• Plastic: Toxic?

  • Nov 23 2021
  • Length: 25 mins
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Plastic: Toxic?

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  • To bring about systemic change in tackling the climate crisis, we need to tackle plastic pollution across the whole plastics value chain— from the extraction of fossil  fuels that serve as the feedstock of plastic, all the way to the disposal of plastic waste.


    In this episode, experts and climate activists in Asia Pacific discuss the interconnectedness of climate change and plastic pollution, zeroing in on fossil fuels and petrochemicals. 


    Featuring: 

    • Swathi Seshadri from the Center, Financial Accountability
    • Xavier Sun, Taiwan Zero Waste Alliance
    • Yan-Ting Lin, Environmental Rights Foundation Taiwan


    Hosted by Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Environment Programme and founder of CORA Antoinette Taus

    Theme music by Tom Taus 

    An initiative by the Break Free From Plastic 


    The Podcast of Plastic is inspired by the Emmy Award-winning film Story of Plastic produced with Story of Stuff, Peak Plastic Foundation, Plastic Pollution Coalition and other members of the BFFP movement. Visit www.breakfreefromplastic.org/thestoryofplastic to learn more. 


    For further reading: 

    Plastic & Climate: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet



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