{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Flash Forward","title":"There’s No Great Future in Plastics","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2092,"description":"This episode is all about a world without plastic. What would that look like? Is it even possible? \n \n Today, plastic is seen as one of our great environmental enemies. But it actually wasn’t always that way. Bradford Harris, a historian of science and the host of a podcast called How It Began: A History of the Modern World, and Susan Freinkel, a journalist and the author of Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, walk us through how plastic started out as a solution to unsustainable practices. Then we talk to Sherry Lippiatt, California Regional Coordinator for the NOAA Marine Debris Program, about what exactly is going on with garbage in the ocean. And finally I visit Danielle Trofe at her studio in Brooklyn, where she grows sustainable materials using mushrooms. \n \n Further reading:\n \n Debbie Chachra on peak plastics\n \"On a scale beyond all previous conceptions\" [electronic resource] : plastics and the preservation of modernity\n Bradford Harris: Plastics and Sustainability\n Our 'Toxic' Love-Hate Relationship With Plastics\n 99 Percent Invisible: The Post-Billiards Age\n Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean\n There Is No Island of Trash in the Pacific\n Global Plastic Production Rises, Recycling Lags\n Different Types of Plastics and their Classification\n Health risks posed by use of Di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP) in PVC medical devices: A critical review\n How Stuff Works: bioplastics\n Taxation and Regulation of Plastic Shopping Bags in Botswana and South Africa \n GROW: A Lamp YOU Grow from Mushroom Mycelium\n \n Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The voices from the future this episode were provided by Lisa Pollak, Arielle Duhaime-Ross, Brent Rose, Victor Dorff and Mary Beth Griggs. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky.\n \n If you want to suggest a future we should take on, send us a note on Twitter, Facebook or by email at info@flashforwardpod.com. We love hearing your ideas! And if you...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/dam2HLo-U1Ry9QrCndqL6T5UjMJXZXITXSp8qYl8vtM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM3MDE4LzE2NzA4/NjcyMTQtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}