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
there s clearly an indication that it s recyclable. so then the question becomes, what kind of conditions are there on that? i don t see any conditions or the fact that even conditions exist here. so, i suppose that the average consumer is likely to be misled if it turns out that there are significant conditions. one of those conditions is the distance you might have to travel to recycle your waste. let s take a look at these digestives. the largest lettering says, film recycled and then it says in the uk and ie by terracycle.eu. there s nothing to qualify that at all. there s nothing to suggest, you better visit the website, and you might find out more . there s no indication that there would be any significant restrictions. is it misleading? does it suggest that the recycling is an easier process than perhaps it actually is? my feeling is yes, it is misleading, precisely because of the headline signal
it is misleading, precisely because of the headline signal message, and then quite how long it would take to work out that there are serious qualifications on that, that could involve significant travel. there are products that use the phrase recycled by terracycle though that doesn t reference any caveats? no, it does, by terracycle. so, we always mandate with brands that at minimum, not at maximum, but at minimum they must say by or through terra cycle. let s make it very clear that this is not council recycling, that this is recycling through terracycle. and then consumers typically will go to our website where there is phenomenal detail on exactly how every programme works, what happens to the waste, you name it. if we take these, the kp nuts, of course, it s got the logo there, says, please dispose of this responsibly, find out how you can recycle it at terracycle.co.uk. there s nothing here that s saying, you might have to travel. it s just saying, look at the websit