The 3 Best Plastisphere: Plastic pollution in the environment Podcast Episodes
1) Plastisphere Ep.1: Welcome to the Plastisphere
In this introduction to the Plastisphere podcast, Anja takes the listener on a journey back in time, from a remote plastic beach on the Big Island of Hawaii to the factory of a big chemical producer m...Show More
2) Plastisphere Ep.2: Plastic, the size of a virus
Anja goes on a lab tour with Alexandra ter Halle from Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse. The chemist and her team were the first to detect nanoplastic in the open ocean - plastic so small that it i...Show More
3) Plastisphere Ep.4: Plastic vs. the Climate?
Plastic pollution might be the most visible environmental issue we face today. But there are other kinds of pollution, and they are far harder to see. One of the most dangerous is the huge amount of g...Show More
4) How [Not] To Make A Plastics Treaty - The Mysterious Midnight Meeting
It's 2026, and we still don't have a plastics treaty. Will we get one, what kind, and when? All of that is up in the air at this point. And after the failed round of negotiations last summer in Geneva...Show More
5) Tackling Plastic Production: Why and How to Do It
It's the elephant in the room: The growth of plastic production and how that contributes to pollution. In this episode, we're taking a look at why it's important to not only tackle the waste plastic c...Show More
6) Reuse, Reuse, Reuse! How a Tradititional Concept Can Help Reduce Plastic Waste
You’ve probably heard the mantra of reduce, reuse, recycle. And oftentimes, it’s that last word, recycle, that we think of when looking to solve plastic pollution. But the order of that mantra has a d...Show More
Reuse, Reuse, Reuse! How a Tradititional Concept Can Help Reduce Plastic Waste
26:38 | Nov 26th, 2025
7) Beyond Recycling - The Many Meanings of the Circular Economy
When we speak about plastic pollution, a central idea to solve it is that of the circular economy. And when this idea of circularity is mentioned, recycling is often the first thing that comes to mind...Show More
8) Guilt-free plastics? The idea of plastic credits and its realities
Wouldn’t it be great to have something like guilt-free plastics? A plastic product you can just buy without worrying that you are contributing to pollution in the environment? That’s the promise of pl...Show More
9) Teaser - BOY WASTED: A bale of plastic. A mystery body. A global investigation
+++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...Show More
Teaser - BOY WASTED: A bale of plastic. A mystery body. A global investigation
02:07 | Oct 3rd, 2025
10) Speaking up About Plastic Pollution in Turkey, from Biology to Waste Trade
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...Show More
Speaking up About Plastic Pollution in Turkey, from Biology to Waste Trade
43:20 | Sep 30th, 2025