Solving Plastic Ep. 1 | What if a solution to the plastic crisis is closer than we think?

[@judyweis6033]

A solution to only one part of the problem - the microplastics. Most of the microplastics are microfibers that come from clothes. Many of these microfibers enter the environment when clothes are washed in washing machines and the fibers go out with the wastewater. Filters are available to put on washing machines that trap the vast majority of the fibers. These filters could be required in new washing machines, and could be retrofitted onto existing machines. A longer term solution is re-engineering how textiles are made so that they shed far fewer microfibers.

[@banjoc222]

The fishing industry makes up nearly 50% of ALL plastic pollution. Also something to consider..

[@Andrew_Kono]

Or jus buy clothing made from natural fibers ? & support the companies that make them

[@jefffrench1981]

Really liking this new brand direction and tone of this new campaign (assuming it's a direction and not a one-off). It has the same straightforward messaging, but with a stronger, more direct tone, and a quick, no-nonsense jump to a level of solution that is broad, but still targeted enough to generate actions that individuals can turn into collective action. Story of Stuff team, keep producing in this direction!

[@PossibilityManagementTV]

First, change the laws to immediately make it locally and globally illegal under stiff penalties for corporate CEOs, Managers, and Stockholders, to manufacture certain plastics, plus also illegal to use plastic packaging, clothing, appliances, bags, bottles, 'disposables', automobiles, etc. For example, I volunteered at the Ecosystem Restoration Camp in Southern Spain. We were given 5 hectares on which to plant trees. In the process we discovered that Spanish farmers are being paid by the Spanish and EU governments to plow millions of hectares of fields each year with their tractors so that NO trees can grow there. If the law is changed so that farmers are given the same subsidies to NOT plow their fields, and to instead let trees grow back on their own, within a few years the entire country of Spain (and dare I suggest other European nations) would return to their natural forested condition. It is the laws that are broken, designed to serve corporate profits instead of a bright future for Earth. Can we take back control of the law-making processes? Anything less than this is self-deception. Sure there would be strong objections from certain quarters, and some chaos at first. But humans are smart cookies. We could swiftly invent new possibilities and adopt them.

[@onYTsince2008]

Corporations already employ "lobbyists" to reverse or delay all progressive ideas and progress. It's all by corporate GREED.

[@PacoOtis]

Very professionally presented! Thanks for sharing and the very bests of luck! It appears education of the public is our only hope, and you are doing that!!

[@joyceglasgow2356]

Ask clothing manufacturers to stop making clothing out of polyester, which is a product of fossil fuels.🙏

[@FedScare]

glad this video included royalty-free trap beats. the incessant hi-hats really kept me engaged as a viewer. cheers to the sound editor.

[@AndyRiot]

This channel is SO important. Thank you for your work and activism!

[@banjoc222]

Great video to combat wishful thinking and greenwashing. Completely glossed over the fact that the fishing industry contributes the majority of plastic waste via nets and other equipment discarded and thrown overboard… reducing plastic production IS the threat to “the livelihoods of fisherman”. Helping those in the industry adapt and move away from animal industries (while tackling the rampant slavery that occurs on vessels), as well as making whole food plant-based diets free from unnecessary packaging more accessible/affordable. Seaspiracy is a great documentary, and “Milked”- how cow farmers in New Zealand have successfully transitioned to cultivating crops (and why). Cherry picking “good” industries vs. “bad” ones- based on our current culture and dietary habits- is the kind of delusional thinking TSoSP is advocating against, no?

[@MikeHanauer]

Our overpopulation and culture of eternal growth overwhelms all else we do. Time to get on board. The alternative is failure.

[@michaelmbello]

Why not tax the creation and use of plastics that reflect the damage it does? If the tax is big enough then no one will want to make it or use it, forcing those entities to figure out another way to do the same thing but in a way that has to be at least more sustainable.

[@PossibilityManagementTV]

Charging heavy taxes means changing laws. Makes the most sense to me.

[@a.randomjack6661]

We live in a lobbycracy. BTW Have you seen 'The EXXON tapes"?

[@אודילישא-בנוגעלגוף]

Plastic is not the problem, it's a symptom. The problem is the lack of emotional availability of the consumers to make different choices.

[@pablomarin7205]

Great video. Each one of us is part of the problem. So, each one of us is responsible for the solution. What hurts the hive hurts the bee!!

[@tunyyt]

Great video....now Everyone needs to share this to spread the word.

[@grahampalmer4813]

Who is the bigger problem, those who make the plastic or those who consume it? We cannot absolve ourselves from being part of the problem or the solution. Plastic has become so ubiquitous because it is so cheap, like the material it is made from, fossil fuels. It is often overlooked that petrol is cheaper than bottled water and plastic’s convenience makes it difficult to find acceptable alternatives in a competitive economic world.

[@eee3400]

the consumer can't be blamed when there is no plastic-free option available.

[@itsme-rt7nz]

@@eee3400 The reason there are so few plastic-free options available is because the consumer has so emphatically embraced plastic. Most people love the stuff and will choose it when given the opportunity. If it wasn't such a horribly pollutant material, I would love it too. It's cheap. It's clean. It's durable. It's light. What's not to love? The harm of plastic is an inconvenient truth that is easy for most people to ignore because they want to.

[@itsme-rt7nz]

I agree completely. If there was not the demand, the supply would reduce. But somewhere along the line, we decided we like keeping our cookies separated in a plastic tray so they don't crumble. We like on-the-go individual portions with more plastic packaging than product. We decided that we like even non-food items to be encased in plastic. Are we trying to keep them fresh and clean? It didn't take long for this ridiculous mindset to take hold. But it was our choice from the beginning.

[@PossibilityManagementTV]

@@eee3400 The reason is not the cause.

[@niallcarroll9149]

If you don't buy it, they won't make it. REDUCE consumption.

[@verdulo]

But I like soy milk! And there is no source of soy milk that does not have plastic as part of the packaging. This is true of so many products. I HAVE to buy their plastic or else severely limit what products I buy. Once I tried to buy shampoo in bulk. The cost was literally ten times more expensive. That makes not buying plastic a luxury. I wish it were not so.

[@janetthoke6326]

Yes! REDUCE!

[@skiluva]

@@verdulo what are you talking about? I always buy soy and it's in a paper carton I can recycle where I am so if that's not the case by you then it's an accessibility problem.

[@tuckerbugeater]

@@janetthoke6326 I'm going into the plastics business

[@falsificationism]

Excellent message!

[@KJ-vc3sw]

What we need are never-ending layers of technology veneered on top of the technology that got us here in the first place. Just a little more human cleverness should do the job. That way we can keep the party going with our culture of entitlement, nature as commodity, and mindless consumption. After all, god wants us to be happy by amusing and consuming ourselves right out of existence. You can't stop progress, baby!

[@StuartHollingsead]

imagine a bacteria that evolves to eat plastic. Then it starts eating plastic in cars trucks oil rigs, container ships, hospitals, airplanes, and everything else we rely on.

[@janestan1]

Great video but we need to think about excluding solutions that use more resources like chemical recycling uses energy presumably from fossil fuels to power the process. I like the focus on "false solutions" to debunk them, then pivot the message to what we want which is less production of plastic as the film short states.

[@reganroy9893]

Gracias por compartir este post interesante, estimado amigo y colega Miguel Angel Sangiacomo. Mucho tiempo sin comunicarnos. Espero que tu y famila esten muy bien. Saludos y abrazos para Uds. desde la comunidad indigena M'Chigeeng en la Isla Manitoulin.

[@josefinesingh4963]

Plastic needs to be stopped, I heard that healthcare is also a huge consumer, and someone from the inside had an idea of recycling their plastic, I am sure there is more than enough to recycle the useful plastic in healthcare back into plastic syringes. I really don't know if plastic syringes have done away with cross-contamination. the plastic industry has doubled up in wrapping things from smallest stuff and food to wrapping shipping things for moving instead putting them into containers because it saves space? Cars have plastic over their bumpers for no good reason, all the Modern convenient communications are plastic, including rare earth elements. You can see that I was born before the 50's. Yes, we had big wars and poverty, we did have antibiotics and vaccinations already, but our soil, rivers , oceans were still clear .

[@banjoc222]

I propose a sort of “triage”.. Fishing industry waste at the top, then consumer plastics, then innovating medical supplies (or returning to original designs).

[@manfredmarth5825]

great, thanks

[@TheJarrodh]

You missed talking about bioplastics - biologically derived plastics that a biodegradable.

[@TheJarrodh]

@Lauren Yang Agreed that bioplastic are not biodegradable, but then most organic matter will not biodegrade inside of a landfill. That being said the majority of bioplastic are compostable, and recyclable as well. I would argue that they are a good replacement material for items that need to be made of plastic, i.e. for hygienic reasons. Their carbon footprint is significantly reduced, typically 75% less, from traditional plastic manufacturing, and there are multiple good methods for full life cycle management. Primarily their benefit is they don't rely on fossil fuel, so can be developed into a sustainable use material.

[@joyceglasgow2356]

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[@rocio8044]

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[@carriedike8495]

Ask that all single use water bottles be made of aluminum just like all other soda cans. Then they will all be recycled!

[@eee3400]

plastics needs to be taxed at the producer level. municipalities are stuck with the waste management problem that producers created, which means that everyone is paying for plastic pollution problem via their tax dollars.

[@margaret3883]

[@reesan12]

@thestoryofstuffproject It's high time companies use plastic waste by melting it into the strings used in 3d pens 🖊 and then create stuff like packaging...( I was thinking about this all the time and then I saw it was already online). I really hope that it gets started

[@skronked]

The solution is going to be done by some genius chemistry that breaks it down completely. Something akin to the catalytic converter for carbon monoxide?

[@RaffaelUrbino]

What will replace plastic if such a deal is enforced? (Reminder: the world has no additional agricultural land)

[@zbynekcodykolacek]

I am there since ever, I do not buy any single use plastic… Just, do not buy it!

[@tuckerbugeater]

I throw away plastics everyday I love it I love plastics

[@mrgoulash7199]

@@tuckerbugeaterloser

[@Bee_Healthier]

There is only one solution, one answer, and that's why it's difficult. We have to be healthy, healthy people = healthy society. meaning we have to follow our species specific diet, we have to be Raw Vegan, cooking food has to stop, we cannot eat processed junk, it's the driving force of plastic production! To start anyone reading this should take a Solid Food Vacation, there are thousands of videos showing the transformation that happens when one does this.

[@martinbourque1995]

if you could solve astroturf....

[@itsme-rt7nz]

Love the message. But it is so hard for me to listen to 4 minutes of that vocal fry. Please stop it!

[@eee3400]

yeah, vocal fry is worse than nails on chalkboard

[@AndrooJeanPierre]

Great video. But I really hate vocal fry !! It prevents me from listening to the speaker