For example, the term single-use plastics includes medical plastics, disposable packaging, and other items. Conflating them can cause harm, particularly when there are calls to ban all single-use plastics […] Without differentiating between medical plastics (while also making them less toxic … and other single-use plastics, or differentiating between pvc (which is full of toxic chemicals) and silicone (less so), or differentiating between plastic use and plastic production, it is impossible to be responsible to the problems and ethics of plastic pollution. This is just one way to think about the relationships among differentiation, specificity, ethics, and obligation in plastics. There’s not even a We for plastics.
Liboiron, M. (2021). Pollution Is Colonialism, Duke University Press,. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ual/detail.action?docID=6527589