Why these plankton are eating plastic

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Microfibers, used to make things like yoga pants, are the ocean’s tiniest problem.
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Correction: At 1:04, we mistakenly suggested that rayon is made from plastic. In fact, it is derived from cellulose.
When you think of marine pollution, you might picture an oil-slicked seal struggling to breathe on a blackened beach, or a turtle looping in circles with the plastic collar of a six-pack wrapped around its neck. In the past, those powerful images have generated interest and resources for fighting marine pollution, but now a new, much tinier threat is emerging.
Microplastics - meaning any plastic object smaller than five millimeters - constitute the vast majority of plastic particles polluting marine habitats.
Of those microplastics, a large share are microfibers: tiny strands of plastic that are woven into fabric used to make clothing. These fabrics, known by names like polyester and nylon, are cheap to produce, comfortable to wear, and since arriving on the market in the late 1940s, companies have been using more and more of them. Every time we do laundry, a small amount of microfibers are separated from clothes made from these materials. Since those pieces of plastic are extremely small, they're able to make their way through water treatment centers and into marine resources. Once they reach marine habitats, the ocean’s tiniest creatures consume them, and microfibers work their way up the food chain. Eventually, they reach us.
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@Vox 5 лет назад

Microplastics are an extremely serious ecological and health issue today. If you'd like to read about them, check out this article on our website: bit.ly/2SqCr2H

@timothywhite8932 5 лет назад

How to we buy a filter for our washing machine

@rkan2 5 лет назад

Timothy White Yeah, it would've been great if Vox would have explored the solutions and their cost-effectiveness a bit more..

@triangleoflife01 5 лет назад

@@rkan2 Yes they breifly mentionned filter bags! if you wanna get one, there's guppybags by patagonia and then theres also filter balls that you can through in your laundry by Coraball...not very expensive if you consider the other options!!..especially for how long they last.

@servantofthemosthigh2525 5 лет назад

Hey at least if the planet goes up in smoke...at least its a planet regardless. Humanity...killing eachother daily

@janellebooth9562 5 лет назад

You didn't explain how the microfiber went from the fishes digestive track into the fish flesh...

@Spaceboyy95 5 лет назад

"Wash your clothes less often" Damn, I've been saving the world without even trying then.

@thanhvinhnguyen8731 5 лет назад

Khadesh Singh meh, but whatever

@Impetuss 5 лет назад

Yeah no kidding i wear boxers, t shirts and socks for 2-3 days, pants and sweater for a week or two. And i keep my clothes until theyre broken. Im awesome for the environment

@nightshadegamingetc9541 5 лет назад

@Khadesh Singh depends on where you stab them. What was they doing that required you to stab them?

@nightshadegamingetc9541 5 лет назад

@Khadesh Singh exactly. We should all just be nudists.

@jackrush1222 5 лет назад

@Khadesh Singh that...... was not a good analogy

@traysexton9943 5 лет назад

Thank you Vox for informing me on an issue I was previously unaware of

@aturchomicz821 5 лет назад

It litarlly was in my school newspaper this week

@wazankash 5 лет назад

@@aturchomicz821 He is being sarcastic.

@aturchomicz821 5 лет назад

@@wazankash yeah but that desnt change that it was in my schol newspaper LITARLLY 3 WEEKS AGO

@wendel5868 5 лет назад

But now you are aware and will continue using plastic clothing because its cheaper. So, what this video accomplished, exactly?

@Whovian1029 5 лет назад

@@wazankash I don't think he was. I had heard of this issue of microplastics but didn't know that a lot of them come from clothing.

@stopnerfingzed3604 5 лет назад

I like how normal citizens have to pay for special filter on their cars and now washing machines when really the big companies are responsible for most the pollution and they are not forced to do any thing about it...

@appletherapy3492 5 лет назад

Its our fault..you can blame other people, but that leads to nothing. Civilians are the core of the nations and are responsable for everything that happens. People have just become irrasponsable and let the government take responsability when thats not what their job is. It just shows you that something vital isn’t right in life. The people have given their duties and obligations to companies and government.

@appletherapy3492 5 лет назад

Nicholas Jolie Hey...when your responable. Life doesn’t give two toots what you knew or didn’t. If you forgot to take your kid to school. The courts not going to care that you didn’t know and forgot. All that matters is that the problem will bite us back and that we were supposed to take action. All men are created equal and all men are responsable equally.

@appletherapy3492 5 лет назад

Nicholas Jolie What can I say? I just get to the point.

@appletherapy3492 5 лет назад

Nicholas Jolie Get a job. That responsability is on you. My clothes wont stink, but yours would if you lacked it.

@appletherapy3492 5 лет назад

Raven Juniper Well, there is a simple plot twist here. I don’t think companies are doing most of the mess. There may be mistakes happening that we aren’t aware of. For example. Burried trash may be flowing into aquaducts and then flowing into the ocean. And third world countries spill trash in the water because they lack law enforcment. Also trash transportation ships possibly sink during hurricanes ect.

@macbuff81 5 лет назад

I read somewhere that older washers had filters that could trap these microparticles. However, those filters were taken out after getting clogged over time. We need to have legislation that requires all washers to have such filters which in turn are easily replaced. Of course, relying less on synthetics is an important aspect.

@2salzig2spucknapp 5 лет назад

yes lets throw away all washingmashines we own to buy more ecologic ones *capitalist heavy breathing*

@1sadsexually2sadsexually54 5 лет назад

2salzig2spucknapp You can install a filter lmfao

@2salzig2spucknapp 5 лет назад

@@1sadsexually2sadsexually54 for your own sake pls give it a try yourself ( i know u wont cos u a lazy fk since u havnt even made it to google "washingmachine microplastic filter - a item that dosnt exist-) but try and call your manufacturer.. i forecast "this is not possible sir we are sorry but in the future NEWER products will come with solutions" we live in capitalism.. no business man on earth would let pass such a chance to sell his products duno if you understood it already but all the seals and vegan stuff u see on those fancy products is just a alternate way to opt out more money of you costumers.. why else are vegan products more expensive than actual non vegan??

@nalzeck 5 лет назад

@@2salzig2spucknapp You're just spewing a bunch of non-arguments while complaining about the woes of capitalism without proposing any real solutions, whether internal or external to the system. Not everyone is a communist/socialist, and many people are insert in a consumerist mindset which does make them consume a whole lot more. But legislation can help ameliorate those effects, through the use of filters. Of course, you have no bloody clue of what you're talking about because a quick Google will show you integrated microfiber filters to washing machines and others such as this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dWjkOf3ptLE.html Real vegan products like vegetables and legumes aren't more expensive than non-vegan ones are, it's the processed things that cost more. So yeah, microfiber filters exist, people have a consumerist mindset, and the best we can do in the short term is decrease the effects of relentless consumption and notion of wealth promoted by neoliberalism, through the use and promotion of ecological legislation.

@2salzig2spucknapp 5 лет назад

@@nalzeck if your linked video is that good of a solution why does it has 100 clicks and even comments disabled? i googled it filtrol 160 for home use this is a... microfiber filter .. aka a piece of plastic with some netting in it that they want to charge u 160 bucks for you wana wake up ? youre yada yada is interesting and all but when it comes to reality money is the keyfactor why is it 140 $ and not 30$? i can tell you because the target audience is guys who are intellectual carebears so they most likely graduated and have a higher income and have money to spend on such things like microfiber filters.. same for vegans this is far more than just a solution to a cleaner and fairer planet it is also a lifestyle product you can flex infront of your family and friends.. deal with it! if you disagree than please tell me why in the world this thing of plastic would cost 140$ when the materials is the cheapest avaiable and prob 1,20 $ in production?

@iloveTSA 5 лет назад

They should add a special filter for this at all sewage treatment plants.

@goosty17 5 лет назад

Or just buy less plastic made clothes...

@arnoldshmitt4969 5 лет назад

@@goosty17 OR DO BOTH it is always better to have multiple layers of environment protection

@oppfattet 5 лет назад

We barely process our sewage in the first place

@dziadek1287 5 лет назад

I don't thing this is possible on a large scale

@goosty17 5 лет назад

@@arnoldshmitt4969 you cannot add these filters to sewage systems... They are TOO thin. This is why micro sized objects are broken down chemically in a plant.

@Anlineoffline 5 лет назад

I'd prefer if Plankton ate holographic meatloaf instead.

@lastigesoma6126 5 лет назад

true

@bansheeturbo 5 лет назад

Same🤣

@dankhill7917 5 лет назад

Holographic meatloaf is low in sodium.

@flippygee6498 5 лет назад

SANS______ perhaps they should change their name or its spelling after planking became popular, although there are other homonyms

@bowenzhou5402 4 года назад

cavetoad also low in food😂

@itsbk6192 5 лет назад

Give my dude plankton the krabby patty formula, he ain't got no food

@motoinsane8901 5 лет назад

It's Bk so true

@jp4yu 5 лет назад

If he ain't got no food it must be some food, plastic is what were being fed

@rpxt 3 года назад

@@tahalifedive139 who said u r a legend ur mom

@BisharpnearOhio 3 года назад

All he has is holographic meat loaf

@azurescenss 5 лет назад

Hemp clothing wouldn't be expensive if people were actually allowed to/encouraged to grow it by local governments and it became a more common crop. Arguing that synthetic clothing is cheaper isnt a valid argument for polluting our Earth.

@pacmon4348 5 лет назад

Thanks!

@Roman-kk1ic 4 года назад

Back in the day stuff, and hashish gets thrown out..

@MalikAwan-sw2wm 4 года назад

Hemp clothing 🤔

@lordmike9384 4 года назад

Have you ever been to a hemp farm and seen how much plastic they put on the ground to grow the stuff? Plastic weed barriers commonly used in hemp farming and other agriculture is not recyclable at all.

@fritanke2318 4 года назад

@@lordmike9384 Thats easy to remedy. Just ban plastic and pesticides in farming. The cost will increase but the number of people needed to do the job will increase to.

@HTPCYMC 5 лет назад

I can’t believe they actually made Plankton from Spongebob a real thing.

@stayfrosty6290 5 лет назад

They should've included the Krabby Patty formula with this video.

@cerisemin 5 лет назад

Sad they didn't make tge chum bucket

@chrispacheco8590 5 лет назад

Planktons a hell of a vocalist

@AugustPDX 5 лет назад

You're god damn right they did

@antihypocrite6022 5 лет назад

How to properly clean your metal computer plankton was always a thing

@guyinthewhiteT 5 лет назад

Y’all think Micro-plastics are bad? Wait until you hear about nano-plastics. I try not to inhale air too much these days.

@crazypieman9 5 лет назад

Yea but have you heard of subatomic plastics? They are EVERYWHERE

@Idontcare1314 5 лет назад

jake cohen Ever heard of String theory?

@yassi8814 5 лет назад

Lmaooooo

@jas7869 5 лет назад

Good one

@TheJustin500 5 лет назад

For a second I thought you were being seriouz

@austbob7161 5 лет назад

When you’ve been helping the world by not washing your clothes 👍

@monae3072 5 лет назад

“Mom I ate some plastic today!” 💀💀.

@Taikamuna 5 лет назад

Great job humans

@rvalensp 5 лет назад

Hoomen tho

@CardsNHorns04 5 лет назад

Well humans tend to create a solution for one problem, that tends to create other problems. So clothes and Coates were expensive, then plastics case around, made it cheaper, so people could have more variety in clothes or live comfortably and affordably in colder climates. Now, we gotta deal with micro plastics because we now see that while having affordable clothes is great for society, having fish with micro plastics in them are not good.

@mjliu6439 5 лет назад

@@CardsNHorns04 having affordable clothes is not good for society, we are buying more clothes than we need to use it few times because fast fashion is changing every few weeks. As consumers we are not aware of the true cost of fashion.

@user-vs6oe8fl3m 5 лет назад

It's not the fault of the masses, but of the few and the system

@dwg8084 5 лет назад

Taikamuna Who says evolved Fish would have done any better?

@francescaboni 5 лет назад

It's not necessarily more expensive to buy natural fibers. If you have the option, you can thrift clothes and get great quality pieces from the same price of cheap fast fashion ones, and you'll look better as well.

@christophstich5066 5 лет назад

Once you get into outdoor clothing I would beg to disagree. A Merino layer costs up to an order of magnitude more than the synthetic stuff with worse thermal performance when wet.

@whatarewaves 5 лет назад

Christoph Stich ok but I don't think this video or this comment was intending to comment on those clothes. Rather just in general the day to day clothes you wear.

@0ona 5 лет назад

you know, the sheep prefer real wool instead of syntethic clothes, even when wet. are you taking care of your wool garmets if they get wet so easily? @@christophstich5066

@MrKyle700 5 лет назад

They are also cheaper because of economies of scale now. I bet if we put a focus on growing hemp based fibers everywhere, for example, the price of that would go down and down over time. It might not match the price of making plastic fiber, but, it's about what we invest a majority of our industrys in.

@nakenmil 5 лет назад

@kitty kat - true, bat let's not forget that synthetic fibres are literally made from raw petroleum.

@Asplur57691 5 лет назад

Thanks once again vox for giving us a problem to fix but then not actually contributing a solution that helps.

@IntheEndAhNevermind 5 лет назад

The solution to most of our environmental and economical problems is less people. Do the world a favor everyone. Don't have babies.

@Asplur57691 5 лет назад

Subtle Ink for President

@IntheEndAhNevermind 5 лет назад

@@Asplur57691 Thank you, thank you. Please don't forget to sign my petition.

@NoName-ze4qn 5 лет назад

@Maratha I actually find living in crowded environment tormenting

@alissaa2809 5 лет назад

They did give a solution thou? Buy afiktwe or buy less clothes. How is that not a solution ?

@20xcountry08 3 года назад

I used to work for a swimwear manufacturer, and there was a client that was conscious about this and created a bag to use when washing clothes catch the microplastics. It was interesting to learn about this while he was in development of his collection.

@mylifeisamememylifeispathe3140 5 лет назад

We’re slowly poisoning ourselves because of our arrogance and ignorance

@josephstanichar5434 5 лет назад

IN YOUR A R R O G A N C E!!!

@user-vs6oe8fl3m 5 лет назад

Want to learn about communism?

@mylifeisamememylifeispathe3140 5 лет назад

Chiński Dorian A man of culture I see I myself am a 🅱️ommunist

@StrayingCat 5 лет назад

@@mylifeisamememylifeispathe3140 Don't be thx :)

@floisheremuch 5 лет назад

don't eat seafood, don't get heavy metal poisoning, dont eat microplastics, and don't contribute to the extinction of fish life in the oceans :)

@Coolmark123 5 лет назад

Thanks for making this video, great production and content. Keep it up!

@karigrandii 5 лет назад

Coolmark why isnt a washing machine filter MANDATORY??? why? How did we even get here

@mist3325 5 лет назад

Wtf are you doing here mark

@fg786 5 лет назад

Acrilic wasn't comfortable to wear. It gained static electricity like no other material and made you sweat like an idiot. The sweating aspect is the reason, why I am avoiding all syntheitc materials if possible.

@dateruffler2212 3 года назад

Using filter bags is a good idea. It is also significant to develop strong synthetic fibers. You should not forget that a quarter of microplastic comes from tires.

@Yeahman123456654321 5 лет назад

This video is great but I’m tired of journalists continuing to frame environmentalism as a failure of humans as individuals rather than a failure of our institutions. The solution is not always “you humans need to buy more stuff to save our environment”. Talk about public policies!

@user-vs6oe8fl3m 5 лет назад

Yes!

@emalinel 5 лет назад

Preach preaccccchhhh.

@timothywhite8932 5 лет назад

Absolutely

@rkan2 5 лет назад

But the humans are what created the institutions...

@rebeccaed2018 5 лет назад

Yeah, you have a point, but when we the people make better choices in our consumer behaviour and show support for these ideas, the message does go from the bottom up. They see business going to environmentally friendly companies, environmental candidates getting support etc. I don't think the decision-makers are incapable of caring about these issues but in many cases, profit goes before everything else, that's why we need individuals to pressure them.

@robertmenegazzi7290 5 лет назад

OR how about we take those expensive filters and install them at water treatment plants.

@GreianSalvio 5 лет назад

Robert Menegazzi Exactly

@FortoFight 4 года назад

That would probably be a lot more expensive for the tax payer than just having their own filter. Huge amounts of energy would go into putting large quantities of water through them, and maintenance would be a nightmare.

@Scarletraven87 3 года назад

I think you are very confused. Treating all waters for what happends in the washing machine is a huge waste of resources. . Instead, force the industry of washing machines to implement mandatory filters, and have them supplied for free by the nation.

@elmolavista1239 3 года назад

Doran Martell If you want to pay even more tax then sure go for it.

@elmolavista1239 3 года назад

@IronHide2386 I would prefer to see tax money used properly to prevent us from eating plastic in the first place.

@songofyesterday 5 лет назад

Should see how much of these microfibers stay in our lungs.

@BeanSneaksPH 5 лет назад

Thats why inhale tru ur nose man

@pabloventura6336 5 лет назад

Thank you Vox for bringing up some of the most critical topics to date! 🙌

@vivigesso3756 5 лет назад

Funny how they very did a Benghazi video.

@Whovian1029 5 лет назад

@@vivigesso3756 Wow, that's so relevant /s

@jwddwj9 5 лет назад

The individualistic solutions they propose will never work. Only the rich few will every have the time and money to do them. We need societal solutions. Filters in every treatment plant, subsidies for hemp not oil.

@jwddwj9 5 лет назад

Tax the sale of synthetic clothes to pay for these things. This whole thing is a failure of the market. Currently this environmental destruction is an externality, the cost on it is not calculated into the companies profits, but it needs to be.

@lilaclizard4504 5 лет назад

what's your solution to the bacteria filled super smelly contaminated water that's left after reeting the hemp to make it usable fibre? Treatment plants can't be filtered, but washing machines can be & yes, fund that through sales of synthetic clothes

@tibbygaycat 5 лет назад

@@jwddwj9 thanks fellow econ student!

@jacob2359 5 лет назад

Yeah, problem with that. First microplastics are the degraded forms of regular plastic, so sewers already filter that out. Its countries like India and China that simply dump plastic in the ocean that cause the issue we see here. Second, hemp oil seriously? To replace all plastic with hemp would cause so much fertilizer run-off it'd be toxic for every stream, lake, river, and ocean. Even the biodegradable options are better than that. No, your best solution is some biodegradable plastics with recycling of non-biodegradable plastics as well.

@lilaclizard4504 5 лет назад

@@jacob2359 _"First microplastics are the degraded forms of regular plastic, so sewers already filter that out. "_ why do people comment on videos they haven't watched? Really really stupid, ignorant comment Jacob! Watch the video!

@Sm0k3y707 5 лет назад

Plankton is just trying to find out what the Krabby patty secret formula is...

@techsucks 5 лет назад

Thank you for making these videos!

@vvrn1587 5 лет назад

We have messed up our earth... There is no way goin back... I feel sad

@Munchausenification 5 лет назад

Dont be sad. Right now there is ships out there collecting the plastic. I think there is a ship from Netherlands and one from Norway. Scientists from Britain was close a few years back gen modify a bacteria that can eat plastic and make oil. It wont be long before plastic is not a problem anymore

@rubyjay5864 5 лет назад

Go vegan... least we can do!

@campkira 5 лет назад

Look at this way everything is come from star dust and at the end of universe. everything go back to start dust. We just live here temporary. Those plastic can be pick up and recycle. sure some would get to animal and end up in us but then the cycle of life start again.

@Emilia-lr6vc 5 лет назад

i feel so sad about my friends that think that by not using a straw are helping. they buy fast fashion and think they are the problem when the problem is the companies and government for not implementing rules.

@Emilia-lr6vc 5 лет назад

@@rubyjay5864 and don't buy fast fashion, don't buy new things (every month) don't put your food in the trash and support REAL eco-friendly companies

@AlreadyTaken999 5 лет назад

Changes at an individual level are unpredictable/improbable at best. Are systems-targeting solutions possible? Like finer filters in treating wastewater & removing macro-plastics to prevent degradation to microplastics?

@goosty17 5 лет назад

Line filters are very difficult to implement in a sewage system because they are very thin filters. The amount of pressure exerted from water on the daily would rip these filters in a matter of seconds. This is why most processing plants only remove solid visible waste and break down the smaller ones chemically because it is physically impossible.

@rkan2 5 лет назад

Such fine filters would increase the cost of wastewater filtration by at least a magnitude if not several.. Both in energy usage and and filter costs. Why would you filter all wastewater anyway when only a portion of it is a problem? By comparison: It would most likely be more cost-effectice to just throw away clothes made from synthetic fibers than to try to filter all wastewater with filters fine enough for filtering microplastics. Much more feasible solutions would be to make clothes washing illegal in amything but industrial scale.. This way you could wash clothes in several distributed areas, where it would still be economically feasible to wash clothes and filter all the wastewater from these facilities..

@merrymachiavelli2041 5 лет назад

What about just making washing machines come with filters? I'm sure washing machines already have to conform to other sorts of standards in most places.

@r.r.r9300 5 лет назад

That's an unrealistic solution too because no one would want to pay extra taxes so it could be implemented in the first place.

@alexgaggio2957 5 лет назад

Y. R tax the rich. But that’s also a bad argument. It means we can literally do nothing ever because “taxes”, yet we tend to fund tax breaks for the ultra wealthy and billion dollar jets that don’t work just fine.

@mcspirit 5 лет назад

Buy fewer higher quality items in natural material. Wool doesn't have to be washed nearly as often as blended fabrics

@acooktales5142 4 года назад

I m living on d equator..summer all year round..lol

@asdkotable 3 года назад

@@acooktales5142 linen and silk are your friend! :)

@backpacker-abhineet 5 лет назад

This is the video that is making aware of horrible issue at hand! Thank you for sharing the info:)

@userou-ig1ze 5 лет назад

thumbs up for actually citing sources while displaying info. A rare thing on RU-vid. Thanks for this informative video

@napoleonibonaparte7198 5 лет назад

2 dislikes are from Plankton and Karen.

@mihajlo961x 5 лет назад

FFS Karen...

@TheGlob420 5 лет назад

R/fuckyoukaren

@rasappa950 5 лет назад

Those dislike should be from clothing companies..

@NatWarrior1 5 лет назад

Why would plankton dislike the video if they are being affected by this I don’t quite understand the reasoning behind your joke

@politkos5348 5 лет назад

awesum PVP woosh

@anonymous-ff5yj 5 лет назад

So why should there be cheap products in the first place when the consequence of it is going to be very costly

@advdsvshshdbjxiforkabahsis6473 5 лет назад

anonymous supply and demand

@whitecoolcatwithatrilbyhat2687 5 лет назад

anonymous Greed

@markgreen6229 4 года назад

My friend it is simple: Short term monetary gain.

@neutronpcxt372 4 года назад

It's cheap now. That's the biggest issue.

@thesparrowtalks5019 4 года назад

Greed for money

@magicemail 5 лет назад

"Switching to other materials isn't feasible" Yeah, neither is poisoning our oceans.

@MyN0N4M3 5 лет назад

The point that was made is that as long as there are cheaper options, the vast majority of ppl will buy it. So no matter what you as an individual do about it, it doesn't matter. The only solution that really works must be feasable and cheap, otherwise it's no solution at all and you might as well not do anything.

@jeremybasset9041 5 лет назад

It's if too expensive, people won't want it. That's how the modern world works

@AscheDjidoi 5 лет назад

If we end capitalism, the cost of natural fibers stops being a problem.

@jesselong2606 5 лет назад

I bask in the infinite wisdom that is our modern economics. When this horrible 'measurement' of life is removed from our discussions then we will be able to fix the problem, not just the symptoms of economics.

@nilaksh007 5 лет назад

Humanity is doomed to die anyway. There is too much stupidity and corruption. I would be surprised if we survive the next few centuries

@narcolonarcolo 5 лет назад

It feels like all the food you can buy at the store is tainted somehow. It sucks.

@flamevix 5 лет назад

Yum yum. Luckily we live in a time with so many alternatives. But I still worry about other animals that depend on fish for food.

@anna.m8 5 лет назад

Very well done video! Pleasant to watch, despite the sad, disturbing topic. Thank you

@sebaschan-uwu 5 лет назад

Every day I hear about how the world is ending and we're all gonna die and the they wonder why people are so depressed

@FortoFight 4 года назад

Plastic-eating bacteria have emerged already, I think our ecosystems will just gradually adapt to the prescence of plastic.

@napoleonibonaparte7198 5 лет назад

Back in my days, we didn’t need those synthetic fibres... No sir. Back in my days, we had real ostrich skin.

@AdamOctorachmadi 5 лет назад

We still use silk and real cloth here for traditional clothes, and we still use them. Idk about those branded expensive clothes from big industry

@reinatague3921 5 лет назад

😂

@Crushenator500 5 лет назад

Ok Manafort.

@lilaclizard4504 5 лет назад

Back in my day we ran around naked & ostriches had feathers with useless skin under them - full of holes after we pulled out the feathers :P The lambskins made wonderful boots though :) Don't say ugg!

@mohammedkhan5344 5 лет назад

I feel that we should do something about this huge mess, not just talk about it

@diegomesa2337 5 лет назад

I swear it's like everyday something new is popping up that we're doing wrong. Recycling doesn't virtually work anymore, laundry is now also a problem, the awareness on how fragrances are bad is increasing, some forms of renewable energy is detrimental to the habitats they're, etc. We really made a huge problem, the more we try to fix it the more we notice how far in our lives it has trickled down. We basically need whole lifestyle changes. I'm here for it though, we need to address this ASAP. We will find solutions.

@agauggaming846 5 лет назад

Legends: Micro used napkins are the the worse for those plankton.

@JohnSmith-td7hd 5 лет назад

The suggestions could use some work. Ideally the solution is effortless. Maybe all washing machines need a filter to come standard.

@pereiramariana35 5 лет назад

and here i was, procrastinating to do my laundry, now that you reminded me i actually need to get that done, dang

@KendrixTermina 5 лет назад

Filters in washing machines should be made mandatory the way they are in car exhaust pipes. Particularly it should be *government regulation* so that the companies HAVE to obey instead of making private people pay extra. Maybe they could even give you money for swapping your old washing machine, like what the German Government did for old cars. Of course hemp fiber is also a good idea.

@alanramirez7123 5 лет назад

Vox really makes some of the best videos on RU-vid.

@evanserickson 5 лет назад

Ben Israel Shapiro - “The free market will solve it!” We need regulation. A filter on every new washing machine.

@jeffdetmer9967 5 лет назад

And what about the people around the world that clean their clothes by beating them on rocks? All the solutions provided by this video and in the comment only work in the first world.

@evanserickson 5 лет назад

Jeff Detmer I don’t think the people beating their clothes on rocks are as much of a problem as the first world who buys nike clothing

@jeffdetmer9967 5 лет назад

@@evanserickson I do not billions of people running around the World naked.

@prolarka 3 года назад

The free market solves the problem only if the consumers choose to.

@evanserickson 3 года назад

@@prolarka Which is the problem. Consumers sometimes don't care / don't know / are lied to by the companies about the damage the companies cause.

@RayMak 5 лет назад

Our ocean is so dirty

@angelsanchez7472 3 года назад

Ray Mak hi

@muhammadalfatih2640 3 года назад

*Our* ocean? M-must crash *capitalism!*

@acorneyelid5024 5 лет назад

Was not aware. Thanks.

@CM-jf1vx 5 лет назад

This just confirms I'm saving the planet by not doing laundry.

@erikdgroot 5 лет назад

Thanks VOX for shedding light on this. However, I don't agree with the statement that switching to natural fabrics isn't an option. The natural fabrics are mainly so expensive due to the lack of economies of scale. Hemp, for example, only makes up less than 0,01% of the total industry. Switching to natural alternatives will cause prices to go down. Maybe not as much down as polyester, but at least enough to stop a lot of the pollution.

@lilaclizard4504 5 лет назад

Hemp has pollution issues though, I'm really not sure it's viable to scale up to massive scale. Wool & silk are probably the better options. Silk will never reach massive production, but it has really good durability properties, so a switch in attitude to less but higher quality clothes fits well with that. Same with leather - after first wiping out the use of toxin chemicals to make it, possibly even scobie based leather as well, with the increasing popularity of kombuca

@erikdgroot 5 лет назад

Lilac Lizard could you elaborate on hemp’s pollution issues? Never came across those. In my opinion plant based is better, because you can see what happens when demand grows with animal fabrics such as cashmere ...

@erikdgroot 5 лет назад

IBBY see what I did there

@lilaclizard4504 5 лет назад

@@erikdgroot _"could you elaborate on hemp’s pollution issues? "_ hemp fibres are separated from the other plant fibres via a process called "reeting" which is basicly controlled rotting & it's known to have serious contaminated water disposal issues. Not allowed to grow hemp where I live, but linen/flax has the same process, so I have grown some of that myself to learn about it & I have to say it doesn't seem to be exaggerated to me, I really don't know how you would get rid of that wastewater that's so full of such smelly bacteria. Even just with small quantities I had issues. Flax can be reeted by leaving it on moist ground in the right conditions, but it's much harder & gives a poorer quality product (I gave up trying tbh, couldn't get it to work with the weather I have here) but it doesn't seem that hemp can be done in that way due to it's harder outer fibres & softer inner ones & also, another comment here was mentioning that hemp is actually much rougher than cotton to wear, so that would be serious exacerbated by non-water reeting too, making it more like wearing a hessian bag than cotton. Maybe there's a solution out there that someone can come up with, but I'm just not sure there's anything really solid available right now or in the near future that doesn't cause serious water pollution issues _"what happens when demand grows with animal fabrics such as cashmere ..."_ That's one I don't think I'm familiar with (I might be with prompting) I'm aware of the serious issues with angora & those poor rabbits that are the near exclusive source of it today :'( but cashmere's different to that isn't it? Would you mind elaborating on that one for me?

@erikdgroot 5 лет назад

Lilac Lizard but rotting something thats natural (i.e. you don’t need pesticides to grow flax or hemp) doesn’t cause environmental damage right? It’s just organic material finding its way back in the ground, or am I missing something here ... Just type in “cashmere production problems” and you’ll find what I’m talking about. www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/insideasia/2017/02/16/cashmere-cost-environment/amp/ stuff like this.

@yammyfromearth3410 5 лет назад

Easy... Wear nothing. Problem solved 😎

@USBEN. 5 лет назад

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@hf2992tobias 5 лет назад

Its cold though

@naheenisapoet69 5 лет назад

@@mygamepage5719 or prehistoric-ism i really don't know the correct word don't kill nmme for it

@HeartlandChasingNetwork 5 лет назад

@@hf2992tobias r/woooosh

@dizzyiguana981 5 лет назад

Check mate

@antfactor 10 месяцев назад

Great video. Most people don't realize that plastics are also amazingly efficient sponges for dangerous heavy metals, which accumulate more and more as they move up the food chain.

@xiiioet3556 5 лет назад

yesssss i needed this video. THANK YOU

@insertnamehere8099 5 лет назад

He gave up on the krabby patty and just started eating garbage

@Xaltic 5 лет назад

He is just trying to get the secret ingredient for the Krabby patty

@marlinray6831 3 года назад

I prefer cotton or wool anyway. We could also try to make rayon (made from wood or bamboo) with less toxic methods.

@tinguzz 3 года назад

better to use cotton cloths, thanks for the video. The chain is so efficient that these micro plastic finally comes back to us.

@lilaclizard4504 5 лет назад

I don't care if it's expensive, I still want to buy a filter, I have ever since I heard it was an option but from my understanding, they're not available for retail sale. From my understanding, if all washing machines were to install them, the cost would only be around $100 extra per machine anyway, so quite reasonable imo to save the planet! Yes, too much for some, so maybe the cost could instead be funded via a tax on synthetic clothes that directly paid for the filters, that way those with the money to buy lots of clothes ie those causing the problems anyway, would be the ones to fund the solution, while those without money or buying second hand clothes to care for the environment don't have to pay it. Only problem after that is getting consumers to accept it & empty the filters, which is the reason that washing machines are now free of any filter, that consumers didn't want the mess of emptying filters. this is also the reason (beyond cost) that manufacturers don't want to add them to machines, so come on people! Do we care about the planet & ultimately our own health too or are we too selfish to even clean a filter to save the world?

@jamesbizs 5 лет назад

Lilac Lizard LOL only $100 extra. Something tells me, you’re a child that has never bought something worth $100, let alone something that costs $100 extra.

@lilaclizard4504 5 лет назад

@@jamesbizs something tells me you have no idea how to balance a budget & spend WELL over $100 a month on unnecessary junk for selfish reasons. If you budgeted properly & prioritised the environment over constant luxuries, you could skip your Starbucks & Netflicks & afford a filter to save your health & the health of the planet! There are some people out there that can't afford it sure, but did you read my comment? There's no reason those filters couldn't be funded via a tax on synthetic clothes, therefore those people who genuinely can't afford it won't be paying for it anyway, those with the money to buy new clothes for every night out will foot their bill. In my country, taxes & rebates aren't an unusual thing. Tax gets added to the sale of the item for the government to collect, then eligible people fill in a government form to get a rebate directly deposited into their bank account. In this case any citizen buying a new washing machine with a filter would receive the rebate form along with their receipt, with an address on it to send the form to for the refund (and stores selling the washing machine would likely offer a service of filling in the form as standard, or even selling the machine at the price after rebate, with form simply requiring a buyer signature to allow the rebate to go directly to the store to reimburse them the effective credit they provided the buyer. It's not hard! Meanwhile, thanks to this video I have found a micro-plastics filter or sale, now I just need to find it in, or someone who ships to my country to buy (with one option due to become available in about 6 months time, so it's in my wishlist until then - unless I find an alternative sales option sooner)

@Fife178 5 лет назад

@@lilaclizard4504 It sounds like you're a pretty capable adult to me who knows how to budget and spend. The average person typically spends hundreds of dollars on small things without even realizing it, even college students. Someone who drinks starbucks three times a week ends up easily spending $100 in just a couple months. Textbooks are another expense that would easily cost someone $100. Here is a fun trick too: Pre shredded packaged lettuce costs $2 * 52 (weeks in a year)= $104 A bunch of lettuce (not pre-cut) maybe costs $1 (sometimes less) * 52= $52 Keep in mind, the first figure is if you eat salad just a couple of times per week. The really crazy thing though, is that this can apply to many other aspects of shopping too from chicken to fruit. So now that I've at the very least saved you $48 with just lettuce, the question is, how are you choosing to spend that money?

@paingpaingpp 5 лет назад

Next Year: *Film Theory: Is Plankton from Spongebob actually not evil?*

@nizziewong 5 лет назад

Thanks a lot for this video

@firdausabubakar8722 5 лет назад

Wow this is unique video. Thanks for the effort and awareness.

@Clarity520 5 лет назад

Why doesn't every single washing machine in the west have filter? Back when I was living in China almost 10 years ago, every single washing machine has it. What the hell?

@niyazmather 5 лет назад

Absolutely right. I was thinking the same. I had a Chinese washing machine more than 10 years ago and it had filter built in.

@poruatokin 5 лет назад

@@niyazmather The filters you are referring to are there to prevent your drain from becoming blocked. They are an order of magnitude too large to block the microfibers mentioned in this video.

@WilliamAiken 5 лет назад

RU-vid algorithm picked Earth Day to promote this. 👍🏽 I approve!

@PepTalkTillYouDrop 4 года назад

Ai doing a good job

@antwainclarke3406 5 лет назад

There has to be more solutions than demanding the customer solve the issue. The textile manufacturers and water water treatment plant should be accountable too.

@sanjogbhalla1720 5 лет назад

This channel is making a move to see things differently for the sake our mother nature ...😊 Great Job

@15sachin15 5 лет назад

This plastic is more dangerous then what I thought 💭 before 😟 Switching to cotton is better, health is more important than money 💰

@ebayerr 4 года назад

Sachin Koparde : I have only worn cotton and wool clothing my whole life. Especially socks and underwear.

@studentchaoren9805 5 лет назад

0:26 Well who is dumping all that garbage in the oceans! Ah forget it, we’re all dead. There’s way too much plastics everywhere. I’ll just stop buying fruit in plastics and orange juice in plastic bottles as a start.

@r.r.r9300 5 лет назад

The top six countries that dump the most plastic in the ocean are China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

@rkan2 5 лет назад

Plastic packaging in most cases makes a whole lot of sense especially when it is discsrded properly, like it is in most western countries. You can increase the shelf-life of several foods by days if not weeks, by just packaging them in plasti, which has very minimal impact from the plastic itself. Keeping the food consumable for longer has a much greater impact on emissions for example.

@rkan2 5 лет назад

Y. R Yeah... The majority of actual plastic waste (like the large pieces) comes from countries where there aren't great waste processing capabilities...

@rkan2 5 лет назад

Ryan C I agree... I'd start at capitalism, by regulating it in strict way that would make these things unfeasible! I'm talking about environmental protection taxes or something along the lines..

@NintendoSEGAreviewer 5 лет назад

Ryan C You’re very ignorant. Without plastic and with your view, humanity would be so far behind than it is now. That needle for that vaccine? Plastic sterilized it and improved the lives of thousands. Food that the poor couldn’t afford before? Plastic helped make it cheaper and last longer. Clothes, electronics, furniture. Plastic has helped a lot. Getting rid of plastic without a suitable alternative is a no go.

@zurgboy07 4 года назад

When life gives you plastic Plankton: EATS PLASTIC

@Richard-pz8vm 5 лет назад

Sounds like the easiest solution is to lobby for stricter filtration in water treatment plants to stop these plastics from getting into the ocean at all. Everyone buying a filter for their laundry machine is horrifyingly inefficient when the local water treatment plant could just buy one and service thousands of homes.

@insertswear 5 лет назад

Sometimes I wonder, if we somehow disappeared from Earth and returned a hundred million years in the future, how would the biosphere incorporate the plastic we left behind?

@11darklight11 5 лет назад

Probably more and more microorganisms like bacteria would evolve to eat the plastic

@Carnophobe 5 лет назад

Ideonella sakainesis, a bacteria discovered in 2016, is capable of eating poly-ethylene terephthalate (PET).

@tibblesss 5 лет назад

Plankton: *eats plastic* California: *bans all plastic*

@ZaaZoJo 10 месяцев назад

So the washing machine companies and water treatment plants need to be held LIABLE for these DAMAGES.

@RB01138 5 лет назад

Funnily enough, I used to work in oil and gas (pipefitter), and we always wear natural materials because the synthetics melt to your skin during flash fires. We handled the material used to make them but couldn't wear them because they're too dangerous.

@2036scott 5 лет назад

Great now I have an excuse to be a smelly bastard, it's all to do with saving You, Me and the Planet!

@thexoxo0104 5 лет назад

PLANKTON!? ARE YOU EATING PLASTIC ( this is about SpongeBob)

@zhuhw 4 года назад

1:11 Those 90s ski jacket colors

@AcousticAdd1ct 5 лет назад

Thanks for enlighting me vox. I already know about plastics in the seabed but never thought of our clothes' micro fibers are also the cause of sea poisoning. I knew that some clothes that are drained after washing you can see little fibers being left out and drained with the water but not to the extent of going straight to our ocean floors. Now i know

@mannyjohnson8383 5 лет назад

Take a five minute shower to limit water usage... Meanwhile at your local frozen foods warehouse cant let the pipes freeze...

@PatrickWDwyer 5 лет назад

Manny Johnson I take 2-3 min showers. Any longer is so wasterfull

@chaosdweller 5 лет назад

Is Mani really real?

@WhyCantWeAllGetAlong1 5 лет назад

My plastic has more fish in it, than the plastic I used to carry it.

@greg4629 5 лет назад

you mean your fish has more plastic in it ?

@danielgorzelniak3209 5 лет назад

@@greg4629 No. His plastic has a lot of fish in it.

@starrrii7901 5 лет назад

aww they're so smol and cute

@Agos226 4 года назад

I really highly recommend the video “the plastic industry’s long fight to blame pollution on you”

@nonegiven2830 5 лет назад

"washed clothing using this special filter" What's the filter? Where do I get one? How do I fit one?

@lilaclizard4504 5 лет назад

From my understanding they don't make them due to a perceived lack of demand :( They would only cost around $100 each to be fitted into washing machines during manufacture, but manufacturers refuse & don't even include basic level filters anymore due to consumer demand to remove them for convenience :( If you do manage to find one though, I'm definitely buying one!

@nonegiven2830 5 лет назад

@@lilaclizard4504 I might just make my own when I redo the laundry room

@lilaclizard4504 5 лет назад

@@nonegiven2830 how? What are you thinking? Anything I could copy?

@nonegiven2830 5 лет назад

@@lilaclizard4504 I've not given it a lot of thought so far but in the UK you just kind of jam a waste pipe down a drain and that's it. So some kind of actual connector for starters, followed by a water filter of some description. Nothing fancy but should be pretty simple to fabricate.

@lilaclizard4504 5 лет назад

@@nonegiven2830 yeh, same drain hose system here, I was wondering when the video mentioned a bag if maybe sticking a bag like that over the end of that pipe might work? The filter idea you're talking about sounds good, but could it handle the speed of water outflow? That's a big hose pipe & seems to drain really fast! I had a filter on my shower years ago, but it would only allow water to run through at about 7litres per minute I think it was, was low even for a water saving shower head. I'm not even sure what sort of mesh or level of filter is needed for microfibres tbh

@elonhusk5203 5 лет назад

They are saving the world, Respect to those little brothers :)

@nhozdien5058 5 лет назад

Elon Musk do you even watch the whole video? They eat those microfiber, fishes eat them, and we eat the fishes.

@zurog7742 5 лет назад

nhozdien we could make like a lake filled with these guys and take out all the fish and start dumping our plastic waste in it.

@qulmon32414 5 лет назад

nhozdien as long as the fishes are cooked i’ll eat em 🤷🏾‍♂️

@friendly_user1233 5 лет назад

This video addressed a good point concerning the consumption of plastics in fishes then it being passed to humans. I think it’s also good to add on that planktons contributes to about 50-85% of the Earth atmosphere’s oxygen!

@sheikhspeare7262 3 года назад

Well boys looks like the Chum Bucket really needs that Crabbie Pattie secret formula.

@SamRoxxJDM 5 лет назад

Plastic- the best and the worse invention of mankind

@santoshp7887 5 лет назад

I feel bad for this, this is why Thanos did right

@kyled1673 5 лет назад

That snap is going to cause chaos and destruction. Thanos made everything worse.

@politkos5348 5 лет назад

Not to mention the political and ecological instability that would ravage our planet and other planets

@kyled1673 5 лет назад

@plusmetal rise Because he lacks intelligence.

@raidy5215 5 лет назад

DIY special filter life hack

@ryko9975 5 лет назад

The way plastic climbs up the food chain is called biomagnification. Every step gets more concentrated because if plastic doesn’t get discarded by the host then more will stay in the food chain

@chalasanisunitha2704 5 лет назад

Best 1ST CLASS knowledge on RU-vid

@facethebeast3826 5 лет назад

Who knew that plastic would he our demise... karma

@astaridjatmiko8187 4 года назад

okey, noted. Thank you for the information. 👍

@RealHIFIHelp 4 года назад

Good message.

@ScipioXII 5 лет назад

Y’all don’t like eating farmed fish because it’s immoral but now you don’t want to eat organic ocean caught fish because of micro fibers. Make your damn mind.

@trygveevensen171 5 лет назад

Honestly, why do I click on videos like this when I'm already aware of it...

@anonymouschange287 4 года назад

There are bacteria in a pond next to an old nylon factory in Japan that eat and process nylon. Vox should do a video on nylonase and interview scientists to see if we could use it on other plastics.