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

It's a very easy thing to say, like, you know, straw, please, or for a restaurant to just have them on demand or to have ones made of other materials.

And there are ones that last and that work better than others.

So, and stainless steel ones are, you know, last forever.

The entire plastics industry is subsidized to, well, prop up a dying industry in certain ways as more people move towards, I mean, as I said before, plastics is plan B for the petrochemical industry.

99% of plastics are made.

What's plan A?

Plan A is selling oil and gas for cars and ships and planes.

Yeah, and find other sources of energy or develop other sources of energy.

So that entire industry is subsidized.

That same petrochemicals.

Yeah.

So, I mean, that—so all of the things that are made from that source material and that source industry are part of what is subsidized, and they are a core part of plastic, so—

We have coalition members that are very involved in the fashion industry.

And one of them wrote a book called Unraveled.

So highly recommend that.

There's actually legislation in a couple of different states about fast fashion as well.

The Plastic Detox we talked about, you know, new movie out on Netflix, 100%.

There's also The Story of Plastic.

That came out a while ago, pre-pandemic, was shown on Discovery Channel in, I don't know, 100 countries around the world for Earth Day.

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