if there s nothing to indicate, guys, there might be some quite significant restrictions on this, then it is potentially misleading. so, is terracycle all it aspires to be? you know, my hope at the end, one day we re all going to die and my hope is that, when that happens, that the world misses me. i ve come to treyarnon beach, in cornwall, for the monthly local clean up. we re all looking for the same thing. the majority of the plastic will be on the high tide point or the car park we know there s litter up there and the sand dunes. four years ago, emily and herfriend lawrence found something that shows just how long plastic pollution can last. i found this crisp packet when i was ten years old. i looked at it, and was, like, this is not a crisp packet you would see today. i ve never seen this design on a walkers crisp packet. so i think i gave it to emily, and she said, that looks like something from a long time ago. the packet dates back to the 1980s much, much
and two teachers died in a mass shooting at an elementary school. the coffin of ten year old ameriejo garza was borne into the sacred heart catholic church, across the road from her school. those are the main headlines. now on bbc news it s time for panorama. how much do you know about what happens to the plastic in your cupboards? we built plastic as the perfect material. it s durable, but that s exactly why it s become such a problem, because it doesn t degrade. there s a good chance you ll have bought stuff with this logo on it. behind it, a company, terracycle, that says it can recycle anything. ever looked at a crisp packet and thought it would make a nice chair? but the company s been accused of greenwashing in the us. when you describe terracycle s business model to people, i often get a kind of really? look off them. if there s nothing to indicate, guys, there might be some quite significant restrictions on this, then it is potentially misleading. so, is terracyc
with these organisations all the time. so, let s just imagine we re a biscuit brand, 0k? we ve been, for decades, making biscuit wrappers that are not recyclable and now, we want to make it recyclable and there s no suitable commercially viable design choices. so, their next best bet is to take voluntary responsibility over that particular waste stream. terracycle says it s on a mission to change the world. i think we can shift and become much more in tune with nature and consuming and thriving in a sustainable way. it says it has strict controls on what it calls its recycling chain of custody and it never exports waste abroad. but a recent undercover investigation has raised questions about those assurances. woman: at 4am, we return to the facility. august 2021, bulgaria.
because we re in the room with these organisations all the time. so, let s just imagine we re a biscuit brand, 0k? we ve been for decades making biscuit wrappers that are not recyclable, and now we want to make it recyclable and there s no suitable commercially viable design choices. so, their next best bet is to take voluntary responsibility over that particular waste stream. terracycle says it s on a mission to change the world. i think we can shift and become much more in tune with nature and consuming and thriving in a sustainable way. it says it has strict controls on what it calls its recycling chain of custody. and it never exports waste abroad. but a recent undercover investigation has raised questions about those assurances. at 4am we return to the facility. august 2021, bulgaria.