Why Plastic Recycling Isn’t Working

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To start your free Shopify trial today go to: https://www.shopify.com/faultline Does plastic recycling actually work because plastic pollution is everywhere? From Mount Everest to the bottom of our oceans. In this episode, Andy decides to track his plastic waste to figure out where it ends up in the hopes of answering this question, and this journey leads him somewhere he didn't expect. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/Faultlinevideos/subscribed JOIN OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/faultline Check out @BrothersMake for more. Short form content // https://www.instagram.com/faultlinevideos/ https://www.tiktok.com/@faultlinetv Business enquiries // [email protected] Faultline is produced by: Executive Producer/Story Editor/Host: Andy Burgess Story: Jennifer Landrey & Andy Burgess Research: Jennifer Landrey Senior Producer: Anjali Sharma Editors: Andy Burgess Motion Graphics: Jatin Nahata Consultant: Erica Cirino @BrothersMake Jonny Browning & Matt Browning Find out more about Live Love Recycle and The Ocean Clean Up here: https://liveloverecycle.tilda.ws/ https://theoceancleanup.com/ Music from Musicbed // https://fm.pxf.io/c/2423499/1347628/16252 Sources 🔗 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8704590/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/282732/global-production-of-plastics-since-1950/ https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/chemistry/age-plastic-parkesine-pollution#:~:text=Belgian%20chemist%20and%20clever%20marketeer,phenol,%20under%20heat%20and%20pressure. https://tnmuseum.org/junior-curators/posts/the-story-of-piggly-wiggly-the-first-supermarket#:~:text=Then%2C%20on%20September%2011%2C%201916,from%20different%20items%20they%20wanted. https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/birth-ban-history-plastic-shopping-bag#:~:text=1965%20%E2%80%93%20The%20one%2Dpiece%20polyethylene,cloth%20and%20plastic%20in%20Europe https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/22/microplastics-revealed-in-placentas-unborn-babies https://www.npr.org/2020/03/31/822597631/plastic-wars-three-takeaways-from-the-fight-over-the-future-of-plastics https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/climate/chasing-arrows-recycling-symbol-epa.html https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/17/plastic-recycling-myth-what-really-happens-your-rubbish https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-waste-trade https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution https://www.gov.uk/government/news/biffa-fined-15-million-for-reckless-export-breach#:~:text=In%20September%202019%2C%20Biffa%20was,between%20May%20and%20June%202015 https://theoceancleanup.com/great-pacific-garbage-patch/ https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-pacific-garbage-patch/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/great-pacific-garbage-patch-plastics-environment Time Stamps: 0:00: Is Plastic Recycling a Lie? 1:31: I'm so confused... 2:22: Putting AirTags in my recycling to track it. 3:30: Am I obsessed with plastic? 4:07: The origins of plastic. 5:50: Plastic bag hype. 7:06: Maybe plastic isn't so cool. 8:30: The highjacking of the recycling symbol. 10:38: How much plastic waste do we produce? 13:07: The Global Waste Industry, explained. 16:00: A country that can't manage it's waste. 17:18: How plastic ends up in our oceans. 18:28: Following the plastic tracker to find out where it's ended up. 20:11: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. 21:49: Why does so much plastic end up here? 23:00: How do we live with plastic? #recycling #plastic