Bioplastics versus conventional plastics: an analysis from sociological, ethical, and educational perspective.

Autor/inn/en	Ohl, Ulrike; Backhouse, Maria; Schlögl-Flierl, Kerstin; Kalch, Anja; Bilandzic, Helena
Titel	Bioplastics versus conventional plastics: an analysis from sociological, ethical, and educational perspective.
Quelle	Aus: Müller, Simone M. (Hrsg.); Schmidt, Matthias (Hrsg.); Twelbeck, Kirsten (Hrsg.): Ecological ambivalence, complexity, and change. Perspectives from the environmental humanities. Abingdon, Oxon u.a.: Routledge (2025) S. 193-209 PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Routledge environmental humanities
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Sammelwerksbeitrag
ISBN	978-1-03-262794-6; 978-1-03-262798-4
DOI	10.4324/9781032627984-15
Schlagwörter	Grundschule; Biokunststoff; Kunststoff; Didaktik; Didaktisches Material; Problemlösen; Wissenstransfer; Entscheidungsfreiheit; Unterricht; Plastik (Material); Müllvermeidung; Abfall
Abstract	The world is increasingly being overwhelmed by plastic waste. Against this backdrop, bioplastics seem to offer a suitable technological solution and are promoted within policy strategies moving toward a bioeconomy. However, numerous ecological trade-offs have become clear, since bioplastics - depending on their chemical composition - can be just as problematic as conventional plastics. In this chapter, we first elaborate on the ambivalences of bioplastics from a sociological and an ethical perspective, following which we sketch out the challenges for transformative learning by analyzing didactic material used in primary schools in Germany. We argue that there are no easy answers to the question of whether bioplastics make an adequate contribution to solving the plastic problem, and we take the position that people need to be empowered to make their own decisions through transparent knowledge transfer.
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