Plastic: the great disaster, on France Culture

GDR-plolymeres & Ocean

It is estimated that between eight and eleven million tonnes of plastic waste are dumped into the seas every year. This waste turns into microparticles, wreaking havoc on oceanic flora and fauna.

At the invitation of Florian Delorme, our colleague Ika Paul-Pont, CNRS research fellow in marine ecotoxicology, took part in the Cultures Monde programme on 8 June 2022 alongside Pascale Fabre, physical chemist, research director at CNRS, Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, director of the GDR “Polymer and Oceans”.

You can listen to the radio broadcast again here.