Plastics in the Oceans

THURSDAY, APRIL 25
PROGRAM #10355 12:00 PM PT

Plastics in the Oceans. On the heels of Earth Day, ocean conservation activists are participating this week in negotiations convened by the United Nations in Ottawa, Canada, to agree on measures to curb plastic pollution, including in the oceans. Representatives of civil society organizations from the US, Chile and Mexico join this program to discuss plastic pollution in the oceans: how massive is the problem? How is this contamination impacting vulnerable populations? How is it hitting the fishing industry? What are the consequences on public health? How abundant are microplastics in the food chain?

Guests: Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš, Founder and Executive Director, Azul, San Francisco, CA; Alberto Quesada, Regional Coordinator, Marine Pollution, MarViva Foundation, San Jose, Costa Rica; Alejandra Parra Muñoz, Co-founder, Environmental Rights Action Network-RADA, Chile.

Photo: Naja Bertolt Jensen via Unsplash

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