7. Microplastics and human health: a ticking time bomb?

A new Netflix documentary, The Plastic Detox, has questioned the link between infertility and human exposure to microplastics. In this week’s episode of The Small Print, Nick Hughes is joined by Pierre Paslier, who worked as a plastics packaging engineer before co-founding the Earthshot prize winning start-up Notpla, which makes packaging out of seaweed. In a wide-ranging conversation they discuss the risks to human health from microplastic exposure, why it's proving so difficult to curb global plastics production, and what the path to a plastic-free society and foodservice sector could look like.