April 21, 2026
The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis
In a recent study, researchers feared that every human being had microplastics inside their bodies. It's shocking, and the problem is only getting worse. My special guest is Erica Cirino, who's here to discuss her new book Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis. Get it now on Amazon.
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Start your free seven-day trial and unlock this episode plus hundreds more, all ad free when you become a Mysterian on Patreon. Sound crazy, but- [laughs] Yeah.
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You called them, like I- I'm imagining like a little whirlpool of something, you know, all this plastic just- Yeah. Is that what you were- Exactly... referring to? Okay. It's like that. It's just, it's very big, so.
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Very big. How big are they? Oh, like, um, in the news saying that it's twice the size of Texas or three times the size of France.
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Um, like that size range is accurate, but it's also, um, the shape is always shifting because these currents also- You-... don't stay the same. Oh, God, you gotta be kidding me. No. [laughs] There really is.
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I mean, this, the, the... [laughs] Come on. That's- Yeah... that's a state. That's a size of a state. That's crazy. Yeah. My God, we gotta do something. Um- We really do.
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[laughs] Are human beings just dumping this stuff in there, or where is it coming from exactly? Yeah, good question.
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It's, it's a mixture of- Unlock this episode right now by clicking on the link for your free seven-day trial in the show notes or by visiting mysteriousradio.com.
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Start your free seven-day trial and unlock this episode plus hundreds more, all ad free when you become a Mysterian on Patreon. Sound crazy, but- [laughs] Yeah.
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You called them, like I- I'm imagining like a little whirlpool of something, you know, all this plastic just- Yeah. Is that what you were- Exactly... referring to? Okay. It's like that. It's just, it's very big, so.
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Very big. How big are they? Oh, like, um, in the news saying that it's twice the size of Texas or three times the size of France.
4
00:00:31.099 --> 00:00:42.419
Um, like that size range is accurate, but it's also, um, the shape is always shifting because these currents also- You-... don't stay the same. Oh, God, you gotta be kidding me. No. [laughs] There really is.
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I mean, this, the, the... [laughs] Come on. That's- Yeah... that's a state. That's a size of a state. That's crazy. Yeah. My God, we gotta do something. Um- We really do.
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[laughs] Are human beings just dumping this stuff in there, or where is it coming from exactly? Yeah, good question.
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It's, it's a mixture of- Unlock this episode right now by clicking on the link for your free seven-day trial in the show notes or by visiting mysteriousradio.com.
