Plastics are everywhere and their environmental impact is being debated in the public domain more than ever. The landfill and litter impacts are bad enough, but now significant quantities are reaching the world’s oceans. What are the potential solutions? Should we get rid plastics or switch to biodegradable materials? Is the debate well informed? What is not being said? What is big business doing?

Bring your questions, and discover that it is perhaps both more complicated or more simple than you might have thought!

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Jake Backus is a Visiting Senior Member of Linacre College, Managing Director of Empathy Sustainability, former Customer Sustainability Director for Coca-Cola Europe and member of Greenpeace. Jake recently spent two hours with the Greenpeace UK CEO and Ocean Plastics team to try to help nuance their campaigning.