Aside from a lack of consumer recycling, major corporations are often the target of environmentalists who blame them for the proliferation of discardable plastics. However, multinationals including Coca-Cola, Ford, and Nike are looking to change the way they use plastics in their products.
In an effort to reduce a reliance on oil and create products that are more sustainable, several major manufacturers have recently pledged to switch to plant-based PET plastics.
Susan Freinkel is a science writer who has written extensively on the use of plastics in our society and recently appeared in a Long Now Foundation event to talk about how pervasive they are in our society and what we can do to balance their convenience with their ease of disposal.
Susan Freinkel: Eternal Plastic: A Toxic Love Story from The Long Now Foundation and The Long Now Foundation on FORA.tv
