DW Podcasts | Plastic or paper: What’s better? - Living Planet @dw_podcasts | Uploaded March 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
#waste #environment #sustainability
Plastic or paper packaging. The more environmentally friendly option seems obvious, right? But concealed within this deceptively simple choice between two materials is a whole lot of different chemicals, marketing tricks and greenwashing. So, which is better for the environment?
Interviewees:
Llorenc Mila I Canals, Head of the Secretariat of the Life Cycle Initiative, the United Nation's Environment Program
Tatiana Sokolova, Associate Professor of Marketing, Tilburg School of Economics and Management, the Netherlands
Bethanie Carney Almroth, Professor of Eco-toxicology & Environmental Sciences, the University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Listen and subscribe to Living Planet wherever you get your podcasts: pod.link/livingplanet
Got a question for us? Email livingplanet@dw.com.
And, if you like the show, leave us a rating and review on whichever podcast platform you use – and tell a friend!
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:35 How our perceptions of the environmental impact of packaging is often wrong
03:27 So what's up with those disposable 'paper' cups?
05:20 The problem with colored paper packaging & bioplastics
10:30 Solutions
#waste #environment #sustainability
Plastic or paper packaging. The more environmentally friendly option seems obvious, right? But concealed within this deceptively simple choice between two materials is a whole lot of different chemicals, marketing tricks and greenwashing. So, which is better for the environment?
Interviewees:
Llorenc Mila I Canals, Head of the Secretariat of the Life Cycle Initiative, the United Nation's Environment Program
Tatiana Sokolova, Associate Professor of Marketing, Tilburg School of Economics and Management, the Netherlands
Bethanie Carney Almroth, Professor of Eco-toxicology & Environmental Sciences, the University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Listen and subscribe to Living Planet wherever you get your podcasts: pod.link/livingplanet
Got a question for us? Email livingplanet@dw.com.
And, if you like the show, leave us a rating and review on whichever podcast platform you use – and tell a friend!
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:35 How our perceptions of the environmental impact of packaging is often wrong
03:27 So what's up with those disposable 'paper' cups?
05:20 The problem with colored paper packaging & bioplastics
10:30 Solutions
