Name: Graydon Kirchmann

Social Justice Group: 2022-2023, Environment: Microplastics

Date of Fieldwork: January 20, 2023

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Plastic Pollution Coalition | Erica Cirino | Communications Manager

Type of Fieldwork: Interview

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?[:: :

We met with Erica Cirino who is a Communications Manager at the Plastic Pollution Coalition. We learned about microplastics inside of people and how it can affect health. We also learned about the scale of the problem and how there are garbage patches that are multiple miles long. We learned about opportunities to help out and the importance of starting early to help fix the problem before it becomes too large. We learned about how if we start now we can make a change and it is best to start when we are young and make a habit out of using less single use plastics.