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CONVENIENT: New York’s Love Affair with Plastics

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New Yorkers go through hundreds of millions of plastic shopping bags, coffee cups, take-out clamshells, soda straws, and other single-use items every day—all in the name of convenience. But that short-term convenience comes with long-term costs to the environment and our health. Will measures like the five-cent bag fee starting this fall help break our throwaway habit? Journalist Susan Freinkel, author of Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, talks about how the rise of plastic helped create a culture of convenience and how to live with the disposables we can’t seem to do without.

This event is the third and final program in Fast, Cool & Convenient: Meeting New Yorkers’ High Demands, our free three-part talk series developed in collaboration with The Museum of the City of New York and supported by a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities.











When: Thu., Sep. 15, 2016 at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Ave.
212-534-1672
Price: Free
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New Yorkers go through hundreds of millions of plastic shopping bags, coffee cups, take-out clamshells, soda straws, and other single-use items every day—all in the name of convenience. But that short-term convenience comes with long-term costs to the environment and our health. Will measures like the five-cent bag fee starting this fall help break our throwaway habit? Journalist Susan Freinkel, author of Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, talks about how the rise of plastic helped create a culture of convenience and how to live with the disposables we can’t seem to do without.

This event is the third and final program in Fast, Cool & Convenient: Meeting New Yorkers’ High Demands, our free three-part talk series developed in collaboration with The Museum of the City of New York and supported by a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities.

Buy tickets/get more info now