On December 8th, a cargo ship off the coast of Portugal lost six containers, at least one of them full of plastic pellets: microplastics that are used as raw materials to produce plastics, and which often end up in the oceans. Days later, bags full of these microplastics and loose pellets began to wash up on Spain's Galician coast. This is a crisis that has gained more publicity in the past two weeks as regional elections in Galicia draw close... But, pellets and microplastics aren't just a Galician problem. We are joined by Raúl García, Senior Fisheries Officer for WWF Spain, who says the problem didn't start with this spill.
And after that, we listen to the rest of our conversation with sociologist Constanza Tobío Soler about nineteenth-and-twentieth century author and sociologist Charlotte Perkins-Gilman.
