Hey! There’s been a bit of confusion that I’d to clear up here... When I talk about plastic & toothbrushes, I’m talking about the bristles. Unfortunately plastic free bristles don’t exist yet. Even bamboo toothbrushes have plastic bristles. So we should make sure those bristles are recycled 🦷✨ And unfortunately plastic free underwear doesn’t exist either. Even if you buy 100% cotton (which you should, good for you & the planet) they will still be stitched with elastic. Otherwise you wouldn’t be able to keep them up! So we should be on the look out for recycled stitching. (I know, I’m asking for a lot here, but let’s try!) 😂💚

@hamdheen1079

3 жыл бұрын

Try Amway Toothbrushes

hello! can fuel made from plastic be considered a good alternative to destroy plastic? because its carbon dioxide emission is lesser than that of diesel..... and its other byproducts include tar and moisture.... but keeping the other byproducts aside, can plastic fuel destroy plastic fully?

Solution is easy but so expensive. Send garbage into space

There all volcanoes that are actively forming islands in the middle of the ocean. What I wonder is: why can't we find one of these islands, one that doesn't have lava currently flowing out of it-- but one that is still hot, and why can't we throw the plastic in these. It sounds bad, at first, but there are many benefits to using this method as a solution. First off, let's talk about synthetics, because people tend to think of synthetic as something that's the opposite of natural. Well, synthetics are not created naturally, but, on some level, their components must be natural if they're made from things we found on earth, right? So, when I'm talking about volcanoes, I'm talking about ones that are still ultra hot inside. These things are pumping out all kinds of toxic gases and stuff, ok, so I just wonder "how bad could it possibly be to chuck all this plastic garbage into one?". I'm pretty sure that the high temperature would just vaporize it all, anyway. Also, lava is like a liquid metal/liquid rock substance, right? When it finally cools it just becomes rock, so any plastic that might be left in it would just become rock, essentially. If anyone knows of a reason why this solution wouldn't work, please let me know. Thanks for spreading awareness of this ongoing problem, doG bless you all!!!

@dhirenram4971

Жыл бұрын

We could but we'd unleash the Demon Lord Ktulu in the process

do you support patogonia, nike, or adidas?? they make alot of their products plastic. also, whats your opinion on the windbreakers and raincoats?? most of those contain telfon

I am a high school student preparing for university application, and the course I am applying is environmental science. thank you for your video which totally blows my mind. Since one academic part in my personal statement is about how plastic bottles can be made into fabric, and before watching your video, I nearly did not know anything about greenwashing. Thank you so much, and I need to edit my PS now ASAP 😂

I have a question since recycled plastic shirts are not a solution, are they still better than buying traditional t-shirts. Also, have you heard of making clothing out of Hemp fabric, apparently it's actually decomposable.

@charlottemayzley479

4 жыл бұрын

Hey James! Clothes made from 100% natural fibres are the best option right now. (Organic cotton, hemp, bamboo, tencel, modal, nettle etc). They will still use up resources to be created, but they won’t pollute with microplastics and can be composted at the end of their lifecycle. If clothes *have* to be synthetic (sportswear, swimwear etc.) then recycled plastic is the best option. Hope that makes sense! Happy to rephrase if it doesn’t ☺️

@yideasignx

2 жыл бұрын

@@charlottemayzley479 why sportwear and etc.. then recycled plastic is the best option?

3.30 The dog disappears😮😅

What's the difference between a T-Shirt made of recycled plastic (which you oppose) and underwear made of recycled plastic (which you propose)?

@charlottemayzley479

2 жыл бұрын

Aha yeah sorry it’s maybe not the best example, definitely caused some confusion! Underwear needs plastic to function. The fabric might be 100% cotton but there’s stretchy elastic in the stitching to hold it up. A T-shirt doesn’t need plastic adding to it. Functions perfectly fine without it.

hi! thank you for the nice video, but i do have some confusion about this. is there any way we could talk about this? email or something, i’d love to discuss more about this issue

I mean if it catches on fire... Well dang.

Brilliant. Thanks

Nice garden and dog by the way 😊

@charlottemayzley479

4 жыл бұрын

Danny Gooyer thank you so much! 🐶🌸

Thank you so much, you got new suscriber from Mexico :)

@charlottemayzley479

4 жыл бұрын

Osvaldo Men Yay! Thank you ☺️💚

Nice video.. I agree with you. We can create new things of that big pile of trash.. But to close the tap would be a much better idea! I was thinking of making shoppingbags out of t-shirts. Maybe used or maybe t-shirts that were not sold or shirts that were disapproved..

@charlottemayzley479

4 жыл бұрын

Danny Gooyer yeah I completely agree! Shopping bags never ~have~ to be made of plastic. There are tonnes of options out there! I’m still using plastic bags I bought years ago & will continue using them until they fall apart. When they’re all finally used up I was going to buy some compostable jute bags. But maybe I should look into repurposed cloth bags instead 😊

@Misterdandamanify

4 жыл бұрын

@@charlottemayzley479 jute, good idea!

If people don't believe that one small thing can change the world: Here is the example... the person that created fucking plastic ! Sorry for swaering, but this is so aggravating. Thank you for this video. This is giving me some ideas.🤓👏🏼

@charlottemayzley479

4 жыл бұрын

Don't be too mad at the inventor of plastic! He made it because he wanted to create an alternative to slaughtering elephants & tortoises for ivory & tortoise shell 🐘🐢 People are good. Personally, I blame consumerism 🙈

@celinejvr7

4 жыл бұрын

@@charlottemayzley479 true. Maybe they invented it without knowing what it would have become later. There is a fine line between using and abusing. It all went wrong with mass production. Thank you for your reply 😊.

@Hattonbank

2 жыл бұрын

Plastic is one of the best inventions ever, it is just the stupid ignorant fools who throw it away without reusing it that is the problem

@ps3master72

2 жыл бұрын

@@Hattonbank exactly, plastic is an amazing material with many unique properties. That's why it's so sad to see so much of it going to waste and only being used once (and hurting our environment and the animals). I have some reusable thick plastic bags I use for groceries, they have lasted over 5 years. I feel one of the best things you can do to reduce your plastic footprint (besides cutting out as much single use plastic as you can, of course) is getting into at-home recycling and taking waste plastic from yourself and others and turning it into items at home (that way you can be 100% certain that the plastic has *actually* been recycled). I also believe that corporations should have to pay a tax on virgin plastics that would be higher than the cost of using recycled plastic. Some of the onus lies on corporations and their unwillingness to buy recycled plastic/stop producing virgin plastic/stop using single use plastic alltogether to save money.

Very good video, you are really goood at explaining stuff.

@charlottemayzley479

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 🖤

Good to know

Just out of intrest, it looks as if from your other videos your vegan so would you buy a wool jumper or leather bag for instance or an acrylic/pu product made of plastic or do without? Just wondered how vegans work around this😊

@charlottemayzley479

4 жыл бұрын

Hey! This is the sort of thing I’m definitely going to make videos about in the future. Yeah I’m vegan & would never buy a wool jumper or leather bag because I don’t want to create demand for slaughter. There are a couple of different work arounds... The first is just not buying anything new full stop. By buying second hand I’m not creating demand for slaughter (or new plastic). I personally still wouldn’t buy wool or leather second hand because knowing the animal it came from has been/ will be slaughtered just makes me feel gross. But other vegans do & that’s totally fine, it’s the creating demand that counts. The second is, there are loads of materials that aren’t plastic or animal derived & they’re getting better all the time 🎉 Bamboo & hemp makes great knitwear. My go to bags are canvas, made from hemp/ organic cotton etc. I’ve also seen some very cute pineapple ‘leather’, straw weave & bashofu (banana fibre) bags 🍍🍌 If I needed a super sturdy or waterproof bag I would buy a second hand plastic one or failing that buy a new one made from recycled plastic. Hope this answers your question! 😊

@elliejasmine7752

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your reply. I'm not vegan and eat meat sometimes but am conscious on how animals are treated. I'll have a look at recycled products and the alternatives you mentioned. I always thought that leather and wool were by products and wool didn't necessarily mean the slaughter of the animal - id never thought of it creating demand!

@charlottemayzley479

4 жыл бұрын

Eleanor Douglas it doesn’t matter that you’re not vegan, but it’s awesome that you’re open to learning more about it! 🙌 Oh yeah it absolutely creates demand. Over 1 billion animals are killed for the leather industry every year. And every sheep in the $7.6 billion wool industry will be sent to slaughter when their wool production slows down. There’s so much other cruelty that wouldn’t even fit into this comment. E.g. Leather cows in India walk to the slaughter house & when they collapse from exhaustion they get their tails broken/ chillis or tobacco in their eyes to force them back up again. And in the UK it’s standard to cut through lamb’s muscle & bone with a knife to cut off their tails without anaesthetic.

@Hattonbank

2 жыл бұрын

Sheep are not slaughtered for their wool, it is shorn off every year in early summer to keep them from getting too warm in the heat Cattle are slaughtered for their meat not the hide The meat is worth over $2000 per animal, the hide is worth $50, so you can see that without it being reared for meat, there would be no leather Don’t use the leather, burn or bury it, that’s a waste and environmentally bad

But surely 'recycling' it into clothes for now is a better alternative than simply burning it

@charlottemayzley479

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Josh! Oh no, I hope my video didn't give the impression that we should burn plastic. I 100% support recycling plastic over incinerating it. But I don't agree with recycling it into products that never had to be plastic in the first place, and then labelling them as them as eco. It's greenwashing. Plastic should be recycled into products that currently HAVE to be plastic. The focus should always be on how we can create less plastic and 'turn off the tap'. Pretending that recycled plastic tshirts are any sort of solution is misleading and distracting from the actual solutions. Hope that makes sense, happy to re-explain if it didn't :)

They discovered mushrooms that can digest plastic and turn it into biodegradable materials

@charlottemayzley479

4 жыл бұрын

I would love it so much if that was true! 🍄 There's a fungus (Aspergillus tubingensis) that can break plastic up into microplastic pieces quicker. But unfortunately nothing can turn plastic in into biodegradable materials yet.

@efilymkcuf1429

4 жыл бұрын

I read some articles about when they discovered a species in the amazon that could

@efilymkcuf1429

4 жыл бұрын

Ill see if i can find them and link it to you

@yideasignx

2 жыл бұрын

@@efilymkcuf1429 may i get the lik of articles?

Sad to see that most of the information in this video is completely wrong - even the pictures are photoshoped! This lady has no understanding of either plastics or textiles. She seems to be misinformed on most of what she says - 'plastic' t shirts, rugs etc she mentions are Polyester, Polyester is made from oil, recycled polyester is made from waste material that would otherwise go to landfill. Polyester is the biggest selling fibre in the world and is stronger and lasts longer than cotton which takes a huge amount of water and requires considerable pesticides to grow efficiently. Organic cotton has an even worse carbon footprint. Micro fibres - shedding everywhere, all around us - seriously? She starts of by saying plastic bottles cannot be recycled back into plastic bottles - strange how Coca Cola and many other bottling companies use a high % of recycled PET back into their bottles! 'Plastic' - (she means Polyester) can only be downcycled'' - again - wrong! Look at carbios.com who have developed a method of recycling polyester t shirts back into water bottles - FACT! She's OK about products that need to be made of plastic Polypropelene- nylon underwear forinstance (lol) but has no idea how difficult it is to recycle PP vs PET - funny how PP is acceptable but PET isnt? Bottom line is - yes we need to do what we can to reduce plastic in the environment by recycling it - thats why it was created in the first place! Alternatives like glass, aluminium and paper use more energy and have a far higher carbon footprint to produce and recycle. Love the way she signs out with a plastic toy - please do your research before being taken in by the uniformed. Please spare the time to watch this compelling video by an actual scientist giving the facts and not the hype. kzread.info/dash/bejne/iJefrbOLoJPAncY.html

I am teaching the next generation. . . 1st through 6th grade. I have their attention, they understand the problem with our garbage taking over the world. They all believe that they are doing their part because they recycle. I want to show them this video, however, you say "turn off the damn tap". I know this seems minor, but I cannot show this to my students. Do you have a way of dubbing or blocking out this word? I really like the rest of your video but I will have parents calling me if I present it as is. Thank you.

Plastic chop= smothb kill Coth chop=surictry

There is a lot of deception of consumers over recycled plastic in fabrics The EU wants to legislate by 2025 that anyone saying they use recycled yarns in their fabric must have at leat 25% recycled. You think you are getting 100% but it only needs to be 1% and it can be stated legally that it is recycled Anyway, fabrics that contain over 30% recycled yarns fail strength tests, so no one goes over that amount Don’t be fooled by those saying it is recycled when it is only using a few percent recycled A lot of people are being fooled