Social Aspects of Plastic Pollution

December 9, 2021, 11:00 am to 12:30 pm

Online

Media and (Micro)plastics: Plastics Packaging, Public Perceptions and Policy

Lesley Henderson, PhD

Group Leader at Sustainable Plastics Research (SPlasH), Department of Social & Political Sciences, Brunel University London


Behavioral Barriers and Solutions to Plastic Pollution

Jiaying Zhao, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia & Canada Research Chair in Behavioural Sustainability


Plastic and the Pandemic: How Citizen science can be used to tackle the plastic pollution crisis during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

Justine Ammendolia, MSc

Coordinator, Global PPE Tracking Initiative


Watch the recorded event here.



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