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🚨 Calling all Microplastic and Plastic Pollution Researchers and policy makers!
The Research Triangle Health Collaborative in coordination with RTI International is hosting its 2025 Summit titled, "Local Solutions to a Global Problem: Microplastics in North Carolina".
This meeting will be held (in person only) at the NC Biotech Center in RTP, NC on January 29-30, 2025. Registration is open now.
Link: https://environmentalhealthcollaborative.org/2025-summit/
New report on plastics and climate is out!
The plastic life cycle is associated with 2 Gt of green house emissions.
Report says 85% of total plastic greenhouse gas emissions are associated with production stage of plastics.
Plastic type matters as PS has the largest CO2 emission per ton of polymer (PS> PET> PP > LDPE = HDPE).
6% of total plastic green house gas emissions is associated with current forms of waste management.
Read more here:
https://www.grida.no/publications/1023
Alarming new microplastics study: Patients with microplastics identified in their heart had higher risk of stroke, heart attack or death.
Majority of the microplastics were fragmented polyethylene or pvc.
If you are looking for a new podcast to check out whilst learning about the world of plastic pollution and solutions, I recommend you check out one of these three podcasts!
1. Plastisphere podcast is one of the first podcasts I started listening to back in 2020 and I’m a huge fan of Anjas method of plastic story telling!
https://anjakrieger.com/plastisphere/
2. The indisposable podcast created by Upstream celebrate solutions to plastic pollution and feature heroes of the movement.
https://open.spotify.com/show/0LNTuP0IaStYu11l9R3rVL?si=RbhotLenSSCNReFn_GLVEQ
3. Aquathread podcast is one of the newest podcast talking about plastics and hosted by my coauthor of Plastics Professor Jenna Jambeck! I was lucky to be one of the rotating cohosts of season 1.
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1194405408/aquathread
What are some of the podcasts you enjoy that cover plastic pollution and solutions?
If you are looking for a new podcast to check out whilst learning about the world of plastic pollution and solutions, I recommend you check out one of these three podcasts!
1. Plastisphere podcast is one of the first podcasts I started listening to back in 2020 and I’m a huge fan of Anjas method of plastic story telling!
https://anjakrieger.com/plastisphere/
2. The indisposable podcast created by Upstream celebrate solutions to plastic pollution and feature heroes of the movement.
https://open.spotify.com/show/0LNTuP0IaStYu11l9R3rVL?si=RbhotLenSSCNReFn_GLVEQ
3. Aquathread podcast is one of the newest podcast talking about plastics and hosted by my coauthor of Plastics Professor Jenna Jambeck! I was lucky to be one of the rotating cohosts of season 1.
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1194405408/aquathread
What are some of the podcasts you enjoy that cover plastic pollution and solutions?
Cement lined ductile iron pipes might be a great replacement for lead and PVC pipes transporting drinking water for municipalities.
Ductile iron is slightly more expensive than PVC but lasts much longer and doesn’t leach polymer additives of concern.
https://www-ehn-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.ehn.org/amp/pvc-versus-iron-water-pipes-2667288280
Martin Wagner
