The Cost of Convenience: Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Pollution Crisis
A Plastic Pollution Coalition Webinar
Wednesday, October 20, 2021 - 5:00pm EDT
During the Plastic Pollution Coalition October 20th webinar, we focused on the connection between the plastic pollution crisis and environmental injustice around the world, where economically disadvantaged nations take in a larger share of the world’s trash, and manufacturing chemicals threaten predominantly Black and low-income communities.
We were joined by journalist Erica Cirino, author of a new book, Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis; Dr. Kerim Odekon, Environmental Justice Advocate & Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stony Brook University, New York, USA; and Dr. Sedat Gündoğdu, Associate Professor, Microplastic Research Group, Faculty of Fisheries, University of Cukurova, Turkey.
Participants
Erica Cirino is the Communications Manager of the Plastic Pollution Coalition. She has spent the last decade working as a science writer, author, and artist exploring the intersection of the human and nonhuman worlds.
Erica is best known for her widely published photojournalistic works that cut through the plastics and petrochemical industries’ misinformation campaigns and other efforts that ensure pollution and injustice, to deliver the often shocking and difficult truths about this most ubiquitous and insidious material.