Is It Possible To Live Plastic Free? (ft Zanna Van Dijk) | Plastic Planet | Earth Unplugged
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ส.ค. 2024
- With plastics becoming a serious threat to the planet, Zanna Van Dijik looks into ways to reduce plastic consumption and whether it's possible to achieve a zero waste lifestyle.
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I have become much more conscious in the last year of plastic I consume. I was already using tote bags for shopping (plastic bags are still the norm here) and coffee tumblers, buying fresh veg (no bag, just put them in a separate tote), etc. It’s the buying products in a non-grocery store that is the hardest thing. EVERYTHING comes in plastic. Toys, markers, art tools, etc etc. I recycle everything I can (though most isn’t accepted here in this small town), but man. It’s hard. Buying online is basically something I can’t avoid for good options, but everything uses plastic.
I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with all that unavoidable waste from non-groceries, and thinking about melting it down to use in something someday. I don’t know. I just don’t know. It’s so frustrating.
It would be a miracle to get major grocery stores like Safeway and the like to care one whit for the environment. They still sell meat and all sorts of junk food, so it’s obvious that they don’t.
It’s impossible to live 100% plastic free, however it is very possible to minimize the amount of plastic you use. Switching to reusable straws, bringing your own mug to get coffee, eat less packaged foods, etc..
Love this video, well done Zanna, keep inspiring us all to make those sustainable swaps!
Wow Zanna. This is amazing! 👏🏽 I admire you so much. Keep up your lovely work. ❤
Excellent work as always Zanna x
I LOVE Zanna and absolutely agree with all she does so I'm crazily excited about this series!
Loved this video! I've made many changes to my lifestyle recently. These have included, going plastic free when I'm food shopping (buying loose veg or going to farmers markets), using reusable cutlery and metal straws, lunchboxes, reusable coffee cups and water bottles :)
Very good video, well done Zanna.
I did several swaps - reusable cup and bottle and shopping bags and a bamboo toothbrush - which was terrible and I again switched to a plastic toothbrush. But I will try again and hopefully I will get used to it one day!
By the way - great presentation and such an important issue! Keep up the good work!
Zanna is freaking awesome, she truly inspired me to reduce my plastic purchases back in July!
I carry a bamboo straw and a titanium spork as well as my steel water bottle where ever I go. I stopped buying baggies and got reusable silicone bags. A steel bento box for restaurant left overs and take away. Reusable shopping bags, reusable produce bags. I'm just starting, but I'm determined!
Wow Zanna, you are doing so well!
I try to live plastic free and I try to make my friends aware of the real situation. What we r doing to earth with plastic is heart breaking. I believe nobody is aware of it and so they are living happily in a world of plastic, but once they become aware of the situation they start thinking about it more and try to reduce it. Every curriculum in school is teaching students to reduce reuse and recycle but I can not see any impact of it in their mind. It really makes me sad. If the next generation grow up as we did in a world of plastic then its going to be a very different world. We will loose many things in this World just for the convenience and super usability of plastic.
Thanks for being part of Plastic Free July and sharing tips to help people get started!
Bravo for your videos. I was overwhelmed by the vast quantity of plastics everywhere in our lives. Started buying laundry detergent in boxes instead of liquid detergent in those forever bottles. Then I got discouraged. Like, how can I make a difference on such a HUGE problem? But if we all do these things, maybe we can save the planet?!
Yes!!! Same spot as you dude. I think if we choose to live this way, it shines a light among our friends and family who will maybe follow suit. Especially our children. (If we choose to have them lol)
I can’t drink tap water due to a whole host of issues so the biggest thing I’ve done at the beginning of 2019 is to buy a Pur water filter jug for my fridge. I know the filters can be recycled I just need to research where there is a drop off for it in my area and hopefully this is my start to reducing the plastic I was using with plastic water bottles. Next up for me is to get a reusable coffee cup I can take with me everywhere I go.
Terracycle will recycle them for you but you need to look into a charcoal stick filter in a glass jug 😉
I started buying food on glass containers when possible. So salad dressings, pasta sauce, etc. All come in glass. I reuse the glass for storage.
All of us could do such a better job...thanks for putting this out there.
My first step was purchasing a DE razor. Was disappointed to realize a lot DE brand blades come in plastic packaging. Now I’m on the hunt to find comfortable blades that come in recyclable packaging. Small step but it is a start.
Plastic... yeah of course I clicked for plastic...
Could you increase the volume a bit next time? It's a bit on the soft side. I know I can adjust the volume myself but then my car navigation volume also gets that much louder. Thank you!
Really interesting. ...bit short of solutions though.
ya'll really got it messed up if you're nitpicking her mascara and eyebrows as "too much makeup" rather than focusing on the positives of this video and what YOU (or I) can do to help our planet. yikes.
Well you convinced me. Didn't even need to think about it
Maybe because California is by the ocean we are concerned with all the plastic use. We have a fee on the plastic bags from grocery stores, and some places only give out straws if you ask for them. Little things, but I think we'll be able to slowly reduce the amount of plastic waste.
There are many simple things that could be done by businesses to reduce waste. One easy thing is to just ask if someone wants a bag, sauces, spoons, etc. They just dump a box in a bag with silverware in a bag and a giant handful of individual sauces that many people toss the extras of straight into the trash. A simple box and maybe a sauce or two is much less of an impact per meal.
.Check out Gaia Guy's Bamboo and Boar Bristle Toothbrushes for a nylon-free and plastic-free toothbrush.
Goverment taxation on things of this type, (or many other things), may not be a good trend. Taxation may jump onto many other things which people object to, - as they do already in many.
One day yellow sweaters may be taxed, because it was found they they look soiled after too few uses and are discarded sooner.
Public awareness, in my opinion, is what is needed, and this show may help.
Plastic free July. Zooms in on his plastic glasses.
Think the point is, not using single use plastic, and recycling any you do use. Most packaging can not be recycled.
4:57 That method has to be used more, world-wide.
'oos that then
Yum
tried real hard to find that Dutch accent, but didn't detect it... :P
@Daša Koribaničová I dunno, I think she might have a Dutch father and a British mother, I dunno...
virgil?
Seriously?
Is this girl related to virgil van dijk from liverpool?
No it isn't possible to live without plastic, because my computer has plastic in it and I can't live without BBC Earth 😭😭😂
The point is single-use plastic products.
@@Claudanne2 that's not what the title says 😊
@@taniwhab3860 start small?
You’re right. It’s only possible if we go back to the Stone Age.
While I do use only reusable cups and water bottles etc, I want to go to the next level and do away with plastic containing clothing. particularly as the fashion industry wants us to change so often, I still have woolen jumpers made by knitted by mum that are 40 years old, and woolen sharers shirts I bought 35 years ago. I don't want to replace with cardboard as the glues used are not biodegradable. Think Reuse, recycle and biodegradable please.
Let's hope the shift away from disposable takeout containers keeps going after the pandemic.
Luke is cute tbh👀
I THINK THE RECYCLING OF PLASTIC IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD !
WHY ARE WE NOT TALKING ABOUT IT MORE !
AND ACTING ON IT !
Honestly very little plastic is recycled. Its more effective to reduce and reuse.
Also, most plastic can’t be recycled. And the plastic that can be can only be recycled one or two times before it then becomes not recyclable. The answer is to reduce usage of it overall and try to utilize what we have already created.
Hello
I am from India
I will do work of plastic shorting and recycling work in india
I have 15 year experience of plastic shorting
I want job
Did anyone notice that she looks like Charlotte 🤔
The Faithful One1 she looks like Maria sharapova
Gold Wolf oh okay
virgil van dijk
cool except ofc is impossible to live plastic free,
Can you buy guacamole without those plastic containers?
MarcDaniel Erasmo you can buy avocados, tomatoes, onions, jalapeños, and spices without plastic and whip up a batch of yummy guacamole in no time!
insanely hot
Dialysis might be difficult without it ✌️
K Hopo at the very beginning of the video she stated that plastic is amazing in a lot of ways including sterile applications such as dialysis. However there are tons of ways to reduce plastic without it affecting things such as sanitary medical supplies. It’s not an all or nothing thing. We can do so much with our day to day life choices.
so many beautiful womens work for this channel, i might send my CV too soon xD
You're a beautiful woman?
I don't think plastic is such a big problem, even if we don't recycle it. If it is buried in a landfill, I am not aware that it is a problem to any form of life. OK, there is a bit more space taken by that plastic, but again, not a huge problem. Largest problem I see are the developing countries. I've watched videos of Indians unloading trucks of garbage into the rivers, and big companies in whole east Asia are dumping everything into their rivers, which in the end end up in our oceans. I am not saying we shouldn't take the alternate way and not take the plastic packaging if we have an easy solution, but the biggest problem is the way people dispose of plastic.
She’s so longgg
With the recent study showing that Asia and Africa are responsible for 90% of the plastic waste in the oceans, maybe it is better you make this video in Chinese.
I don't trust that "study", but even if it is true, that simply means that we do a better job of containing it. We should still reduce our use unless we want landfills filled with plastic waste that won't break down for eons.
Recycle plastic, dont throw it in the water. Avoid buying so godamn much.
150 k African elephants
Speech impediment?
too many documentaries about Man city these days, It becomes annoying.
You forgot about makeup
SomeOne oooof ... headshot
You forgot about manners
I like to blame the cargo container ships that loses hundreds of containers each year and Mother Nature with her tsunami sweeping coastline cities trash back into the oceans.
Nice denial there.
FIRST AGAIN
Consumer-based solutions to global warming are ineffective and a distraction. 71% of emissions are caused by 100 corporations. Consumer-based solutions are usually either expensive, time-consuming or demanding of effort. Most people either earn too low wages or lack the capacity to care for that. And even if they do, they do not have encyclopedic knowledge of the impact of all choices one does; obsessing over a handful of aspects such as single-use plastics has a negligible impact, and distracts people from addressing the fact that practically all emissions are caused by corporations, which are not neutral agents. Shame on BBC for pushing this false narrative, but ugh, what can you expect.
Also, items like non-plastic bags are usually extremely resource intensive to produce (e.g. cotton bags) and are for that reason absolutely terrible for the environment compared to single-use or durable plastic bags, even though they are marketed as being the opposite, and people, not all being encyclopedic computer brains, of course believe it.
Well waht do these 100 companies make their money with? selling you stuff, probably in packed in plastic. So this does have some impact on these companys.
But i agree that there needs to be more action ffrom governments because only the minority of people pays attention to these things.
Consumers do not purposely select non-recyclable plastic packaging or the like when consuming. We purchase products, not packaging. We are happy to receive the products if they arrive in packaging, and are happy if the packaging did its job, not what its made from. Businesses care about maximising their profits, even down to what their chosen packaging is made from.
Plastic should be used and recycled.
The other options are what again - tree based or animal based?
Governments and businesses need to do better than just outlawing plastic. We once used tree-based packaging and bags, and we moved to plastic to save the trees and the environment. We then moved to bio-degradable plastic packaging and bags to save the environment. We have then moved to recyclable plastic packaging and bags to reduce the amount of plastic in the environment. It costs the consumer, means profits for business, and increased taxes for gov.
Most of the rubbish I see in my local area is not because consumers throw it in to the environment, but rather because of mismanagement of rubbish collection (public and private), poor rubbish storage and sorting, poor recycling practices, and outdated disposal methods.
Regardless what it is made from, most of us consumers place rubbish in the bins and we pay for its removal. What happens next is the fault of businesses and gov's concerned with its disposal.
Presented by a person who's wearing so much make up in her face. I would argue that the containers of her make up contain more plastic garbage than all the other items on that initial table combined :D Oh these double standards
you're right but how efficient is it to reduce plastic packaging in make up in compared to food? also she did mention a bit about make up 8 minutes in.
Hey Sam! I actually am transitioning to using refillable makeup containers made from bamboo. It is such a great initiative! :)