Saving the world from plastic - BBC Click
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2024
- As UN climate change talks get underway, Click asks if policy or technology will save the world.
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Why do we produce plastics we cannot recycle?
It 1000 times cheaper than wood
Because its cheaper. And as consumers, we are stupid enough to always buy the cheapest
@@granadakimj I guess you are right. But the thing is, recycable plastics can be made. It could be a political choice to do it the good way.
@@daveallen63 you are absolutely right. I wasnt talking about replacing plastic with woods, I was just stating one of many reasons why plastic use is the way it is right now. Medical plastic can be an exception though, 95% of our plastic use is not for medical reason, we often use many kind of plastic without thinking the impact to the environment probably because how easy it is to get.
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blame the manufactures, not the consumers. make laws banning companies from making plastic.
Tyson King thats a very french way of dealing with problems🤷🏽♂️ Kill the King, its his fault that we cant watch for ourselves!
@@jajrhejdjskdkdk It only works when you don't replace the king with another king.
The sad part of *plastic packaging* is that it cold be replaced by recycled paper most of the time.
It's good that the governments started to band single-use plastics.
Let's see if we can have a much more sustainable future on our planet.
Paper = Trees
We humans = Virus to planet earth
The reason why we use so much plastic is to save the trees, go back a couple of years ago most things were made from alternative materials, paper glass etc.
The fact of the matter is. Deforestation was happening as a result and dredging sand for glass was killing reefs, so we stopped for. The most part and moved to plastic....
Here's a fun fact, paper can only be recycled a limited amount of times before it is useless, eventually we will have to start cutting trees again to replace paper that is no longer recyclable. So no matter whiv way you cut it. Plastic is here to stay,
The issue is the lack of recycle infrastructure, so it is getting dumped, granted plastic has a limited recycle life also, but at least at the wlend of its recycling cycle if can then be converted into something useful like artificial timber that lasts for 50 to 100 years if not longer, which also cuts down on tree use and so on.
Hemp is a better material for replacing tree products & Cannabis is non-toxic!
And the Koch brothers just spent $800,000,000 to increase the use of plastic! They win!
All plastic products should include a tax that will pay the costs associated with recycling it. If a company does its own in-house recycling, then it gets a tax break. If a company transfers this tax to the consumer, then their product will be less competitive in the marketplace compared to companies that are more eco-friendly.
Agree with you except for the part about tax breaks for in-house recycling. Would be too easy to fix the numbers and dump the plastic waste for tax break. No way to regulate that
Ive been saying this for years! The companies that sell it us should be responsible for its recycling. They will come up with alternatives very quickly when their waste goes back to them. Its time all industries have to do the same.
At the start they talk about removing plastic from the oceans, and that the end they are saying its a great idea to put football pitches worth of polyester sheets in it.
Its interesting how currently you have to pay IF YOU WANT other company to RECYCLE and make use of YOUR PLASTIC.
So punish the public for the lack of government recycling facilities , How are stupid tax's work in France? Oh yeah,,, riots
"use less" The problem is from everyone's individual POV they see their own usage as insignificant. But if everyone used the same that number is unimaginable. An executive for a client was complaining that corporate gross sales were up, however, commissions based on value was down. When I scrubbed individual customers and orders the change, month to month, was a few dollars here and there but when you scaled that number to the monthly volume the change was measurable. One extra soda can in the landfill is not a bug deal... one can per person per day is a huge number.
And it all doesn't make sense when we are twice as many on a planet. Efficient resources use is important of course but just contributes to the idea that we can grow population nonstop.
@@shelekhov My thoughts exactly! is having children something people do on purpose or, are we just slaves to our sex drive!
At the start they talk about removing plastic from the oceans, and that the end they are saying its a great idea to put football pitches worth of polyester sheets in it.
It's a whole different thing if you have a big piece of plastic under control or have millions of tiny pieces totally uncontrolled.
The larger solar islands the more they will block light to water sea creatures and plants below. Needs to do a study on what is below and how much it is affecting the food supply.
Ken Morris exactly what I was thinking.
Do you get the feeling Spencer was a bit jealous that Lara got a trip to Norway?
Any particular reason subtitles are not available for bbc's very informative click series??? disappointing
We all are responsible for this 🙁
It’s not a company’s fault when someone throws a water bottle in the sea. It comes down to ever single person
it seams to me the real problem lies in the plastic that is not recyclable why it would make more sense to make all plastic recyclable
This is a great video, thank you for sharing it.
@BBCClick 12:12 Collaboration with WWF Norway. Great to be a part of the production
Lets unite together to save Our earth ..
Noooo that's the wrong mindset! We need to save OURSELVES! "The planet is fine! The PEOPLE are fucked!" - George Carlin
BAMBOO CAN REPLACE MOST PLASTIC PRODUCTS & SAVE TREES USED FOR WOOD !!
hemp, ANOTHER GOOD PRODUCT !
OIL COMPANIES MAKE TRILLIONS FROM PLASTIC PRODUCTS !!!!!!
8:44 how he says it made me smile :)
i have been telling friends about 6 years ago that trash buried in the ground everywhere will be turned into gold within 20 years.. seriously.. it's a bilions of billions worth business to recycle trash into fuel or other usufulness.
Not in its current state.
Congratulations you did find the stereo switch
Politicians : I am going to pretend I did not watch this ever .
I'm actually elated to discover that a branch of the BBC are in-fact broadcasting the Truth and I guess The BBC-CLICK is one of them shows that have always kept it from the political Arena.
Here's Hoping you can carry on doing just that,... I learnt the truth about what the Plastics are doing to our Earth, some Years Ago now, So awesome Job on Bringing it to the masses and you need to keep Shining that Super Tropper on the Subject.
If you would listen to no one else, at least listen when Sir David Attenborough @(1:32) tells you it’s an issue. He knows this planet in and out.
Tax companies that use plastics for packaging.
20:23 of this show if they put sola on every home and building in the world in stead of wasting money in the deserts and oceans thing would work so much faster but all they wont is look at me. I made this ,i invented that I thought the show was about getting our oceans clean if they put sola on every home and building in the world in stead then there would be more time to clean the 4 points in the worlds oceans of all plastic .
removed 19 sacks of plastic rubbish 12 sacks of aluminium cans from my local river bank this week, You will feel in your self cleaning your local areas, And it can help the whole world.
Nothing is waste , use plastic in permanent structures like roads and building materials.
im not sure what vehicles have to do with this.
Main takeaway: plastic in still usefull as structural material
Has anyone taken the water temperatures around all of the floating islands of plastic in our ocean. We use plastic sheets to cover our pools which heat them up. What do you think these 5 or 6 island of plastic the size of Texas are doing to the waters in our oceans. I would suggest we start cleaning these islands up.
1+plus for the Netherlands
Wow this channel went from 13K subs to 138k subs in less than a year
They didn't use to upload most of the shows and when did, it was often some time after they aired. Recently they've been uploading them soon after they've aired on the BBC, so they're still relevant (as quite a lot of each show is time sensitive).
I used to look for BBC upload on TH-cam because it couldn't be watched everywhere.
Please humans... live #zerowaste. Zero waste just means reducing how much plastic you use and how much trash you produce everyday. I literally toss my trash once every other month for the weekly trash pick up truck and reduced half the amount of plastic I toss in the blue bin by almost half per week. You can do it too!
Cement Industry should start solving this global problem, there are some cement Factories in Europe which are utilizing 100 % alternate fuels (Waste, rejected material, Municipal waste etc.) rather than conventional fuels like Coal, Gas, Oil and helping their country to get rid of waste. All the govt should work on developing a garbage disposal system working closely with the Cement Industry all around the world and we will be amazed by how cleaner our beautiful planet will become
Cement Industry will help cleaning the planet and building it at the same time!!!
We are failing to meet the targets to slow down global warming. ~Spencer Kelly
COP24
(David Attenborough speech)
1:34
The thing is plastic is actually a really valuable material, for durable things because it's not easily degraded, so it's absolutely a waste of our fossil resources to use them for packaging which usually doesn't need to be longterm degradation-resistant. And these resources would actually be essential for the production of all kinds of chemical industry products that are essential for the functioning of modern day life, and should not be wasted.
We should stop the use of plastic....
@@jetstreamer374 no, that's called hypocrisy
@Gyri Sulcie Yeah. But i think we should just do our own thing and push everyone else to follow, but do it nonetheless. If we don't they won't.
Use the paper, cut the forests!
@Reza, you going to get rid of your computer, car, and phone? those need plastic. What is more realistic is making the plastics recyclable and requiring a $ deposit on them so you ensure they actually get recycled.
If every person watching zero waste and plastic videos stopped it would make a big difference. Ive started. I just have to get meat and bread plastic free now
I think the premise at the beginning is WRONG:
not the planet is under attack by us. WE are under attack by us!
Although this admittedly sounds a tad less specific.
As long as everything has to be “economics” earth is just going to die
How much plastic do we have to collet for person to save our planet or at least to try it?
The solar truck is fantastic
Walmart check out. Everything in a bag, even if it's already in a bag. Very dumb.
Do your best to not use plastic when shopping. Demand stores and supplers to not package products in plastic. Nothing we buy needs to come in plastic nothing.
I just didn't get it from a video who and how is saving a world from plastic. Just several nice examples of smart reuse of materials which won't be applied worldwide even in theory.
And an advertisement of just another waste of resources toy for underwater filming.
How making plastics cars riding in Antarctica is going to change anything? This is a waste of human effort.
People that think we are close to being buried in mountains of garbage obviously haven't traveled much. If you ever spend much time in an airplane you will realize that VAST, VAST sections of this world are still entirely empty. Much of this is already desert and would cause no environmental damage to pile garbage here.
Landfills filling up simply is not an actual problem.
Stop blaming the public and start blaming the people making the rubbish... then you focus on the problem - the people making it
What would happen if you have that plant wings?
#CreateADifferentWorld
Why no captions?
Thanks guys,liked the plastics sensor,but whats the polymer.
BB 'S rock.🌞😯
So I have seen quite a few videos about recycling plastic. The plastic that can not be recycled should be ground up and added to pavement and concrete products. It would stop the need for burning and putting it in landfill.
I agree and I also thought of a different use for that plastic.
Why not crush it and using large hydraulic presses create super dense cubes that can be used as road beds. I was watching a company build a road near where I live and they excavated down several feet then filled it with gravel up to a depth of around 3 feet. They then started putting rebar in the area above the compressed gravel and then poured concrete. Why couldn’t we use the plastic cubes instead of gravel? Also, they could excavate even deeper, say 12-16 ft and fill that area with the cubes. Of course they would need to put in place some sort of liner so the plastic could never leach into the ground.
A+ 🦉
16:14 He's gonna be furious when he realizes he wrote the nonsense equation on 2 pieces of paper.
At least while cruisers are redundant due to covid, the sea will have a rest from all the rubbish thrown overboard.
there needs to be easier ways to recycle things properly. in my state recycling isnt mandatory which is nice not being forced to do something but there isn't much support of it either.
if i were to separate stuff it would all get thrown in the same area of the same garbage truck. what they do with it i have no idea.
13:05 "Digital headset" is there any analog headsets? at least relevant to modern technology and displays video.
So disgusting and wrong all that plastic making the Earth and Oceans toxic. What that team have done around 16:08 is amazing and I really doubt that they're given enough credit for working at that. They need so much support by companies and the biggest corporations like coke that use plastics and have been found out to be dumping shit into the Oceans too.
With a lot of support, that thing with the breaking the plastics down into like carbon powders could be done on a massive scale all over the World.
Love the video. Need subtitles.
I already see it, ships sea charging station
outlaw plastics! reuse glass containers $
Moving from plastic to glass is proven to harm the environment. I know because I just checked into the science on it and wrote a book. Get the facts here: th-cam.com/video/vWZ5B1zOeNY/w-d-xo.html
YAAAAAAAY they fixed the sound
The arctic solar car made from recycled plastic didn't inspire me. Maybe if they had have built something actually useful to mankind that could help us, it would have been worth watching. Hmm, maybe a safe housing material made from recycled plastic would have inspired me but I hope not to see the polar car ever again.
Humans I'd like to hang around...
Turn it all into rubber or make something that can be used a gone and a gone like a every day household
am thinking of keeping ur tune as ringtone? :) :)
hi sir am very interesting in your project and would like to contribute to it more in recycle plastic material.plz contact me as soon a s possible.
what ever your thinking are! this is the fact plastic container are cheap! fact! if you (those who are talking about changing) really care there are tons of manufacture ready to replace plastic however none are the same price as plastic! if there is one tell me I'll open manufacture to replace it in my own yard in my own country! (my country is the biggest plastic waste! i see plastic on my way home on my vacation on my lunch in really sick of it!)
oh yea this phone you and me using made of plastic too why? because they cheap! if there is competition to the cheapness and ruggedness of plastic then tell me.
Surely the companies who do the one shot use plastic can change over to fully reuse versions? It not only save them money since they be able to recycle the plastics again for reuse once collected cleaned and sorted of course.. After all, re-melting that reuse plastic will save them having to keep buying the one shot types which will cost allot since they can't be reused! They can even have a local recycle set up so all the local waste plastics can be collected and reused by the local plastic factory, saving on transporting it long distances thus again saving money this time on fuel costs on bulk transport! And it make more people in the areas more involved with eco friendly recycling. the companies win, the local areas win the planet wins.. less plastic non-recyclables in our sea's and ground.. less diesel used by the trucks .. less big trucks on the roads.. better for all really!
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change the title: to the saving us from plastic !!!!!!!!
The people build the plastic they should res pond to clean there plastic we should chage them to pay before they make it
thx for reminding me a term misleading because i was brainwashed simultaneously or considered brain recession however im not ironic but i had a mental problem
dear any manipulator and\or oppressor whatsoever you’re totally useless
basically i can assort u as well 2bfair
profoundly alleviate thyself
I don't like the idea of solar on water. What of the marine environment when you start blocking out the sun?
my thought exactly Peter
The space it would cover would be minimal. And its way better for the marine environment than a rising water temperature due to burning fossil fuels to get same electricity. Still i’d be more confident having them on shore (due to unpredictable weather patterns and hurricanes) if those snap - would end beeing another plastic litter in the ocean.
Floating Solar panels on reservoirs will not make much environmental impacts
Rytis Petrauskas, they would be better off with Wind Turbines. Much higher output which works day and night and doesn't block out so much, bearing in mind these solar panels are only really suitable for close sure use where the sunlight is more important for shallow marine creatures.
Go outside and #lookup
US continents moving south east means warmer winter south hotter summers
calical26 nah but if the us moves the equator does so aswell due to the shift in mass
you drive 2000km for wastage plastic but you didn't collect much enough wastage .
come to pakistan and you will be surprised that you will find enough amount of wastages in just covering 1km area
lets save energy by flying a bunch of people to the other side of the planet.
right. I get its to show promise, but still...
You are *correct!*
Existence in the western hemispheres, contributes to the greatest encroachment upon the planet.
This occurs to to the extreme difficulty in exercising necessary resources to sustain society...
It is akin to bypassing one's own living dwelling and travelling hundreds of miles just to eat/sleep and wash...
The cost of such an exercise is totally unjustifiable and unnecessary, when it would be profitable to just move to the place inwhich the dwelling exists?
This, also suggests: The why; Inwhich Europeans are trying to *kill-off* the native inhabitants of *rich filled - resourced- lands?*
Hmmm...
Here is the the best way to recycle plastics.... think about it... where
did it come from? Solution put it back, bury it full stop. All this
carbon some people think is so bad can be put back where it came from.
There is no problem.
Very clever shipping the car with an airplane. Great for the environment as well as the battery's and chemicals in the solar panels.......just saying.....
Thanos might have a solution..just saying
climate change is normal ,, your in a ice age now . be freezing to death if n to for heating the planet ... normal earth temps have no ice .. a lot of land is under water .. tropical on the poles as well. man have to move north .. south in ice ages . just heat the earth in cold periods ..
and with allthe big wigs travelling first class jet to whatever part of the world they hold the meeting realy vlimate aware
seminal moment but
Free visectiminines
Yes blame Trump again.....
This fear-u-menatry exhibits all of the worst lines of thought in the climate change religion! How do you expect people who do not already agree with you to respond!? This seems to be a "pat ourselves on the back" film that actively derides anyone who does not already agree.
If you want to know the facts about plastics and the environment then check out this video based on my book: th-cam.com/video/vWZ5B1zOeNY/w-d-xo.html
Suomi mainittu! Torilla tavataan!
Having a meeting like this one in Poland is a joke. Poland refuses to stop usage of coal and in Poland there is rather big support for Trump policies...
Propaganda.
Z
So they use child labor to build their car... LOL
Teach the Asians how to use a bin and we're golden.
somebody teach this bloke a lesson in avoiding racism
Teach "Americans" to stop consuming double, even 3 times what they need to "and we're golden"
hey you yea you.... STOP TRASHING YOUR BACKYARD & PICK IT UP IF YOU FIND IT. #pushon
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Here is the the best way to recycle plastics.... think about it... where
did it come from? Solution put it back, bury it full stop. All this
carbon some people think is so bad can be put back where it came from.
There is no problem.