Podcast, 20 mins
Plastic: Unwrapped - Episode 3 - The Human Problem
Part of Off the Shelf , Ideas Alive
14 Nov 2024 15:00
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 3 – The Human Problem covers pro-environmental change.
Credits
The Podcast
- Professor Joanna Gavins, Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield
- Dr Harriet Baird, Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Sheffield