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

They don't use plastic cutting boards in the back of the kitchen.

I mean, most places, even when you go to a restaurant, the behind-the-scenes, they may be serving everything in a nice restaurant in glass and ceramic and real stuff, but behind the scenes, the majority of kitchens are filled with plastic.

I don't know about that regulation.

But yeah, like when you're on airplanes, if you ask to have your drink or your water put in your own reusable cup, as I often do.

That's smart.

I carry all of my own reusables with me, although we shouldn't have to.

You know, I will have certain folks say, oh, I'm not allowed to do that.

Or they'll pour it into a plastic cup and then pour the plastic cup into my cup.

So I think there definitely are health and safety regulations that have been promoted and pushed and implemented that are probably for certain good reasons, but also some of them are probably for business and profit reasons.

You know, when we started 17 years ago, we were focused on the ocean, too.

And I think that was where people first really started to see the accumulation of not micro or nanoplastics, but of literally like physical, you know, fishing nets and gear and stuff flowing from rivers and off land and

you know, into the water.

And Captain Charlie Moore, the founder of Al Goleta, one of the founding organizations of this whole movement and one of the fathers of awareness of this, grew up sailing through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and is the person who identified that and kind of named it as, you know, this issue.

And he's one of the founders of our movement and our coalition.

And so we all came from that position.

I think it was where we first started seeing what basically are the canaries in the coal mine, right?

The turtle entangled in a net, the albatross, baby chick dead, you know, with its stomach contents just filled with toothbrushes and bottle caps and all our, you know, plastic bits.

The turtle with the straw, right?

in its nostril.

Those moments and those things, and especially the turtle video, like went ultra viral.

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