Plastic: Unwrapped – Professor Joanna Gavins

This podcast explores our relationship with one of the most ubiquitous and controversial materials on the planet: plastic. Over three episodes, Professor Joanna Gavins talks to experts from a range of different academic disciplines to try to understand how plastic became such an integral part of modern life, how we came to have over 10 million tons of plastic polluting our oceans every year, and how academic research might help us live with plastics more responsibly and more sustainably. 

Episode 1 – Plastic Planet: Professor Tony Ryan, Dr Rorie Beswick-Parsons – history of plastics and pollution. 

Episode 2 – Systems Solutions: Professor Rachael Rothman – use and reuse.

Episode 3 – The Human Problem: Dr Harriet Baird, Professor Joanna Gavins – pro-environmental change.

Ideas Alive is a series of podcasts by academics from the University of Sheffield

The event goes live on the date and time advertised in the festival programme – see the bottom of the event page for the link to the podcast

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