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microplastics as a novel and serious “matter of care” (Puig de la Bellacasa 2011). In other words, there is a need to search for new tools to address ecological issues as matters of care that shows our entanglement with the problem and thus, the resulting consequences for further collaborations in the field.1 References Barad, Karen. 2007. Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Durham/London: Duke University Press. Davis, Heather. 2015. ‘Toxic Progeny: The Plastisphere and Other Queer Futures’. PhiloSOPHIA 5 (2): 231–50. De Wolff, Kim. 2014. ‘Gyre Plastic: Science, Circulation and the Matter of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.’ San Diego: University of California (Diss.). http://escholarship.org/uc/item/21w9h64q [28 June 2018]. Dris, Rachid, Johnny Gasperi, Cécile Mirande, Corinne Mandin, Mohamed Guerrouache, Valérie Langlois, and Bruno Tassin. 2017. ‘A First Overview of Textile Fibers, Including Microplastics, in Indoor and Outdoor Environments’. Environmental Pollution 221: 453–58. Eriksen, Marcus, Laurent CM Lebreton, Henry S. Carson, Martin Thiel, Charles J. Moore, Jose C. Borerro, Francois Galgani, Peter G. Ryan, and Julia Reisser. 2014. ‘Plastic Pollution in the World’s Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea’. PloS One 9 (12): e111913. Escobar, Arturo. 2004. ‘Beyond the Third World: Imperial Globality, Global Coloniality and Anti- Globalisation Social Movements’. Third World Quarterly 25 (1): 207–30. Haraway, Donna J. 2016. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Hawkins, Gay. 2013. ‘Made to Be Wasted: PET and Topologies of Disposibilaty’. In Accumulation: The Material Politics of Plastic, edited by Jennifer Gabrys, Gay Hawkins, and Mike Michael, 49–67. London: Routledge. Helmreich, Stefan. 2009. Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Latour, Bruno. 2012. We Have Never Been Modern. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Liboiron, Max. 2015. ‘How the Ocean Cleanup Array Fundamentally Misunderstands Marine Plastics and Causes Harm’. 2015. http://discardstudies.com/2015/06/05/how-the-ocean-clean-up-array- fundamentally-misunderstands-marine-plastics-and-causes-harm/ [28 June 2018]. 1 Apart from the politics of technological fixes with their logics based in bigness, propagation via Ted Talks and well financed media campaigns, there are many interesting initiatives that have been working in the field of plastic litter for years. I like to highlight two projects I had the opportunity to visit in the last two years: (1) The Chilean Citizen Science Project “Científicos de la Basura” (http://www.cientificosdelabasura.cl/) that collaborates with teachers and pupils in the whole country and that was able to produce interesting data for all Chilean coastal regions. In addition, the initiative emphasizes the relation between marine litter and the local waste management and engages in the improvement of recycling in Chile. (2) The “Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research” (https://civiclaboratory.nl/) in Newfoundland (Canada) that works with a feminist and anti-colonial approach for monitoring plastic pollution in collaboration with local fishing communities. They have managed to reduce costs in monitoring equipment with the introduction of cheaper DIY-technologies. 25