The Plastic Shift Podcast
By The Plastic Shift
The Plastic Shift PodcastNov 21, 2020
#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 containers.
To explore some other resources on the global plastic pollution issue please visit www.theplasticshift.com.
To learn more about UPSTREAM's work, you can visit their website (https://upstreamsolutions.org/) or listen to their fantastic podcast (https://theindisposablepodcast.simplecast.com/)
#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 issue please visit www.theplasticshift.com.
To learn more about Life Without Plastic's work, you can visit their website (https://lifewithoutplastic.com/) or read their book (www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/33533744-life-without-plastic)
#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 issue please visit www.theplasticshift.com.
To learn more about Loop's work, please visit their website (www.loopstore.com).
#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 plastic waste.
To explore some other resources on the global plastic pollution issue please visit www.theplasticshift.com.
To learn more about As You Sow's work, you can visit their website (https://www.asyousow.org/) or read their report
# 17 Behind Plastic Policy - Pierre Failler | The Plastic Shift
#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 many microfibers.
To explore some other resources on the global plastic pollution issue please visit www.theplasticshift.com.
To learn more about the Plastic Soup Foundation's work, you can visit their website (https://www.plasticsoupfoundation.org)
#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 www.theplasticshift.com.
To learn more about the NOAA Marine Debris Program's work, you can visit their website (https://marinedebris.noaa.gov)
- They offer grants to researchers and institutions at https://grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html?keywords=marine%20debris
- Results from research they fund is available at https://clearinghouse.marinedebris.noaa.gov
- Publicly-available research from all of NOAA is available at https://repository.library.noaa.gov/
- NOAA also has science-related webinars about their work for the public at https://nodc.noaa.gov/seminars/
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The music used was created by Joseph McDade (https://josephmcdade.com/)
This interview was recorded on Sep. 22, 2020
#14 Microplastics & Volatile Organic Compounds - Valter Castelvetro | The Plastic Shift
#13 Plastics Trade and Sustainable Suppliers - Ana Silva | The Plastic Shift
#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 alternatives for increasing the recycling of flexible plastic packaging.
This is an interview of Dave's thoughts on the status quo of British Columbia's legislation to involve producers in the management of their waste, recorded by Madhav Malhotra (one of the students at The Plastic Shift). To explore some other resources on the global plastic pollution issue please visit www.theplasticshift.com.
To learn more about RecycleBC's work, you can visit their website (https://recyclebc.ca/) or read their annual reports (https://recyclebc.ca/about-recyclebc/program-overview/annual-reports/). To see more about some of their projects, you can find them on any social media @recyclebc or learn more via their app (https://recyclebc.ca/app/)
#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 the status quo, challenges, and potential of consumer-oriented research to design more sustainable products. To explore some other resources on the global plastic pollution issue please visit www.theplasticshift.com
To learn more about Dr. Magnier's work, please visit https://www.tudelft.nl/en/ide/about-ide/people/magnier-lbm/
#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, challenges, and potential of government regulations to address this issue. To explore some other resources on the global plastic pollution issue please visit www.theplasticshift.com
To learn more about Dr. Wagner's work, please visit https://usm.maine.edu/environmental-science/travis-wagner
The visuals in this podcast are created with MusicVid (musicvid.org)
The music used was created by Joseph McDade (https://josephmcdade.com/)
#9 Marine Plastic Pollution and the Fishing Industry | Paritosh Deshpande
#8 The World of Informal Waste Management | Martin Medina
#7 Government Policy in Plastic Pollution | Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki
#6 Recycled Plastics for Wastewater Treatment | Huiyi Zhang & Dr. Szabolcs Pap
#5 The Health Impacts of Microplastics | Joana Prata
#4 The Knowns and Unknowns of Microplastics | Dr. Thava Palanisami
#3 - Plastic Bank & Social Plastics | Taylor Leigh Cannizzaro
#2 - Biodegradable Plastics in Agriculture | Markus Flury
#1 - Recycling Contamination | Oksana Horodytska - The Plastic Shift Podcast
This is an interview of Ms. Horodytska's thoughts on the status quo of plastic contamination in the recycling industry, recorded by Madhav Malhotra (one of the cofounders at The Plastic Shift).
To explore some other resources on the global plastic pollution issue please visit www.theplasticshift.com. To learn more about Ms. Horodytska's work, you can email her at oksana.hka@ua.es. To learn more about the Engineering for Circular Economy Group at the University of Alicante, please visit www.linkedin.com/company/circular-economy-university-of-alicante/.
The music used was created by Joseph McDade (https://josephmcdade.com/)