Human societies have produced more than nine billion tons of plastic since the 1950s. Nearly all of it ends up as trash, polluting our environment and our communities. Most of that plastic waste disproportionately affects the most vulnerable, and it’s become a social justice issue.
In this episode, Morgan Stanley Chief Sustainability Officer Audrey Choi speaks with several guests on the front lines of thinking about and solving for the plastic-waste-as-social-justice problem, including: Victoria Kwakwa, the World Bank’s Regional Vice President for East Asia and the Pacific, to understand how plastic waste impacts the health and livelihoods of low income residents; David Katz, founder of The Plastic Bank, a social enterprise that creates recycling solutions in emerging-market countries, such as Haiti and Indonesia; and Ellen Jackowski, Chief Sustainability and Social Impact Officer at HP, a global technology giant that has integrated solving for plastic waste and highlighting social justice into its business decisions.
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