Name: Oren Casriel

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

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?[:: :

Last Friday my group and I had an interview with Erica Cirino who is the communications manager at Plastic Pollution Coefficient. During the interview I learned a lot of very interesting information and she also spoke a lot about how we can work together to help fix the plastic problem. I learned a lot about microplastics and nano plastics and how they end up inside of us even if we are just breathing. We also learned that fish eat a lot of plastic and they are at the bottom of the food chain. Wales also eat a lot of plastic because they are filter feeders they just take in huge gulps of sea water and in that seawater are microplastics. Erica also told us about an organization that the PPC works with that helps reduce the amount of single use plastic in schools. The most shocking thing that I learned was the fact that of all recycled plastic, only 5% actually gets recycled. So instead of buying single use plastic items and then recycling them, you should just avoid them in the first place.