Plastisphere: A podcast on plastic pollution in the environment

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2024-04-20

  Plastic Money - Turning Off the Subsidies Tap

In March 2024, negotiators and experts came together in Bellagio, Italy, for an exclusive meeting to discuss an essential topic: Plastic money. And we’re not talking about credit cards here, but the actual money we people around the world are paying fo...
  Anja Krieger author
2024-03-23

  How (Not) to Make a Plastics Treaty - Part III: Leave Bad Faith Behind

What happened at the INC-3 in Kenya? Recap 3/3. “If a credible majority of states can come together and adopt global rules to prevent plastic pollution, they can also do the similar things on climate change, on biological diversity, and indeed also ot...
  Anja Krieger author
2024-03-16

  How (not) to Make a Plastics Treaty - Part II: Drama and Delay

What happened at the INC-2 in France? Recap 2/3. The negotiations for the global plastics treaty are haunted by major issues that have long stalled progress on other problems as well, like climate change and biodiversity loss. To understand what’s hap...
  Anja Krieger author
2024-03-08

  How (Not) to Make a Plastics Treaty - Part I: Ambition in a Bracket

--What happened at the INC-1 in Uruguay? Recap 1/3-- This year, 2024, is the crucial year for the plastics treaty negotiations. If you haven’t heard about them, the United Nations are working on an international, legally binding agreement to end plast...
  Anja Krieger author
2024-02-27

  Guest Episode - The Indisposable Podcast: Bioplastics and Plastic Alternatives

You’ve probably heard of bioplastics, these new kinds of plastics that are marketed as environmentally friendly. If you’ve been following this show, you might know the episode from 2019 in which Anja tried to better understand this group of materials a...
  Anja Krieger author
2024-02-23

  [German] "Wege aus der Plastikkrise" - a Panel Discussion on Solutions to Plastic Pollution

- A heads-up for all international listeners: This the first-ever episode in German. If you don't speak the language, don't despair. The next episode in English is already in the works! - This episode features an in-depth panel in German language on s...
  Anja Krieger author
2023-11-19

  #PlasticsTreaty Shorts: The Fossil-Fuel Lobby at INC-3 with Julien Gupta

Welcome again to Plastisphere, the podcast on plastics, people, the planet – and politics! Today, the INC-3, the third round of negotiations towards a global plastic treaty, will wrap up in Nairobi – and Anja received a timely message from one of the a...
  Anja Krieger author
2023-11-16

  #PlasticsTreaty Shorts: Waste Colonialism with Nirere Sadrach and Sharifa Ismail

For a long time, we treated disposable plastic and waste as if there was an “away” – a place, where we could safely dispose of our trash. But as we all know, nothing disappears just magically. Each year, the world produces over two billion tons of wast...
  Anja Krieger author
2023-11-13

  #PlasticsTreaty Shorts: Production Caps and Moratoriums with Andrés del Castillo

Today, you’ll hear a message from Andrés Del Castillo in the #PlasticsTreaty Shorts series. Andrés is a Senior Attorney from Columbia working with CIEL, the Center for International Environmental Law in Switzerland (https://www.ciel.org/). CIEL is a no...
  Anja Krieger author
2023-11-10

  #PlasticsTreaty Shorts: The Planetary Boundary with Bethanie Carney Almroth

We have exceeded six of the nine planetary boundaries. In her message to Plastisphere, Bethany Carney Almroth from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden tells us about one of them - the planetary boundary of novel entities which include plastics and c...
  Anja Krieger author