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plastic was suppose to protect the piano. hey, the packaging reload is on board a natural material. swedish engineer sten, goose stuff, tuning hope to come back. packaging related deforestation. and and 1959 to benefit the plastic bag 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 co, 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

scenery that has yet to become reality. 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 seat. when we talk about plastic today, we usually mean plastic waste, which makes up an average of 12 percent of all domestic waste. an

estimate of 298000000 tons of plastic waste and up in the environment every year and will release tungsten for hundreds or even thousands of years about 50 meters behind me. there's a dead bird in a plastic on the race full votes out, a swiss foundation is trying to increase awareness of the dangers of plastic waste around $11000000.00 tons of plastic end up in the oceans every year. about one truckload a minute. the cushion fish, birds and turtles nibbled on the shampoo bottle plastic waste and the see effect animals and humans. unlike since almost half of the world's population. feats of the oceans. micro plastics and the food chain of very worrying

the new policy comes from tests to waste, also settings fine. touch item micro organisms that produce more than half of the oxygen on. the 2nd thing i know for the sake of the hill, one thing is such and not no, plastics impact find to plankton. we do, we know that these micro ponti coals accumulating 0 a plant and read those for these plastic particles can be found at every stage of the food chain that there's 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 or 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 sample shows only it didn't model this one of the 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, in north america,

over 225 kilos. well, waist ends up depends on the 12th of the nation. developing countries are forced to take on huge amounts flooded with packaging from industrialized nations the they lack the means to come about the end of the float of plastic packaging the goal, mislead display, or usually for ship billions of many bottles of shampoo every yeah. knowing that the target countries can do nothing without plastic or with the bottle. here, that was such a big 80 percent of the plastic waste and the oceans ends up in asia. and almost how full 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 from drowning and plastic the, the bar last 2 weeks has been dumped here for a long time by the way, from denmark initial ireland, by my w k. the us and found the street and i, yeah, i am getting somebody got 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 chips to search for reusable items to sell for recycling. the weather affects the

earnings of any one who relies on the rice fields. look for houses, no wages that will not pick up the time. so i depend, 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 heats at their office for decades with a resource cheaper than would plastic waste from finding the black smoke clouds rise into 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 what in 2018 china then the world's largest consumer of plastic waste stopped accepting exported waste. a big change for the recycling industry. exports destined for china were instantly diverse to southeast 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 into nationally. countries must now explicitly approve the impulse of waste containers. both customs controls the complex and expensive, and the legal trades. still a balance was many countries including the united states don't recognize the a cold that the possible convention, the plastic production creates at this time demo within the consumer society. and personally 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 arrest the late. so p 2 is the most frequently recycled plastic is unfortunately only accounts for around 6 percent of all plastics. of the types include polyethylene and probably properly o p e m p, p, for short. additive, such as coloring, phone decides, and anti oxygens facilitate. the production process will help make the plastics. we'll use the both. the plastics become more or less the full resistance transparent o n c lation. depending on their intended use, the a chemical engineer, these the manipulate, the material characteristics of that plastic can they accomplish that by adding other chemicals like salads. and that is often not always the source of the problem

. the chemical altitude 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 in the economy. it makes sense to use recycled materials to preserve resources, but when you have recycled plastic 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 recycle plastic has its problems many recycled plastics or hazardous and even p plastic the supposedly safe is plastic. now, we've learned that as you recycle it, over and over again, it gets more and more toxic. each generation recycled. the european commission wants to be often mistake. we took note of new and resent publication, so about possible precedence of has of the substances in recycled to be the new legislation provides us with opportunities for taking action if that would be so needed a presence. however, we are very confident that the recycled b. d, if produced forwarding to the rules we will lay down, will be set 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 p cheap also at the same plastic type has to be separated by color. labels and lids made of different caustics must be removed. the fox, the session cost a not to the young, the problem. many plastics, all recycle asshole. neutrons for recycling,

the multi layer plastics, for example, or plastics combined with aluminum is 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 will product 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. more efficient or cycling system would require

a restriction on the types of plastics produced and found them all home full additives. the part of the path toward safe and sustainable plastics is testing. another part is very simple and that's to reduce the number of chemicals being used in plastic plastics industry has to take action if there's to be any change. yeah. booking through dec suitcase or fed file is incomplete or money or they belong to move companies or increasing the looking for solutions on their own. then not necessarily supported by government, but they have to do something with me for government and g o, as in companies together can make it better for please on the web event on may of

success silicone. some companies have now launched muscles made from free, recycled peach, a bunch. recycle plastic seems particularly questionable for food packaging. e, you recycling regulations from 2020, to stipulate that to use plastic may only be reused in food packaging. if it has been cleaned using appropriate or novel technology. that means on the say, let's say i know more about you a product through 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 it or see on public. good the yeah. the hosting cloud, new stuff, back waves ortho. it looking at the stuff by asking for fans, you might tell you we before you, when we sent you the hosting, click it before its materials containing harmful substances, the recycled,

they can contaminate the entire recycling change. you don't want them, you may know some of the action dorsey clash. there are some transparency issues in the supply chain which, which sometimes make enforcement more difficult and make also. yeah, the, the, the public is sometimes wondering about what is, what has gone on with all these plastics. the recycling is most plastics is not economical. unlike metal loss and 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 of waste can actually system including disadvantage on the island of calia and malaysia. $15000.00 people live

here without running vasa and without proper waste disposal, garbage is threat and the ocean, the lack of drinking voice and means that comes in plastic muscles and creates plastic waste. the children here don't know any different. pollution has always been positive then lines people are desperate. the, the items of dalia is just one example. the situation is simon, the in most po, tropical countries. people sort of the waste into the river where the next heavy rain carries us into the sea. the reading the oceans of plastic is 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 law because of the low microbial of the dates on know for the particular additional from 6 to las colinas technicians. micro 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 pollution. we called us to. and many unanswered questions remain about the effects of plastic in the sea. science is only just beginning to

find on. so 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 helpful of that sample right now? we don't know. that's why we have to understand this. alongside the threat to the oceans, toxins and plastics continue to threaten all health just how seriously remains on the dirty, dark secret of plastics is that they are not chemically inert. they leach chemicals that get into the food that those plastic sur, 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 crew destructors like the best being all the salads and other things that really have hormones. they change how you develop not all of the chemicals that are able to transfer from caustic packaging into food are known. and so if you have, i'm non cabinet clothes, you cannot assess the risk health risk of these on non chemicals. so that is a blind spot. today, a little plastic is used as without us knowing if it's a function of the house. but i would also says 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 house or state just the chemical compositions have yet to be sufficient. they researched how and so was extend plastics and the chemical components tested before they are placed on the market the in 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 and 2 completely different chemicals. and we don't actually know the cameron 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, so from the place we wear 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 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 under phonology 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, can work at parts per 1000000000 at what seemed to be tiny,

irrelevant concentration. the old concept of the dose makes the poison is irrelevant to endocrine disruption compounds. so what happens if you have agencies testing in the wrong way, where they ignore low dose effects? you have hazardous materials, commerce, all over commerce and regulatory agencies do not test at low doses. for the most part. do government regulations provide any protection over the decades science 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 going away 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. some countries about projecting the citizens than others. for example, bronze, 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 spent away. some of the nordic countries have stricter regulations on solids or on p facts. and they don't allow these kind of clothes to be present in any types of food pockets and containers. in the way, the most sciences being done on classics on mechanicals and plastic on health impacts . the more we learn about how difficult it is to assess these health impacts,

but also how many chemicals are in plastic that are extra of concern to human health. the average person absorbs up to 5 grams of plastic per week. the same weight as a credit card mainly through votes of from plastic bustles, food, and into the federal move in 300 chemicals in the human body. even in new bones. they me 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 were uncovered in europe in 2019

and uniform global regulations are just an activist pipe dream. the key here plastics in global, in the plastic, if i believe your prospects industry is global. i look, plastics are produced in one place. has been processed in another, been sold and the fund would put the manufacturers in the system, keeping ingredient secret menus only even in countries with district regulations such as you are welcome on the hop, highly toxic plastics find the way on to the market. and so sort of actually it's a glitch in districts. don't say it's what's more, it's in the plastics industry is not currently being held responsible for the environmental damage. it causes, despite the unimaginable scale of a sales $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 20 seats. but even if a local target on that this would only reduce the amount of plastic waste and the oceans by 7 percent by 2014, the and recycle does not mean for cycles. the last a remains a challenge. plastics are here to stay. this is a more i cover the like the selective sick plastic i think is 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 patrick chemicals have to come to 2nd important kind of over the past 1015 years, some of what it particularly plastics and oil additive. it's in the plastic, it is a duty. so if it, when you go to basic center, it will be putting in a name associate. they can put it in the best interest. the plastic lobby is the oil lobby. they don't, the plastic produces are the same companies that produce oil and gas companies over the last 30 years. although i have prevented political decisions against climate change. johnson raised scientific down to heads up and stopped any developmental that could ricky, like 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.

sophie 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. also the cost, the plastics industry is doing well. i'm plastic is cheap because that's because the cost of a health sort of climate and by diversity, you have borne by the general public or at least not by the industry. april the product which you pay it by product if the costs are included in the price of plastic, right? the business model would collapse about know some of these next monday, the liquid. let me say who do i? the plastic alternatives may be a solution. bio degradable combustible disposable table was made from paper called food, or clone, such as bamboo, palm leaves without oil. a lot of the chemicals like piece task compounds can be found here. they make the product, water and oil repentance,

but how to break down the to have negative effects on health, high cholesterol levels low as a tendency, low a bus weight and they may cause testicular. i'm kidney cancer, the only 17 percent of the containers tested by your european consumer protection group. what below the recommended p 1st limit was that when fed that easy says they say, well that's it. the we analyze 16 plates, both stools made from single use plastic subsidy, all sudden my own and 3, you'll have no unwanted compound the disposable table, whereas supposedly combustible physical. but it contains many hum, full substances, accepting this is problematic if the compost is used to fertilize plums from the pollutants and then end up on consumers, plains new,

not as soon as you can. so my to pay for the coming in to we should avoid disposable table where not look for a substitute such as not any best of folks in moore, oklahoma. 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 at 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 full compact legislation. volume plastics produced from song based room materials, a multitude as a plastic alternative. some contain petroleum based polymers, others all supposed to be compatible by a base. plastics try not to use for super sources, but renewable resources with the purpose of reducing the capital barrel.

certifications, folks from hospitable products that go beyond the existing standards, but they all need a sufficient no mandatory this done difficult percent easy require us on all those tasty police. since the navy mentos are, must be very, very 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 or 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 conversion dentist and plastic gas or oil, which can then be used as fuel 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 in success, civic tv, the base and property of an enzyme is it 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 will abuse of the own, pulsated pupils he gets, you are process leads to the absolutely clean also. so remember to lie by example, they might have this fennel's valley. it's for example, drops below the limit buckled up, create a new po, see, but the bustle, production process is still the same. and then our process, sol, neither the problem the multiple causes in nature. do the new nor the problem of micro plastics need the pulled in the new corporate new solutions that

lead to a more effectual plastic industry all years. the way we don't have that much time companies compete for consumers. got is consumers buy a few of products packaged in plastic. they will force manufacturers to use of the production methods possible solutions, also deposit some products with minimal or no packaging. we have a 98 percent of mt packaging in germany has been returned since 2003 the piece by phone phone. i cram old the news underneath that 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 yet. and we have to stop and change our attitude and looking at them. i really believe that if you redesign packaging so that it can be returned and reuse at all. so i can be worthwhile for retired as a manufacturers to the slides is that it's 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 pays 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 in particular, the chemical strategy for sustainability did did, commission is working on to deal with the most most hazardous substances, probably substances with d. so underground 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.

across the board legislation is necessary for real results, as known 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 produce of 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. if we could focus on on high quality plastics on site plastics with that has with the chemicals and, and move away from the really cheap types and those single these type of things. but i could definitely be hug for plastics which are definitely not 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 well with the suction of plastic economy has failed. the consequences of the plastic virus has major challenges for today's to so a g,

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