, S; Shaw, I
    There is virtually nowhere on Earth today that remains untouched by plastic and ecosystems are evolving to adapt to this new context. While plastics have revolutionized our modern world, new and often unforeseen effects of plastic and its production are continually being discovered. Plastics are entangled in multiple ecological and social crises, from the plasticization of the oceans to the embeddedness of plastics in political hierarchies. The complexities surrounding the global plastic crisis require an interdisciplinary approach and the materialities of plastic demand new temporalities of thought and action. Plastic Legacies brings together scholars from the fields of marine biology, psychology, anthropology, environmental studies, Indigenous studies, and media studies to investigate and address the urgent socio-ecological challenges brought about by plastics. Contributors consider the unpredictable nature of plastics and weigh actionable solutions and mitigation processes against the ever-changing situation. Moving beyond policy changes, this volume offers a critique of neoliberal approaches to tackling the plastics crisis and explores how politics and communicative action are key to implementing social, cultural, and economic change.
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    Tackling plastic pollution in the commercial fishing industry (fin-fish supply chain). Case Study: Moana New Zealand
    (Association of Commonwealth Universities, 2020-09-10) Croft F; Farrelly T
    This report provides an examines the ways in which plastics are used throughout the daily fin fish operations (fin fish) at Moana FisheriesNew Zealand. It explores current global, regional and national policies, as well as current initiatives that are seeking to minimise marine plastic pollution, and how these may be implemented in this context. This study also acknowledges the significant role that industry can play to improve management of plastics by working towards the top of the Zero Waste Hierarchy (redesign/rethink/reduce and reuse).
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    Tackling plastic pollution in New Zealand’s fin fishing industry Case study: Moana NZ
    (Association of Commonwealth Universities, 2021-05-01) Croft F; Farrelly T
    This study aims to seek ways to prevent marine plastic pollution leakage in New Zealand’s commercial fin fishing industry supply chains. Drawing on a case study approach, this research investigates how sea and land-based plastic material flows are perceived by those working for commercial fishing company Moana NZ. It considers current global, regional and national policies, as well as current initiatives that seek to minimise marine plastic pollution and considers the potential for their implementation in this context. This study also acknowledges the significant role that industry can play in implementing best practice guided by the top of the zero waste hierarchy.
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    Plastic pollution prevention in Pacific Islands: Gap Analysis of Current Legislation, Policies and Plans
    (EIA, 2020-08-01) Farrelly T; Borrelle S; Fuller S
    Using a gap analysis, this study aims to identify the current limitations in national plastic pollution policy for preventing plastic pollution. It also explores the potential to implement best practice for the reduction of plastic pollution and the promotion of a safe circular plastics economy.
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    Towards an equitable approach to marine plastic pollution
    (Ocean Nexus Center, University of Washington. Washington, US., 2022-01-01) Vandenberg J; Yoshi O; Farrelly T
    Current forms of marine plastic pollution and waste governance can, in some cases, exacerbate their inequitable burdens, and these burdens are likely to increase as plastics production continues to grow and be mismanaged. Marine plastic pollution adversely impacts humans and the environment (including food security, livelihoods, physical and mental health, and cultural practices and values), and it disproportionately impacts the lives and livelihood of more marginalized populations.