Break Free From Plastic - Winter Will Come Again - Plastic Production From The Frontline

Plastic Production From The Frontline

08/15/23 • 32 min

Break Free From Plastic - Winter Will Come Again

Episode 2: Plastic production from the frontline

Since the Russian war on Ukraine and the cut of supplies of gas and oil to Europe, the EU is replacing Russian fossil fuels with imports from other regions. Though the EU’s fossil fuel needs could be drastically reduced through cutting virgin plastic production, EU member states are expanding to find new sources of oil and gas to build new infrastructures. As a result, communities across the world are facing the harsh consequences of the harmful plastic production industry. In this episode, Sarah Diedro Jordão speaks to Sarah Martik of the Center for Coalfield Justice in the USA and Dean Bhekumuzi Bhebhe of Power Shift Africa in South Africa. How does Europe’s hunger for fossil fuels exacerbate negative environmental, social and cultural impacts elsewhere?

Recorded in April 2023.

Read the Winter is Coming report: https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/winter-is-coming/

Amadeo Ghiotto and Delphine Lévi Alvarès co-authored the report, with support from Andy Gheorghiu (Andy Gheorghiu Consulting), and review by Lili Fuhr (CIEL), Tom Harrison (GGON), Carroll Muffett (CIEL), Joan Marc Simon (Zero Waste Europe), Sarah Baulch (The Pew Charitable Trusts), and Jozef Vandermeulen (FairFin).

Find out more about Sarah Martik: https://centerforcoalfieldjustice.org/about/

Find out more about Dean Bhebhe and Powershift Africa: https://www.powershiftafrica.org/ and check out their Don’t Gas Africa campaign: https://dont-gas-africa.org/

This podcast series was created by Amadeo Ghiotto (Greenpeace) and Bethany Spendlove Keeley (Break Free From Plastic).

Our audio editor and podcast consultant is Anja Krieger.

The Music is from the YouTube Audio Library:

Accralate - The Dark Contenent by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100341

Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Cover design elements by Bryan Mathers, Visual Thinkery.

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Episode 2: Plastic production from the frontline

Recorded in April 2023.

Read the Winter is Coming report: https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/winter-is-coming/

Find out more about Sarah Martik: https://centerforcoalfieldjustice.org/about/

Find out more about Dean Bhebhe and Powershift Africa: https://www.powershiftafrica.org/ and check out their Don’t Gas Africa campaign: https://dont-gas-africa.org/

This podcast series was created by Amadeo Ghiotto (Greenpeace) and Bethany Spendlove Keeley (Break Free From Plastic).

Our audio editor and podcast consultant is Anja Krieger.

The Music is from the YouTube Audio Library:

Accralate - The Dark Contenent by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100341

Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Cover design elements by Bryan Mathers, Visual Thinkery.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Previous Episode

What or Who Is The Petro-Elephant?

Episode 1: What is the petro-elephant?

Plastic production is by far the largest industrial oil, gas, and electricity user in the EU, overshadowing other energy-intensive industries, contributing to the ongoing energy crisis in Europe.

Its unseemly ties to the energy crisis bring to light the massive energy use of the petrochemical industry. Plastics are oil and gas, and should be addressed as such in energy and climate debates. Yet we are seeing a strong buildout of petrochemical and plastic production facilities. Something is not adding up so our host Sarah Diedro Jordão speaks to writers of Break Free From Plastic’s Winter Is Coming report to the podcast to tell us their groundbreaking insights. With Delphine Lévi Alvarès of Break Free From Plastic & CIEL in Belgium and Andy Gheorghiu, activist and campaigner in Germany.

Transcript: Coming soon!

Recorded in April 2023.

Read the Winter is Coming report: https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/winter-is-coming/

Find out more about Delphine Lévi Alvarès: https://www.ciel.org/about-us/ciel-staff/delphine-levi-alvares/

Find out more about Andy Gheorghiu: https://humansandnature.org/andy-gheorghiu/

This podcast series was created by Amadeo Ghiotto (Greenpeace) and Bethany Spendlove Keeley (Break Free From Plastic).

Our audio editor and podcast consultant is Anja Krieger.

The Music is from the YouTube Audio Library:

Accralate - The Dark Contenent by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100341

Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Cover design elements by Bryan Mathers, Visual Thinkery.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Next Episode

Pathways To Decreasing Plastic Production

Episode 3: Pathways to decreasing plastic production

We have to drastically reduce our fossil fuel consumption, not replace one with another. To regain international leadership in fighting the climate and plastic pollution crises and to protect citizens from escalating prices and resulting conflicts, the European Union needs to confront and drastically reduce virgin plastic production, starting with halting the production of unnecessary single-use plastics and packaging. EU packaging and packaging waste policies and global policy opportunities such as the Global Plastics Treaty are paving the way for transformation. But what is the real potential for change? And what are environmental activists expecting from these processes? Join us for the last episode of this podcast series with host Sarah Diedro Jordão and her guests Esra Tat (Zero Waste Europe) and Carroll Muffett (Center for International Environmental Law).

Transcript: Coming soon!

Recorded in April 2023.

Read the Winter is Coming report: https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/winter-is-coming/

Find out more about Esra Tat: https://zerowasteeurope.eu/about/team/#team2-esra-tat

Find out more about Carroll Muffett: https://www.ciel.org/about-us/ciel-staff/carroll-muffett/

This podcast series was created by Amadeo Ghiotto (Greenpeace) and Bethany Spendlove Keeley (Break Free From Plastic).

Our audio editor and podcast consultant is Anja Krieger.

The Music is from the YouTube Audio Library:

Accralate - The Dark Contenent by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100341

Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Cover design elements by Bryan Mathers, Visual Thinkery.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.