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UCD Library Collection Spotlight: Plastic Free July!
A monthly online and print display highlighting our collections
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Books on Display
Just some of the books on our Spotlight shelves are listed here, as well as ebooks that can be read from anywhere. Click the links beside each book to go to our catalogue.
Trash Culture by Gillian Pye (Editor)
Call Number: 709.0407 PYEISBN: 9783039115532Publication Date: 2010-06-16The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success by Mark Jaccard
Call Number: 333.79 JACISBN: 9781108742665Publication Date: 2020-02-06Sustainability by Design by John R. Ehrenfeld; John Ehrenfeld
Call Number: 338.927 EHRISBN: 9780300137491Publication Date: 2008-09-23Household Sustainability by Chris Gibson; Carol Farbotko; Lesley Head; Gordon Waitt; Nicholas Gill
Call Number: 640.286 GIBISBN: 9781781006207Publication Date: 2013-05-31
eBooks
Plastic Waste and Recycling by Trevor M. Letcher (Editor)
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780128178812Publication Date: 2020-03-10Recycling of Flexible Plastic Packaging by Michael Niaounakis
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780128166031Publication Date: 2019-12-04Plastics and the Environment by R. M. Harrison (Editor); R. E. Hester (Editor)
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781788013314Publication Date: 2018-11-19An Ontology of Trash by Greg Kennedy
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780791469934Publication Date: 2007-02-22Grassroots to Global by Marianne E. Krasny (Editor); Keith G. Tidball (Foreword by); David Maddox (Afterword by)
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781501714979Publication Date: 2018-06-15
Plastic-Free July
Join us as we go plastic-free in July! Our Spotlight display this month features books from our collection on sustainability, climate change and methods of mitigating our impact on the Earth. Feel free to browse and borrow from the shelves in the James Joyce Library!
Be sure also to see our UCD Library Green Guide to find out more about how we are attempting to reduce our own impact through more sustainable practices and services.
More books!
Peak Plastic by Jack Buffington
Call Number: 363.738 BUFISBN: 9781440864162Publication Date: 2018-11-02A Crisis of Waste? by Martin O'Brien
Call Number: 363.728 OBRISBN: 9780415960984Publication Date: 2007-08-22The Pivotal Generation by Henry Shue
Call Number: 363.7387460973 SHUISBN: 9780691226248Publication Date: 2022-01-11Climate Justice by Mary Robinson
Call Number: 363.7 ROBISBN: 9781632869289Publication Date: 2018-09-04Do It Yourself by Kim Bryan (Editor); Paul Chatterton (Editor); Trapese Collective Staff (Editor); Alice Cutler (Editor)
Call Number: 363.7 DOISBN: 9780745326382Publication Date: 2007-07-20
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