Green Street with Patti & Doug Wood

Plastic in Our Water – with Dr. Christy Tyler

This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about why recycled plastic contains more toxins than virgin plastic, how government energy positions are increasingly filled with former oil execs, and the first discovery of mosquitoes in Iceland. Then Dr. Christy Tyler, professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology talks about her work uncovering the sources of plastic pollution that end up in our water. Find links to Dr. Tyler’s work and all of our news items at our program website, www.GreenStreetNews.org.