Plastics are not just in waters but are now in the atmosphere as well. Microplastic will continue to disintegrate to become even smaller and dangerous.

MIcroplastics in our environment is dangerous for all life on this planet, including ours.

@sn3r544

5 жыл бұрын

How so, I cannot find any evidence of microplastics causing harm to the human body. I only can find sources that mention they are everywhere.

@abcdefg-xm7dc

5 жыл бұрын

@@sn3r544 plastic contains many toxins like BPA

@VejmR

4 жыл бұрын

Hm

@Justdigit2

4 жыл бұрын

Oehhhhh we are all gonna die now....

@abloogywoogywoo

3 жыл бұрын

The climate change nutcases have distracted us all from the very real pollutant killer that is looming over us all, even as we speak...

I was born in 1945. I remember a (mostly) plastic-free life. I don't see why we can't go back there.

@hollynazareth6015

5 жыл бұрын

I quoted you in my speech

@thomasmancini5762

4 жыл бұрын

The reason we can’t go back is because plastics are cheaper, and companies won’t use the extra money to get rid of plastics

@1vijai

4 жыл бұрын

@@thomasmancini5762 Damn true

@zosiawojcik1709

4 жыл бұрын

It's really sad but I can't help blaming the generations of my parents and grandparent for the condition of our environment, that my generation has to face. How did it happen

@Ducttapecrafts99

3 жыл бұрын

Because humans are becoming greedier, lazier, and overall just more careless about themselves and the environment.

Thatk you Sarah, please dont give up, never give up, this is worth it

I wish I had been at this Ted talk .BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY IS RIGHT Down the ROAD. I remember the first liquid laundry detergent, when quilt material was always 1oo% cotton, when there was no creamora, when vegetables weren't in plastic containers. I miss those days. I also remember taking apart old cloths and using good parts to make new.....unless a time comes that it doesn't take both parents going out to earn a living there will be no reduction in time saving plastic usage. There will be no make it, make it over or heaven forbid.....do without.

True but big companies and the government should be held responsible and accountable. They're the reason this problem has gotten so bad. Why put not only the blame but also the burden of responsibility on the consumer and individual? It isn't our fault that this problem has gotten out of hand so why are we expected to fix it?

@emelydas5486

3 жыл бұрын

Our need for plastic in everything we use is what leads to the production of it in the first place. The faster we accept our part in plastic becoming this mammoth of a problem the sooner we can put an end to the need and hence the subsequent production of it. I agree that big corporations should be held responsible for producing it and making us dependable on it but we can only pass the blame so far. We need to do our part in curbing it and that will set the course for a change (albeit a small change but an immediate one).

@GigaNietzsche

3 жыл бұрын

@@emelydas5486 great mindset in regards to the problem man. We gotta focus more on fixing the problem at hand first

@sharroon7574

2 жыл бұрын

If everyone thinks lime you nothing will get fixed

10:15 we live in a society

Thank you for this presentation. This is a tough problem to solve.

Lord help us all

Turns out the first great filter is plastics and we failed it.

Wow...!! That was amazing information on the incredible menace of micro-plastics. Thanks, Dr. Dudas, for sharing. Well...! I am doing my part and I seriously (desperately in fact) wish that people should realize the gravity of negative impacts of using plastics.

@richardartrip2242

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. Right on.

@richardartrip2242

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. Right on!

Wake-up call to humanity!

There should be a ban on single-use plastic. A company, selling its product, should only be using recyclable plastic. There is a study which says that nano-plastics are in water bottles that people have been drinking unknowingly for years. I, for one, fear that the nano-plastics I have consumed have leeched into my body, and pose a risk to my health going forward.

@diamondrocks2266

5 жыл бұрын

That would not work the alternatives have even bigger impacts

@Svin4y

5 жыл бұрын

Buy a water distiller

@Mia-ku6pu

4 жыл бұрын

@Tom Jones Everyone is responsible, not just Asians. Although much plastic is produced in China, it's being produced for our demands, we drive their business. So actually whites, blacks and Asians can all make a difference by stopping consuming plastic products

@enzoexcourn3002

4 жыл бұрын

jiyoung mia No matter what people wont stop buying plastics. The asians need to be stopped because they’re the source.

@username_creates6991

4 жыл бұрын

That would be great if plastic could be recycled forever or even reycled into the same product. Its usually upcycled into something with less quality.

I agree so much on second hand goods, I wish when I got married I hadn't worried about having everything matching so much

Very interesting lesson !

Actually plastic lasts almost forever and it's killing off a massive amount of the bird and seafood population.

Need to make plastic from hemp oil not crude. It’s biodegradable.... pretty simple answer for not producing more of the dangerous toxic plastic they never goes away..... then start a massive worldwide clean up of the crude oil plastic..... get it done. This is your final warning on the matter

@snowballfalling9077

4 жыл бұрын

Cleaning up all microplastic is impossible. :( But I do agree with you about doing something.

@abloogywoogywoo

3 жыл бұрын

@@snowballfalling9077 Perhaps our only hope is _Ideonella sakaiensis_ a bacterium that eats microplastics.

@tazboy1934

8 ай бұрын

​@@snowballfalling9077it's quite possible ...there is special specific bacteria 🦠 for that and other method like white eggs material to remove microplastic

Good video and as far as microplastics are concerned, once they are extracted by any system, how are these microplastic residues eliminated (don't tell me about recycling)

Very interesting

Hemp and bamboo can be used to create more environmentally friendly packaging etc. instead of more and more plastic.

20200102: The elephant in the discussion is: Forget about the so-called micro plastics. What about the micro-micro plastics. A polymer CHAIN of 1 million to a link of 2 x monomer. They each require the same ENERGY to break the link. For every chain = 1 million monomers there could be half a million 2 x monomer links. How do they affect CELLS?

only 11000 views, not cool, mostly do not wants to change

@Jetanium

5 жыл бұрын

Rohit Singh RAJE Yeah people don’t care. And the less they care the bigger of an issue it becomes.

@duggydugg3937

3 жыл бұрын

most ppl don't want to know !!! gvt debt plas waste both will strangle us if not stopped

@DSTREETMEDIA

3 жыл бұрын

Sadly

If one considers all the ways plastics end up in the atmosphere, including tornados, wildfires encountering civilization, wind erosion, hurricanes, tsunamis and others- it seems necessary to place a one-use tax on plastics not intended for recycle and engage a national reclamation strategy using unemployed US workers(if they are tired of unemployment insurance) and introduce the next generation to what they will be spending time and money on to attempt reclamation of the earth from the plastics rampant within. Part of a green new deal?

@DSTREETMEDIA

3 жыл бұрын

Seriously good point... we need to write our officials, great idea of creating new jobs recycling and picking up after ourselves! 👍

I wonder, does ice with microplastic contaminates melt quicker?

This is terrific, where can I find the diagram of the old 3 Rs with the new three Rs, please?

Hemp clothing compared to synthetic fibers is like comparing a lump of plastic to a block of Iridium.

massive production of plastics.. negligible decomposition of discarded plastics... we need a decomposition chemical or gassifier or oil extractor to process the horrendous mass of discards or biodegrade them.. or we will strangle on it

Seems like.. she is about to cry!

@DSTREETMEDIA

3 жыл бұрын

I’m gonna cry listening to these facts from this well informed educator 👩‍🏫 our future is seriously being threatened

is cellophane biodegradable ?

Ecc 8:9

man... ! ...think of tire tread grinds... millions of tires grinding microparticles 24/7..... when will officials realize we must be breathing plastic particles ?????

@DSTREETMEDIA

3 жыл бұрын

Right! everytime you walk past a roof being tarred or smell burning rubber or brakes, imagine .... our nose is filtering these plastics...... this must be the cancer source

@duggydugg3937

3 жыл бұрын

@@DSTREETMEDIA certainly one of them

@tazboy1934

8 ай бұрын

​@@DSTREETMEDIAwe shud use more train and busses as mean of transportation....reduce cars...and phased them out...only train and some lorry for transportation

My schools making me watch this ..

@ScottJorgensen88

3 жыл бұрын

Good of your school

@DSTREETMEDIA

3 жыл бұрын

Good teacher you have!

Everyone thinks of domex/lizol/vim etc..but none knows what will happen to the plants that absorb that water

YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY PLASTIC FANTASTIC

The Victorians used celluloid, so we used plastics before the 1950's. 🇺🇸

@Scepticalasfuk

3 жыл бұрын

But a gazillion metric tonnes a year.

これを英語の課題にするとか、ジェラルド厳しいなぁ😭😎😂

@user-ho4oy4tg7o

3 жыл бұрын

ラーキンス草です。

@user-fq4hv8nh5o

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-ho4oy4tg7o ぴろぴろぱぁ

Read, study, analyze, question and don’t believe everything you’re told in social media and tedx…

What would be the solution?

@memesensei3330

4 жыл бұрын

There isn't one. People are out of control.

@noghh5767

4 жыл бұрын

u will still be consuming plastic even after i and you die. u can never be plastic free

@duggydugg3937

4 жыл бұрын

Marcial Glori boyan slat is making a dent in the source of macro plastic.. rivers deliver plastics to the ocean..the interceptors are catching tons...a good start....tons boyan collects will not be on their way to microplastics in air sea or land oil rendering... incineration.. converting to reusable plastic chip stock..roof tiles...floor tiles...down purposing.. ingestion... that's the bad boy air water food.. wtf...what's the fix ? how long can you breathe microplastics before sickness of death.. before you stop getting oxygen from air ? ? ? ... will microplastics build up in your lungs ? what about that... can electrostatic attraction be used to trap airborne particles ? how the f......ilter will we capture micro scopic bits .. threatening llungs. muscle.. organs...eyes ? a. microplastics have to be ended... b. microplastics have to be sieved how do we sieve the ocean ?

@GigaNietzsche

3 жыл бұрын

@@memesensei3330 yes there is, hemp plastic is an amazing alternative that we could use. Vote and use your voice to educate others on the upcoming dangers if something isn’t done

@DSTREETMEDIA

3 жыл бұрын

End single use microplastics by using your money to make corporations change packaging!

Ban plastic

Plastic might go down as humanities worst invention

Here is how i reduce plastics and put it to the man the plastic bottles i drink i fill with all the little things and easily fragmentable things like paper and plastic and store them inside the bottles ive been drinking we can start recycling everything its all a matter of energy and to recycle the world's plastic into containers to be recycled with 0 other matter is already here all thanks to kilopower

The pandemic created the largest plastic waste of all time...

Lean, estudien, analicen, cuestionen y no se crean todo lo que les dicen en las redes y en tedx…

🤔🤔🤔

Didn’t mention plastic used and/or wasted in medical fields.

@polus2494

3 жыл бұрын

3:27

Nature totally suffers from Man's poor spiritual condition. "Man is organic with the world. His inner life molds the environment and is itself deeply affected by it. The one acts upon the other and every abiding change in the life of man is the result of these mutual reactions." ~ Baha'i Faith

It's better if we go back to the stone age to live longer because everything is natural.

She’s so nervous lol

Wow all of this talk for an ad for Orwell 1984 dystopia.

We’re doomed

I wonder how much wind turbines contribute to the problem?

So u mean dust.

I like your ASMR mmmmm micro plastics

@AbstractMindsThinkAlike

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha, I was thinking asmr as well!

@AbstractMindsThinkAlike

4 жыл бұрын

Hahah, I was thinking asmr as well!

Chumping on kebab boxes

This kind of sounds like mental illness… How much is the plastic really rubs off from the plastic things that we use and into our air?? We breathe? Or are we worried about us just about throwing the things away in general? Well the key is to buy things you don't want to throw away, not to get rid of plastic entirely. Plastic is extremely useful; the culture of buying new items constantly instead of reusing/repurposing/making the most of the what we have abundantly. I just wanted to be clear because the whole visual illustration of our plastic use feels a little misleading if it is not primarily concerned with single use plastic/plastic that is thrown away. I understand the anxiety about the contamination of the water supply. (from the plastic in our clothes wringing out in the washing machine). however: does it actually absorb through our skin cells/epithelial layers? Rather, does it pass along with our food into our feces? Maybe that could even help it decompose faster? Lol? I hope that helps ease some of the anxiety regarding the plastic in our every day life. , I believe in our collective ability to do the right thing when we need to.

@rstallings69

3 ай бұрын

it gets in our bodies cells for sure, I've researched it, I'm a doctor

I'm buying 10 pounds of glitter and flushing it

@hatoftricks7132

5 жыл бұрын

Yeeeeeeessss! Destroy the earthlings!