I have once again invited a brilliant guest to the PLASTECO Podcast. Our guest is Dr. Ulrike Gelbmann. She is Senior Postdoc Researcher at the Institute of Systems Sciences, Innovation & Sustainability Research at the University of Graz, Austria and answered our questions concerning “plastic consumption”. We talked about on how you can easily change your daily routine to be more eco-friendly and save money as well as plastic. We are also happy to hear useful tips from Sofia, a PLASTECO staff member in our partner region Bulgaria. 

Tune in!

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Sources:

• Statistics:https://de.statista.com/themen/4645/plastikmuell/#:~:text=Kunststoff%3A%20Produktion%20vs.&text=In%20den%20EU%2DL%C3%A4ndern%20entstehen,findet%20sich%20in%20Verkaufsverpackungen%20wieder
• How Germans feel about the plastics crisis: https://www.boell.de/de/2019/06/06/so-denken-die-deutschen-ueber-die-plastikkrise
• The contribution to marine littering of the province of Styria, Austria by D. Huter & R. Pomberger: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00506-020-00702-8#:~:text=Die%20Steiermark%20emittiert%20als%20Binnenland,Mensch%20der%20Erde%20im%20Durchschnitt
• Plastic Pledge: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/plasticpledge/
• Interviews with Dr. Ulrike Gelbmann: “RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION” by the free lunch commission: https://thefreelunch.org/article/responsible-consumption; "Wir leben über unsere Verhältnisse" by Katharina Schmidt for Wiener Zeitung: https://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/politik/welt/464833-Wir-leben-ueber-unsere-Verhaeltnisse.html
• Youtube Videos: “100 ZERO WASTE SWAPS YOU HAVE TO TRY” by Sustainably Vegan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkG4jSbfReQ; “50 OF MY DAILY ZERO WASTE HABITS IN 24 HOURS” by Gittemary Johansen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojON67Ww-RU
• International Clean Up Activities: “The Styrian Spring Clean-up”: http://www.saubere.steiermark.at; „OCEAN INITIATIVES“: https://www.initiativesoceanes.org/en/search; “World Cleanup Day”: https://www.worldcleanupday.org/; "Global Cleanup Map”: https://cleanup.earthday.org/pages/find-a-cleanup 

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Contact & Links:

Via Mail: pomberger@plasteco.eu 

Project Website: https://www.interregeurope.eu/plasteco/

Waste & Resource Management in Styria: https://www.abfallwirtschaft.steiermark.at/ 

The music sources are from Zapsplat.com.