Plastisphere: A podcast on plastic pollution in the environment

Plastisphere: A podcast on plastic pollution in the environment

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.

Episodes

Teaser - BOY WASTED: A bale of plastic. A mystery body. A global investigation

October 3, 2025 • 2 mins
+++Podcast recommendation+++ There’s a concrete yard with piles of plastic, and lying on the ground is the body of a boy – grotesquely ripped apart. Who was he? And what really happened to him? A team of award-winning investigative journalists, including ENDS Report’s Tess Colley and Pippa Neill, set out to find out. Listen to all three episodes here: https://www.endsreport.com/article/1932516/listen-boy-wasted-bale-plastic-myster...
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Speaking up About Plastic Pollution in Turkey, from Biology to Waste Trade

September 29, 2025 • 43 mins
In this episode we’ll travel to Turkey with Sedat Gündogdu. Sedat is a Turkish marine biologist and works as a professor at Cukurova University in Adana. When Sedat realized how much plastic trash was polluting the water and land around him, he started to research both its origins and impacts. He began to understand the downsides of microplastics, waste trade, and recycling, and started to talk openly about it. At the plastics trea...
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Plastic Chemicals - A Toxic Relationship and How We Can Start Fixing It

September 24, 2025 • 41 mins
In this episode, we’re taking a deep dive into plastic chemicals and their impacts on human and environmental health. You’ll learn why it’s not such a great idea to put plastic containers into your dishwasher, and why fatty food is especially prone to absorbing chemicals from food packaging. We’re also discussing a common and mostly misunderstood mantra of toxicology, the claim that it’s always the dose that makes the poison. Well,...
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Early Heroines of Plastic Pollution, Part II: Meet the Women who Started the Beach Cleanups (Linda)

September 18, 2025 • 32 mins
In this episode, we’re going to head out to the beach for the 40th International Coastal Cleanup Day. It’s a huge event which has been taking place each third Saturday of September for four decades now. Each year that day, hundreds of thousands of people swarm to the shorelines and collect and remove the trash they find. But beyond just cleaning up, International Coastal Cleanup Day is an important part of the science and politics ...
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Early Heroines of Plastic Pollution, Part I: Meet the Women who Started the Beach Cleanups (Judie)

September 12, 2025 • 34 mins
In this episode, we’re going to head out to the beach for the 40th International Coastal Cleanup Day. It’s a huge event which has been taking place each third Saturday of September for four decades now. Each year that day, hundreds of thousands of people swarm to the shorelines and collect and remove the trash they find. But beyond just cleaning up, International Coastal Cleanup Day is an important part of the science and politics ...
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How [Not] to Make a Plastics Treaty - What really happened in Geneva?

August 26, 2025 • 23 mins
After 11 days of talks between 180 nations in the middle of a heatwave, the final session dragged late into the night. The next morning we learned that the plastics treaty talks had - again - ended without an agreement to tackle plastic pollution. So after recovering from this intense week, Anja got in touch with Alexandra Harrington. Alexandra is an expert in law and she wears many hats: She’s the Chair of the Plastic Pollution T...
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How [Not] to Make a Plastics Treaty - Update from Geneva (INC 5.2.) with Neil Tangri

August 13, 2025 • 8 mins
How [Not] to Make a Plastics Treaty - Update from Geneva (INC 5.2.) with Neil Tangri by Anja Krieger
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The Youth Movement at the Plastics Treaty Talks

August 11, 2025 • 28 mins
Dejea Lyons and Shellan Saling from the Youth Plastic Action Network leave no doubt: To save the Plastics Treaty process and get to a meaningful agreement, serious sh*** needs to happen! Listen to Shellan's statement at the opening plenary and our chat under a tree in front of the United Nations Headquarter in Geneva, Switzerland. Thanks to the security guard who kindly let us sit and record there before he came over and informed u...
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How [Not] to Make a Plastics Treaty - Update from Geneva (INC 5.2) with Magnus Lovold

August 9, 2025 • 20 mins
How [Not] to Make a Plastics Treaty - Update from Geneva (INC 5.2) with Magnus Lovold by Anja Krieger
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How [Not] to Make a Plastics Treaty - Nothing is Agreed Until Everything is Agreed

May 8, 2025 • 57 mins
When the plastics treaty negotiations in South Korea ended without a result last December, media reports suggested they had failed. But not so fast - the negotiations are far from over, and continue this year. In this episode, you'll get an update on where we stand on the path to a global plan to tackle plastic pollution - and what’s to come. You'll hear from three of the smartest observers of the process: Magnus Lovold from NAIL, ...
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Guest Episode: Why didn't the plastic pollution talks in South Korea yield a treaty? (In Focus)

January 21, 2025 • 16 mins
In this guest episode, G. Sampath and Satyarupa Shekhar discuss the fifth meeting of the UN’s Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) and why it ended without delivering a legally binding treaty to address global plastic pollution. Continue listening to the full episode here: https://www.thehindu.com/podcast/plastic-pollution-treaty-collapse/article68946877.ece
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Plastics in the Media - A Review with Nanoplastics Researcher Denise Mitrano

December 11, 2024 • 30 mins
In recent years, a lot of new research on micro- and nanoplastics has come out. Reporting in the media sounds pretty scary, with nanoplastics found in the human body. What's does the science know for sure at this point, and what is still open and under investigation? Anja speaks with Denise Mitrano, a professor at the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich, the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerla...
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Fact-check your assumptions: Become a plastic mythbuster!

December 5, 2024 • 2 mins
The Plastic Mythbusters project is a collaboration between the Helmholtz Centre Hereon and the University of Strathclyde. Try our quiz and learn more in our detailed answers. You can also send us new claims to check or comments on our answers via the feedback form at the end of the quiz. We’d love to hear from you – to tackle the most persistent plastic myths! Links - Quiz: https://hub.hereon.de/portal/apps/experiencebuilder/experi...
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How [Not] to Make a Plastics Treaty - Midnight Update from #INC5 in Busan

December 1, 2024 • 13 mins
How [Not] to Make a Plastics Treaty - Midnight Update from #INC5 in Busan by Anja Krieger
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Why production reduction and a fair transition are so important (with GAIA and Grid Arendal)

December 1, 2024 • 28 mins
Why production reduction and a fair transition are so important (with GAIA and Grid Arendal) by Anja Krieger
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Meeting the Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty at #INC5

December 1, 2024 • 29 mins
Meeting the Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty at #INC5 by Anja Krieger
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Event Recording: How governments subsidize plastic production - QUNO/Eunomia/IUCN at INC5

November 30, 2024 • 82 mins
Event Recording: How governments subsidize plastic production - QUNO/Eunomia/IUCN at INC5 by Anja Krieger
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Event Recording: The Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty at #INC5

November 29, 2024 • 68 mins
Event Recording: The Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty at #INC5 by Anja Krieger
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How [Not] to Make a Plastics Treaty - Things Get Circular (INC-5 in South Korea)

November 27, 2024 • 22 mins
The saga continues: Anja and Magnus meet in Busan, South Korea, to discuss the unfolding treaty negotiations on Day 4 of the INC5. Thanks to Grid Arendal for the travel grant!
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#PlasticsTreaty Shorts - Brackets Busan Style

November 26, 2024 • 10 mins
Anja is at INC5, the final round of negotiations for the global plastics treaty. On the opening day, she asked people about their expectations - and witnessed the magic of diplomacy: Break free from brackets! With input from (in order of appearance): - Smail Alhilali (UNIDO) - Anjeli Debaraja - Jose Lopez Reyes (Dominican Republic Delegation) - Angelica C. Pago (Greenpeace East Asia) - Doe Johnson (International Alliance of Waste ...
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