Tackling the Plastic Life Cycle: Environmental & Health Risks —Activist Nirere Sadrach |Full Podcast
Nirere Sadrach is founder and organizer of “End #plastic Now”.
He started it in 2020 in Uganda. It is a youth movement whose goal is to end #singleuseplastics by corporations. Subscribe: / @imaginizeworld
Nirere is involved in the very original #Kollekt Village which is a model for how local communities can deal with #wastemanagement He says plastic is not a thing, but rather a material with a life cycle. That means we need to manage it differently from what we are doing today.
#circulareconomy
#plasticfree environment #brandaudit #plasticpollution
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Setting the stage
01:10 Nirere’s journey in plastics pollution activism
03:18 Plastic: a material with a life cycle
06:41 Plastic is harmful to the human body
09:10 Brand audits as proof to corporations
10:51 Break Free From Plastic global movement
12:04 The circular economy must go all the way
14:06 Kollekt Village: model for local waste management and education
16:54 Plastic toys, children’s health, extensive corporate wrong-doing
20:07 Waste colonialism: fast fashion, secondhand clothes
23:20 Role of education
26:56 Optimism perhaps, Global Plastics Treaty
28:18 “This is the time”, action now