https://rebecca-altman.com/welcome-zac daily 1.0 2025-12-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703f76762cd94e407457a23/1462393786504-HK13LQGM6HLL8ZJ8ERPG/image-asset.jpeg Welcome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703f76762cd94e407457a23/1510251871681-86AMDER7X8XIWPW56EMG/TEDx2017wLogo.jpg Welcome - "Plastics run in my blood." TEDxSanFrancisco 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703f76762cd94e407457a23/1511199984272-KGZID4K4F26N137SCMZ3/AK+Rockefeller+via+Flickr+CC+BY-SA+2.0.jpg Welcome America's Plastic Legacy | AK Rockefeller via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703f76762cd94e407457a23/1674941029632-7X8LEY4BMOG5TQ5RFM3J/unsplash-image-jQuky0VINAI.jpg Welcome “Demand for plastic has been as manufactured as plastics themselves. Society is awash in throwaway plastics not because of the logic of desire but because of the logic of history and of integrated industrial systems “ Rebecca Altman Image: Sören Funk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703f76762cd94e407457a23/1511201083195-PL40G48FUXH4RBTBAEV1/Coal+Products+Tree+Adam+Romero.jpg Welcome Coal products tree from the Semet-Solvay pamphlet “Products of Coal" (National Archives / Courtesy of Adam Romero) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703f76762cd94e407457a23/1549923047536-E9NI9Q165AL8JZ6ZASX7/IMG_7564.jpg Welcome Image courtesy of Kristen Yarmey | Pennsylvania State University archives. (Featuring Joseph Simons, inventor of electrochemical fluorination, one method used by 3M to manufacture PFASs, including PFOA and PFOS beginning in the late 1940s.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703f76762cd94e407457a23/1511200727066-UIR9QCR3EWGT0RCF5R4U/Dye+Tree+via+A+Loske.+jpg.jpg Welcome 19th century coal-tar derived textile dyes. Image courtesy of Alexandra Loske. Photography by Clive Boursnell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703f76762cd94e407457a23/1528321188735-3W6TXI76DFNVM4U8AASQ/Altman_HeadShot.jpeg Welcome Photo credit: Emily Belz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703f76762cd94e407457a23/1534264766977-PFO888X4LPX6RZZS522F/Bag+on+street.JPG Welcome Photo: Rebecca Altman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703f76762cd94e407457a23/1534263911357-043RNJ29KCLVHNRJSQUR/bag+in+tree.JPG Welcome - "The life of a plastic bag is really an endless series of entanglements." American Beauties (Topic 2018) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703f76762cd94e407457a23/1674939928333-7SLV85BDK7GQKRFEI6C0/unsplash-image-vTpxIOxIt90.jpg Welcome - The Takeaway “We speak with environmental sociologist Rebecca Altman, who says historically, recycling has created the appearance of a solution to the waste problem. But the greater issue is the chemical toxicity at the root of plastic production itself.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703f76762cd94e407457a23/1613426612168-9OROK33K7HGRNJBR5CV2/mohammad-shahhosseini-T4hoVgFtf1k-unsplash.jpg Welcome Photo by M. Shahhosseini on Unsplash https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703f76762cd94e407457a23/1613427244131-W39W4NF508IG1F7QOOI1/martin-knize-29PaIGCEq10-unsplash.jpg Welcome Photo by Martin Kníže on Unsplash https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703f76762cd94e407457a23/1613426471638-FL2YGUYL3QUEFZ5YD7WO/ray-fragapane-8juEbPYHFlo-unsplash.jpg Welcome Photo: R. Fragapane on Unsplash https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703f76762cd94e407457a23/1613426733411-9WO779XYP68CNDPXTVLE/naja-bertolt-jensen-Jk1ESCc5i-I-unsplash.jpg Welcome Photo by Naja Bertolt Jensen on Unsplash https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703f76762cd94e407457a23/1528321766669-YT3VH7JMLY4MZ0A1WDE6/IMG_0199.JPG Welcome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5703f76762cd94e407457a23/1459878275004-Y9PLY90L1FPNF46V83D4/942689_10200358682703563_1857808892_n.jpg Welcome