Podcast, 26 mins
Plastic Planet
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 1 – Plastic Planet covers the history of plastics and pollution.
Credits
The Podcast
- Professor Joanna Gavins, Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield
- Professor Tony Ryan, Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Sheffield
- Dr Rorie Beswick-Parsons, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Sheffield
