CONVENIENT | New York's Love Affair With Plastics
Thursday, Sep 15, 20166:30 PMEDT
| Museum of the City of New York
New York, NY, USRelated
New Yorkers go through hundreds of millions of plastic shopping bags, coffee cups, take-out clamshells, soda straws, and other single-use items every day – all in the name of convenience. But that short-term convenience comes with long-term costs to the environment and our health. Will measures like the five-cent bag fee starting this fall help break our throwaway habit?
Journalist Susan Freinkel, author of Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, talks about how the rise of plastic helped create a culture of convenience and how to live with the disposables we can’t seem to do without.
Admission is free but advance registration is required.
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