Plastics. They’ve changed medicine, transportation, and food and water safety. But they've also become a global headache. There's more than six billion tons of plastic trash in the world. What can be done about the problem of plastics?
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Where would we be without plastics? They helped the Allies win World War II. They’ve made vehicles more fuel-efficient. Plastics revolutionized medicine and how we supply clean drinking water. But they’re also a global headache. It started when we turned to them as a convenient, cheap and disposable tool in our everyday lives. Now there’s more than six billion tons of plastic trash, and a lot of it ends up in the oceans. Friday, we’re talking about the problem of plastics and what we can do about it.
GUESTS
- Laura Parker is a senior reporter at National Geographic. She specializes in covering climate change and marine environments, and her work is part of the magazine's Planet or Plastic? campaign, a multi-year initiative aimed at raising awareness of the global plastic crisis and reducing the amount of single-use plastic that is polluting our world's oceans. Her reporting was featured prominently in the magazine's June 2018 issue.
- Beth Terry is an accountant, activist, and public speaker. She blogs at My Plastic Free Life, and she's the author of the book Plastic-Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too [Indie bookstores|Amazon|Audible]