Plastic may feel like a problem of personal habits, but this story pulls the lens back to the industry that keeps making more of it. Journalist Beth Gardiner explains how disposable plastic became one of Big Oil’s biggest future bets and why so much of the cost lands far from the companies that profit from it.
Guest:
- Beth Gardiner, journalist, author, Plastic Inc: The Secret History and Shocking Future of Big Oil’s Biggest Bet How a Small Number of Companies Pollute the Most Plastic – Renewable Matter
Across parts of Texas, Louisiana and Pennsylvania, huge industrial facilities known as ethane crackers run around the clock, turning fossil fuel byproducts into the chemical building blocks used to make plastic.
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