MUST WATCH: Markwayne Mullin Continues Clash With Anti-Plastics Witness

At Wednesday's Senate Environment Committee hearing, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-IN) continued to question an anti-plastics witness.
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[@eshelly4205]

It’s like having a conversation with a 14 year old.. he did his best not making her look like the idiot she is

[@judysmith3249]

Most 14 year olds are way above her intelligence.

[@eshelly4205]

@@judysmith3249 some are.. I have a daughter and her friends were pretty silly and idiotic

[@rigafraction1653]

Oh ma gaaaw-waaad

[@jumpieva]

product of years of indoctrination, social media, and main stream media. better off just ignoring and laughing at these fools. when we're in the jetson's age, wake me up, until then i'm gonna buy and use what I need and do the best I can to be sustainable and responsible.

[@Saxtoo]

Sweet Jesus. Where do you find 'em? 😳

[@jocopowell]

So she recycles the single-use plastic bottles that she doesn't use because recycling doesn't work. Got it.

[@AntjeReifferscheidt]

The issue with the Recycling is that Most of the Garbage is Sold to countries and ends in rivers and oceans after being washed from the landfill. Why destroy her? Why Not finding a solution that is helpful?

[@Ray56z]

@@AntjeReifferscheidt That's HER JOB, find a solution that's useful. You can whine and snivel all you want, but if you don't strive for an alterative-then all you're doing is whine and snivel. This moron said 'until companies come up with something else' as in I'll snivel and whine, I won't research alteratives, but the companies will because I whine and snivel. Yeah, right.

[@wlan246]

@@AntjeReifferscheidt _She's_ the "expert" who's supposed to bring a solution!

[@tweetybeetweetybea9652]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@archieolmstead6688]

Its called liberal logic.

[@deckert618]

She's got that vocal fry down of the most annoying 17 yr old girl you've ever met. "Like, I totally don''t use plastics!" As she stares at you through her plastic frames

[@mMsbeezer]

There are definitely plastic parts inside her toilet tank.

[@goawaypleasethanks]

Shes so highly aware and intelligent that I'll bet she's the type to send a screenshot of her cracked phone to her friends.

[@DBul3000]

She's talking about single use plastics which the Senator doesn't seem to understand what that is. She's absolutely correct that recycling does really little and single use plastic refers to a plastic product that you use once and throw away, whether it goes in the recycling bin or the trash can doesn't matter. Sure, make fun of how she speaks but she was right here and the senator has no clue what single use plastics is.

[@DBul3000]

@@pcgupstate8438 and like yourself, he doesn't understand what single use plastic is. That water bottle is single use plastic. Recycling such plastic is extremely inefficient and most of it just becomes waste.

[@ungas024]

​@DBul3000 what's your alternative to iv bags and disposable neddles?

[@GrilloTheFlightless]

“I do my homework”. Really? A few moments before she could only name two single use plastics, one of which was demonstrated not to be single use, because she “can’t think of anything else”. What impressive knowledge she has!

[@kawashima-yoshiko]

She actually is a PhD. This is enough to discourage Christ.

[@pavlovdogs1178]

@@kawashima-yoshiko proof that just because you have a PhD doesn't mean that you are an expert on anything.

[@FHL-Devils]

In fairness, she was getting annihilated, she knew it, and she froze. Would likely happen to anyone in that scenario.

[@UnrivaledAegis]

@@kawashima-yoshikoanyone can get a PHD with enough time and money…

[@anastaciazara1787]

Why is this woman in front of Congress? How did she qualify? This is a complete waste of everyone's time. I don't want Congress wasting their time with this woman. She's ignorant and flippant about the topic of discussion. If this is the bar to testify in front of Congress, then no wonder our government doesn't get anything done.

[@jamesbrischke4815]

The left held a Koolaid drinking contest. She won.

[@raychambers3646]

Box ticked .

[@justkim9827]

She looks and speaks like she's still in high school

[@dustinbarlow1623]

She wins the moron of the year award! Over 90% of plastic extrusion uses regrind pellets during the pandemic it was almost all regrind.

[@notundermywatch3163]

​@@justkim9827 it's Gen Z

[@JHank-yb4jv]

I agree that plastic overproduction is a problem. But if you show up to Congress with nothing other than “destroy an industry overnight,” you’re really not helping.

[@Nightdare]

“destroy an industry overnight, because if you don't, I'll keep using it and how dare you state that I'm the one that needs to change"

[@psycholuigiman]

I also agree that the recycling industry has some companies that don't really recycle as much as they could. I hear they mostly dump big chunks of the stuff in landfills overseas cuz it's cheaper somehow. If this lady had an ounce of common sense and critical thinking, she'd be trying to find ways to hold recycling companies that don't actually recycle to task.

[@johncrocker4209]

Reporting how bad plastic can be is helpful. Expecting anything but a slow transition from the most unstable forms is foolish.

[@Nightdare]

@@johncrocker4209 "But I demand it NOW!" petulant children, the lot of them

[@lemurianchick]

It's the truth, though. Even though I voted for Trump, I am more of a progressive. These Koch whores don't care about anything but 💰

[@sarahanguria9908]

How did this lady qualify for this debate? ! 🤨🤦🏿‍♀️

[@darrinidontcare9526]

this is how we learn and come to a conclusion. everyone deserves a voice, everyone also can be proven wrong.

[@CheeKiatTeo]

If she is against recycling then every single plastic is single use LOL

[@bostonterrierfanatic9652]

this girl speaks like a middle schooler.

[@DavidThurston-zj5nf]

Yes, but she's right. Whereas the congressman thinks like an 11 year old and is quite wrong.

[@dmitriykagan3883]

your statement is an insult to middle schoolers. Average middle schoolers can make far better arguments to justify their demands.

[@theodorejohnson3459]

@@DavidThurston-zj5nf Obviously you are not even on the level of an 11 year old for the man is a US Senator, not a congressman

[@jamesbrischke4815]

@@DavidThurston-zj5nf she's right by what possible metric? She's a hypocrite, plain and simple. You couldn't answer any one of the congressman's questions, and he's the 11 year old?

[@JHank-yb4jv]

@@DavidThurston-zj5nfWrong in what way? He literally asked her: “give us a realistic plan and we will work with you.”

[@SSHitMan]

She sounds like a 6th grader repeating what she's been told, not an expert who has studied the subject

[@425HP]

That is because that is what she is doing. Trying to prove her worth by championing a completely impossible cause.

[@bamahama707]

Expert, according to WHO?

[@dcb1138]

Hey, she's a women of color and "Diversity is our strength"....Until the rubber hits the road. Her whole life she's gotten participation medals and told how bright she is.

[@lunahd7200]

@@dcb1138you stole my words

[@dann547]

She would be a really annoying date. I would purposely ask for two extra straws for my drink.

[@jamegumm]

Scary is that in her heart, she won the argument…..

[@kawashima-yoshiko]

Scary is that in the hearts of millions of people she won.

[@croaton07]

She's not in favor of recycling because it takes control away from her and her ilk. It's not about the plastics, it's all about control. Always has been, with them, and always will be.

[@wayne6512]

I can 100% guarantee if you went into her house, you would find numerous items of single use plastic. She's lying.

[@wb5408]

Right? I'm sure the make-up on her face comes in glass containers, and she's never used a chapstick in her life!

[@krakenpots5693]

or oblivious.

[@sensejorrdan]

yes of course, but then she would have her story ready why that is and blame the industry or the government or the who ever, she is just a pathetic attention seeker/

[@1985nyg]

It’s honestly absurd that every news channel is not covering this woman’s blatant lack of knowledge on basically anything that she has been asked so far. She literally has no knowledge of anything she’s supposed to.

[@lemurianchick]

OMG, LITERALLY?????????!!!!!! You're wrong. Even though she's got a Valley Girl voice, she's correct. Plastic sucks. I try to buy a lot of things that are in glass but plastic is everywhere.

[@marigold3687]

@@lemurianchick. If you wore eyeglasses, you would very much appreciate plastic lenses.

[@nonamenoname3638]

That's what qualifies her for the job.

[@catwoman2582]

Her voice just makes me want to scream...

[@yimb8437]

@@lemurianchick you say this as you are either staring at a plastic monitor and typing on a plastic keyboard or plastic cellphone. Comical.

[@Anonymous_Lee19]

2:12 "I don't have any single-use plastic in my house." She's either a liar or ignorant. Probably the latter, because earlier she already said that she don't even know that her glasses and bottle has plastic in them. If a person cooks or shops at supermarkets, it's impossible to not own any single-use plastic.

[@robhulson]

“We live in the delusion of a fourteen year old girl.” - Jordan Peterson

[@mikemathews9277]

She’s the type of person who says I don’t drink alcohol but I own several Liquor stores.

[@wm1958]

As she drinks alcohol

[@jwenting]

@@wm1958 yes, because whiskey isn't alcohol... It "just contains alcohol" and "I can't prevent that because evil industry put it in there".

[@badbobcat5830]

She drinks because there is no alternative but she isn't a hypocrite because she doesn't own the distillery.

[@normanlazarus1836]

Hmmmm. I have a friend who is vegetarian but sold leather shoes & accessories. Never could understand why she couldn’t see the irony.

[@zencyn4682]

​@normanlazarus1836 there's no irony there. If you meant to say vegan, ok. But vegetarians just don't eat meat. Doesn't mean they won't use animal products.

[@Bizagro]

Wonder what she brushes her teeth with?

[@Quad8track]

Or use for her monthly cycle.

[@grahamfisher5436]

A yard brush ?

[@Byteviper]

Of course it's a glass toothbrush.

[@yosho1502]

Her fingers

[@ShAd0w0100]

I remember, back in college for a group project in my Entrepreneurial Finance course, my group voted to "start a company" that fished plastics from the world's oceans, melted down recycled plastics and made them into new plastic items. As I did my research, I found out how difficult and costly just the recycling process would be, not to mention that only a small percentage of plastics could actually be used in a process like this - they just stared at me blankly. I was forced to put our "company" in realistic terms for our project at every corner, since my classmates refused to acknowledge it was just a bad idea. (ignoring even the cost of buying a boat big enough to actually dredge the oceans for our "raw materials") People have an emotional reaction to their idea and just assume that it will work perfectly, not caring if it actually makes sense to implement or not.

[@kawashima-yoshiko]

Moreover the quality of recycled plastic is reduced compared to the source material.

[@andrewp1981]

The definition of a hypocrite.

[@robertjones8598]

She reminds me of AOC.

[@glasslight7960]

Exactly.

[@Kainis80]

Mentally, they are the same age. Snorting crayons.

[@yakbreeder]

@@Kainis80 🤣 👍

[@JediFarce]

Good, she should use her degree to do bartending.

[@Asura2k]

What is AOC?

[@Allikattoo]

Considering she didn't know her glasses were made of plastic I can almost guarantee she has at least one piece of single use plastic in her home. Just saying that makes her stupid.

[@wayne6512]

She will have more than one item of single use plastic at home. Her toothpaste tube, shampoo and conditioner bottle, the packaging her soap comes in, the packaging of her pasta, rice, sauce, spices...etc etc etc

[@bernardvc5820]

it's also funny that she thinks that solar panels aren't single use. Afaik, they still can't be recycled. Or if they can it's so hard to make it not worth it. So in other words: once they've degraded to be too inefficient they get thrown away. That's single use, even if that use is 20 years or so.

[@GeneralCheezyPr0ductionz]

Her tv or laptop is plastic af

[@normanlazarus1836]

@@bernardvc5820Hmmm. Not sure that I agree with you. If we were to adopt your definition then all plastics would be defined as single use. However, I do understand that calling for a ban on single use plastic without having a viable alternative is naive at best.

[@dcb1138]

Hey, she's a women of color and "Diversity is our strength"....Until the rubber hits the road. Her whole life she's gotten participation medals and told how bright she is.

[@andrewchr]

So in her first 2-3 sentences she made it crystal clear that she went there completely unprepared to present her arguments.

[@jeffreyrichard2575]

she went there completely unprepared .......sums up her entire educational experience. Also, students like her are why the SCOTUS just outlawed Affirmative Action in education

[@tonystark701]

It's incredible how an adult sounds exactly like a child if you just close your eyes and listen.

[@nolaspeaker5656]

How did she get nominated for this position? I know 7th graders who could provide more comprehensive arguments to the questions she's being asked.

[@CaeridLock.]

Equity quotas

[@unbiasedreviews6167]

@@CaeridLock. I'm black, let me help you coz I can see you're afraid of saying it: SHE WAS HIRED COZ SHE IS BLACK. And yes, she's embarrassing us. She's daft.

[@ericpl7227]

Black privilege!

[@Ray56z]

She wasn't a nominee, she was a grand witness that the lefty maggots on the committee had come to testify her knowledge. The lefty maggots sure do a fine job on securing expert testimony.

[@wm1958]

Look uo Yuri Bezmenov talking about Demoralization and Destabilization stages of ideological subversion. There's your answer.

[@DeprogrammedSnowflake]

Is she supposed to be an expert? What a joke

[@rickrollrizal2747]

she watched a couple of netflix documentaries. she's pretty much one of those diversity quotas in institutions.

[@DeprogrammedSnowflake]

@@rickrollrizal2747 agree probably a diversity hire. She has no knowledge, no expertise, nothing to back her claims up. Embarrassing for her!

[@XaadeTheBlade]

This video misses some context. She spent the better part of the first half of debate stating she's against ALL plastics. She spends this video saying she's only against single use plastics. She backpedaled between the videos because he pointed out it's literally impossible to not use plastic at this point in time and it was undeniable. Now she's excusing herself because she doesn't use any single use plastics, but that's not what she called for earlier, which started this conversation.

[@theJCx]

The moral of the story here is that if you're going to state you're against the use of something, live that life and be prepared to have a viable solution that would be better than what's in place today.

[@BeyondInvestigation]

"Like, OMG".... That's the only thing missing in her "testimony"...

[@Quad8track]

Totally!

[@JediFarce]

Omg, she's like a teenager with a teenager brain

[@jeffreyrichard2575]

Iq Intelligence quotient = mental age divided by chronological age. so she is 14/25 = 0.56 or an IQ of 56 . 100 is average

[@ModedeScode]

How did she even get in front of Congress

[@johnamerican1578]

This is what happens when someone gets into a school gets grades gets a degree graduates with special considerations!

[@DavidBlake27055]

The cognitive dissonance in this woman is remarkable.

[@tylerschlegel2242]

Really? What in her argument was not consistent?

[@lucyterrier7905]

​@@tylerschlegel2242She wants to rid single use plastics. Good luck having a heart attack & getting treated in the hospital with all single use plastics outlawed. Think other than plastic bottles.

[@armageddon1403]

@@tylerschlegel2242 Just about everything for a person with a cognitive brain. What are you doing here?

[@tylerschlegel2242]

@@armageddon1403 Ok. Can you enlighten me? Plastic recycling is a farce. She said she is limiting single use plastics in her personal life when alternatives exist. To be clear I want my plastic straw back. A more reasonable alternative is to continue to develop bio-degradable plastics (which are already commercially available) but I don't see how she is inconsistent...

[@99Michael]

She sounds like a Black Valley Girl, and her house is full of plastic from the carpet to the lamps, appliances, and shingles ...

[@JueGu76]

she got bored, woke up, and said, no more plastic!

[@simbarashekunedzimwe1372]

She got torn to shreds, and he was very, very civil actually...

[@katharinag.5904]

And respectful 🙏

[@blueripper1558]

"ma'am you have a problem with plasitc" "Yes" "Why" "Idk" "How can we fix it" "Idk" He looks so dead inside, he spent all his life to get to this point just for this

[@rachelm7525]

Uhhh...Miss...actually, Solar Panels ARE single-use! You install them, they have a life-span of 25 years....then you toss them! 25 years from now, we're going to have massive solar-panel dumps that will only get bigger over time. They don't biodegrade! What do you suggest?

[@Bobo-jy5mg]

If you use them for 25 years straight then that's not single use… 🤦‍♂️

[@rachelm7525]

@@Bobo-jy5mg I believe single-use in this context means: not recyclable

[@Lauren12362]

Solar panels can be recycled but unfortunately, as the issue of solar panel recycling is only just arising, there is only one recycling centre in France. 4000 tonnes of solar panels were recycled last year there. They are plans to open more but they haven't been built yet. It has the potential to be a huge problem if ignored.

[@user-kv4xt2oh3d]

There is a solution potentially. Let's say you use the solar panels for 25 years, meanwhile we can find methods to dispose them in a healthy way. Technology can help with that

[@rachelm7525]

@@user-kv4xt2oh3d They're mostly plastic, I believe? Which doesn't biodegrade, can't be burned, buried or dumped in the oceans. I hope you're right, I'm just glad I don't have to fix the problem 😏

[@ideovidiot656]

Yes ma'am, you have wasted all of our time.

[@danibelle3764]

She and the “We don’t need gravity” girl are probably besties.

[@MrMousley]

So .. even after ''doing her homework'' she can still only name straws and bottles as single use plastics. Well .. I haven't done any homework on this one and even I have a longer list: Cups, plates, bowls, , forks, spoons, disposable razors, those little tags on bags of sliced bread, the bag itself, every other type of plasitc bag from the one you buy food in to the one you fill with rubbish, all the unnecessary wrapping on food .. I could go on and on to be quite honest.

[@tomfink7505]

"So, you want to get rid of all plastics? What do you propose they be replaced with? "Ummmm......"

[@bebouswirl]

She sounds like my 6 year old daughter.

[@DonYang73]

Go home angela….just go home.

[@bluffiblaffi]

Hahaha she fries her voice as soon as she is cornered

[@D_WD_W]

Is she wearing makeup? Most beauty products contain ingredients derived from crude oil too.

[@Sig509]

her damn glasses are plastic...

[@lemurianchick]

"Like OMG! I am like literally for recycling straws! WHAT. EVER. I am so sure. "

[@howardchambers9679]

I don't know what all the fuss is about with straws killing turtles, they've been breaking camels backs for centuries and no one cares 😢

[@PandaBear62573]

There are many resusable options now anyway. I'm all for not killing the planet and reusing this as much a possible. I don't like that many, many products come in non-recycable packaging. Plastic does have a finite recyclable ability. But we need to look for common sense improvements that just shipping our plastic recycling all over the planet and getting an Asian country to burn it. Democrats don't understand common sense though. Even though glass has a higher carbon footprint during its creation it lasts a lot longer and can be infinitely recycled, so can metal.

[@howardchambers9679]

@@lemurianchick missed the joke I see...

[@lemurianchick]

@@howardchambers9679 Yeah! 🤣🤦

[@dinosabic5383]

Imagine embarassing yourself in front of the country like this. Shouldve studied.

[@redemptionneeded]

Why was she even there in the first place?

[@kennyrichard2971]

Now I wonder if she has mustard relish, ketchup yoga salad dressing dish soaps fingernail, polish remover, rubbing alcohol, a big screen, TV, computer monitors computers in her house that’s all recyclable plastics

[@Kainis80]

Every bit of her glasses are made from recycled plastics. Even the screws used to hold the arms on the frames - wouldn't get made without a whole lot of plastics involved, much less shipped to her eyeglass store.

[@psychotogether5114]

And her brain. That’s plastic as well.

[@Onidaar]

Least of all her clothes are most likely made with polyester . 🥸

[@rythania7686]

better never need an IV or sterilized surgical tools....

[@AppleOfThineEye]

Bro... I agree, but learn how to use commas.

[@kevinhayes517]

Sounds like the lady is using the AOC mindset, namely: “I understand that some of my “facts” may be wrong - but our feelings and intentions are more important that any facts”. And I loved her explanation of “ as long as the manufacturers are making plastics, I just have to use them.”……she needs a lot more than just some extra homework!

[@425HP]

I suggest a lobotomy and shock therapy. Not to mention a trip around the real world.

[@dcb1138]

Hey, she's a women of color and "Diversity is our strength"....Until the rubber hits the road. Her whole life she's gotten participation medals and told how bright she is.

[@milanka882]

I know she even talks a bit like a OC as well. Is it me or is there a bit of a OC in how she looks as well?

[@davidhenningson4782]

​@@dcb1138 ... so you've never met a 'white idiot?' No race has a monopoly on 'stupid and ignorant.'

[@vegano7646]

For some products, there's no comercial alternative... not because it's impossible to have an alternative product but because plastic is cheap.

[@thelibertyworkshop2952]

Wow , almost fell over when she said " I have no plastic in my house " ...

[@hksduhksdu]

"There is nothing plastic I have it at my house, I am sure" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣No offense but it's amazing that the senator would have spent that much time on these conversations already and these people are one of those who have been WASTING our tax money.

[@anvec6145]

She referred to herself a masochist....in this level of conversation, while losing an argument due to not thinking things through any further than a bland high-school essay at best. Probably the most accurate accidental assessment throughout her points, the rest was childish pouting and naive.

[@dcb1138]

Hey, she's a women of color and "Diversity is our strength"....Until the rubber hits the road. Her whole life she's gotten participation medals and told how bright she is.

[@gpmoore]

When she said that, I said out loud that I agree. Glad someone else noticed that moment of honest clarity from whoever that is. 🎉

[@dcb1138]

Shes an idiot...period. No one should give her any serious thought or respect.

[@talenttrading]

I think she misused masochist, I think she meant mindless.

[@akrenwinkle]

@@talenttrading I think she meant mess o' grits.

[@d.c.marsha9027]

I love these SJW who never finished taking a science course higher than high school arguing that they have it all figured out. "Its so simple just stop making plastic" ...

[@snapdragon1194]

I know, I mean Plastic was invented the same time as the wheel, right?

[@christianpervert525]

Snapdragon - what's y3r solution genius?

[@DavidThurston-zj5nf]

@@christianpervert525 the solutions are literally legion. And inevitable.

[@raynerstuelgalid]

So easy to say, "This is a problem," or "That is a problem." I can do these sayings while half asleep. Even a moron can complain and moan with clarity. Offer solutions, practical solutions! That glib and self-important twit will not do that because then people can take apart what she thinks is her brilliance. Constructive criticism is, "Criticize, but then propose what to do about it."

[@secondchance6603]

@@DavidThurston-zj5nf So why don't you list some of them?

[@raisttlyn]

Amazing.....and sad.

[@MinnesotaBA]

She's a child still, you can hear it in her voice. Somebody supported & encouraged all her fairy tales growing up, and now she sounds like a stoned college freshman at an outdoor festival, having all the answers in regards to the "system", simultaneously driving a brand new off-the-lot Subaru/Jeep and being surrounded by expensive high-end REI & Patagonia "outdoor" gear while eating boujee granola.

[@KoaxialKable]

I worked in an office with an anti-plastics guy. He drank from a mason jar he kept washed and brought in his own wooden chair rather than use the office chairs. He very definitely tried very hard to minimize his own use of plastics. And he wasn't at all self-righteous like this lady. He just saw it as living his beliefs.

[@Kainis80]

I guess he wore only burlap. Every other piece of clothing has plastics in some way - including his shoes.

[@redwind5150]

​@@Kainis80wonder how he got to work

[@Quad8track]

I take it he never wears a condom.

[@CaeridLock.]

How did he do office work without using a computer

[@jessewahwah]

@@CaeridLock. He wrote EVERYTHING on paper with a pencil.

[@ZombieFBody]

Smug and stupid is a bad combination.

[@bigperm3853]

Yeah but most GOP reps are just like him. Won't be long until they are gone

[@catherinecastelli9105]

This was awesome. Schooled

[@justinchin6291]

Ive been wasting so much of my time trying to find a show to watch. I should just start watching these hearings. The content is great! Little sad, but great!

[@cameroncooper9501]

She said internationally a couple times, it would be nice if she would go to China, Iran and India and set those folks straight. Because it's not the problem here. What she wants is for someone else to do ten times more to make up for the sins of others. And what happens is when she gets what she wants the others just sin ten times more.

[@Quad8track]

The governments of China, Iran and India aren't dumb enough to listen to her.

[@wookie8975]

That take is only slightly smarter compared to hers. The west send huge parts of their plastic waste to china for recycling. They have the manufacturing capacity to use it and no brand names that can be tarnished by using slightly worse material (a product of using shorter chain and impure recycling material). Now they don´t import anymore as their wages are so high that the use of new plastic is cheaper than paying people to sort scraps.

[@dcb1138]

Hey, she's a women of color and "Diversity is our strength"....Until the rubber hits the road. Her whole life she's gotten participation medals and told how bright she is.

[@tanmayprakash7918]

Just FYI Single use Plastic Carry Bags are banned in India but obviously it's not possible to completely stop using Plastics for other products and it will take a lot of time to get there but this Women does not understand anything about The world or the Products with Plastics !

[@jackesioto]

And if she makes it back, she'd likely be kissing the ground in tears of gratitude!

[@haydenpeairs4635]

Man, some folks are gluttons for punishment. Angelle Bradford racking up L's

[@truth8seeker275]

@haydenpeairs4635👍🏼 (2:30) This dimwit admitted she's a Masochist 😆

[@DonaId_J_Trump]

She even spells her name with 2 L's.

[@willek1335]

To be fair, she did admit she's a masochist. 2:25

[@user-kv4xt2oh3d]

Lmfao racking up L's 😂😂😂😂😂

[@joettasmith3097]

Debating with a knife would make more sense ... at least a knife has a POINT!! Wasting tax payers money to debate ignorance!!

[@harryricochet8134]

Her glasses, cosmetics packaging, mobile phone, laptop, television and any biros she uses all contain single use plastics, I don't believe her home does not contain any of those items. She exudes 'rules for thee but not for me' with such extreme zealotry.

[@Asura2k]

Well this explains why she didn't do her homework.

[@jmeryllman]

I can't recycle the time I wasted watching this middle schooler "expert".

[@jamesbrischke4815]

🤣😂

[@BJC62]

Looks like she's going to have to return to the "Barack Hussein Obama School of Division" and be retrained. Barack is going to be disappointed in her.

[@superdoo9874]

who uses plastic bottles at home whats wrong with this woman

[@JERIGNUSS]

For sure she is living in a dreamworld: Clueless about the manufacturing process, about materials; and she has not explained in detail any impacts that would occur if plastics suddenly went away.

[@bigstew9724]

It's ALL about "feeling good".... and money....

[@x-raycat323]

Hard to believe she's a Berkeley graduated top of her class 🎉

[@anythingandeverythingABCLife]

i can believe it. i helped a "friend" get a job where i worked. BIG MISTAKE. she thought she was all that and didn't bother taking notes when i was training her, and just argued with me. her work was a mess and after seeing that, degrees from berkley mean NOTHING to me. she thought bc i was from ucr, that she was smarter than me. she couldn't even pass probation and i worked there 4 years

[@kpd3308]

I don't doubt it for a second. That's the typical caliber of a Berkeley graduate.

[@wayne6512]

Doesn't say much for Berkeley

[@alanm.4298]

Berkley ain't what it used to be. It's little more than a whacko ultra progressive hive mind. Graduating "top of class" from "Berserkley" essentially means she was the farthest from reality and the least aware of how much she doesn't know squat about.

[@JediFarce]

Colleges nowadays only brainwash, not engage in critical thinking.

[@newtoncooper4085]

No one ever talks about the huge amount of diesel fuel burning that occurs when we import everything from China, Russia and the Middle East by cargo ship, rather than PRODUCING IT HERE.

[@davidbykowski9678]

I’m in the corrugated industry, more then 90% of boxes are recycled. It does work.

[@qwq203]

Living by what you believe, is the key. They are never prepared with answers.

[@n0madtv]

"I'm for facts" LULW But mammm, if you're not for recycling then everything is single use... "I don't get it, recycling is dumb and doesn't work" Then maybe we should work on that problem first... "No, it's just a dumb waste of time, I did my homework"

[@gingermartinez7475]

Not everything not recycled is single use. A laundry bottle is single use. A tea pitcher isn’t. A plastic straw is single use. Tupperware isn’t. Get it now Mark? It is easy to understand when you figure out what single means. What a moron.

[@guyintenn]

That is what I was thinking. If any plastic is used once, then discarded with no recycling, then all plastic becomes single use.

[@molsauce]

I wish he’d have asked how many masks she went through during 2020.

[@bamboo9040]

These are the nutz that are making policies for us all. Whilst this woman is not a policy maker she is influencing policy making.

[@diceportz7107]

I worked in a plastics factory and the factories recycle in house. So please don't tell me it doesn't work.

[@Bobo-jy5mg]

Recycling in house is completely different from the recycling industry as a whole 😂

[@PandaMan02]

majority of stuff you see in "recycle" bins at restaurants and businesses go to landfills.

[@stevemahoney1733]

"So, where are we moving towards"? What is it we want to look towards? Like most progressive policies & virtuous posturings, it isn't about productive change as it is about tearing down systems and insitutions already in place. Rarely do the progressives have real world solutions for their finger pointing. It's more a "if we tear it down something better will come along" However, that something better is developed by someone who wants to get paid for their innovative work, not share it with humanity because their virtuous.

[@ericpl7227]

We're moving towards you and I can't use these things, but the all powerful government can (and will)! That's the end goal!

[@Ray56z]

@@ericpl7227 You mean let mommy and daddy government handle it?

[@seanskelton866]

So true. Don't do this and don't do that, but no viable solutions or replacements.

[@roberta.8747]

​@@seanskelton866we need to invest in more research on plastic. There's already studies that show its being found in human placentas, which provide babies with nutrients before birth. That should be a matter of concern.

[@seanskelton866]

@@roberta.8747 It is fine to look in to that. But you can't just dump the way we do things and how things are made without a good alternative. If you do you will tank the economy and no one will be able to eat. That's a much bigger problem for our survival than what you mentioned. So I'm all for making things out of materials that don't hurt us, but you have to, first have a new thing, then prove that the new thing is better. This is the best we have come up with so far and more people in the world are above poverty than ever.

[@sarahslate9855]

I just can't with her🤣🤣🤣🤣 she out to be embarrassed after watching herself make a complete fool amongst everyone!!! She definitely didn't do her homework

[@ronjinskaarin8310]

Her eyes say it out loud: "I AM CRAZY!"

[@PandaBear62573]

He was leading her to say we need to improve our recycling industry and she totally didn't understand that. I have a feeling she does have single use plastic in her home and doesn't realize it. The plastic water bottle is more recyclable than a milk carton. A carton containing any beverage isn't recyclable.

[@deydraniadiancecht8298]

Plastic can't be recycled. It's been proven. Recycling centers have spoken up and stated many times that plastic cannot be recycled. There is a very small percentage of plastic that can be recycled and that's the multi-use plastic like Tupperware. Water bottles can NOT be recycled. It's best to throw it away. Sending water bottles to landfills is better than sending them to recycling centers because they have to refuse them.

[@kikixchannel]

It is, actually. Both the paper and the inside of a carton are recyclable. It's just not that easy or lucrative, hence why you may have been lied to that it cannot be recycled, so that you wouldn't hold the greedy companies accountable for NOT doing that.

[@hellotheresunshine]

yes, because that is what government can actually help to do. improve recycling. but she refuses to go there she does not care about a way to work with plastics, she wants plastics to be removed. yet she is using a ton of plastic and the plastic in most of those items like her glasses are necessary.

[@deydraniadiancecht8298]

@@hellotheresunshine Plastics can't be recycled- Well, damn near almost none of it can be recycled. There is only a small percentage that can be. Most plastic belongs in a landfill.

[@Preston_Cole]

@@deydraniadiancecht8298 Why use plastic as landfill when you can burn it at a power plant quite cleanly I might add.

[@nattybro4156]

Pray for her parents and their grief

[@psychologic1933]

She Went Up There, Got COOKED By Dude... And Still Thought She Had Valid Points 😂😂😂

[@jimg1787]

I agree with ending single use plastics. The straws the plastic bags etc. But she isnt advocating for that she is saying she wants to end plastic use altogether which is completely insane.

[@Dan-sc7us]

As much as I would love to defend some of these concepts, the witness is pathetic! She's not defending her position! She's a terrible rep for her ideas!

[@jeffreyrichard2575]

her points are indefensible.

[@bwillan]

As Paul Wheaton says. Most environmental activists lose their 'access pass' because they don't practice what they preach and they are not on the bottom half of the average consumption curve for energy, water, gas, etc.

[@jasonthompson7230]

This guy Mullen is like a character in a Looney Toons cartoon.

[@MrBsteve47]

Where do all these people with no common sense come from?

[@wlan246]

Given her recognition of our reliance on plastics for both health and prosperity, I'm surprised that someone with _Dr._ Bradford's credentials (Ph.D.) doesn't find it as obvious as I (with two lowly B.S. degrees) that her time should be devoted to reforming the plastics recycling industry! This is what it looks like when someone is captive to an ideology, rather than trying to find solutions.

[@afit5341]

An old friend of mine that owned a factory in China making plastic bins went to the state of California to get access to plastics at city dumps to recycle for the bins. It was a big Hell No from the garbage committee communist of CA. They hate actual real time solutions

[@jesseb9362]

I undertand the issue this young lady is dealing with, because i am against stupidity, but i cant stop watching these videos.

[@jamesbrischke4815]

She's too stupid to know she's stupid.

[@umbrellacorp.]

This was a waste of time money and effort. And I don't even live in America. Thank God I live in Germany with my wife and kids. She have a problem but NO solution. She want everyone to loose their jobs for her petty arguments. How selfish is that.

[@Rodney_Trotter_Dave]

I like this guy, he tells it how it is. Don’t start preaching about stuff that you do and use daily

[@ShaggyRogers1]

He makes an excellent point. Getting rid of plastics would mean a straight degradation of all modes of quality of life, because we don't have anything anywhere close to as good to replace it. The goal should be on making long term solutions that make the current methods of consumption obsolete. However, that isn't a short term news worthy sound byte. Everyone is focused on making the newest thing to consume, instead of anything that has the chance of being permanent.

[@jeffreyrichard2575]

there are no "solutions' long term or otherwise, only trade offs. and most trade offs are worse than the original problem

[@simonjones2240]

Actually a form of plastic can be manufactured from hemp! Paper canbe manufactured from hemp, cloth can be manufactured from hemp to bio fuel can be manufactured from hemp. It's the most useful and under utilised natural product we have at our disposal. The reason it's ignored is largely due to the USA and it's blinkered approach designed to protect thf interests of its billionaires. And protect its position as "the" world power!

[@richrico1]

Ms. Angelle Bradford, you are oblivious to the real world!

[@franticzenster8140]

IV bags are single-use plastics, so are the tubing that delivers the IV tubing that delivers medicine into hospitalized patients. Also, syringes are single-use plastics. What does Angelle Bradford's suggest we replace those equipment with?

[@xDomglmao]

thoughts and prayers :)

[@denver5093]

Respect to the crowd sitting behind for not laughing their arse off on this woman's stupidity

[@Angie_bae]

They prolly half alseep lmao

[@Nr1JuiceNr1]

Rycling dosent work whaaat😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 she needs to go to a mental hospital

[@Isleofchocolope0U812]

She’s an ideologue. She lives in her echo chamber of ignorance. It should be mentioned that plastic, which is a component of practically everything in her house, car, life, etc, is a derivative of fossil fuels. Mullin has some of the best arguments against this movement I’ve heard. There is no such thing as single use plastics. Plastic water bottles can be reused multiple times or recycled. They use these made up terms like single use plastics to generate an emotional reaction from the uninformed…..like her to get them fired up, thusly, parroting these ridiculous talking points. We would not be in the current economical collapse if we were still producing our own energy. It all starts and ends with oil.

[@Bobo-jy5mg]

Water bottles can be reused or recycled, but there’s like a 90% chance it won’t. And if it does, the cost and environmental impact to getting that plastic bottle to a marketable state would negate any benefit you get from it.

[@Lauren12362]

Of course single use plastic exists, it has since plastic was invented. In 2022 a household survey found that only 12% of plastic was recycled in the UK, 88% was sent to landfill, incineration or dumped in another country. And that's just the UK, so despite the knowledge of recycling or reusing, mass population just doesn't. Single use plastic in this study is household items - plastic bottles, cosmetic bottles, straws, fruit and veg wrapped plastic, etc. So in the UK alone in 2022, 96 billion pieces of plastic were not recycled or reused - just thrown away.

[@willmorrisusa]

There's not too much on her plate. You would think she'd " Have bigger fish 🐟 to fry ! "

[@Jay-cq5qr]

I don't think anyone understood her point. She is saying we shouldn't use plastic because only about 10% of all plastics get recycled. It's extremely difficult to recycle plastic, and it's more cost efficient to just manufacture plastic than it is to recycle. Which means you're just making more plastic at the end of the day. Dude is saying 'why don't we recycle more' but realistically we can't. Microplastics are bad for everyone, the recycling industry is fu#&ed, it takes anywhere from 20-500 years for plastic to decompose, and we need it in our daily lives.