Brian Laird on WNYC, now listeners, we conclude our fifth anniversary Earthweek experiment,

our Brian Laird show, Plastics Challenge, fifth anniversary, because we first did this in 2019.

On Monday, we invited you to challenge yourselves to notice how many times you encounter single-use plastics all week, and which ones do you think would be the easiest or hardest to avoid.

So what did you notice?

Time to report back.

212-433, WNY back. 212-433 WNYC.

212-433-9692. Did anyone write down the plastics you used, keep mental notes? Was there anything

that really surprised you? What did you find out, especially if you haven't done this exercise with us before. Did anyone

physically hang on to your single-use plastics this week? How big did that pile get? 212-433. WNYC,

212, 433-9-6-9-2. Call in or text and just name one or a few of the single-use plastics that you either

can't avoid or successfully avoid in your life already and anything you have changed personally

at any time or have had trouble changing. 212-433 WNYC.

And if you weren't new to this this week

and just want to report on your observations

about single-use plastics in your life

and your attempts to minimize them,

that's okay, 2-212-433-9692. And joining us again to wrap up, the Brian Laird Sheld Plastics Challenge

is Judith Eng, founder of Beyond Plastics, an initiative that works on plastic pollution issues.

She's also a professor at Bennington College and former EPA Region 2 administrator,

meaning she ran the Federal Environmental Protection Agency

for New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and eight Native American

nations.

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