prompted her to create an organization dedicated to raising awareness about the issue her name is diana cohen is a visual artist and the co-founder of the plastic pollution coalition and she joins me now. to thank you so much for coming on. thank you for having me abby so i saw your ted talk i was really inspired by it and i'm really thankful for you to come on and shed some light on this i think that many people do not realize how plastic doesn't ever go away and you talk about the process by which plastic breaks down. shirt so i'm not a scientist i'm a visual artist so just to clarify but from what i've come to learn about plastic in particular from working with it as material in my artwork plastic breaks down into smaller bits photo degrades but that's about all it is and we now are guesstimating the amount of time that a plastic bottle or a plastic bag or a plastic cup will be with us on the earth it's something that's designed with an intention of intended obsolescence to be use single use disposable one time but in fact it will last potentially for hundreds and hundreds of years terrify

prompted her to create an organization dedicated to raising awareness about the issue her name is diana cohen is a visual artist and the co-founder of the plastic pollution coalition and she joins me now. to thank you so much for coming on thank you for having me abbi so i saw your ted talk i was really inspired by it and i'm really thankful for you to come on and shed some light on this i think that many people do not realize how plastic doesn't ever go away and you talk about the process by which plastic breaks down share so i'm not a scientist i'm a visual artist so just to clarify from what i've come to learn about plastic in particular from working with it as material in my artwork plastic breaks down into smaller bits photo degrades but that's about all it is and we now are guesstimating the amount of time that a plastic bottle or a plastic bag or a plastic cup will be with us on the earth it's something that's designed with an intention of intended obsolescence to be use single use disposable one time but in fact it will last potentially for hundreds and hundreds of years terrifying re