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joining me is winnie lau, from the ocean plastics project at the pew charitable trust.ed to plastic, aren't we? why can't we seem to get enough of it? you ask a very timely question. we just released a report today trying to understand this really complex problem, and trying to understand what the solutions are that are needed to solve this really plastic pollution crisis. so what we found was that, if we don't do anything and we continue as we are, the amount of plastic in the ocean will be unmanageable. but we have the knowledge and the approaches and the technologies today to dramatically cut the amount of pollution that could end up polluting our oceans and oui’ end up polluting our oceans and our land by nearly 80%. and so oui’ our land by nearly 80%. and so our story is one of hope, that we have the tools today to start acting. well, i wanted to talk to you a bit more about solutions, and what we as individuals can do to stop this problem. so we looked at four categories of solutions, and they apply to people just as much as to society at large and to companies an

winnie lau is a senior manager with pew‘s preventing ocean plastics project.e the ‘breaking the plastic wave‘ report. shejoins us now. what she joins us now. what kind shejoins us now. what kind of major action are you calling for? in our report, we find that we need to implement all of the actions that are available today that we know of today in order to stop the major roll of plastic in the ocean. if we we re roll of plastic in the ocean. if we were to implement the solutions ambitiously, we would be able to cut the amount of plastic going into the ocean in 2040 by almost 80%. what are those actions? we looked at four different categories of actions. 0ne is reducing a way the plastic that we don‘t need and the second one is to substitute a way from plastic into other materials, the third one is to recycle what we can as much as we can come and lastly, we need to safely dispose of the plastic that we cannot reduce, substitute or recycle. the world in a pretty funny place at the moment forth of the coronavirus pandemic and people losing theirjob. do you worri