CONVENIENT | New York's Love Affair With Plastics Thursday, September 15 at 6:30 PM Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue (at 103rd Street) The doors will open at 6 pm. Please note that seating is first come, first served. More information: http://www.mcny.org/event/convenient 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 (2011), 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. Susan Freinkel is a journalist who has previously written for Discover, Reader's Digest, The New York Times, and Smithsonian, among others. Her first book, American Chestnut, won the 2008 National Outdoor Book Award. Her most recent work, Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, was named a Best Book of 2011 by The Boston Globe and has been printed in foreign editions in Australia, China, Korea, Spain, and Taiwan. A brief discussion and Q&A with Cecil Mark-Corbin, Deputy Director and Director of Policy Initiatives at WE ACT for Environmental Justice, to follow. This event is the third and final program in Fast, Cool & Convenient: Meeting New Yorkers' High Demands<http://mcny.org/fastandcool>, our free three-part talk series developed in collaboration with The New York Academy of Medicine and supported by a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities. For more information, click here<http://www.mcny.org/fastandcool>. ________________________________ Tickets Admission is free but advance registration is required. Register<https://35948.blackbaudhosting.com/35948/CONVENIENT>