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Posted on November 8, 2023November 18, 2023

Join the Plastic Mythbusters!

What do you know about plastic pollution? Test your knowledge with the Plastic Mythbusters quiz on the Coastal Pollution Toolbox.

A project by Helmholtz Centre Hereon on the Coastal Pollution Toolbox, with Ahnen&Enkel, and the University of Strathclyde.

Can’t finish the quiz?

Continue reading “Join the Plastic Mythbusters!”

Posted on April 3, 2019June 17, 2020

Facts & Myths of Plastic Pollution

I just found this beautifully designed page on facts and myths of plastic pollution by researcher Rhiannon Moore. Check it out!

Posted on March 7, 2019June 17, 2020

Crowd-sourced fact-check

Here’s a great initiative by Martin Wagner and Lesley Henderson to fact-check plastic pollution factoids: Which ones are fact, and which ones myth? Find out in the Google Doc “An inventory of factoids and myths on plastic pollution and microplastics”

Posted on December 25, 2018June 17, 2020

Debunking plastic pollution myths

Grid Arendal, a Norwegian foundation, has put together a fact-checking website called “Stop Talking Trash about Marine Litter” debunking wide-spread ocean-plastic myths. Project manager Peter Harris published a blogpost with additional background.

What listeners say

“A rare, engaging deep dive” – GreenBiz

“Great addition to the environment podcast world” – Andrew Revkin

“I’ve been waiting for a podcast to come around that takes an in-depth look at the complex world of plastic, and this is it!” – Garth Covernton

“Excellent, curious and fact-filled and full of equal parts wonder and horror in a new world of our making.” – Meera Subramanian

“An amazingly smart podcast” – Deborah Blum

“Most podcasts I listen to while doing something else, as companions while I cook or walk. But Plastisphere is just too rich. I only ever want to listen. To sit and fully absorb and (often) to take notes.” – Rebecca Altman

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