Podcast: Sustainable materials: Trick or treat? - with Mike Shaver

Mike Shaver unpacks whether our sustainable materials are actually sustainable and answers whether plastic can ever be fully recyclable.

Listen time: 35:14
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Halloween means lots of sweets, which in turn means lots of packaging. We’re starting to see more of the packaging on our shelves labelled as sustainable in some way, but are they really? Mike Shaver is a Professor of Polymer Science and Director of the Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub at the University of Manchester, and joins us this month to unpick the current landscape of sustainable materials, and discuss whether or not a fully recyclable plastic is possible.

Producer: Lia Hale
Music: Joseph Sandy