Plastic: the great craze

A lecture combining science and literature to better understand plastic.

Nathalie Gontard, Researcher at INRAE (UMR IATE).
Hélène de Bissy, Actress at La Baignoire.

A few decades after its invention, plastic has colonized even the most intimate corners of our lives and history. Multinational corporations employ millions of people to continue democratizing this material, which nevertheless leaves an irreversible mark by contaminating our environment and our bodies for centuries to come.

Naming our impact on micro- and nano-plastics, understanding both the danger and the solution, and answering your questions during a conference/reading with Nathalie Gontard—researcher at INRAE—and Hélène de Bissy, actress at La Baignoire, a venue for contemporary writing, and the Doré Company, in Montpellier. lecture with Nathalie Gontard—researcher at INRAE—and Hélène de Bissy, actress at La Baignoire, a venue for contemporary writing, and the Cie Doré, in Montpellier—to write together the next chapters in the history of this seductive but dangerously addictive and invasive material.