Julia Cohen

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Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark · The Great Recycling Scam: How Big Plastic Fooled America | Julia Cohen · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

And it's only been a matter of time that I think we've caught up to recognize how significant an impact it's having globally as well.

So in short, yes, I think there's a lot of history based on those other issues that are helping our movement to understand how we actually go about reaching people more broadly to talk about these problems and to solve them.

All those things, bringing back the milkman, metal lunch containers, all of that is part of what we're doing to solve the problem now is bringing those things back.

Part of how we got here is that by looking for and creating markets for all those chemicals and materials made for the war effort,

markets were created, massive amounts of, you know, Madison Avenue marketing were spent to sell us the idea of convenience.

I mean, there's a Life magazine cover image of, you know, a family just throwing tons of plastic up into the air.

It's like the thing to save all housewives' day is you can just throw it away.

From the beginning, plastic actually was never made to be recycled.

It was not designed that way.

It was not made to be reused.

It was made to be thrown away and considered, you know, just waste, which was okay to throw away.

We know now that that's not okay.

There is so much.

The first thing that comes to mind is I think in particular in the last five years, the research on microplastics and nanoplastics has really exploded.

No pun intended.

Microplastics are smaller than five millimeters.

Nano are like nanoparticles, like not seen by the human eye.

And even the smaller microplastics, not really easy to see.

The research now is finding it pretty much everywhere it looks.

So it's not just in our air and our water and our soil and our food.

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