ABSTRACT

This paper considers two cases from the “unpackaged movement” as examples of market detachment: the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s campaign to develop “a new plastics economy” and Source, a chain of zero waste bulk stores in Australia. Despite their differences, both these cases depend on tacit beliefs about material responsibilities, that is: assumptions about what single use plastic packaging is responsible for, who or what is affected by it, and how to redistribute its functions through different forms of detachment. In seeking to develop an analysis of detachment as a significant market dynamic, how the disposable plastic package changes from a mundane market device into a detachment problem is a key concern. Equally significant are questions of care. When plastic packaging shifts from mundane to troubling who is invited to care about this? A key finding of the paper is that the redistribution of material responsibilities occurs in very different ways.

摘要

本文将“无包装运动”中的两个案例作为市场脱离的例子：艾伦麦克阿瑟基金会发展“新塑料经济”的运动和澳大利亚零废物散货连锁店 Source。尽管存在差异，但这两种情况都取决于对物质责任的默认信念，即：关于一次性塑料包装负责什么、谁或什么受其影响以及如何通过不同形式的分离重新分配其功能的假设。在寻求将分离作为重要的市场动态进行分析时，一次性塑料包装如何从平凡的市场设备转变为分离问题是一个关键问题。同样重要的是护理问题。当塑料包装从平凡变成麻烦时，有谁会来关心这个？该论文的一个关键发现是，物质责任的重新分配以非常不同的方式发生。