The Plastic Recycling Myth⎜WHY PLASTIC?⎜(Full documentary)
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- Can plastic be recycled? Do you know what happens to your plastic waste? In the last few years the plastic pollution crisis has become enormous. Pictures of poisoned animals, littered rivers, and polluted oceans have shocked the world. The plastic packaging industry has declared it knows how to solve the problem: recycling. Increasingly, bottles, boxes and sachets are proudly stamped with the words ‘100% recyclable’ as brands compete to reassure consumers that their packaging purchases are guilt-free. But if recycling is really the solution, why is the world pumping out more virgin plastic than ever before? Could recycling really be the ultimate greenwash? We follow the money into an industry that’s designed to hide the problem rather than solve it. We track the black-market brokers who hunt for countries to dump our plastic, waste moguls getting rich by burning trash, and the organized criminals for whom waste smuggling is now as lucrative as the drugs trade. We show how some of the biggest consumer-goods brands on earth spin the recycling fairytale as a way to allow them to continue polluting without consequence. As we all pick up the bill for a world drowning in plastic, the film asks: who is getting rich?
Directors: Tom Costello & Benedict Wermter
Released: 2021
This film is part of the WHY PLASTIC? Series. To find out more about the other films in our series head to thewhy.dk/whyplastic
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I need to say this is one of the most impressive videos I have watched. Human beings really have to do something!
Really informative video, thank you!
Of course, it is good to be informed but after watching this video if you do nothing, is just "storing data in your brain". My wife always has in her purse a fabric bag and in this way, she avoids buying plastic bags for groceries. Do something!
Yes, we STILL have to DO SOMETHING. I separate "recyclable" waste, whatever that means, but it's a way to keep conscious, daily, about the issue. I also don't accept plastic bags for my groceries. I always have my bag and some 3 or 4 plastic bags I keep reusing, inside it, in case I need.
But what is your wife putting into this fabric bag...how many plastic containers do we buy....it's all a scam
What a joke of comments. The only thing that you can do is to vote for the right party. To bring a bag or not bring is the same thing, you are doing nothing
@@renzoqu I also do the same. But you're so right - the bag has ALREADY been produced. EVEN if you spread the word to more people to do the same, the person where you bought a product has been TRAINED to open a new bag, and give it to you.
If even 10 million people jump right there saying no, thanks, I have my own bag, those 10 million bags have already polluted the air in production phase.
I carry 2 bags i made from used clothing. I gage how to buy so not to overfill. This stops buying too much. In a year I would save over 100 plastics. I stopped introducing plastic into earth. I stop buying groceries that is wrapped in a bunch of fabrics. I started growing my own vegetables. I watch “spicy moustache” for more inspiration.
Amazing documentary. Hats off to the crew. Thank you for exposing the truth.
Every one knows what to do but every one who can do a lot are to greedy.
It's a true story, when I go to the outside, I can see the garbage/plastic on the land, so everywhere I can see the garbage on the land 😣😐
The REAL key is to make sure plastic is not leeching into the water supply. We've been "recycling" for forty years and have probably put more into the ocean than just putting them straight into a landfill would. (China was receiving our plastic and just dumping it in rivers and the sea for decades.) Even an impossibly huge jump in plastic recycling and a huge reduction in plastic production won't do much but extend the problem by a few years. Sealed landfills and plastics that don't leech chemicals are what is needed. Landfill space is a non-issue. There are towns that actually benefit from the jobs that landfills provide and welcome them if run properly.
If there is a will, then there will be ways. (I'm starting to collect my packaging plastic, clean it, and use it in my craft project. Crafting also reduces my depression and anxiety. Then I sell my craft to bring food to the table. I hope that can inspire us.)
Watching this scares me a lot. Problem is i know that i can not do much, mostly nowadays we buy food at the big supermarkets and almost everything has a package 😱😭
We can do a LOT. Who is conscious CAN do a lot better than who doesn't have a clue, like was mentioned in the top comment here, with 15+ "thumbs up". It's just one example. We can do a lot, even if it's just about what we do only in our own indiviual life and home.
Search for zero waste products and stores, they exist since decades ago and have made a come back.
2-30 pm , why are we lied to so much its disgusting
Plastic is another symbol of our perceived and basically immature power to speed up the world. We must make better choices, we must be more mature and more thought-full and take better action. Fast movement, fast food, fast fashion and instant gratification usually come wrapped in plastic or fuelled by petrol - funny that 😱.
Look at armidale nsw Australia
people need wake up!
Poor little Nina😢
What is the point of recycle then?
We ought to recycle materials that have value like metal and glass, but there is only one solution for
materials like single-use plastics that have no value: cut it out! Stop producing them!!!! We are currently going horribly in the wrong direction on this globally, but the first step in making change is to be able to identify that we’re being bullshat to and collectively change course as fast as possible!!!
It's nearly pointless 😞
It's to make money for certain people in certain industries
To feel you better about buying plastic and keep pressure off big corporations to cut into their profit margins to truly come up with a alternative to plastic. If every single middle class consumer of plastic knew how much of their junk isn’t recycled they’d think twice about randomly buying a bag of chip and ordering mindlessly junk off of Amazon. Subconscious drives majority of our purchases. Whether it’s buying something or skipping past something that’s plastic. Middle class is the major consumer of products. If middle class all across the world cut their consumption even by 25% of plastic goods, the economy would tank and companies will be forced to cut into their profit margin to go back to manufacturing goods in paper/glass or other eco friendly alternatives. Which is expensive. But they can only pass off a little of this expense to the consumer, because otherwise the consumer won’t buy it, and hence they have to cut a good chunk of their profit margins to make sustainable products. It’s much easier to just lie that their products are sustainable when they truly aren’t.
Doesn't look staged at all 😄
Can't understand the purpose, though. For some reason they are telling us this, now. Well, we'll see.
nao gostei, pois nao me judau na minha liçao de cas
of course we got the obligatory "muh CO2 bad, mkay?". You guys really like to virtue signal so hard, damn farthuffers 😂
The trees will take care of the CO2 and turn them into oxygen.
@@alvinmah6148 Not at the rate we cut them down in Amazonas