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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Our Plastic Inheritance
PART I POLLUTION
1 Marine Litter: Are There Solutions to This Global Environmental Problem?
2 Slow Violence: The Erosion of Marine Plastic Debris and of Human Health
3 How Seabirds and Indigenous Science Illustrate the Legacies of Plastics Pollution
4 Dawn of the Plastisphere: An Experiment with Unpredictable Effects
PART II PERSISTENCE
5 Plastiglomerate: Plastics, Geology, and the New Materialism of the Anthropocene

6 Dressed in Plastic: The Persistence of Polyester Clothes
7 Caring for the Multiple Cares of Plastics
8 On Becoming a Massively Distributed Thing: Hedgehogs, Plastics, and the Bearable Lightness of Becoming
PART III POLITICS
9 Communicative Capitalism, Technological Solutionism, and The Ocean Cleanup
10 Toward Large-Scale Social Change and Plastic Politics: An Anthropological Perspective on the Practices of a Danish Environmental Organization
11 Plastics Talk/Talking Plastics: The Communicative Power of Plasticity
12 Redressing the Faustian Bargains of Plastics Economies

Conclusion: Where There's a Will . . . Contesting Our Plastic Inheritance
List of Contributors