cycled p t plastic in its water bottles by 2011. but they failed. you'd never know it though by 2014. that on on the website said this. the goal is to achieve a rate of 25 percent recycled p t by 2020. so the company just delayed, as promised by almost a decade, no mention of the previous commitment, but globally done on water still used only 19.80 percent recycle p t and 20242025. they now have yet another new goal and committed by 2025 to 100 percent recycling beach and for all grants in europe and 50 percent. after dragging its promises out for over a decade, dunham has at least made some progress. the companies are even further away from their own commitments nationally only used 5 percent recycle p t in 2020 coca cola european branch was a 9 percent and italian ferrero who promised to get to 50 percent by 2025, only started releasing any such bottles in 2021. so what about the promises that

weren't shaped? some of them are genuinely positive steps, but others seem more like marketing ploys than long term improvements. like this campaign, belgium brewery. i'm a bush in this company behind beers like american budweiser corona, and beck's in 2017. they decided to tackle ocean plastic. they even got some famous actors on board. the collaboration with highlight, i think, is a very administrative and smart way to step toward cleaning up arrows. i believe one of the brands that is more connected to the ocean company proudly announced that it had over delivered on the commitment and had organized $214.00 beach. but they were all just one time cleanups delivering no long term protection. it also sold some sunglasses, made from recycled ocean plastic and then declared the success actually been my colleague, kyle made a whole video about the challenge of recycling ocean plastic and loretta cappello

policy campaign up on the n g o 0 waste. europe has this to say, yes, so basically, no, i have an issue with that because this companies are doing this beach pretending up includes that they are now actually they are the ones there are putting all these packaging material, the waste at the beaches and said 0 i says the priority should be to reduce plastic waste at the source. essentially, i need to go back. but when we looked at what companies actually promised, we found out of almost $100.00 stretches, only $1.00 and $5.00 even aim to reduce the amount of plastic use tim packaging. and most of those pledges are still in the future. it was far more popular to promise that packaging will be made recyclable. but even if packaging is recyclable, in theory, without infrastructure to collect untreated, it will not be recycled in practice never. so capella says instead materials might

end up being incinerated, put in landfills or even worse left to litter, the environment, promising to use already recycle plastics like that on with water bottles is a much better way, but companies take the easy road there. most of these are specifically about p e t . t is used for bottles, but also for other packaging and even in textiles. it's also by far the easiest type of plastic to recycle. over the past decade, more and more brands have launched bottles made sometimes entirely from recycle p t . but only 17 percent of all plastic packaging is made of p t. the remaining 83 percent are much harder to recycle plastics like polypropylene, l e p e, or h d p, or a combination of many materials from those sash, ace cops, and robbers from the beginning. those are notoriously hard to recycle even if they are collected mostly on the downside fall into low re products like cheap construction materials. meaning that companies often highlight the easiest material to recycle, instead of mentioning the mountains of absolutely not

a little way they produce around the world. so where do we start the change? some initiatives are trying to work on transparency 1st. for example, the element out the foundation companies consign up to the global commitment program with their voluntary pledges around plastic packaging. foundation, then collect 6 commitments and trucks that progress companies are hiding behind the commitments and not doing the changes that they would need to do. and to sunday, she doesn't really have a stick, you know, they have their parents. what happens is companies lead, what happens is the company does not want to reveal the data, they don't keep them. so what needs to happen instead? good question. i would say that was really to change the behavior of the company in europe and legislation around the world. more and more countries are posing restriction from plastic packaging, the number of regulations,

something to use. plastics like bags will styrofoam has exploded in the past decade . the european union has now recently followed suit and passed some ambitious plastic legislation as well under the single use plastics directive, disposable items such as plastic, bag country and straws cannot be distributed within new markets anymore. and the directive also includes targets for recycled plastics. by 2025 p. t bottles need to have at least 25 percent of like a content. and by 2030, this target will be raised to 30 percent and change needs to happen and it needs to happen fast. global plastics production is still growing and forecasts almost triple in the next few decades. in order to even slowly increase the world needs much better recycling systems and strict regulations. the data shows that the voluntary commitments are not enough. companies only change the tactics when pressured through legislation, public accountability, and consumer demand. and we'll check back in 2025. when companies have to deliver

on the next set, plastics promises. some of them will even be mandatory, at least within the u. i. u, a beach watson or mountain boston. well, i'm a mountain person and here's your proof in 3 pictures. and i love what you know, what we're doing all my pictures, even in these beautiful, picturesque mountain clash. yeah. even in high mountain be where i would go to make myself feel like an explorer in and explore the mountains. i would still find trash, and a lot of my friends have the same story. but you know someone much like us went on a hike. so all of this trash. but he didn't stop there. he decided to do something about it to give back to the mountain. something for all the com and piece that big give all of us anybody he met them low gas em day. the 1st time we were on a short trip to a place called satan don't like after about 2 and

a half hours of hiking it restarted cleaning up the into. i mean, i had convinced 34 of my friends to craig with a different public. i log angles, hyperlink up, angles, man, every one, his dates and the initial half an hour and, but eventually people get on board and start picking up the wasting. their develop, a sense of trying to bad look, saw so like allowable expense or by dollar put up. but that's not necessarily true of the millions of dollars. so come to the him aaliyah's every year. they often set up camps wherever they find keen water bodies near flat areas and dumped their beast directly into the rivers. these rivers, a crucial to local biodiversity, and they're equally important to local communities. these days, the diverse categories watching trash and pollution into the heart of these mountain villages. this is the problem that pradeep sanguine is trying to address his organization, healing him aaliyah's,

takes people on hikes in the region that also involves picking up trash. he was inspired by his interactions with the people who have lived here for decades . being one of the biggest, or the most fascinating interactions with the shepherd community was when i asked them about their understanding of climate change thing. they had a very simple answer. then 15 years ago they could block wound from the sheep 3 times a year. now, it's just once a young lady of m on got that they might be veritable karaoke beard. this is because the new to the value of the cross is degraded by you to let us know for you to know. we have lots of big woods for climate change, just because of snowfall. come, olga, we have a lot, but for them it's very simple thing, but it's directly related to their lively pradeep efforts are aimed at changing

long established behaviors among tourists and locals in the himalayas by the tourism industry remains largely unsustainable. he wants to go beyond cleanups and introduce locals to new ideas about the value of recycling waste, rather than simply running it are mighty well and we try our best to involve local residents and the work we do. if we want to move towards a secular economy, it cannot be done without including the local communities, all this process trash we collect with a volunteers is brought to a material recovery facility where we employ local resident medical history. we try to ensure that the material we collect become the source of livelihood for those who live here, these letters at the material recovery facility lucas, like children who have helped multiply healing him aaliyah's efforts. initially he simply wanted to clean up his visit, but now he oversees the sorting and recycling of waste. it means a lot of trash doesn't get sent to

a landfill. pradeep regular outreach also involves schoolchildren from neighboring villages. messes up their key. i'm now with the right to me that we saw your work and started doing the same on our own apology. and now our efforts have grown to such an extent. becky, it makes me happy to see that they could see in the movement without me tomorrow, but he gets zekia. mickey, gosh, ok. also your social media to spread the word to get many people writing to was seeking to voluntarily willing to molest. awkward housings of people are now helping undo the damage to the am aaliyah's. healing him allah as a spreading, the idea that being a tourist here in the mountains means leaving them in a better state than they found. ah, plastic in my trash can in my streets, everywhere in my life, even in my vacation spots. but to day stories left me truly inspired, does look at the same problems that the all the way. but the pink of solutions that

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