We need to continue recycling and consuming less, but we also have to put pressure on corporations to do their part! Too long have lobbyists and gov put all the blame on the consumer. Smarter packaging, less plastic use, sustainable materials.

@j2simpso

2 жыл бұрын

You're quite right! We also need to get rid of the bottle/can deposit, it's dumb. If people just did what we do in Canada (e.g. toss the aluminum cans and plastic bottles in the recycling bin) it would be that easy. A big issue I see here is recycling is frowned upon. Back in Canada, whenever you see a rubbish bin, you almost certainly would see a blue (recycling bin). Why can't we make recycling more accessible for residents?

@protoretro1290

2 жыл бұрын

YES, not everything needs to shrinkrapped!

@chrismartin2664

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t see how we can allow manufacture of anything that can’t be recycled

@ponisaseaside3456

2 жыл бұрын

yes especially these dumb makers of Pringles should know better, there's no need to use so much resources in the packaging if there are other viable options, its quite common sense to use cardboard for the packaging which they've only recently started trialling. I hope the big organisations do their part!! Also the world should sanction China! I went to a Chinese grocery at Melbourne CBD and was shocked to see how extensively they use plastic packaging for all the items!! If in a somewhat regulated country like Australia they can export these plastic covered food items imagine how widespread these plastics must be in China itself! The world should put pressure on China to reduce their impact on the climate!!

@epiccollision

2 жыл бұрын

Please educate yourself about plastic recycling, and look at the real problem…us.

The plastic industry is planning on manufacturing significantly more single-use plastic in the coming decades. I can’t remember the pledge, but there is no point trying to put it on the consumer, when the makers of the damn stuff are using the free market to grow their industry with no consequences except more profit. It must be legislated, and the companies must go out of business, or change to renewable packaging technology.

@-OnTheRun-

2 жыл бұрын

single use would still be viable if theres legislation to ban all the exotic plastics chemistries, if all plastic use was of a single type it could all be recycled 100%

@Tesana

Жыл бұрын

@@-OnTheRun-, if the plastics could be 100% recycled, then would they truly be "single use"? They'd instead be able to be used again, or in other words, reused, in order to make new items.

Maybe try targeting the companies that pack things in plastic? How many things are in 5 different pieces of plastic

@NazriBuang-w9v

18 күн бұрын

Lies again? Prime Cups Reduce Reuse Recycle

Plastic is not recyclable on and on and on and on. "Recycling" is not the answer. Please stop staying recycling

For those that have actually been to multiple countries would know that we're decades behind countries like Japan, China and Korea. They have been very strict in regards to sorting recycling and adhering to laws. Not just recycling but leading in electric vehicles too.

@jonglewongle3438

2 жыл бұрын

The Australian drop kicks were mixing the plastic before sending it to Asia. I saw that for myself. I saw yards throwing HDPE bottles in with LPDE soft plastics, for export.

@monketok141

2 жыл бұрын

Ive been to japan and the flip side is they looooove plastic, everything you buy is wrapped in plastic, and then that plastic is wrapped in even more plastic. Sometimes the cashier will gift wrap that for you too

@jonglewongle3438

2 жыл бұрын

@@monketok141 Yeah. That figures. They are arch-Capitalists. They have an outdoor diner in the center of town here specifically designed for hungry lunch time din-dins for the happy bourgeois which uses specifically non-post consumer, non-recycled, PET lids and with cardboard trays no doubt manufactured from rainforest timber for one-time use. They are totally committed to resource waste. I collect those meal lids which are PET, wash them, cut them up, and insert the pieces into container deposit PET bottles. They would hate that, if they knew. I've done thousands of them.

@susanmay43

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know about China and Korea, but I live in Japan and the sorting standards vary hugely between municipalities. The one I live in is not very strict. They do have designated plastic rubbish days twice a month. But the majority of the plastic isn't sorted or cleaned properly by individuals, so it just ends up being burnt along with regular rubbish, putting lots of CO2 into the atmosphere. It's great that there's a sorting culture here, but it still needs a lot of work and/or enforcement to be effective. I do believe the recycling of plastic bottles, glass bottles, and cans however is very well done here though.

@susanmay43

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonglewongle3438 PET bottles are made from a different plastic to the lids, so while I understand your motives, putting the plastic inside the bottle will prevent the PET bottle from being able to be easily recycled. Mind you, that's if the bottles are even being recycled in the first place...

I hope the schools in Australia start educating the young ones about the impacts of these plastic materials and recycling from a young age so it gets reinforced into the minds of the society the impact our lack of awareness has on the environment!

@StephensCrazyHour

2 жыл бұрын

They've been propagandising us on that since the 90s. No child gets through school without being given a thorough education on environmental issues.

@cynthiaayers7696

2 жыл бұрын

@@StephensCrazyHour I believe it was the seventies with the crying Indian commercial.?.🇺🇸

@andrewellis9697

Жыл бұрын

Most of my kids (Y10 Geography @ public school) are overwhelmed with all the information and have signed out of the whole thing.

You cannot comprehend the face palm I initiated the second they wanted to fix recycling with an app. You can't fix everything with an app stop it already.

Plastic isn't infinitely recyclable anyway. It only delays the problem by recycling it. Reusables are a much better alternative. Find "zero waste" or "bulk stores" locally. Plus, they typically sell things that are made locally. Which means less emissions getting the products to the store!

omfg, no mandates, why do you think we have this problem in the first place, companies need to do better, find green alternatives, like wtf why not tax them.

@Timmsy

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely 💯

I love how most of this is just blaming people instead of the companies creating these products.

@Liloldliz

2 жыл бұрын

and the companies that manage recycling plants and are supposed to be recycling things, but are throwing them out instead

@epiccollision

2 жыл бұрын

Because they paid for this to be made…they pay for a lot of misinformation, remember cigarettes were good for you until the 70s…

@Liloldliz

2 жыл бұрын

@@epiccollision scientists were saying cigarettes caused lung cancer, and tobacco companies lied to shut them down. just like with leaded petrol, oil companies knew about that and about climate change and they lied to shut down the science. the ABC is taxpayer funded, not funded by ads or by private companies, so it has less misinformation than a commercial channel - until politicians decide it's "too left wing" because it's promoting science......

@AlienLivesMatter

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, consumer choice is a convenient deflection by those in a position to make change but prefer not.

@TrecherousMonki

2 жыл бұрын

Plastic Recycling was invented by plastic companies to shift the burden of waste from producer to consumers and government. And without a mandate on recycled content the manufacturers aren't even obliged to use it.

why aren't we passing laws that result in producers making their products and packing out of materials that are more easily recyclable? businesses that make the effort and cost to increase recyclability should be rewarded not disadvantaged.

Pity they're not investing as much money in the recycling & renewables industries as they invest in the mining industry...

@Liloldliz

2 жыл бұрын

NSW and other states have been collecting a tax that was supposed to go back into investing in recycling machinery, and instead they just hung onto it and never reinvested it, so they could say they had a "surplus"

If products in non recyclable containers/packages were taxed to make them more expensive than their recyclable/reusable competitors, that would make a major difference in our buying habits.

Get the companies to colour the packages or a part of it in the same colour as our bins

@epiccollision

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah if your sorting plastics you already lost, they’re not recycled they’re trash full stop.

Thanks for this piece ABC, but in my local area Plastic Bags can abosolutely go in kurbside collection! I believe more and more local councils are in fact recycling soft plastics. Would encourage and update or mention of this in the video, to better inform the audience.

@epiccollision

2 жыл бұрын

They are just thrown in the trash along with the 95% of plastic that can’t be recycled anyway, but at least they didn’t lie to you about the bags.

@caninecurry5823

2 жыл бұрын

The majority of people I know just chuck anything in the recycling bin. Goodluck creating laws to change people's apathy.

My god I hate politicians; ".....it adds cost". There's a cost to recycle and there a cost to bury it. Regulation adds a direct cost to the consumer and/or manufacturer (and motivates them to change and improve) and saves the environment, where as burying it adds an indirect cost to the tax payer and an ongoing cost to the environment and probably future generation. The same stupid argument is used for nearly every environment issue.

The Mobius Loop (the triangle) Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. Recycling is at the end people. Save your money and waste and think do I really need this before purchasing. I do my best to follow a Zero/low waste lifestyle. Bea Johnson the author of Zero Waste Home mentions the 5 R's (Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rot/compost). I loved this video, shows how much we are growing as a country to deal with our own waste.

The info graphics make this video!!

the cardboard bread tags are a step in the right direction but with it being a small size it will most likely be sorted out as unprofitable and just sent to the landfill anyway if made out of aluminium or steel i think they will get more collected than just turned into trash

@sarahstop1534

2 жыл бұрын

I always just put my cardboard bread tags in my compost or the garden because there’s no way they are actually going to be recycled

I think it's time we revisited this space. As a waste educator, I know times have changed recently, and we need up-to-date information and reporting on it all to keep the encouragement, celebration and momentum up for our Australian residents, without our participation and practice we will go backwards. We need to keep debunking old ideas and misinformation about waste and recycling and push the Reduce, Reuse and Recycle message louder and with more acceptance to do so.

@6:10 classic scotty, YeAh bILlIoN DOLlerS, but in a once-off installment of 160 Million to go to my party seats unchecked

Blame the greedy corporations who create, use and sell the packages!

why havent we been using paper bags for shopping all this time ? or string bags made from hemp.

@j2simpso

2 жыл бұрын

Plastic bags are better for the environment. They're reusable for shopping, transporting goods or even for use in our rubbish bins.Paper bags lack the strength of plastic, although I will concede they are easier to recycle than plastic.

@southaussiegarbo2054

2 жыл бұрын

@@j2simpso plastic are not good for environment. They turn into harmful microplastics but paper dont

@nickon1378

2 жыл бұрын

Paper bag has negative environmental impact as well. However, unlike plastic bag affects our environment when it is disposed, paper bag's impact lies at how it is produced. Paper bag is made from tree, and since it cannot handle heavy weight and can easily be torn apart, we will need to cut down countless trees to make paper bags. I am not sure about bags made from hemp but I am aware that certain materials like cotton requires a lot more energy and resources to process it before it can be used, compared to plastic bag. The main issue with plastic bag is that people treats it as single-use, while it is meant to be reuseable. Unfortunately, this is not a black and white matter. So it is important to reduce and reuse whatever we have first.

@southaussiegarbo2054

2 жыл бұрын

@@nickon1378 fun fact. Some shops in Australia have paper bags now and they can support allot of weight. In some cases more then plastic can. Also paper are Indefinatly recyclable but plastic are not. Paper can also be used in your garden. Paper bags made today are often made of sawdust etc that is clean or even from old cardboard boxes. So therefor we technically dont need to cut down as many trees. Infact clean timber scraps(untreated) from building sites can even be recycled into paper bags. About 80% of all plastic ones tho end up in landfill. The other 20% are recycled into things like rarely new plastic bags etc but more often then not it becomes a road or park bench

@j2simpso

2 жыл бұрын

@@nickon1378 trees are a renewable resource, dead dinosaurs aren't!

plastic degrades after being recycled 2 or 3 times at most, it cannot go round and round so it will just end up in a landfill anyway. what we really need to do is convert it into the fuels they were derived from and use it in an environmentally friendly way, such as in a power plant with an algae farm attached to the exhaust.

@zenyu234

2 жыл бұрын

its a real shame this is just more pro plastic propaganda, this should not placate those who watch it. i wonder who paid to put this video up? having watched the end of the video, converting plastic into fuel can be done with centuries old tech.

@protoretro1290

2 жыл бұрын

or petrol for our ICE vehicles

@protoretro1290

2 жыл бұрын

@@zenyu234 yeah, but until recently, the process hasn't been as clean (aka, the end product as close as possible as it was when it was used to make the plastic) as it needs to be.

@zenyu234

2 жыл бұрын

@@protoretro1290 I am willing to be convinced that it is a better method for turning plastic into plastic ingredients, but I need to be convinced. and it doesn't even need to be for ICE vehicles, it can be for power grid electricity generation, or for the steel industry that already uses waste tyres in their smelters for heat. thats another industry that should have algae farms attached to their smoke stacks

Would love to see this again for 2022 and how far we've come. We still got a long way to go, but I'm so glad Australia is making strides. I aim for zero waste in my house and how little waste I end up having in my red bin means I can have it collected every second week. Recycling needs to be more often! Hahaha

This is why hiring skip bins services is advantageous because it ensures that your waste is properly sorted. A dedicated team is in charge of separating recyclable materials from the rest. You can rest easy knowing that your garbage is being disposed of properly.

We have the same problems with plastic here in the US. But the part about manufacturers using more recycled plastic doesn't apply here. Also, he didn't mention that recycled plastic must be mixed with virgin plastic when it's recycled, and plastic can be recycled only 3 times.

Is this one Facebook, would love to share it there. Has they released the app on which bin to use

Can you keep recycling a water bottle once it it's made out of recycled material and have an endless recycle loop?

@emilyc8958

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately no, after 2-3 rounds of recycling, the plastic is degraded and it has to go to landfill

Fantastic video 🙌🙌

This problem is a visual problem of our self-centered corporate bureaucratic ideology. Both in terms of offshoring our problems that are in the too-hard-basket, and consumerism. Using the third world as the first world's stepping stone for comfort has long been a feature (not a bug) of capitalism. Without the global south, we wouldn't have nice things, for cheap. The system inherently needs to exploit for profit. Now, we are seeing a larger problem emerge with health and the chemicals that are used to make plastics, and how corporations have been skirting around regulation by simply coming up with new unregulated chemicals to keep their products preserved / produced in plastics, all which tend to leech into the food we eat - causing a build-up of toxins in our bodies that we cannot avoid since plastics are used everywhere and for almost everything, from the production line (i.e., plastic pipes from silo to silo) to the grocery shop (i.e., wrapping, etc). These chemicals, such as Bisphenol-A (a hormone disruptor, banned in Australia - but also doesn't mean we are in the clear. See: skirting around regulation above), potentially cause irrevocable harm to our health. We are completely messing up this planet and it's inhabitants solely on the basis of profit, and plastics are a clear indicator of how bad this problem has become. Also: offloading this problem onto the consumer will do barely anything, it needs to be tackled at the source - Coca-Cola for example refused to stop using PET bottles, which make up a massive portion of the plastic waste that exists. They say that "consumers still want plastic bottles", so they maintain their stance, and continue to produce the waste.

@alexandervecris1679

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah you can't expect most people to care enough to do this much sorting. Some how the companies that make this plastic need to be made responsible for its whole lifecycle. Like a tax on plastic packaging. Then it will be cheaper for them to use glass or aluminium or cardboard more often.

@creatrixZBD

2 жыл бұрын

Agh! I remember that, it made me so angry. Coca Cola, the only thing sustainable about them is their continuing ability to destroy the planet and harm people.

@dabrown72

2 жыл бұрын

@@creatrixZBD agreed - Coca Cola still use Aluminium but its a fraction of their sales because people want lids on their bottles - there are three different types of plastic on a typical soft drink bottle, the bottle itself, the lid and and the label - some of which can be recycled and some which can, yet a can, the entire thing can be recycled, but the energy consumption required to recycle Aluminium is enormous. Either way the consumer makes a choice - manufactuers are to blame but consumers still have to wear some responsibility.

@dabrown72

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexandervecris1679 there is so much crushed glass in this country, but it has almost no recycling value - warehouses full of the stuff - wish we could recycle it for cheaper, but the manufacters and recyclers claim its too expensive to recycle now - what changed - I remember a time not so long ago when glass bottles were the norm for 750ml or 1.25l and the next size down was the 375ml Aluminium can - there were some glass bottles in a smaller size - go back before Aluminium before the steel and Aluminium revolution in the 1970s, and Coke and most beverages were in glass bottles. What happened? Plastic is cheaper. We also have to blame consumers for wanting things at a cheaper price, but the manufacturers *could* change things and charge more. Glass and Aluminium cans doesn't let out the C02 so your drinks don't go flat if you happen to keep them for several months.

@creatrixZBD

2 жыл бұрын

@@dabrown72 i particularly agree with your last point. If we could clearly define the notion of “good stewardship” over our planet, and give it high social …what is the word?… credit? Anyway, if we could work towards that somehow, we might at least be able to avoid having the same conversations every ten years or so, and get to arguing about different stuff 😂 (sorry, semi jks) People don’t believe me when I tell them they have to separate their bottles from tops, in the waste. I am old, I have stressed about rubbish and recycling for too long, I did think we would be “further along” by now. Appreciate your reply 🙏🏽

Generally if you buy food in packaging it's not very good for you. So buy unpackaged food or choose paper wrapping.

@kontopoulos3107

Жыл бұрын

...that is where possible ...as the choices are few, returning it to origin super- markets ?

The government needs to do more for recycling Check German’s recycling policies

The pronunciation of ton and tonne is the same.

we need more bins /glass and cans / plastic / paper and card board bigger general waste bin way to small wonder why people the other bins think about it

@epiccollision

2 жыл бұрын

The world doesn’t have a “unsorted trash” problem, it has a lying problem…most of the stuff we sort get sent to the landfill most of the time.

@AlienLivesMatter

2 жыл бұрын

@@epiccollision or burnt in warehouse fires. Disgraceful

We *do* need to start with ourselves, then with each other, then with the big corporations. In some European countries, they protest by buying products they need, and the ones that have unnecessary plastic packaging are dumped in the shopping centre that sells them in the first place. You bought parsley with that annoying plastic around it from woolies? Give it back to woolies to teach them a lesson!

We need to also invest in a way that the melting down process of plastics can create energy/power that can lower the costs of these sorting/recycling centres.

All the factories need to start produce more refills packet. Example refills shower gel, refills shampoo, refills dishwashing liquid, refills soy sauce, tomatoes sauce etc. With refills we can reduce the use of plastic bottles & glass bottles. Good to heard gov start invest on recycling, this opportunity could increase job opportunities too. Well done Australia👏🏽

@kontopoulos3107

Жыл бұрын

💡🍻 & it needs to be thought out & well organised to thrive 😮

Great video, great content, great editing. Well done ABC.

Why don't we just take what containers we need to the store and then fill them up.? Example would be a milk jug. How many times can you refill it..? This could be done to a myriad of things.

We need funds to support Start up industry in recycling

Kudos to tip top at least for ridding the world of those damn plastic bag tags. Tax the hell outta the supermarket duopoly who continue selling non ♻️

4:28 - It should be mentioned that the big companies selling the plastic way back then, and associated groups, are the ones who funded those recycling ads, as a way for people to focus the blame on each other, instead of these companies who already knew recycling was largely a scam to pacify the public into thinking it's all fine.

can we talk about the 'Tupperware Party' at 4:12 please?

Why is the usage of plastic going to increase when we're already banning single use plastic....?!? 🤔. Even if our population is increasing

I’m a garbage truck driver, I’m not a greenie hippie by any means but growing up I encouraged my family to do the right thing with our waste, making sure anything recyclable was recycled in the household, and every bit of food waste was put in the green bin which my council has accepted since the early 2000s, it’s just a no brained why send renewable resources to be buried in the ground. I primarily only collect garbage, seeing the amount of disregard from residents is frustrating, the amount of mainstream recycling I see enter my truck is astonishing, 1/4 of my load would easily be items that could’ve been recycled or processed via the green bin. Even more frustrating is how much excessive nonsense non recyclable packaging is on the market. There’s a lot of windblown litter that occurs from loose soft plastics during the collection process. I really don’t see the 2025 bid for 100% green packaging happening.

Best we can do is reuse or refuse as much as possible unfortunately most first world ppl think there to important to do there part

@rhyscooper3693

2 жыл бұрын

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@rhyscooper3693

2 жыл бұрын

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@rhyscooper3693

2 жыл бұрын

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@cassandraknight8804

2 жыл бұрын

I unfortunately agree😕

Any levy or tax placed on producers, will ALSO be 100% passed on to consumers.

float tank conveyor system

I used to use the plastic shopping bags for disposing of my household rubbish (instead of bin liners). I thought we'd come up with a biodegradable bag? Now I have to buy plastic bin liners. Where's the gain in this equation?

@gy2gy246

2 ай бұрын

Me too. New York State banned plastic bags and now I'm buying trash bags for garbage and cat litter..

big money to be made .if u can figure out how to get rid of plastic

Putting cardboard with glass plastic and the rest put that in a dumb truck and crash it together very smart humans put it in the bin humans need to sort it to.

@kontopoulos3107

11 ай бұрын

Pre-Sorting & Bulk STORAGE seem to be the biggest PROBLEM 8:08 "IF CAN YOU CAN " 10:17 Figure out>Read ...what goes where??? = Varies all over Australia¿¡¿¡

I want to know whether it's ecologically worthwhile to use the water it takes to clean out the peanut butter and detergent/ shampoo containers to send them to recycling.

@Anewuser_6282

2 жыл бұрын

use gray water

@Liloldliz

2 жыл бұрын

it is, because manufacturing plastic, metal, cardboard and other materials actually uses a huge amount of water. for example, a botte of water might have 1 litre of water in it - but 3 litres of water has to be used to make the bottle! recycling uses much less water than manufacturing.

Capitalist won't let plastic manufacturing to stop, it's a billion dollars industry 😢

Come to Armidale number 1 in Australia

Some High end restaurant use paper box.

One the the government needs to do, is incentivise industry to recycle automotive glass. Currently all of it gets sent to landfill

@epiccollision

2 жыл бұрын

You can’t mix glasses grades, and windshields have a plastic insert glued to the inside.

@Hick25

2 жыл бұрын

@@epiccollision not if it’s going to be used in concrete, asphalt and ferro-silicon alloys

@Liloldliz

2 жыл бұрын

@@Hick25 that's right - a lot of these "unrecyclable" materials are being turned into road base now, including low grade plastics and printer ink. it's a good idea to recapture and reuse them even if they can't be turned into the same thing they were before!

@Hick25

2 жыл бұрын

@@Liloldliz yep, done some work for a quarry recently and they were a supplier for a highway upgrade and were saying a % of the road base had to be recycled material, albeit the stuff the were using was recycled bottles. But that’s the reason government needs to incentivise industry

@Liloldliz

2 жыл бұрын

@@Hick25 see that's just sensible, bottles or not, it saves them having to go out and dredge sand bars and all that jazz. good for them

We sent our recycling to China too? When did this happen? No wonder we have problems.

So much happy music around so much depressing content :(

What about aluminium foil?

@Timmsy

2 жыл бұрын

If clean, scrunch into a ball and recy le

It's not China's fault, we were simply offloading the problem overseas. Stop using plastic, use more glass, mandate a specific glass mix for containers to make recycling easier. Tax plastic packaging to encourage systemic change.

Do you think we have gotten anywhere? QLD needs help immediately with this issue

Recycling isn't the answer, we need to stop using plastic altogether

Could some/any industries use 20:05 /repurpose certain rubbish and/or synthetic, plastics etc TO BURN (these rubbish items) for THEIR FUEL in manufacturing Safely??? 20:31

5:40 - If we haven't generated more household landfill since our 1996 levels that's a pretty amazing achievement. Our population was 18.31 million at the time so its a 40% increase in people with a 0% increase in non-recycled household waste!

Planned obsolescence tax at pos. To pay for recycling and/or disposal or exempt if invest in new recycling of products research or Materials science so mfr in biodegradable plastics etc. net waste zero by 2050.

@dabrown72

2 жыл бұрын

tell it to the consumer electronics manufacturers for one - they are one of the worst with planned obsolescence and too many people just have to have the latest gadget. Removing the power supply wasn't to save the planet, as huge numbers of people had to go buy USB-C Power Supplies separately - at extra cost and extra packaging. There are some companies trying to do the right thing - I hate to think how much unrecyclable garbage was created during the recent lockdowns in NSW, ACT and VIC from take away food containers for one. Not saying this is easy, just that an upfront tax doesn't do much if it ends up in consolidated revenue. Taxing things isn't always the answer.

@Liloldliz

2 жыл бұрын

@@dabrown72 we should be recycling ewaste in australia and manufacturing our own solar panels. give us our industries and our sovereignty back

So, tiny paper sticker should be use on fruit instead of plastic.

It will not be about recycling better, but rather using differently, less

Let's use ecosia 👍🌱🌳

all i know is that the old plastic bags used to breakdown, these new plastic bags (which i now have a cupboard full of) dont break down,, even in water, i have both bags in my fish tank, both dont affect the fishees.

@bendyish7303

2 жыл бұрын

Congratulations Mr Derek Bate, here are your Nobel prizes and the trillions of dollars in cash. You have single-handedly disproven all scientists, governments, and any qualified person in the entire world! I'm not sure how your neck can handle carrying your massive brain.

@Chris.112

2 жыл бұрын

The idea is to re-use the bags. Don't get new ones each time you shop. I just keep a couple in the car

@somethingfishy1088

2 жыл бұрын

There are rocks in most fishtanks as well and they haven't eroded, but go to the beach and you'll see many smooth rocks grounded down by the water. plastics bags are similar and The conditions are different + we can't see microplastics. Of course the fact they aren't breaking down (as fast as old plastic bags) is worse for the environment which I think is the actual point you were trying to make.

@rhyscooper3693

2 жыл бұрын

You need to consider the factors that differ in the controlled environment of a fish tank to lakes, rivers and the oceans. An obvious one is the intense radiation of the sun

@rebekkaholsten4622

2 жыл бұрын

@derek bate go and check the videos of "the ocean cleanup system 002". There they show how plastics behave in time. Good, that your bags are still fine, but what's important is what will happen to them in 10 years? Or 20? 50? Then it will collapse to microplastic. Congratulations... My Canadian relatives would now say "well done, skippy"

Those good old days where those recycling snobs were everywhere and in your face. The joke is on them.

@Liloldliz

2 жыл бұрын

you should still recycle things, for example aluminium is extremely efficient to recycle. glass and cardboard are highly recyclable too.

If really like to believe we can get the recycling issue done …. But people are literally stupid when it comes to plastics ….

The 'merry little jingle' played during the bit that mentions PRINGLES packets, is just plain offensive, in that it makes LIGHT of the HEAVIEST part of the waste problem! How appropriate would it be to have a 'happy tune' accompanying someone LITTERING! Those who PROFIT must PAY, but corporations manipulate governments into not demanding that they do so, and instead, the CONSUMER is named, blamed, shamed & FINED, for being 'irresponsible'. This whole issue is blatantly cruel, and patently absurd!

Robotics will further improve recovery rates.

Do more government. Mandate manufacturers use recycled plastics.

@epiccollision

2 жыл бұрын

Recycled plastic are like 5% of all plastics…we need to start at the source. And no using plants to make bioplastics isn’t solving anything, it’s still plastic.

Ocean 🌊 hero browser 👍

in 200 years earth will be twice the diameter and real estate will be half the price.

No one’s forcing you to buy shitty plastic forks and balloons

I cant help adding a few moot ethicallly/morally reprehensible points. 1: Plastic was originally invented using WASTE from the OIL/PETROLEUM industry, so THEY ought to bear the primary responsibility for not disposing of it in the first place! 2: The main recycling logo (triangular arrows with a number) was designed BY PLASTIC MANUFACTURERS, and is intentionally misleading, since many of those numbers denote UNrecyclable type of plastic, and the entire scheme places ALL the responsibility on the CONSUMER not the companies/corporations who PROFIT from selling it to consumers. 3: The most disturbing concept for me is that we are encouraged to EARN MONEY by getting a 'refund', when in fact that amount was PAID IN ADVANCE as a DEPOSIT which creates EXTRA PROFIT for producers, whether it is recycled or not. And 4: (The most aggregious, harmful and deceitful of all) Coca Cola Amatil have aggressively lobbied against recycling for decades, and now they have relented to a MINISULE, and INSIGNIFICANT degree, their 'aluminium cans' are PLASTIC with a paint-thin layer of aluminium on the outside! It a monumentally and utterly disgusting, dangerous, despicable and dastardly act of total disrespect for people and the planet! It is sickening to witness such guilt, responsibility, and angst heaped upon the consumer, at the very end of the chain of production, by of a group of industries that amasses UNCONSCIONABLE PROFIT at every stage of the process.

It's returnsies. Most stuff we by that is recycled came from China - the real issue, when we break it down, is mass corporatization and consumerism. This comes of the problematic Debt & Inflationary Monetary system. We need to get back to locally produce goods, services and assets where we can. Convert the money system to a credit and resource system, with certain goods, services and assets built to last and/or built from renewable and biodegradable. Yet, Corporates will not do this - An example; When they were looking at a standardized computer coding, binary was chosen over ternary because it was cheap to build the computers and transistors. Even though long term, ternary would have been a better option due to the increased computing power and data storage. So we find ourselves with an alternate option, but binary being wide spread with all coding, apps and hardware based off it, not corporate will commit commercial suicide to change. Only a global agreement to roll in, roll out will work. You can apply this to almost anything. From out fuel and electricity production, food & fibre, mining - even the problem of automation. We will get a major benefit from automation, including cutting down on waste, but the fear is job losses. Yet, if we configured the monetary system as explained briefly earlier, people would be able to work much less, like 3x8hr shifts per week, while production of goods, services and assets would remain at current capacities, if not more with automation efficiencies. Again though, just as hydrogen was realized 100 years ago as a good fuel source, it competed with the established Oil Industry, which just got stronger and accessed cheaper extractions in the mid east. Ever wonder what is all about - it is all about control of money, resources and wealth, but not for our benefits, for those few in the purple circle.

soft plastics can be recycled, maybe they should say why they dont do it.

And finally, regarding the final comment of this video. How WRONG is it to tell consumers that they must STOP CREATING WASTE, when all they have done is BUY a product, and given no alternative, unless we decide to hunt and gather, on mass, and boycott the entire capitalist construct. I find being accused of CREATING WASTE extremely offensive, when the true 'creator' is glaringly obvious

Do you really expect consumers to waste time with an app to check if things are recyclable? Please...

@iah

2 жыл бұрын

... Yeah? It's not that hard.

@AlexD-fr6nw

2 жыл бұрын

@@iah I'm not saying it's hard. I'm saying people are lazy. Another point is that time and time again we think we can solve world problems with another app.

@iah

2 жыл бұрын

@@AlexD-fr6nw that's true, and tbf I tried the app. It does need a lot more work even for the willing users. The simplest approach would just be to legislate as much as possible to be recyclable. But I see the value of the app in many 'unique' goods like paints, batteries, laptops, cardboard, etc where people don't realise they can take large amounts to recycling centres nearby and would probably be willing if they knew

@AlexD-fr6nw

2 жыл бұрын

@@iah agree with the unique recyclable items. I am constantly checking council site for items like what you've mentioned, so I can see the value there.

@iah

2 жыл бұрын

@@AlexD-fr6nw I feel like the education of these programs to families often comes through the kiddos at school, and I reckon they'd be easily convinced to download an app onto the phone they all seem to have now. Make it part of clean up Australia day or something. I think it'd catch on. I don't really expect parents and grandparents to be tech savvy and bothered enough to get a new app, but kids can be quite persuasive (annoying :p)

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@noblechohan176

2 жыл бұрын

I need talk to you

False. Meat trays (non foam kind) can go into recycling in South Australia.

Waste problem…get rid of the wasteman and give back the stolen land

Very encouraging there !!! DO SHOW THIS SEGMENT ON TV/ ads / CURRENT AFFAIR / 4 Corners ReportBack. Throughout year many times. Hopefully by 3rd - 4th occasion many would take up responsibility in care of Choice& Disposal as not ALL 7 types of plastic are YET FULLY RECYCLED !!

Why are all the comments here better informed than the writers/researchers of this story?! Come on ABC!!

@rebekkaholsten4622

2 жыл бұрын

Its awful, isn't it? It's so badly researched! And many people will believe it uncontrolled, i bet!

Do you all pronounce tonne as "tohn" instead of "tuhn" down there?

@creatrixZBD

2 жыл бұрын

They are two different measurements. There is a ton, and there is a metric tonne, as far as i know.

@jaymo9919

2 жыл бұрын

It’s a different measurement. 1 tonne = 1000 kg

I hate balloons

Here it is folks, the Australian Liberal Party promo department. Lady at the end can forget all about her 'virgin tax'.

Received a plastic bag from woolies just the other day.

@southaussiegarbo2054

2 жыл бұрын

U can get paper ones for about 5 cents more

@Liloldliz

2 жыл бұрын

bring your own bag!!

Plasma waste to energy. Capture the modest particulate generated. Use it to maintain consumable products in society.

@wolfweb

2 жыл бұрын

False, it generates thousands of tonnes of toxic waste that can't be burnt, not to mention the particulates that rain down on the surrounding countryside PLUS this does nothing to move to a circular society. It gives the excuse to just go on the way we are which is not sustainable. NO to toxic incinerators!

@DoubtingThomas333

2 жыл бұрын

@@wolfweb what are you talking about? The heat is so intense it produces very little emissions. They do not generate waste, they create energy from waste. They're already building one in QLD. We are way behind the times.

@wolfweb

2 жыл бұрын

Of course there is waste, highly concentrated, highly toxic waste. You can't burn heavy metals. Plus the dirty practice of incineration is an impediment to more sustainable waste management practices. They are fighting to close them in the UK. The put them in poor areas, which is exactly where the QLD one is going. It's ok to poison poor people isn't it Thomas?

This whole bread bag closure thing is breaking my brain. Do they understand how much more efficient it is to make plastic than it is to make cardboard? Why was their go-to thing just switching to a renewable, recyclable solution, when most bread bag closures are perfectly fit for reuse? Why is realise never the option? I don't understand. Reuse through buyback from councils will require no more sorting than recycling will, and require far fewer resources. What in the hell 🤦

Why don't they just shoot the plastic into the sun? Elon Musk needs to get on that.

tongs

People are just lazy and don't care.

totally off topic but how you gonna do us like that @ 7:59 Australia???? does that look anything like Aotearoa/NZ???? no, I don't think so and as our only neighbor you should know that 🤦🏻‍♀️ I guess you think we should be lucky to even be on a map

@shazmosushi

2 жыл бұрын

🤦🏻New Zealand doesn't exist🤦🏻

@rhyscooper3693

2 жыл бұрын

Are you hyper sensitive or what? It's an infographic made out of plastic bags, none of the countries look accurate, Australia is basically a ball

Lol, is this just a promo piece for that war on waste show ABC made?... cause I'm pretty sure it was only middle class yuppys that watched that. So we're gunna rely on consumer behavior to fix the issue of waste ? Lol.

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