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Waste that is recycled to make new plastic is well very small germany produces $5200000.00 tons of plastic p.-a but only recycles 15 percent of that governments around the world are waking up to the problem though the u.s. and canada have partially banned micro plastic. in some consumer products and many countries in africa asia and europe have also banned or at least regulating plastic bags let's talk a little bit about some of those measures and joining me in the studio now is thompson walker from g.w. and vironment good to have you with us terms and let me just pick up on one measure a germ...

Worldwide more than a 3rd of that is single use plastics shopping bags water bottles plastic food containers thrown away after one use and only a small amount is getting recycled most disposable plastics are actually produced and asia especially in china but north america middle east and europe are also a major producers of disposable plastics africa only accounts for one percent the proportion of plastic ways that is recycled to make new plastic is very small germany for example produces $5200000.00 tons of plastic per year and only around 15 percent of it gets recycled but governments around...

Monterey bay, northern california, and what they found horrified then. micro plastic, tiny, broken up pieces of plastic everywhere, from the surface to the seabed, about half a mile down. those plastics are being eaten by small sea creatures, eat and interned by fish, and then likely turning up on our dinner plates. what are the solutions? corporations, government, and scientists in partnership can work on the big picture, the scientists say. but on the most basic level, it starts with us. here is dr. kyle van out >> of the silver lining to this work is that 40% of the plastic polymers that we...

On agricultural surfaces in the european union you have about forty three thousand to sixty three thousand tons of micro plastic that are dumped and getting into into the system there which is harmful to humans as well so again important first step but probably not the last step while it sounds like he has a lot of book ahead of it next hoffman introspect for us. find i'm rediscovering useful thank you very much ben you're watching news and let's return to that breaking news situation in the united states that we're following for you the u.s. secret service says it's investigating suspicious p...

A lot worse than it was before before i thought that somehow it degraded or somehow it just got absorbed back into the surface of the planet but it doesn't it just stays just stays plastic we know really be mass producing plastic long enough to to fully understand it's right to take radiation we know that in the environment a large plastic item starts to become brittle as a consequence of exposures to the sun to hate and mechanical action in the city and it starts to fragment into very small pieces even microscopic pieces that we describe as micro plastic if i told parliament chemists they tel...