Season Three, Episode One: Judith Enck and The Problem with Plastic

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Judith Enck discusses the failures of plastic recycling and the implications of plastic production.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we’re joined by environmental policy expert Judith Enck, co-author of The Problem with Plastic and president of Beyond Plastics, for a frank conversation about why plastic recycling has largely failed—and why that failure wasn’t an accident. Judith unpacks how the plastics industry has known for decades that recycling doesn’t work, while spending millions convincing the public otherwise. We also explore the human and environmental costs of plastic production,...

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Guest: Judith Enck

Topics covered

• environmental policy
• plastic recycling
• plastics industry
• human costs
• environmental costs

Keywords

• plastic recycling
• environmental policy
• Judith Enck
• Beyond Plastics
• human costs
• environmental costs

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Beyond Plastics

Books & works: The Problem with Plastic