Living Chic with Plastic: Recent Episodes
Regional Knowledge Centre for Marine Plastic Debris (RKC-MPD)
Living Chic with Plastic is an environmental podcast that brings insights and how-to in the fight against marine plastic pollution.
As a materials engineer, Jade Katherine Castro sees plastic as beneficial. The issue is how to sustainably manage, produce, and consume plastic so it doesn’t harm the environment. In this episode, the Manila-based engineer also talks about plastic recycling technologies, creating post-consumer plastic waste supply chain, and how important it is to ‘go touch some grass’.
Plastic is versatile, resistant, lightweight, and inexpensive. But the amount of plastic waste in the environment and its negative impacts on our marine ecosystem have been alarming. An Indonesia-based researcher talks about the magnitude of the problem and how young people can help address marine plastic litter issue.