On today's Your Call, we’ll rebroadcast a conversation we had with Annie Leonard, of The Story of Stuff, about what corporate responsibility should look like for the plastics and packaging industry. Given the overwhelming amount of plastics that end up in the environment, what responsibility do the manufacturers of disposable plastic and packaging products have for limiting and cleaning up this waste? Do we need more legislation to hold corporations responsible? And who's really making the decisions in this industry? It’s Your Call, with Rose Aguilar.
Guests:
Annie Leonard, creator and author of “The Story of Stuff” and “The Story of Electronics”
Martin Bourque, executive director of the Ecology Center in Berkeley
Conrad MacKerron, senior program director with ‘As You Sow’ Corporate Social Responsibility Program
Resources:
The Story of Stuff
The Story of Electronics
http://www.asyousow.org/sustainability/EPR.shtml
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