The Plastic Problem - A PBS NewsHour Documentary
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Channel: PBS NewsHour
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Length: 54min 8sec (3248 seconds)
Published: Wed Nov 27 2019
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I worked at SC Johnson and the owner/CEO Fisk Johnson was obsessed with saving the world from ocean plastic. I've never seen someone so obsessed over removing plastic from the world, and yet, also the owner of the largest Ziploc plastic bag business.
Things like this make me so sad
I work in the plastics packaging industry. I can tell you from the inside - the pressure is working. Keep it up. Keep pushing, keep demanding solutions, keep supporting the products you believe in.
Inside the industry, the engineers and the managers and controllers and tradesmen - they don't necessarily believe this is a problem. But they don't need to believe it. They just need to know that their livelihood is at stake.
Pretty much everything at the grocery store is covered in single use plastic. I can only do so much and buy things that are not in plastic. This won't get better until companies are fined/taxed out the ass.
Where I am, they still use single use plastic bags over paper bags at every single store in the state. There is no hope. If technologically advanced countries are still using plastic on this level, there is nothing we can do about this anytime soon.
Yeah. But all The plastic companies like nestle coca-cola tell you their trash are recyclable... funny
We leave our trash everywhere. In the oceans. In space. We need to spend more effort on cleaning up after ourselves before we don't have a home anymore.
Should read "humans are now considered one of the largest environmental threats facing humans and animals globally"
someone should train fish to pick up plastic
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