PERC’s co-director Trisia Farrelly made a number of appearances in the media during 2022, discussing plastic pollution, the development of the global treaty for plastic pollution and more. Catch up on some of the discussions using the links below:
- University of Washington News: Plastic pollution in the oceans is an equity issue, says UW-led report. University of Washington News.
- Sustainable Asia. Sustainable Asia Podcast interview
- Radio NZ. Radio New Zealand nine-to-noon interview with Kathryn Ryan
- Swiss Public Radio. Interview for Swiss Public Radio about the resolution passed earlier that morning for a plastic pollution treaty at UNEA5.2
- Science Media Centre: ‘Nations make historic commitment to tackle plastic pollution.
- Reuters interview with Joe Brock. UN pact may restrict plastic production: Big Oil aims to stop it.
- Asia and the Pacific Policy Society Policy Forum: Important negotiations are ongoing to establish a global plastic waste treaty, but Pacific voices need support to ensure they’re heard, Trisia Farrelly writes.
- Stuff: Petition launched to fight proposed Feilding pyrolysis plant
- Stuff: Scientists doubt pyrolysis plant is as green as marketing suggests
- Global citizen: First-Ever Global Plastic Pollution Treaty: What Is It and Why Is It Important?
- Environmental Investigation Agency: Scientists and institutions warn leaders negotiating plastic pollution treaty – ‘follow the science’
- Nippon.com media. Cited in Nippon.com media
- BBC Science: Plastic crisis needs binding treaty, report says
- Massey News: Declaration lays the foundation for global treaty on plastic pollution
- Whanganui Chronicle/NZHerald. Massey University professor to give Whanganui presentation on New Zealand’s role in ending plastic pollution
- The Fiji Times, Reuters: U.N. pact may restrict plastic production. Big Oil aims to stop it.
- Phys.org by Newcastle University: Study supports a return to Indigenous-led solutions to reverse plastics pollution.
- IABC Pacific Beat radio interview with Trisia Farrelly about the Ocean Cleanup:
- National Geographic: To Save the Oceans, Should You Give Up Glitter?
- NZ Herald: Purging plastics with posts and packaging
- CNN Trisia Farrelly interviewed in a health story on plastic glitter: Glitter is not just annoying, it could be bad for the environment
- BBC interviewer Rober Harribin spoke with Trisia Farrelly about state resistance to support the global plastics treaty
- RNZ interview with Francesca Rudkin NZME Postcast ‘One Small Step’ Sustainability interview
- World Economic Forum interview: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/09/how-can-we-more-effectively-utilize-life-cycle-assessment-studies-to-solve-the-world-s-plastic-problem/
- Department of Economics, Northeastern University, Boston Massachusetts interview about book ‘Plastics Legacies’
- Breakfast Show TVNZ interview. Massey University’s Trisia Farrelly says the country lacks “robust” legislation to stop toxins from plastics leaching into the environment
- RNZ World/Environment Plastic Crisis Needs Binding Treaty, Report Says
- Earth.com. Ionescu, Andrei. Plastic Pollution is a Planetary Emergency.
- APPA News. Farrelly, T. September 2022. ‘Global Treaty on Plastic Pollution’. Aotearoa Plastic Pollution Alliance Newsletter. Global Treaty on Plastic Pollution. Vol. 1, p. 2.