we are killing our home and no country is going to do anything serious about it until we've reached catastrophic levels. i sometimes want a career in environmental protection but it feels like such a depressing and constantly disheartening job.
We are going to DIE if nothing change! I feel so hopeless in the incoming future of the Earth when i saw people throw away plastic all over the street :(((( and i see it happening everyday like noone notice that EARTH IS DYING 😡😡
This honestly saddens and angers me. I'm currently studying this topic in ecology at my college and the effects plastic waste has on both marine and on land ecosystems is horrible. I personally think that both the general public and governments need to work harder and put more effort into fixing this problem.
This is really really sad. Watching the final episode of Blue Planet II almost left me in tears. Sorry to say that human beings really are a menace to this planet and all it's other species.
MrATN800 There are many ways, to adapt but only if you are willing to do so. For example Look at this video of person who has very little waste in her life m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BxKfpt70rLI.html
No, I mean plastic is an omnipresent building material, precisely because you can modulate it to your exact. What would you use for the myriads of objects that incorporate some element of plastic in it ? Wood ? Would require too many forests with the amounts we're considering here. Metal ? The pharaonic increase in demand and subsequent mining rush would pollute so much we'd just be trading one poison for another. Understand I too would like for us to have a less omnipresent plastic. But is it really feasible ? On a global scale ?
MrATN800 Your points are Valid, but I don’t think they should put us off from using less plastic in our day to lives, simple example might be cutting down on the use the plastic bags and other unnecessary items that we can avoid with some discipline. Also we should try make sure that the plastic we do use ends up in the right places, that are being recycled and not just dumped in a landfill, where it can make its way to the ocean. But also the feasibility is an issue wood and metal can’t replace all uses for plastics that is true, But I do think we can reduce adding to the cycle of plastic, by which I mean recycle and reuse the plastic we have produced so far and be very strict on essentially producing new plastic. This may not be economically worth in the short term but cleaning up the oceans and bringing, wasted plastic and recycling it. I think us commoners being aware and take some sort of action in reducing plastic and rescuing and recycling it in our day to day, is better than nothing. This maybe a more sustainable approach, what we are doing now. And movements don’t always start with the entire world taking part, but a few individuals doing the right things that can cause others around them to follow. And in the well connect society we are today, We can face and solve the issues that confront us, much faster. :-)
So why aren't the manufacturers of plastics and oil companies involved with mitigating the severe impacts of the product they've created.Seems appropriate that some of their large profits should be used to develope solutions to the ongoing problem.Not saying that people shouldn't carry a certain responsibility for their part in consuming more and more.
Hey guys, if you want to see how plastic affects animals watch this video: Sea Turtle with Straw up its Nostril - "NO" TO PLASTIC STRAWS This is no advertisment, I just want to show people how important it is to recycle.
Thank you for making this video to make us all aware of the plastic problem. I am educating others on environmental stewardship so this resource is really useful. Please keep it up and all of us to do our part in preserving our environment and wildlife for generations to come
I use my own shopping bags and calico bags for my fruit and vegetables but it seems such a pitiful effort compared with the magnitude of the problem. So many things only come wrapped in plastic.
These numbers are messing with my head big time, I wish there was way more I could do than just reduce use and beach clean ups. Way worse than I thought and I knew it was really bad to begin with
90% of the plastic waste in the world's oceans come from just 10 rivers. 8 of which are in south east asia and 2 in africa. even so, the problem of dumping waste into riverbeds is huge even in smaller rivers, anywhere there is poverty or a 3rd world. Even Brazil's river was disgusting at the last olympics. Almost every river in Indonesea has poor people who do not have adequate or affordable or any waste collection just dump their trash into empty river beds and wait for the monsoons to wash it to sea.
You can start using Ocean Hero. It's a search engine that uses ad revenu to help fund the removal of plastic from the ocean. Every 5 searches helps to fund the equivalent of 1 removed bottle.
Wish this video talked about solutions and explored specific root causes/sources. What can be done? Are recycling programs effective? Which ones are more so? What specific actuibs can people, groups, or govt do? Which countries contribute more per population? thanks
90% of the plastic waste in the world's oceans come from just 10 rivers. 8 of which are in south east asia and 2 in africa. even so, the problem of dumping waste into riverbeds is huge even in smaller rivers, anywhere there is poverty or a 3rd world. Even Brazil's river was disgusting at the last olympics. Almost every river in Indonesea has poor people who do not have adequate or affordable or any waste collection just dump their trash into empty river beds and wait for the monsoons to wash it to sea.
We have a plastic bag ban here but I haven't been using them for a long time because I ride my bike to the store and put my groceries in my backpack anyway. I have been declining plastic straws ever since I found out about the harm it causes to marine wildlife.
Me before watching this video: Why do I have to watch this -.- Teacher: Because I said so Me after watching this video: Well humans are gonna end up killing each other ;-;
Should probably start with the source of the problem or it will never stop. 90% of the plastic waste in the world's oceans come from just 10 rivers. 8 of which are in south east asia and 2 in africa. even so, the problem of dumping waste into riverbeds is huge even in smaller rivers, anywhere there is poverty or a 3rd world. Even Brazil's river was disgusting at the last olympics. Almost every river in Indonesea has poor people who do not have adequate or affordable or any waste collection just dump their trash into empty river beds and wait for the monsoons to wash it to sea.
I am super shocked from how much people have been putting plastic in the ocean. I am 6 years old and I am going to go to the beach and take a not plastic bag to collect the rubbish on the beach. I want to help save the earth.
Thanks for video, very useful info. . . to help influence the need to fix up our discarded plastic waste. There is a lot of imagery around now to visualise the problem. . . needs fixing. If interested: For the ocean plastic pollution problem. . . I made a little video story set to sound tracks all from stock footage. . . about a bucket crab on a mission as fed up with plastic on its beach. . . it has keypoints in it. . . to use as educational tool. * Planet = Clean it. . . Plastic use = Lean it. * Anthropocene Epoch AFFECT and EFFECT. * Discarded plastic waste. . . it calls The Everlasting Poo. . . hense the title. * there are other points in it as well @
thank you so much we dident know this terrible news and will try to use less plastic in our lives. i would love to buy things at the supermarket not in plastic !
Majority of the populace wants to help, but there is few things to substitute. We need better options than plastic, then we can focus on cleaning the mess.
How about everyone using refillable bottles made from stainless steel or Tritan reusable plastic containers - fine for takeaway drinks instead of the 'free' plastic cups and water bottles that are a part of the problem. Also, we now have 100% compostable bottles and containers that look just like plastic - when discarded the material returns to the earth, digested by bacteria... yummy! The technology is here now, but BIG FOOD/BIG DAIRY/BIG PHARMA will not spend even a fraction of a penny extra on packaging unless they are forced to by Law... go talk to your Member of Parliament, see if they share your concerns.... not likely!
I would think that the gyres would help clean it up. I mean instead of searching the entire ocean, we can create some sort of process to get all the garbage out of the gyres
theITproductions1 There is! Go fund "The ocean clean-up" Bojan and his team are currently building the first functional model: www.theoceancleanup.com/
1st world countries need to help the poor countries set up waste collection facilities. 90% of the plastic waste in the world's oceans come from just 10 rivers. 8 of which are in south east asia and 2 in africa. even so, the problem of dumping waste into riverbeds is huge even in smaller rivers, anywhere there is poverty or a 3rd world. Even Brazil's river was disgusting at the last olympics. Almost every river in Indonesea has poor people who do not have adequate or affordable or any waste collection just dump their trash into empty river beds and wait for the monsoons to wash it to sea.
yep it's a global thing. . .some people are just surviving so do think (maybe dont care) about consequence "downstream". . . so yeh, 1st world should help globally to fix this.
Chaz Thomas we just don't know how to mass produce stuff any other way. Though half could be reduced by being "mindful" (reusable bags, getting rid of giant plastic casings for the smallest stuff, stop using stupid microbeads in everything and so on).
Because everyone is also just asking a question? Because it would cost trillions of dollars? Because it takes collaboration? Because simply cleaning doesn’t stop polluters? Because you can simply forget about it (right now) and feel zero effect.
I’m so mad sometimes at all those moneys they’re spending towards all those spaces programs to find a new habitable planet( I know it’s not all about it), it is such ludicrous action... the earth is not going to explode anytime soon why they’re showing so little concern about environmental changes, toxic chemicals, pollution ...etc!
"why they’re showing so little concern about environmental changes, toxic chemicals, pollution ...etc!" What are you talking about? Where do you think this information even comes from?
Hm, let's look at some numbers... The volume of all water on Earth would be about 332.5 million cubic miles (mi3), or 1,386 million cubic kilometers (km3). A single cubic mile of water weighs 4.6 billion tons. So even if we took all the plastic produced in a year it would be dwarfed by a SINGLE cubic mile of water. And we have 332.5 million cubic miles more to go. This is not really the problem that people claim it to be. We could literally take all the plastic we produce for the next thousand year, toss it in the ocean and not worry too much about it.
