Our Plastic Predicament - Old-growth Podcast S1 E3

Good overview of the plastic pollution problem: Discussion topics: -Go through everything on our person and that we are using that has plastic in it (glasses, phone, microphone…) Pollution problem -microbeads Micro-bead free waters act -larger plastic that breaks into smaller pieces -fibers Great Pacific Garbage Patch Midway Island: Plastic being ingested -possible health issue for humans/other organisms (ex fish) -Why is it so hard to stop using plastic? - Plastic is ingrained in our daily life -How do we “turn off the pipeline”? (plastic bag banning policies?) -Clean up! Plastics Pollution Solution - TREC Exhibit GoErie Opinion article - youth focus

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Our Plastic Predicament - Old-growth Podcast S1 E3 is an episode from Old-growth Podcast by Eric Dye and Julia Guerrein.

This episode is 00:22:05 long.

This episode was published on Jul 31, 2018.

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