to see if there's the insulin, it's one of the, the plastic was suppose to protect the planets. pay the packaging,

the lowest on both natural material. swedish engineers then go stuff to mean hook to come. that's packaging related deforestation. and 1959 to then the plastic back the, the individuals box were meant to be more stable and endlessly re usable. plastics could simply be recycled and we used the continuous cycle of new products. no cruel, efficient collection, and sourcing systems could make plastic waste a treasure trove of rule material. the invention promised to be environmentally friendly and unimaginably profitable. the,

the scenery that has yet to become reality. the dream of an environmental miracle is increasingly becoming a toxic and nightmare plastic has spread across the planet like a dangerous virus. the 8300000000 tons of plastic were produced between 19502015, but only about 9 percent was ever recycled. production is increasing exponentially . according to the u. n. more than $400000000.00 tons of plastics on now produced every year at this rate by 2050. that could be more plastics and fish in the see. when we talk about plastic today, we usually mean plastic waste, which makes up an average of 12 percent of all domestic waste and

estimates of 298000000 tons of plastic waste and up in the environment every year and will release talk since for hundreds or even thousands of years about 50 meters behind me. there's a dead bird. the plastic on the race full votes out, a swiss foundation is trying to increase the wellness of the dangers of plastic waste. around 11000000 tons of plastic end up in the oceans. every year about one truckload a minute. russian fish, birds and turtles nibbled on the shampoo bottle plastic waste and the sea effects animals and humans. unlike since almost half of the world's population feeds off the oceans. micro plastics and the food chain. a very worrying

the new policy comes from plastic waste, also set and fido, 1010 micro organisms that produce more than half of the oxygen on the check for the sake of the hill. and one thing is such and he does not know plastics impact find to plankton we do, we know that these micro ponce coals accumulating 0 atlanta. these plastic particles can be found at every stage of the food chain. this is and we are at the end from uh we just sent you an email back. so she was you could just fax the entire food network so she could want please, they said that sydney cooled off the micro particles influence the immune system. and the g reserves, i put some gross outputs and reproduction system. and also that's a viral spring. so to simply show enrollment in model based on of alarming and yet the still notes show how the plastic virus,

the always sleep poking. so was an apocalypse, committing a kind of collective suicide. the how has we created this plastics flood that grows bigger every day. the population growth is partly to blame. the us was home to 2500000000 people in 1950. we now number more than 8000000000. produce that much more waste. in 2019 annual per capita plastic consumption worldwide average around 60 kilos in europe. it's almost $150.00 kilos, pub hudson, and was america is

a $225.00 kilos. where waste ends up depends on the 12th of the nation. developing countries are forced to take on huge amounts that flooded with packaging from industrialized nations. the they lack the means to come about the end of the float of plastic packaging the go mislead display or unity leadership. gillian's have many bottles of shampoo. every yeah. knowing that the target countries can do nothing without plastic or with the bottle here, that this is such a big 80 percent of the plastic waste and the oceans ends up in asia. and almost possible plastic waste is produced in a cd countries. instead of carrying the expense of

recycling it home, industrialized countries preferred to exports the waste. sometimes even the legally entire villages are all from drowning and plastic the, the bar last 2 weeks. it has been dumped here for a long time. by the way, from denmark initial ireland, i might be u. k. the us on the street. and i, yeah, i am getting somebody got or friday, the tons of calls which has arrived in band and every day since the 19 ninety's, the indonesian town has become a plastic village. up to one residence head for the golf, the cheapest to search for reusable items to sell for recycling the or whether affects the

earnings of any one who relies on the rice fields. full book for harvest, no wages that will not be of the time. i depends. i have no debt design, so that's important to me. you know, i no longer have to worry about money every day with the to and i'm the to the plastic waste also is a reliable income. the old, the most is the impulse, it waste cannot be recycled. it's still used the many small businesses here in the east java region produce tofu, and they have heat at their office for decades with

a resource cheaper than would plastic waste from buying. and the black smoke clouds rising to the sky above the rice fields. toxins and chemicals are released into the accumulation on the ground, the catastrophic consequences of imposing so much waste. but the media have helped raise awareness, sparking some businesses to return to work in 2018 china. then the world's largest consumer of plastic waste stops accepting exported waste. a big change for the recycling industry. exports destined for china were instantly diverse. it's a south east asia and africa,

which liked the expertise and infrastructure to manage the waste member states at the positive convention in 2019 agreed on the rules for trading plastic waste internationally. countries must now explicitly approve the impulse of waste containers. both customs controls the complex and expensive, and the legal traits still a balance was many countries including the united states don't recognize the a colts of the possible convention. the plastic production creates at this time emma, within all consumer society. and this type thing has to come even more complex because of the different types and use such as a plastic the o. plastics are made from crude oil, but polyethylene to rush the late. so p 2 is the most frequently recycled plastic

is unfortunately on the accounts for around 6 percent of all. plastics. of the types include polyethylene and probably properly for p, e. m. p. p, for short. additive, such as coloring fung decides, and anti oxygen's facilitate. the production process will help make the plastics more usable. the plastics become more or less the full resistance, transparent, or installation, depending on their intended use. the chemical engineer used to manipulate the material characteristics of that plastic can they accomplish that by adding other chemicals like pallets and that is awesome. so now is the source of the problem. the chemical attitude is

essential for plastic production make for cycling more difficult. the. the editors combine during the recycling process, diminishing the quality of the plastic, the new plastic product. so sort of hazardous chemicals touching consumers at risk and 10 during the search and the economy it makes sense to use recycled materials to preserve resources. but when you have recycles tastic they may be additional chemicals contaminants and these chemicals can then migrate into the food. when recycle plastic is used as food packaging. so besides fantastic can lead to higher levels of migration and also migration of hazardous chemicals, we're learning that recycled plastic has its problems many recycled plastics or

hazardous and even p plastic the supposedly safe is plastic. well, we've learned that as you recycle it, over and over again, it gets more and more toxic generation recycled plants. the european commission wants to be optimistic. we took note of new one presents publication, so about possible precedence of has of the substances in recycled b, d. the new legislation provides us with opportunities for taking action if that would be so needed a presence. however, we're very confident that the recycled b d. if produced, forwarding to the rules we will lay down will be in some countries of the world, recycled materials can be used in food packaging. one example is switzerland, where actually the use of recycled paper and board for food context. directory

contact is not legal. recycling plastic is a challenge on many levels. only a small portion of the world's plastic waste ends up and recycling plants. much of it cannot be recycled in large quantities because of its varying properties. but whether recyclable or not, it must be source it a complex, expensive tough. the even be cheap also at the same plastic type have to be separated by color. labels and lids made of different plastics must be removed. the fox, the session cost a not to the young. the problem. many plastics offer cycle actually. neutrons for recycling the multi layer plastics for example. or

plastics combined with aluminum metal or painted the primarily packaging used for food and medicine. the, the cost of sushi and the deterioration and pharmacy of to repetitive recycling mix for sites with products unprofitable. the logistics cost more than the material and the new high quality plastic cell's better the in europe, many types of plastic waste are connected, but not recycled. a more efficient recycling system would require

a restriction on the types of plastics produced. and if i'm on o home full additives, the park of the past toward safe and sustainable plastics is testing or another part is very simple. and that's to reduce the number of chemicals being used in plastic the plastics industry has to take action if there's to be any change. yeah, booking through that, so in case of a file is incomplete or money or they belong to move. companies are increasingly looking for solutions on their, on them, not necessarily supported by government, but they have to do something for me. for government, it's n g o, as in companies together can make it better. for please on the event on may of success silicone some companies have now launched muscles made from free,

recycled p. t boats recycled plastics. teams particularly questionable for food packaging. e u. recycling regulations from 2020 to stipulate that to use plastic may only be reused and food packaging. if it has been cleaned using appropriate or novel technology. that means on the say, let's say i can know more about your aide by the to the i'm a complete the to close. the so complying with the regulations is difficult. the current legal situation allows plastic manufacturers to keep the recipes in ingredient this secret. this is a problem for consumer health, but also for recycling that if you don't know what's in the material, you don't know what you can do with anything or see on public. good the yeah, the hosting cloud, new stuff, back waves ortho. it looking to stuff by asking for families, you might tell you, we've finally sent you the hosting, click it before the materials containing harmful substances, the recycle. they can contaminate the entire recycling child. you don't want them,

you may know some of that action or think that there are some transparency issues in the supply chain which, which sometimes make enforcement more difficult and make also. yeah, that the, the public is sometimes wondering about what is, what is going on with all these plastics. the recycling of most plastics is not norma cole. unlike metal gloss, paper, the around 50 percent of the world's plastic waste ends up in landfills. 19 percent and incineration toms and 22 percent and the environment of a 2000000000 people currently live without so the waste can actually system intruding. this village on the island of gloria and malaysia. $15000.00 people live

here without running vasa and without proper waste disposal, garbage is thrown in the ocean, the lack of drinking voice, and means that comes in plastic muscles and creates plastic waste. the children had don't know any different. pollution has always been costs of the lines. the people are desperate the, the items of dalia is just one example. the situation is similar in most poor tropical countries. people sort of the waste into the river where the next heavy rain carries ditch into the sea. the reading the oceans of plastic as an almost impossible task. the plastic no

certainly breaks down quickly into micro and the number of particles is almost always things to the sea floor. in estimates of point 5 percent to one percent of plastic waste remains on the surface sea floor. it stands out for a long because of the law. my going to be of the dates on know for the day shall from 6 to last. when they say dishes, my crew plastics have even been found in shrimp at the depth of 10000 meters in the mariana trench. all marine organisms today have been affected by micro plastics. we thought it pollution. we called us to many unanswered questions remain about the effects of plastic in the sea. science is only just beginning to find um, so the, this plastic is going to be around for

a long time. it's going to be with us until we stop polluting and even after we stop polluting, it's still going to be there. so we have to know what that's going into as it continues to age. this is, does it become more hopeful of that sample right now? we don't know, that's why we have to understand this. alongside the threat to the oceans. toxins in plastics continue to threaten all health. just how seriously remains on the that dirty dark secret of plastics is that they are not chemically inert. they leach chemicals that get into the food that those plastic cir, containing the chemicals that can transfer from caustic into food are usually small molecules. and so these can be, for example, the salads of these fennel's bends are fee nines. the p fast.

plastics released the chemicals from which they are made and these have an impact on the health we still know relatively little about the exact effect. think about how many chemicals are in plastics. thousands and among them are multiple. and the cre disruptors like the best thing, all the salads and other things that really have hormones, they change how you develop not all the chemicals that are able to transfer from caustic packaging into food are known. and so if you have, i'm not uncommon because you cannot assess the risk health risk of these on non chemical. so the is a blind spot today, it looks the plastic is used as without us knowing if it's a person in the house. but i would also said that the loss of plastic is used in spite of us knowing that there are chemicals there that are has to those to whom

and how to, how so states as the chemical compositions have yet to be sufficient, they researched how and so was extend to plastics and the chemical components tested before they are placed on the market, the order to improve the health impacts of plastic food packaging. we really need to test the finished plastic product. right now we're testing the substances that are used to make caustics. those are then changed during the plastic manufacturer into completely different chemicals. and we don't actually know the camera cause that all migrating into the food and that people are exposed. we don't experience chemicals one by one. we experience mixtures all of the time. and what we now know from many different scientific studies is that the chemicals interact when they are in mixtures. and the effects can be much greater than the effect of

a chemical by itself. it's called the cocktail effect. i want to ask you this when your doctor prescribes you a new drug for treatment. what's the 1st question? he asked. he asks, what else are you taking? the physicians understand the cocktail affect. they understand the absolute need to take that into account. and yet the chemical regulatory agencies have failed utterly. to do that, we get some chemicals for my food, some from order some from the air we breathe from the place beware and so forth. so we are really exposed to this makes and then we have all these. it can be several hundreds of men made chemicals thing in our blood and that it's hard to know what all of that best together in this mix. and we have to test them for health impacts that are relevant to the human population. so that is cancer. but it's also cardiovascular disease. it's effect on the immune system,

its effects on the brain. it's effects on the rep, productive system. and it's also effects on the metabolic health. so diabetes, for example, the end products of plastic packaging are not sufficient. the test, as we know only the risks of a fraction of the chemical components which are protected by corporate secrecy making, testing difficult. the one of the 1st things you learned in endocrinology is that high doses of hormones cause one thing. low doses of hormones cause something else, sometimes the exact opposite. that means you can't predict low dose consequences based on high dose experiments. chemicals reaching out of plastics, hormone disrupting chemicals, the kind of work at parts per 1000000000, at what seemed to be tiny, irrelevant concentrations. the old concept of the dose makes the poison is

irrelevant to endocrine disruption comm pounds. so what happens if you have agencies testing in the wrong way, where they ignore a low dose effects you have hazardous materials in commerce, all over cars and regulatory agencies? do not test at low doses, for the most part. do government regulations provide any protection over the decades, funds has developed and we've learned more about how chemicals can be toxic. but oftentimes, regulations haven't kept up with the scientific discoveries. we're starting to see some movement, for example, the european food safety authority. they now recommend that the amount of bpa we can be exposed to on a daily basis is actually a $100000.00 unfold what they saw just a few years ago. that's a big change, and it's very likely that a range of other chemicals that are in the current disrupting compounds like this,

you know, way will have their tolerable daily intake. what's safe for us reduced by a similar amount. this will revolutionize the chemical industry and move it dramatically towards sustainability. sometimes is a bad at protecting the citizens than others. for example, from a couple of years ago actually banned the chemical piece, you know, a from all of the different food packaging containers. so it's illegal and funds to put products on the market that has been in a way some of the nordic countries have stricter regulations on satellites or on p facts. and they don't allow these coming close to be present in any types of food packaging. containers. in the way, the most sciences being done on classics on the account because in plastic on the health impacts, the more we learn about how difficult it is to assess these health impacts. but

also how many chemicals on plastic that are extra of concern to human health. the average person absorbs up to 5 grams of plastic a week. the same weight as a credit card. mainly through quotes from plastic brussels food and into the federal move in 300 chemicals in the human body. even in new bones. the new called the micro plastics are already found in the human placenta and mothers and children who are full and environmental as well as a public health problem for them to something to meet funds can only partially protect consumers, move in 650 breaches of e u chemical safety legislation by companies burn covered in europe in 2019

and uniform global regulations are just an active as to pipe dream. the letters k postage grow by the end of the plastic. it probably caustics industry is low by little plastic, so produced in one place is processed and then another has been sold in the fund would put these manufacturers in the system keeping ingredient secret, mem go live even in countries with strict regulations such as you're welcome on the highly toxic plastic find the way on to the market. and so sort of actually it's a go to industries. don't say it's what's more, that's of the plastics industry is not currently being held responsible for the environmental damage. it closes despite the unimaginable scale of a sales full $100000000000.00 in europe and of the coca cola pepsi co unless they are responsible for

14 percent of the waste collected from c shoals. by 2025. as much as $120000000.00 tons of plastic waste could be added to ocean every year. 10 times the amount in 2015 the u. one soul plastics to be recycle by 2030. but even if old global target on that this would only reduce the amount of plastic waste and the oceans by 70 percent, by 2014, the and recycle does not mean cycles. the last a remains a challenge. plastics are here to stay and is it anymore? i go home like teeth flushes sick plastic. i think it's an oil industry by product

due to the climate crisis. i think there are restrictions on the production of fuel and crude oil. this is why pets are chemicals. have to come a 2nd important tenor over the past 1015 years now. what it particularly plastics and oil additive is the plastic anybody to so between the basics sooner, let me put you in a memo associate. they can put you in the best interest, the plastic will be, is the oil lobby. they don't, the plastic producers are the same companies that produce oil and gas companies over the last 30 years. so don't they have prevented political decisions against climate change sources raised scientific down to hang up and stopped any develop people that could regulate production? 45, i'm believe, all which is to didn't look at best. if it results the, the situation is serious in action. will hurt the environment and human health stuffy design, a grilled warrant that has and then when they the international law established,

the polluter pays principal years ago. the policy responsible for the damage was also a bit of the cost. the plastics industry is doing well. i'm plastic is cheap because that's because the cost of the health sort of climate and by diversity, you have borne by the general public, at least not by the industry, april the bios, which you pick it up or if the costs are included in the price of plastic, right, the business model would collapse about? no, some would you be less money to do the good? let me say, who do i, the task equal time? this is may be a solution. finally, degradable combustible disposable table was made from peyton, called food, or cloth, such as bamboo, palm leaves without oil. but other chemicals like piece tasks, compounds can be found here. they make the product, water and oil repentant the call to break down the to have negative

effects on health, high cholesterol levels, low satilla, cheap, low a bus weight and they made calls to stick to the i'm kidney comes up the early 17 percent of the containers tested by your european consumer protection group, but below the recommended p fast limit was that the fed that easy says they say, well, that's it. the we analyze 16 plates. those stools made from single use plastic subsidy. all some, any 3 will have no unwanted compounds. the disposable table, whereas supposedly combustible physical, but it contains many harmful substances accepting this is problematic if the compost is used to fertilize plums along the pollutants and then end up on consumers. plains new. not i send you cool. so metal before they come in, in 2,

we should avoid disposable table where not look for a substitute that has not any best of folks in moore, oklahoma doesn't. yeah, we see some natural materials come on to the markets, which yeah, may be unsafe, but presently our framework is not sufficient. at least the union level to properly cover woods up, which is one of the reasons why urgently we need to set the wider rules to cover also for this kind of materials. which is why we're now revising the food compet legislation. volume plastics produced from song based rule materials, a multitude as a plastic alternative, some contain petroleum based polymers. others all supposed to be composed of all the bio based plastics try not to use for super sources, but to renewable resources. with the purpose of reducing the capital barrel certifications,

folks from hospitable products that go beyond the existing standards, but they don't need a sufficient no mandatory this time difficult, but suddenly the require us on all those tasty 3. since the navy mentors are, must be bidding the new much lower than the other bank as you approach. and this is facing. and the, the same, they must be tested for equal took ccs. this is some, some extra days that are not required to normal vacancy on normal plastics. bio plastics do not solve the problem of plastic in the environment. even if they all volume degradable, the composting require special facilities that are not yet wide sprint. the we have to control plastic waste on land before it ends up in the sea. new

approaches to plastic waste, all kind of to the environment. the plastic waste has traditionally been converted into energy and huge incineration sounds expensive and unprofitable. an alternative approach to converging plastics is probably around this. this plastic molecules are split. i'm conversate intestine, plastic gas or oil, which can then be used as fuel or electricity. the. this technology is still in the test phase. it's environmental impacts needs to be minimized. the used in municipal waste management, pyrolysis could eliminate the need to transport millions of tons of waste by land and sea. the ends of magic for cycling is

another promising innovation still in its infancy. a miss to produce a new p t plastic like home to kansas city, knows insects, acidic tv, the base and property of an enzyme is selectivity. known the enzyme would only break time p t. i felt using the lock and key method less initial starting would be required saving money with all the details of the impulse he did a few weeks he gets you are process leads to the absolutely clean also. so remember to lie by example. they might have this fennel's consolidates, for example, drops below the limit buckled up create a new policy. but the bustle, production process is still the same in our process, soles neither of the problem that the multiple causes in nature do the new nor the problem of micro plastics need the corporate in the new corporate new solutions that lead to a more ethical, plastic industry all years,

the way we don't have that much time. companies compete for consumers. scott is consumers buy a few, a products packaged in plastic. they will force manufacturers to use other production methods. possible solutions also deposit some products with minimal own packaging, with a 98 percent of mt packaging in germany has been returned since 2003 the piece was on the phone. i cram old the news as you know, we have had a single use consumption for 60 years. now only now we need to develop a circular economy yet with multi use packaging with us because it produces some customers that are not ready to move. we have to stop and change our attitude with them. i really believe that if you redesign packaging so that it can be returned and reuse at all. so that can be worthwhile. 3 times as a manufacturer has decided to use that h difficult most people knew it. just let me tell you about your is it

a promising medium term solutions to the plastic waste problem? required investment and interest from oil companies and product to me comes down in hankle know, hang on, nestle and plastics. you're declined to be interviewed for this film. the haps, the police have haze principal needs to be applied to the entire production chain. financing infrastructure for a functioning search and the economy, and would be an incentive to produce more cycle and less home for plastics. europe is aiming high. we are reviewing and

revising the legislation on foot contact materials. and there we will look at a better alignment with the chemicals legislation and their particular chemical strategy for sustainability did. did commission is working on to deal with the most most hazardous substances, probably substances with d. so under crime, disruptive properties will face very tough legislation. and may only be used if, if that will be essential in the future. we need to have a high level of transparency. we need to have a better level of control. what substances are actually being used. many promises for the future. but the clock is ticking and legislation takes time or

across the board legislation is necessary for real results. as long as low as differ from country to country. they will be circumvented for profit and to the detriment of the environment and human health. at the beginning of 2022, un member states agreed to develop a binding international treat team. the agenda included the limitation of plastic production, the regulation of ingredients and their environmental impact. in addition to health and social issues, the main focus was on implementing the pollution pays principal. the poor countries need support to develop an environmentally friendly waste management system. most importantly, plastic consumption must be drastically reduced. best replacement for food packaging is no food packaging. and that actually means sifting the whole way that

business models are designed and even the types of products that people consume. so i think the best that people can do for their own health is to consume less process foods to consume locally, produce food and does off foods that don't need a lot of packaging is we could focus on on high quality plastics on site plastics without house chemicals and, and move away from the really cheap types and the single use type. and i think that could definitely be hub for plastics which are definitely not to be impossible. but that needs to be a when. and that needs to be an accept those, but it might be, for example, more in the 1950. he's idealistic vision of a world with a search and a plastic economy has failed. the consequences of the plastic virus has major challenges for today's to so as a rethink is necessary as,

as legislation to protect the environment and human health for future generations. the yeah, i actually hate level of you know, yeah. promises of beauty and happiness, better affordable prices. this is how turkish clinics to attract customers from around the world. but the medical malpractice is wide spread. so for that, for me is victims and their relatives are demanding accountability focused on 0. in 30 minutes on the w, the

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