Earth911 Podcast: Drilled’s Amy Westervelt on Who Is Driving the Resurgence of Plastic

Earth911 Podcast: Drilled’s Amy Westervelt on Who Is Driving the Resurgence of Plastic

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It’s Plastic-free July and we’re speaking in the present day with journalist, podcaster, and creator Amy Westervelt in regards to the shocking resurgence of sustainable plastic claims within the media regardless of rising public concern. Amy’s first Drilled podcast sequence this season is about plastic and the machinations of 1 media manipulator, Rick Berman, who launched the Save the Plastic Bag Coalition amongst many dodgy campaigns backed by tobacco, plastic, and oil firms. We talk about what’s coming this season on Drilled and the potential for shoppers to reshape the economic system by refusing to purchase merchandise delivered in plastic packaging. We additionally discover the alternatives to simplify plastic recycling, new molecular recycling options, and the function of Plastic-free July in public discourse in regards to the ubiquitous, polluting materials.

Journalist Amy Westervelt
Journalist Amy Westervelt of Drilled joins Earth911’s Sustainability in Your Ear to speak about plastic air pollution.

If you aren’t already listening to her podcast, Drilled, a true-crime-style podcast about local weather change, it’s best to subscribe. The new season of Drilled began final week. Amy can also be the creator of the Critical Frequency podcast community — it focuses on local weather points — and he or she has written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Guardian, and NPR. Amy was a 2016 winner of the Edward R. Murrow Award for her exposés on the hidden environmental and human prices of Tesla’s Gigafactory in Nevada.
You can comply with every little thing Amy does at amywestervelt.com and discover the Drilled podcast on the Critical Frequency network.