This Friday (February 28), is the all-day Plastics Research-a-thon event. The Environmental Law Club has partnered with the Environmental Law Centre, as well as the UBC Environmental Law Group and Thompson Rivers University to research plastic waste policy in 34 countries and 2 international organizations around the world.
The law librarians have created a comprehensive website for this year’s research-a-thon to help students identify and work with valuable resources in the law library collection, including library resource guides, websites, reports, books, and journal articles. There is also a country specific resource document, which links to the legislation, policy, and case law as well as secondary sources related to plastic waste for each country.
The law librarians will be on hand throughout the day, to help with process of researching foreign and international law.
The event runs from 9am-5pm in room 265 of the law library, with a lunchtime panel in room 150 with Calvin Sandborn, Q.C., the Legal Director of the Environmental Law Centre, and Daniel Brendle-Moczuk, the subject librarian for geography, environmental studies, maps and GIS, economics, sociology and data (social sciences and humanities).