Plastic in paradise: the battle for the Galápagos Islands' future

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The Galápagos Islands are supposedly one of the most pristine locations on the planet, but plastic pollution arriving by sea is threatening this unique habitat and wildlife. Leah Green travels to the islands to see how our reliance on plastic is affecting even the most remote of locations, and to see how the archipelago is hoping to lead the worldwide fight against plastic
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@lukaszha8826 5 лет назад

Watching those marine iguanas eating plastic broke my heart.

@667DOOM 5 лет назад

same, how fucked up.

@kenlee1416 5 лет назад

ALL sea creatures and sea birds are eating plastic.. and certainly humans who love sea food are ingesting some too.

@chivo121 5 лет назад

It's a delicacy. They love it

@lukaszha8826 5 лет назад

Chi vo I really don’t think your sarcasm is appropriate here

@cybercroneCA 5 лет назад

There are apparently micro-plastics in pretty much every fish and sea creature caught and prepared for our enjoyment and sustenance. And of course, the larger pieces that are eaten or trap the creatures, harming, starving and strangling them. It's an epidemic we have to solve NOW.

@GamerwithaConscience 5 лет назад

The planet has enough to support man's needs but not enough to satisfy his greed

@jasminchavez1500 4 года назад

You are right a million times

@thekingoftheworld9553 3 года назад

Capitalism makes people greedy, so we just got to get rid of it.

@patoukelele3876 Год назад

@@thekingoftheworld9553 Greed exist before capitalism

@md.mahbuburrahmanraju6963 5 лет назад

All of us want to make good world for our children but we need to make good child too to make the world better place. The education is helpful.

@CherryFruitSnack 4 года назад

This really breaks my heart. I always thought I wasn't part of the problem because my trash goes in the garbage or recycling plant. But EVERY piece of plastic I've ever used in my life is part of the problem, regardless of how I used it because it is still on the planet somewhere, and most items never actually get recycled that are supposedly going to a recycling plant.

@alikevan123 2 года назад

I think the big difference is if you put your rubbish in the bin it's not going into the sea. There's lots of impoverished places around the world where people have no way to dispose of rubbish and it goes into the river. The plastic problem is a poverty problem

@jeteveuxdubien5474 5 лет назад

A very good documentary, dark and sad with a final hope. Necessary testimony!

@markocapek4627 5 лет назад

I am here for the last month, spent some time on three different islands and I work in environmental protection for the last 15 years, including plastic 5 years. The focus is not on the garbage which comes with the currents, but just take a walk, and look how the local population litters (except Santa Cruz island). Theres parks and forests full of plastic waste. Theres parts of the island where people live like in Morocco or Guatemala littering everything they consume. Yesterday was a huge rainy storm and all ended up in the ocean. So the solution needs to come also to educate the people. And those who do not want to change should find another place to live.

@debbiehenri7170 5 лет назад

The crime of littering shouldn't be punished with just a small fine (as in Scotland), it should come with one week's litter-picking duties at the very least.

@andrewlowrey6280 5 лет назад

Wait. You mean this didn't come from an invisible garbage pile in the ocean? Shocking. We have pictures of a black hole now, but cant see across our own ocean.

@debbiehenri7170 5 лет назад

@@paulinemoira8442 Yes, I have come across the exact same attitude. You wonder where to start with such people! I live in a lovely area, I clean up the roadside, go to town to do shopping, come home, and on the way I see new coffee cups, new sandwich packs and crisp packets laying on the ground.

@salampeacemyfantasy8422 4 года назад

It is true that educating people is an essential key, however goverments around the world should agree on laws to protect the planet, not protecting but saving our lives lol becuase if we keep doing this we are gonna get our asses whooped one day.

@gialopez1699 5 лет назад

As an Ecuadorian, this makes my heart cry

@667DOOM 5 лет назад

as a german this makes me sick too.

@johne.chalco4134 5 лет назад

Heyyyy fellow Ecautoriano

@bartsshorts 4 года назад

cry me a river

@danewiley4215 5 лет назад

I went to the Galapagos in 2014 and it was the best trip I have ever been on. Now I want to be a marine biologist and go back there to go scuba diving

@sana5762 5 лет назад

We are all in every way responsible for destroying these beautiful locations, nature's gift with our junk! Everything we use & dispose irresponsibly! For the live of all these innocent lives and the beautiful greenery... Let's all just reflect and make responsible changes.. please!🙏

@FactNFiction 5 лет назад

Amazing documentary, I mentioned you in my social studies exams

@donegal79 5 лет назад

good ...that will make all the difference then

@juniormata98 4 года назад

This reminds me of Cuba. I was stationed in gitmo this past summer and damn the beaches were absolutely stunning. Unfortunately they were filled with plastic from Central America. I had me and my boys go clean some of it up but the micro plastic he talked about made it difficult.

@svodcat7524 2 года назад

F you for working in gitmo btw. Pure scummy behaviour.

@juniormata98 2 года назад

@@svodcat7524 ok

@vthilton 5 лет назад

Save Our Planet.

@kenlee1416 5 лет назад

Just a few measures we can take as consumers: - Eschew ''convenience'' and the takeaway culture. - If you patronise street food vendors, bring your own containers. Same with chain food outlets, if they allow it. - Do not buy items such as sodas/soft drinks, drinks, sauces, snacks and other junk 'foods' in plastic packaging. - If available, buy from local farmers' markets, not big chain supermarts that use plenty of packaging.

@dg_96_7 5 лет назад

Was just there about 2 weeks ago. Was only in Santa Cruz and Isabella , very clean islands however the smaller islands is where the problem lies. Shout out to my step cousin Pablo V who is one of the worlds top guides in Galapagos!

@ramonlegs3076 5 лет назад

A plastic-eating bacteria has been found in the stream of a province in the Philippines, a research was under process.

@k.bellingham8335 4 года назад

Until this fancy new bacteria can eat up all of the plastic garbage can I expect you to eat the pop bottle your pop arrived in, or will you try not buying a pop today?

@k.bellingham8335 4 года назад

@Sexy Asian Cuties stop buying plastic bottles

@k.bellingham8335 4 года назад

@Sexy Asian Cuties You put the cart in front of the horse, do you know what that means? The horse is supposed to pull the cart. Yes the "companies" need to offer some choice, but they won't unless there is a reason. If we keep buying what they supply they'll keep supplying it, it's called supplying the market. The "company" wants to make a profit, the maximum profit! If you and I stop buying what they are supplying they'll offer something else, simple eh.

@davinelucis685 3 года назад

It’s absolutely heartbreaking..

@justindouglas7043 5 лет назад

I like the closing remarks about making a better planet for our kids; making better kids for our planet

@prime7041 4 года назад

Who ever dislikes throughs away plastic or rubbish in the sea, or even litters in the street or anywhere.

@danthemansmail 5 лет назад

This planet will do much better when we are gone.

@MrSatyre1 5 лет назад

Don't let the door hit you on the way out!

@baronzemo420 5 лет назад

In all likelihood, the most guilty perpetrators of this ecological catastrophe (the captains of industry and robber barons of finance capital) will have the resources to leave this planet and build self-sufficient off-world colonies, leaving 99% of us to eke out a living here on Earth for a few years before we inevitably perish.

@bartsshorts 4 года назад

but what if you are entirely wrong, what if all the gases and oils inside the planet we're destined to turn the planet into a gaseous planet like jupiter, but us humans have slowly diffused the bomb by using engines.

@landofevolution9757 4 года назад

We need to change and clean it up.

@w.s8676 4 года назад

@@landofevolution9757 nope

@jennifermero4730 5 лет назад

Muchas gracias The guardian

@baumbiber3115 5 лет назад

I like that this video points out this very important issue. BUT like allways there are a few overstatements. For example if your are living in a developed country most of the plastic waste does NOT end up in the ocean, so your toothbrushes were probably burnt in a incendieary plant to produce electricity

@k.bellingham8335 4 года назад

@Energy So much for Baum Biber's argument

@tunca9709 4 года назад

I nearly did this drone project with a friend, but switched to a different topic afterwards. I am quite happy to see that someone did it and uses it on actual beaches.

@leor7795 5 лет назад

In was born in the Galapagos islands and this makes me so sad

@aptorres01 2 года назад

this is absolutely & utterly Heartbreaking

@lukenolan9798 4 года назад

This is heartbreaking

@claudialima7714 5 лет назад

Plastic was everywhere I saw last year visiting a far away beach. . . It cames with the high tide. My vacancies's day were over.

@JC.Holland 5 лет назад

humans have lost their humanity...we're worst link in the evolution 🤐

@cantalope67 5 лет назад

The very worst

@MrSatyre1 5 лет назад

I blame you. Not me. Not anyone else I know. Just you.

@baronzemo420 5 лет назад

Production of material waste is a fundamental part of humanity. Chimpanzees have no humanity but pose no threat to their environment. Humanity is the problem. Humans are the problem. Technological progress is the problem. Ted Kaczynski was right.

@Exedus20 3 года назад

@@baronzemo420 fix yourself. The means are all around you. Take the leap.

@michaeldoise8672 3 года назад

Thank you for making this video. What I find brilliant is that it not only shows the scope of humankind's capacity for destruction but also our ability to invent intelligent solutions. My students will watch this video!

@dinero2103 4 года назад

"Better kids for our world instead of a better world for our kids"

@bartsshorts 4 года назад

interesting

@TheVera9966 5 лет назад

Very sad the human activity on Mother Nature.

@karlpilkington997 5 лет назад

I'm responsible for absolutely none of the plastic waste, I just burn it all in my backyard

@hunati31 5 лет назад

Dumb and dumber.

@karlpilkington997 5 лет назад

@@hunati31 says the guy who watches Alan Watts haha!

@jaddy540 4 года назад

Then you polute the air,azzhole.

@Roman-hg6rg 5 лет назад

A heartbreaking sight.

@atheistgenocideinthebible1102 4 года назад

And every day we make the new Plastic, Worldwide.

@aspect9857 4 года назад

I guess we have to do the Minecraft way Put the rubbish in lava

@stanley-hu4yv 4 года назад

I-

@sallyannedavies7742 4 года назад

The bin men in the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 used to empty their Rubbish trucks on their beaches using it as a dumping ground. When they had a bad prime minster ruling. A Shocking site to see.

@JaySmith91 5 лет назад

We should probably do something about this.

@nakotaridge8749 5 лет назад

Hemp will Save Mother Earth🙏

@w.s8676 4 года назад

No it wont

@ifukill7538 4 года назад

Today I'm keeping all plastic cartons and bottles and making pots to grow food in. Spring onion, garlic, strawberries, tomatoes... You can use plastic bags too. Make a few holes in the bottom fill with soil ..ta da😀😷

@MOJORAPSCALLION 2 года назад

Tragic & heartbreaking 💔 an utter travesty….

@lwnaALiraq 5 лет назад

❤️❤ ♡ ♥ ღ ❣ ❥ ❦ ❧ ლ 💖 💝💕Thank you "The Guardian".........

@douglas5595 3 года назад

re buenardou el videovich

@luciochiletto 3 года назад

ANASHEI

@Xergecuz 5 лет назад

We've only really been using plastic for the last 30 years or so, this problem will only get worse as we continue using plastic in the future, the alternative is not that simple since everything we use is made out of plastic, including our cel phones and computers, earphones, it's not just bottles and bags, it's toys, even shoes.

@ginadelsasso288 5 лет назад

Exactly....you can keep cleaning it up but where is that garbage going to go, how much will just end up back in the ocean, and more just will keep coming and coming.

@atheistgenocideinthebible1102 4 года назад

Two young Womens talking critical about Plastic every where on Galapagos, and the same young Womens used Technology with Plastic together! This is a point!!!

@mkfmgaming3019 3 года назад

I try to use only eco friendly things, I have bamboo toothbrushes

@jigargore 3 года назад

Humans doesn't deserve this planet 😪

@La_to_the_Bay 4 года назад

Devastating

@Ezequielschelegel 3 года назад

Cómo afecta el plástico en la fauna y la flora

@WipedoutCanada Год назад

Crazy video 🤔

@elmaragustin2010 4 года назад

So sad this happening all over the world, even in remote islands...

@JS-qg1ie 5 лет назад

Isn’t the main problem Indonesia where they use rivers instead of landfill/recycling!? They’re right stomping out the problem at source. An impossible task to totally eradicate the problem I’d say, fishermen will always lose nets, wind will always blow litter into the sea, ships will always capsize leaving debris...

@davidsivills3599 4 года назад

All i can see at the moment is, no solution to plastic waste.Everyone on the planet must help but i can't see that happening.

@pacificoceania5828 5 лет назад

The best solution is stopping to produce end use plastic.

@bartsshorts 4 года назад

or decrease human population from 7 billion to 500 million.

@almudenamanzanopardo6129 3 года назад

Alguien me hace un resumen del vídeo para geografía?

@aleew9341 5 лет назад

Good film to showcase and evoke an emotive response to the interconnected global issue of plastic. Plastic dependence and reliance is unfortunately inherent in the current status of our society. For example, in this very film whilst both scientists are talking about the issues of plastic, simultaneously the tools they are using (i.e. drones, safety glasses, hi vis jacket, gloves and lab equipments) are also plastic and will ultimately end up in landfills, burnt, and/or in the oceans. Just want to highlight the issue is heavily complex, and a lot of work is needed to disentangle the underlying power and politics of plastic.

@debbiehenri7170 5 лет назад

Yes, and it is very difficult to rely on any waste plastic being responsibly recycled. I was disheartened to learn that my local council were burning a lot of plastic for heating purposes, and then started putting it in landfill. Until that time, I had taken the trouble to wash out plastic packaging carefully, knowing that contamination was an issue when recycling.

@greysilverback3924 5 лет назад

Too bad they can't make drones out of bamboo.

@marcovelascod32 5 лет назад

We can make the difference, for example reusing plastic bags consumption at home and mainly, helping people understand that we have to be part of the solution

@awolff3381 5 лет назад

the guy so concerned with plastic has namebrand plastic sunglasses on.. Irony

@SatsMate 5 лет назад

How can we volunteer or help? Someone please send me the link! Also we need to figure out the source of the problem.

@davidserafim5368 4 года назад

It will be very interesting and inspiring to see these coasts and oceans being cleaned up

@davoun5490 5 лет назад

The problem is too many humans. Less humans, less trash

@davoun5490 5 лет назад

@@visser9555 No, but the government could make some rules for having children. 1 child policy wasn't a bad idea in China, it could help the whole world to solve the hunger and unemployment.

@r3dp1ll 5 лет назад

Sad :( Countries of the world need to get together.

@jaddy540 4 года назад

In FL, butane lighters litter the beaches, as well as cigarette filters. Use HEMP filters??

@rajibsarker7061 4 года назад

ভবিষ্যতের সুন্দর পৃথিবীর জন্য আমাদের সচেতন হওয়াটা খুবই জরুরী।এটা আমাদের অস্তিত্বের জন্য হুমকিস্বরুপ। সচেতনার সাথে সাথে আইনেরও প্রণয়ন আর প্রয়োগটাও জরুরী।

@andrescarreno2623 3 года назад

BUENA

@analourdeshernandezcabrera2123 4 года назад

My english teacher put to us this video (I'm from Spain), so i'm not feeling bad and the animals eating plastic didn't broke my heart, I'm tired of do homework

@mariavera9788 3 года назад

💔

@BeeeeeeFreeeeee 5 лет назад

Everyone in this used plastic. That drone will be in the ocean in a few years.

@sabineblume5341 4 года назад

That means you do not have to take resposibiliy for your one moment bottle and bag ? That is sad. If the ather are littering, i do not have any motivation to change something ? That is why this Planet is not to save quick enough.

@SPEEDKILLAR 5 лет назад

Terrifying!!

@ArkansasGamer 2 года назад

What the most effective solution?

@Ecovaluations 4 года назад

Make the environment better for kids and simultaneously make kids better for our environment.

@samanthab1923 4 года назад

I had no idea. Always thought they were pristine. Sad 😭

@oliviacollin5781 5 лет назад

Terrible. We need to do something NOW

@Pippie5555 5 лет назад

We need to STOP buying goods from the countries that are polluting, China, India etc. We need higher import tariffs on goods from these countries.

@upcola 5 лет назад

Not so easy. And its definitely not just developing countries that are polluting.

@upcola 5 лет назад

@El Loco Wow what a solution. Nobody is to buy anything. That seems like it will gain traction

@Pippie5555 5 лет назад

Why is it people keep supporting the countries that are polluting the most? Double moral!!! We need to STOP buying goods from the countries that are polluting, China, India etc. We need higher import tariffs on goods from these countries.

@Pippie5555 5 лет назад

Natog You are not correct. Just see the sea around you how polluted it is!! In Europe we don't dump chemicals in our rivers! According to the Chinese Ministry of Health, industrial pollution has made cancer China'sleading cause of death. Every year, ambient airpollution alone killed hundreds of thousands of citizens. 500 million people in China are without safe and clean drinking water.

@user-ew8hd6il6d 4 года назад

plastic material ruin paradise like this really sad, we should protect our environment and its necessary for everyone :)

@320ifq 5 лет назад

Sad as this is it doesn't come close to midway island, there there are floating plastic islands. I went to Portugal in the 90's and it was covered in broken bottles discarded by idiots. Now glass is less common plastic has taken over, it is more visual as it can float more easily than glass.

@robjworkshop5692 4 года назад

She mentions about finding out about who is responsible - that's easy! Every plastics manufacturer and every consumer...

@celestaronin 3 года назад

Do you know how much deisal could be made with all that!

@bjornironside1820 4 года назад

Why we are using plastic stop for plastic

@archades54 5 лет назад

Pretty sure the parabolic antenna for the DJI is aimed wrong, you want parabola's to be facing away from you, directly at it, not to your face.

@paramoreparks9960 5 лет назад

Change is not hard and the world is in desperate need of a POSITIVE change.

@atheistgenocideinthebible1102 4 года назад

With Plastic Consum, Drone, Cellphones, Tablets, TV, we make a new Plastictrash!!!

@DKLA1220 4 года назад

Ok I was waiting for a few solutions

@stephenfield4593 5 лет назад

I grew up in the 60s. straws, milk cartons and grocery bags were all paper. egg cartons were paper. Sodas came in glass bottles which you paid a deposit for, and just returned to the store when you bought your next sodas. I could walk to the store with no money and by the time I got there I had picked up enough bottles to cash in for a coke and some M&Ms or whatever. I remember when the 2 liter plastic soda bottle was announced and how wonderful everyone thought it was. It seemed stupid to me even then.

@DiffKaran 2 года назад

Say no plastic,save environment, save the planet

@nc8414 2 месяца назад

Am I the only one who wishes someone would invent a energy source that relies on burning plastic for its source?

@landofevolution9757 4 года назад

Ban the manufacture of plastics and polyesters.

@TELEVISIBLE 5 лет назад

maybe we should go thano

@TotemsBikeClub 5 лет назад

Somos una plaga

@thetruth9775 4 года назад

I use reusable bags only!!

@MrBelseBoB 5 лет назад

we use the same amount of plastic per person here in Finland like the rest of the world, more or less. But we throw all the plastic in bins just for plastic or in trash bins and they get dealt with. the most simpel way of not having plastic in our nature is not to throw it there. And huge piles of trash is not the answer but to recycle or burn it in facilities that can burn plastic waste with minimal air pollution. So I think the biggest problem is knowledge about this waste and money to create these systems to collect plastic waste and deal with it in another way than just piling it up for the wind to take.

@DylanChng 5 лет назад

How does the plastics get to the sea in the first place?

@DylanChng 5 лет назад

@@visser9555 I only know that some plastics get leaked into sewage systems which spills into the sea

@r3dp1ll 5 лет назад

people not caring. Out of sight out of mind

@bartsshorts 4 года назад

india throw all their rubbish everywhere

@brendatenorio5721 8 месяцев назад

Consumers and manufacturers internal and external.

@diegoperez2090 5 лет назад

That place is way less remote than Hawaii, New Zealand or Fiji.

@user-wp9ye7wn9w 8 месяцев назад

I think, and I see that the news of the floods, so you have to see about this problem and a lot of the garbage! around the world and you will have to do about this topic/problems in this year

@beelotus7038 4 года назад

The world has enough for everyone needs but not enough even for one man's greed. Food wastages is also a big problem. Greed, Hatred and Delusion are Three Poisons of Mankind. Be Vegetarian, Be Moral, Be Simple, Live Simple Eat less, Use less, Reduce, Reuse to save the ENVIRONMENT. 🌏

@Tyler.i.81 Год назад

Plastic companies should be responsible for cleaning Plastic from beaches world wide. Yes still no biodegradable alternatives have taken of you would think governments who say they care about the environment you put a tax or sort out the Plastic addiction. It's madness companies just aren't willing to charge these big corporations and food companies need to lead by example.

@mariaagudelo4352 4 года назад

Cuiden el medio ambien para que no nos pase nada de esto😭

@aragornthebrave 5 лет назад

I've just come back from Shetland (a set of islands to the north of Britain) and there is no plastic problem at all. Why does it affect the Galapagos and not Shetland?

@apextroll 5 лет назад

The ocean gyres.

@aragornthebrave 5 лет назад

@@andrewzcolvin Thanks for the answer, but what is a gyre?

@bbcash3360 5 лет назад

Such an irony that the concerned scientists use the drone made of plastic, surfing ocean in a plastic surfboard.

@sabineblume5341 4 года назад

But you need it again and again and Not a BAG or a bottle for a little Moment and it is there for ever.

@1azulcielo1 4 года назад

Things is, are there other options? Boards made of wood maybe? drones made of biodegradable materials? We are on a horrendously vicious cycle with plastics. Where do we begin to end it?