The Politics of Plastic Pollution
Associate Professor Farrelly is an environmental anthropologist who researches plastic pollution and its relationships with climate change, human health and rights, and biodiversity loss.
Her most recent work focusses on plastic pollution as waste colonialism, and includes Plastic Legacies: Pollution, Persistence and Politics (2021), to which she contributed as co-editor and author. Trisia will talk about her involvement in the United Nations Environment Assembly since 2017 and the resolution for a global plastics treaty. She will also discuss her role as technical advisor for Pacific Island countries and New Zealand’s potential role in negotiating a comprehensive and effective treaty.
SPEAKER
Associate Professor Trisia Farrelly
Massey University
VENUE/DATE
Palmerston North Central Library, George Street,
Palmerston North
7:30pm Tue 15 November, 2022 - 8:30pm Tue 15 November, 2022