Plastic: it's everywhere, it's incredibly useful, and it offers certain accessibility advantages--but it's a huge sustainability issue. In our first episode of the Wicked Problems series, hosts Rose Adler-Rephan and Kylie Thomasen explore the thorny tradeoffs that we face with single-use plastics.
Series Description
When it comes to sustainability, wicked problems seem to be everywhere. As the Harvard Business Review explains, “A wicked problem has innumerable causes, is tough to describe, and doesn’t have a right answer.” In each episode of this series, we’ll discuss the issues, impacts, and controversies of a sustainability-related problem in hopes of helping you deal with them in your everyday life.