If we get rid of plastic it will solve all of our pollution problems - right? Maybe not. If you consider the material resource, the energy used to make it and the greenhouse gas emissions - are paper and cotton bags just as bad, or even worse, than plastic?

Joining us at the Roundtable is Trevor Thornton, waste management expert at Deakin University; Lucy Hunt, Sustainability Education Manager for the Volvo Ocean Race, which is working with the UN's 'Turn the Tide on Plastic' campaign; Emma Priestland, plastic pollution campaigner for Friends of the Earth; and Sian Sutherland, co-founder of 'A Plastic Planet'.

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