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The Plastic Shift Podcast
by The Plastic Shift
We're interviewing experts in the plastics industry to dig deep into the root causes of plastic pollution!
Episodes
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#21 Businesses and Plastic Pollution: A Long, Winding Path - Matt Prindiville | The Plastic Shift
Matt Prindiville is the CEO and Chief Solutioneer at UPSTREAM Solutions, a nonprofit uniting many stakeholders together to support reuse systems and culture. Matt has decades of experience with working on issues from plastic waste, most recently working to show businesses the benefit of reusable...
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#20 Reducing Plastic Waste, Starting with Each Individual - Jay Sinha | The Plastic Shift
Jay Sinha is Cofounder and Co-owner of Life Without Plastic, a Canadian shopping platform for plastic-free products. Jay has decades of experience in scientific research, environmental policy, and entrepreneurship regarding plastics. To explore some other resources on the global plastic pollution...
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#19 Convenient Reuse: A New Frontier - Charlotte Maiden | The Plastic Shift
Charlotte Maiden is a Publicist at Terracycle Loop, a company creating a door-delivery reusable shopping platform. Their work is among the first to scale reusable packaging for large consumer brands and across multiple countries. To explore some other resources on the global plastic pollution…
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#18 Investor Solutions to Plastic Pollution - Kelly McBee | The Plastic Shift
Kelly McBee is the Waste Program Coordinator at As You Sow, a nonprofit uniting financial shareholders of large public companies to achieve sustainability. As You Sow represents the voices of these shareholders when engaging large companies to make sustainable changes on issues like decreasing...
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# 17 Behind Plastic Policy - Pierre Failler | The Plastic Shift
Prof. Failler is the Director of the Centre for Blue Governance. He holds a PhD in Economics, an MSc in Economics of Marine Resources and a Master in Philosophy. He is coordinating complex research projects with multidisciplinary teams for more than 25 years in Europe, Africa, Asia, Caribbean and...
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#16 Solving Microfibres: Sustainability in the Fashion Industry | The Knowledge Archives
Laura Diaz Sanches is a Campaigner for Microplastics at the Plastic Soup Foundation in the Netherlands. Their work encourages solutions to several aspects of plastic pollution and Laura is responsible for their initiatives like promoting washing guidelines to prevent clothes from releasing as…
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#15 Plastic Pollution and NOAA: Connecting the Dots - Amy V. Uhrin | The Plastic Shift
Dr. Amy V. Uhrin is the Chief Scientist of NOAA's Marine Debris Program. Their work routinely supports marine debris research through grants and outreach and Dr. Uhrin oversees their research priorities. To explore some other resources on the global plastic pollution issue please visit...
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#14 Microplastics & Volatile Organic Compounds - Valter Castelvetro | The Plastic Shift
Dr. Valter Castelvetro is Associate Professor of Polymer Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry at the University of Pisa, Italy. In the last years he has become interested to some less understood issues about the environmental pollution by micro- and nano-plastics,...
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#13 Plastics Trade and Sustainable Suppliers - Ana Silva | The Plastic Shift
Ana Silva is the CEO and Cofounder of COMITATVS, a sustainable plastics trading company that helps businesses find more sustainable materials for their products. This is an interview of her thoughts on the status quo of sustainable plastics after economic shocks with COVID-19 and a global recession.
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#12 How Producers can Help Stop Plastic Pollution - David Lefebvre | The Plastic Shift
David Lefebvre is the Director of Public Affairs at RecycleBC, a coalition of businesses in British Columbia that manage waste generated from their products. He is the spokesperson for all of RecycleBC's initiatives, from educating consumers on how to recycle waste streams to developing...
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#11 Consumer Perceptions and Plastic Packaging - Lise Magnier | The Plastic Shift
Dr. Lise Magnier is the Assistant Professor of Consumer Research at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Her research studies how consumers are influenced by product sustainability, especially when it comes to product packaging. This is an interview of Dr. Magnier's thoughts on...
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#10 Government Regulations and Single-Use Plastics - Travis Wagner | The Plastic Shift
Dr. Travis Wagner is a Professor at the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Southern Maine. His research studies the role of government legislation in decreasing the usage of single-use plastics. This is an interview of Dr. Wagner's thoughts on the status quo,...
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#9 Marine Plastic Pollution and the Fishing Industry | Paritosh Deshpande
Dr. Paritosh Deshpande is an Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. We spoke to him about his research regarding the causes and effects of plastic waste from the fishing industry when it comes…
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#8 The World of Informal Waste Management | Martin Medina
Dr. Martin Medina has worked on waste management issues for over 20 years. He is the author of two book and has a PhD from Yale University. We spoke to him on his thoughts regarding the status quo of the issues with informal waste management in developing countries.
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#7 Government Policy in Plastic Pollution | Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki
Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki is a doctoral candidate in the MARIPOLDATA project at the University of Vienna, in Austria. We spoke to her about her research, which focuses on global environmental policy.
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#6 Recycled Plastics for Wastewater Treatment | Huiyi Zhang & Dr. Szabolcs Pap
In this episode of our podcast, we spoke to Huiyi and Dr. Pap about their thoughts on the potential for using recycled plastics for wastewater treatment.
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#5 The Health Impacts of Microplastics | Joana Prata
Joana Prata’s research studies the health impacts of microplastics contamination. In this podcast, we discussed her thoughts on the consequences that could come about from microplastics pollution.
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#4 The Knowns and Unknowns of Microplastics | Dr. Thava Palanisami
Dr. Thava Palanisami’s research studies the environmental and health risks of contaminants like plastic. This is an interview of Dr. Palanisami's thoughts on what we currently do and don't know about the problems with microplastics
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#3 - Plastic Bank & Social Plastics | Taylor Leigh Cannizzaro
Taylor Leigh Cannizzaro is the Chief Alliance Officer at Plastic Bank, a company that improves the informal waste management industry in developing countries like the Philippines. We talked to her about the status quo of Plastic Bank's work and its potential to achieve a greater scale in solving...
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#2 - Biodegradable Plastics in Agriculture | Markus Flury
Dr. Markus Flury is a professor at the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at Washington State University. His research studies the development of biodegradable plastics, which could be an alternative to current single-use plastics!
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#1 - Recycling Contamination | Oksana Horodytska - The Plastic Shift Podcast
Oksana Horodytska is a PhD. Candidate at the Engineering for Circular Economy Group at the University of Alicante. Her research studies the effects of plastic contamination in the recycling industry, which is one of the largest barriers limiting recycling rates. This is an interview of Ms....
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We're interviewing experts in the plastics industry to dig deep into the root causes of plastic pollution!
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