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Yep. I recall seeing many pictures and they all looked really fake.
If you want less plastic speak to the manufacturers and they will totally ignore you and that is where the problem starts and ends.
I wait until this turns into some "Bad default color people are guilty of it. Saint people of color are not. WHITE MAN BAD REEEE. PLASTIC BAD!"
This is so stupid. Leave plastic in the ocean. Most stupid video ever
Trying to control the production of plastic is not the way to address the problem.
Mandating a reduction in production doesn’t reduce the demand. So when a mandate is out in place, the manufacturers will just go to a country that isn’t signed on to or won’t enforce the treaty. Thus, just as much production with little to no environmental oversight. It will likely drive up the price for the consumer too.
The best path forward is incentivizing not using plastic. Reduce the demand because other options are preferable and the problem gets better on its own.
This is propaganda
Recycling is one of the actual sources of plastic ocean waste, isn't it? So why is the answer to this more recycling? If we put it in a landfill as close to the source as possible, it wouldn't end up in the ocean at all.
First of all, yet another batch of lies I was told as a kid and reinforced by supposedly official sources for years. A lot of people who should be shipped out and dumped in the garbage patch.
Second, I'm reminded of George Carlin and his comedy bit about plastics. The Earth survives, it adapts. We're the ones who'll be gone, leaving out plastics behind.
The 10 rivers in China consist of 93% of all plastics in our oceans and waterways. 93% and not once did you mention China, not once. I realize you want to discuss this about the individual but disillusioning your audience by not including this extremely important information makes it seem like guilt is being used. China, India and Africa. The remaining 7% is tiny when speaking of the western world, even though it may look bad. Like you mentioned, we try very hard to manage waste, for the most part. China needs to be mentioned and the location of these rivers, otherwise, you're decieving Westerners in your very subtle way of not mentioning it. It was an educational video so I'll give you that, something to be learned in school, for individuals, but honestly, speaking the truth means you need to include "The Whole Truth and Nothing But". Blaming people as well as corporations is what needs to happen, not put all the blame on big corp because of your views or opinions about them. The truth is real and you were able to mention some of it. Good luck. This vid was unfinished.
Great Idea! Don't use straws but force the entire world to wear useless plastic masks for. 4 years that end up everywhere in the environment afterwards.
Business insider taking about who's lying …. what look at yourself
it's the same argument fossil fuel companies make about CO2, "carbon capture" instead of stop burning stuff.
I didn’t hear a single solution in this video. All I heard was, “we need to reduce plastic production.” What is the trade off here? What would you use in its stead AND will that keep products cheap enough for the poor to afford?
All I want to know is, is it bad for humans? If it's bad for humans clean it up. I'm being told having microplastics in our water is bad for our health and messes with our hormones, so if those critters are making a house out of plastic we need to clean up, they're out of luck, because I don't want it breaking down and finding its way home in the rain.
Everything Business Insider puts out id horse shit. This is cooperate propaganda of the worst kind. Disgusting.
Very clear story telling. Missed the part about waste management and recycling per country. Who is doing well and who needs to improve? Maybe for a part 2?
"So there was a problem now there's no problem" ; But there is a problem it's just that you can't call it a corporate problem nor a state problem so they call it littering because you can tax it and still do nothing and remain a problem because it becomes a people problem and you can bump the prices on all products because it's a problem and still not fix the problem. State of stillness.
But we drink Cola with a paper straw because we try to save the planet because of too many tires are on the road.
This video is amazing and I like to exaggerate.
lol i expected this to be a 'they lied' style video usually made by oil industry lobbyists about climate change not being real. so there is plastic after all !!!
She also specifically blamed Americans and SUVs, which I'm generally okay with, about tire issues. However, she forgot to mention that the heaviest vehicles on the road are all electric vehicles. So electric vehicles contribute the absolute most to road pollution
The biggest problem that humans have in general. Is absolutes. We expect eithers or ors. Yeses or nos. The less or more miseducated we are, the more extreme and far away from each other, these opposite ends are.
Business understands only language of money.
Taxes and fines.
+ Publicity
why do people keep buying a second camera that they dont even look at. Just to film them talking to the camera that is filming them. Why bother looking at the camera if you're just going to cut to the other camera. Buy just one camera and you will save 50%.
Remember the old days when drinks were served in GLASS bottles?
Misleading title or headline. Bad script. Too many generalizations.
If all of you guys are thinking the nature have no way to take care of this – you really underestimate the natural ecosystem.
But one thing that you have to understand is that it not working to your liking or in the time frame you have expected.
What about all the plastic that is washed into the ocean from all the rivers and all the plastic things that have been washed into the ocean from tsunamis and storms and such?
I never had any doubt that they were lying to me.
Basically stop producing plastic
Godam juice and 3rd worlders combine
Fascinating
regarding 10:52 -> the diagram at 7:59 tells another story
As a merchant captain I crossed all the oceans and seas. The only plastic you sea is sometimes a plastic bucket, a plastic bag but never ever saw "floating plastic islands". They only exists in the head of some fools.
DO NOT BUY IT AND PAY FOR IT. SIMPLE.
Over consumption is the problem. Too many people eating and drinking too much. Buying too much.
The 'Great Climate Hoax' 'Net Zero' = 'Dark Ages'
In Denmark we have one bin for food waste, one for plastic and metal, one for paper and cardboard, one for glass and one for the rest. Food is made into biomass, plastic is separated into 3 types and reused for everyday products, the same with metals. Paper and cardboard is made into egg trays and other reuse products. Glass is remelted and reused. The rest is burned in huge factories where 20% of the burn energy is made into electricity and the waste heat is usually used to heat homes via water heating.
When I heard America buries their trash in huge mountains I was shocked, what a shortsighted solution!
It may sound bonkers, but so what if it's not economically viable? Is the future of our generations more economically viable? Why don't the governments take up the responsibility and promote/incentivize recycling, and absorb some cost like they do for a lot of things? What is this obsession of the modern society that everything has to "economically viable"? Maintaining a police force is not 'economically viable' but governments still do it, because it's a necessary things. Why can't we adopt a similar approach towards maintaining our environment?
Looking at you, the Philippines, China, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, Thailand, just to name a few.
there were millions of tons of trash and plastic, also autos, planes, houses and boats that became a floating island of trash that came from the tzunami of Japan. so you can't say it's fake.
What are you going to switch to? Wood? Sand? Metal? Glass aluminum? Nothing is without consequences and harm to the environment- these activists have never had a industry job to support a family like the vast majority of taxpayers
So does this mean i can have a plastic straw again
Have you been to India or Africa….? You’re missing the big picture by trying to not to blame others.
Oh dang, so this fishing industry and coca cola business thing seem pretty bad, and this overuse of plastic seem pretty bad, guess were gonna stop giving those things money… right?… right guys???
I believe you. Sure. Oh, gotta watch a video now from tobacco companies about how smoking is healthy for you.
6:50 The answer is clearly hyper degradable labeling.