An episode inspired by the question "What if we get it right?" Let’s explore a future together with less plastic.

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Sources:

• ⁠⁠https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/unep-environment-plastic-pollution-waste/⁠⁠
• ⁠⁠https://www.unep.org/resources/turning-off-tap-end-plastic-pollution-create-circular-economy⁠⁠
• ⁠⁠https://blog.cleanhub.com/how-much-plastic-is-recycled#:~:text=09%20%7C%20Summary-,How%20much%20plastic%20is%20recycled%20worldwide%3F,landfill%2C%20or%20polluting%20the%20environment.⁠⁠
• ⁠⁠https://www.oecd.org/en/about/news/press-releases/2022/02/plastic-pollution-is-growing-relentlessly-as-waste-management-and-recycling-fall-short.html⁠⁠
• ⁠⁠https://www.goclimate.com/blog/sustianable-fashion-material-guide/⁠⁠
• ⁠⁠What If We Get It Right?⁠⁠ By Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

Spoiler: it's in your brain.

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Sources:

• • Sustainable use and management of plastics in agriculture
  • Plastic mulching, and occurrence, incorporation, degradation, and impacts of polyethylene microplastics in agroecosystems
  • Microplastic stress in plants: effects on plant growth and their remediations
  • Why Government and Industry Must Address “Forever Chemicals” in the Food Supply
  • EPA Grants Petition on Three PFAS Found in Fluorinated Plastic Containers
  • Potential Health Impact of Microplastics: A Review of Environmental Distribution, Human Exposure, and Toxic Effects
  • Recycling Rates by Country 2025
  • Plastic Bans Around the World
  • Economic benefits of phasing out plastics
  • Plastic-eating bacteria can help waste self-destruct
  • ‘We are just getting started’: the plastic-eating bacteria that could change the world
  • CR letter to Fairlife on plastic chemicals in its Core Power High Protein Chocolate Milk Shake product

Come with us on an exploration of conflicting interests and the nexus between problem-solving and industry.

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Sources:

• https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aax0587

• https://tos.org/oceanography/article/the-story-of-plastic-pollution-from-the-distant-ocean-gyres-to-the-global-policy-stage#:~:text=The%20first%20scientific%20findings%20of,Carpenter%20and%20Smith%2C%201972).

• https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/plastic-waste-accumulated-in-oceans?time=earliest..2019

• https://ourworldindata.org/waste-management

• https://eeb.utoronto.ca/profile/rochman-chelsea-m/

• https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/gyre.html

• https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-pacific-garbage-patch/

• https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-the-anthropocene.html

• https://e360.yale.edu/digest/bugs-are-evolving-to-eat-plastic-study-finds

• https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution?insight=better-waste-management-is-key-to-ending-plastic-pollution#key-insights

• https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/a-fierce-green-fire-timeline-of-environmental-movement/2988/

• https://www.epa.gov/history/milestones-epa-and-environmental-history

• https://www.britannica.com/story/a-timeline-of-environmental-history

Ever wondered where modern plastics came from? Or how they infiltrated every aspect of our lives? Listen and wonder no more.

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Sources:

• https://plasticoceans.org/the-facts/#:~:text=We%20are%20producing%20over%20380,at%20least%20several%20hundred%20years.

• https://theoceancleanup.com/great-pacific-garbage-patch/#:~:text=ESTIMATION%20OF%20SIZE,times%20the%20size%20of%20France.&text=To%20formulate%20this%20number%2C%20the,elaborate%20sampling%20method%20ever%20coordinated.

• https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution

• https://www.statista.com/statistics/282732/global-production-of-plastics-since-1950/

• https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/tupperware-plastics/

• https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/chemistry/age-plastic-parkesine-pollution

• https://www.sciencehistory.org/education/classroom-activities/role-playing-games/case-of-plastics/history-and-future-of-plastics/

• https://youtu.be/9GMbRG9CZJw?si=E1leT9GSchbBkLTn

• https://www.ciel.org/news/fossil-fuel-and-chemical-industries-at-inc-3/

• https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vintage-ads-plastic_n_5cdb1768e4b01e9bd3540ffa

• https://repurpose.global/blog/post/how-plastic-lobbying-can-be-a-powerful-tool-for-corporations

• https://www.ciel.org/news/fossil-fuel-and-chemical-industries-at-inc-3/

• • https://time.com/6284266/pfas-forever-chemicals-manufacturers-kept-secret/
  • https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10237242/

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*DISCLAIMER: The majority of this episode is in Italian.*

Ballate, mangiate, bevete e godetevi l'aria fresca. In questo episodio, Ari ha avuto il piacere di parlare con Giacomo Spotti di Bioritmo e Niccolò Garbarino di La Birr'aia, due ragazzi che stanno lavorando per creare un'armonia tra natura e fare ciò che amiamo. Viaggiate a Firenze, Italia, mentre parliamo del loro lavoro e di come possiamo portare la sostenibilità nelle cose che già amiamo fare.

Bioritmo:

• bioritmico.com
• @bioritmico

La Birr'aia:

• birrificioltrarno.it/la-birraia
• @la.birraia
• @birrificio.oltrarno

Ciaoooooo, residents! We’re (jk just Ari, Lexi is off learning the law) back today answering some questions we had in our inbox recently. We’re nothing if not opinionated…

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