How to solve the world's plastic problem | BBC Ideas

Plastic is one of the most incredible materials in the modern world - but the way we use it damages the environment. What’s the solution?
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  • @alinihateken
    @alinihateken3 ай бұрын

    This video has come at a time when my students are working on UN SDGs. Excellent timing. Thanks.

  • @agustinussiahaan6669
    @agustinussiahaan66693 ай бұрын

    Our law enforcement in Indonesia is too weak. Regular people and big corporation close their eyes to this problem. Churches were stuck when come to this issue.

  • @ammini999
    @ammini9993 ай бұрын

    For who didn't yet read the book "Not the end of the world"

  • @eejyool5099

    @eejyool5099

    11 күн бұрын

    What are the themes in that book?

  • @Recyclingandcreative
    @Recyclingandcreative2 ай бұрын

    Thank you share video❤

  • @Aslam388
    @Aslam388Күн бұрын

    nice

  • @QiuQiuChannel-ni3xj
    @QiuQiuChannel-ni3xj19 күн бұрын

    Taxes the Oil companies that turn their waste into plastics products for Recycle fund

  • @dotagedrain7051
    @dotagedrain70513 ай бұрын

    Plastic easy solve, recycling.... and $$$$$$$$$ plastic selling and illegal to dump

  • @onesustainablechoice
    @onesustainablechoice2 ай бұрын

    Plastics are very useful but their environmental impacts need to be controlled!

  • @alexviktor2804
    @alexviktor28042 ай бұрын

    Aha… it’s a 50/100 good idea. Well, it’s easy to say that, because it will take a bit of while. And what about the plastic in the nature?? How to get rid of it. There is no specific why, we simply can’t. The only way is actually send it to another planet* not space* it’s the only way. It may cost allot of many to launch a single rocket. But if we find a cheaper and a faster way to send it to another planet with another technology it will be awesome…

  • @randommemebean686
    @randommemebean6862 ай бұрын

    It seems like this video was bought and paid for by the plastics industry. Also about the elephants. They were running out of elephant's and needed a replacement. It wasent out of the kindess of there hearts.

  • @driftergrey
    @driftergrey2 ай бұрын

    Are you suggesting that factories that recycle plastic, produce less gas and heat, than the tiny microscopic bacteria that breakdown bio plastic? That's far reaching, don't you think? 🤔

  • @rock05climber
    @rock05climber2 ай бұрын

    Yes we can get rid of plastic by putting money into researching replacements. This video is too basic and almost sounds like shilling for the plastic industries.

  • @davecollins1998
    @davecollins19982 ай бұрын

    No Sh!t Sherlock… if all plastic was 100% recycled & not wasted, then no problem. You give no practical solutions to get around what we already experience.

  • @felixftw4702

    @felixftw4702

    Ай бұрын

    what if we made hemp plastic cheaper than regular plastic? so when people buy regular plastic they're less likely to throw it away? i mean the hemp would still contribute to global warming (i didn't even know that until i watched this) but it's not like global warming is going to stop happening

  • @radoslavtodorov6923
    @radoslavtodorov692325 күн бұрын

    This is never gonna happen so don't post it. The only few people that actually care are already doing their best.

  • @eejyool5099

    @eejyool5099

    11 күн бұрын

    What?

  • @fibber2u
    @fibber2uАй бұрын

    You are talking to (patronising frankly) PEOPLE. You'd best start by making better people! If it's cheap it's single use and will be discarded into the environment. You are proposing to create a plastic problem with "better-plastic". So don't mindlessly consume the old-plastic, hurry while stocks last, mindlessly consume our-new-and-improved-better-plastic. No solution has been offered here.