Plastisphere: A podcast on plastic pollution in the environment

By Anja Krieger

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Episodes: 60

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The podcast on plastic, people, and the planet by @anjakrieger. Plastics have become the basis for our modern lives, but they also pollute the planet. Will we be able to develop a healthy relationship with these materials we’ve created? Follow Anja on a journey into the world of synthetic polymers, their impacts on nature and ourselves, and the global quest to tackle plastic pollution. Her episodes feature a diverse set of voices and viewpoints and explore the issue from many different angles.

Episode Date
Early Heroines of Plastic Pollution: Meet the Women who Started the Beach Cleanups (Part II - Linda)
Sep 19, 2025
Early Heroines of Plastic Pollution: Meet the Women who Started the Beach Cleanups (Part I - Judie)
Sep 12, 2025
How [Not] to Make a Plastics Treaty - What really happened in Geneva?
Aug 26, 2025
How [Not] to Make a Plastics Treaty - Update from Geneva (INC 5.2.) with Neil Tangri
Aug 13, 2025
The Youth Movement at the Plastics Treaty Talks
Aug 11, 2025
How [Not] to Make a Plastics Treaty - Update from Geneva (INC 5.2) with Magnus Lovold
Aug 09, 2025
How [Not] to Make a Plastics Treaty - Nothing is Agreed Until Everything is Agreed
May 08, 2025
Guest Episode: Why didn't the plastic pollution talks in South Korea yield a treaty? (In Focus)
Jan 22, 2025
Plastics in the Media - A Review with Nanoplastics Researcher Denise Mitrano
Dec 12, 2024
Fact-check your assumptions: Become a plastic mythbuster!
Dec 05, 2024
How [Not] to Make a Plastics Treaty - Midnight Update from #INC5 in Busan
Dec 01, 2024
Why production reduction and a fair transition are so important (with GAIA and Grid Arendal)
Dec 01, 2024
Meeting the Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty at #INC5
Dec 01, 2024
Event Recording: How governments subsidize plastic production - QUNO/Eunomia/IUCN at INC5
Dec 01, 2024
Event Recording: The Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty at #INC5
Nov 30, 2024
How [Not] to Make a Plastics Treaty - Things Get Circular (INC-5 in South Korea)
Nov 28, 2024
#PlasticsTreaty Shorts - Brackets Busan Style
Nov 26, 2024
Guest Episode: Will we get a viable Global Plastics Treaty or will compromise water it down?
Nov 22, 2024
REPOST: The scientists who discovered plastic pollution over 50 years ago (2020 episode)
Nov 19, 2024
Guest Episode - Plastics in Drinking Water
Oct 22, 2024
How [Not] to Make a Plastics Treaty - Bracket-Breaking News (Potentially)
Oct 08, 2024
How [Not] to Make a Plastics Treaty - Phantom of the Ottawa (INC-4 in Canada)
Sep 22, 2024
Fast Fashion, Single Use, Packaging: It's Plastic Overshoot Day 2024
Sep 05, 2024
Forever Chemicals (Teaser)
Jun 05, 2024
#PlasticsTreaty Shorts: Burning plastics and chemical recycling with Sirine Rached
Jun 02, 2024
#PlasticsTreaty Shorts: Report from INC-4 in Ottawa with Stephen Leahy
May 04, 2024
Pushing Back Against Corporate Capture at #INC4
Apr 29, 2024
In Focus by The Hindu: Where does India stand in the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations?
Apr 26, 2024
Plastic Money - Turning Off the Subsidies Tap
Apr 20, 2024
How [Not] to Make a Plastics Treaty - Leave Bad Faith Behind (INC-3 in Kenya)
Mar 23, 2024
How [Not] to Make a Plastics Treaty - Drama and Delay (INC-2 in France)
Mar 16, 2024
How [Not] to Make a Plastics Treaty - Ambition in Brackets (INC-1 in Uruguay)
Mar 08, 2024
The Indisposable Podcast: Bioplastics and Plastic Alternatives
Feb 27, 2024
[German] "Wege aus der Plastikkrise" - a Panel Discussion on Solutions to Plastic Pollution
Feb 23, 2024
#PlasticsTreaty Shorts: The Fossil-Fuel Lobby at INC-3 with Julien Gupta
Nov 19, 2023
#PlasticsTreaty Shorts: Waste Colonialism with Nirere Sadrach and Sharifa Ismail
Nov 16, 2023
#PlasticsTreaty Shorts: Production Caps and Moratoriums with Andrés Del Castillo
Nov 13, 2023
#PlasticsTreaty Shorts: The Planetary Boundary with Bethanie Carney Almroth
Nov 10, 2023
#PlasticsTreaty Shorts: Unknown chemicals with Walter Waldman
Nov 09, 2023
#PlasticsTreaty Shorts: Consumption Reduction with Kristian Syberg
Nov 07, 2023
#PlasticsTreaty Shorts: Three Principles with Chris Dixon
Nov 05, 2023
What Day is Plastic Overshoot?
Jul 09, 2023
Science over Profit - Demands for the Plastic Treaty
May 12, 2023
Listening Session with Baldeep Kaur
Mar 17, 2023
The Indisposable Podcast: The Story of Plastic
Mar 04, 2023
What on Earth: Plastics Treaty Negotiations Start in Uruguay
Nov 27, 2022
Sustainable Asia: Producer Responsibility and Packaging Design
May 02, 2022
Paving the Way for a Global Plastics Treaty
Mar 14, 2022
From Zero Waste to Collective Action
Jul 30, 2021
Introducing: Life in the Soil (Teaser)
Nov 24, 2020
Chatting about Individual Impact
Jul 26, 2020
The Discovery of Plastic Pollution
Jul 10, 2020
Plastics and the Coronavirus
Apr 28, 2020
Confused about Bioplastics?
Jul 16, 2019
Plastic Traces in the Soil
Apr 19, 2019
Visiting the Albatross
Dec 30, 2018
Plastic vs. the Climate?
Dec 06, 2018
Waste Picker Economies
Oct 05, 2018
Plastic, the Size of a Virus
Sep 14, 2018
Welcome to the Plastisphere
Sep 02, 2018