Plastics play a big role in daily life, and in the technology that will power the green transition. But they’re made from fossil fuel, and this accounts for 4-8% of global oil consumption. There are two sides to everything – and that goes for plastics, too. Organised by Gabrielle Maughan.
If we are to tackle the climate emergency effectively
we have to change the way we live, the choices we make.
Plastic plays an important part in this.
Made from oil, a fossil fuel that contributes to our climate
changing and pollution. How can we control it’s use?
Who best to talk about the future of plastics but those who
work with it every day:
– Spectra packaging
– Radical Recycling
both local companies, will explain how we can live with and without plastics
We have divorced ourselves from the material of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore. We look to new materials which were cooked in vats, long complex derivatives of urine which we call plastics. These new materials lacked the odour of the living, their touch was alian to nature
Norman Mailer
Useful Links:
‘Life in Plastic’ – a bit about a book published 20 years ago in India
World Economic Forum
Halesworth ASH 