To date, humans have produced a staggering 10 billion tonnes of plastics – much of which is polluting the natural environment and is likely to continue to do so for hundreds if not thousands of years.
Podcast – What on Earth?
Plastic waste: ‘A terrible and insidious threat to human and environmental health’
Welcome back to the EIA What on Earth? podcast.
Following the launch of the new EIA report The Truth Behind Trash, Ocean campaigners Tom Gammage and Lauren Weir talk about the scale and impact of the problem and what EIA is doing to help address it.
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Lauren Weir
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Tom Gammage
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Paul Newman