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How Do We Cure Our Plastic Addiction?

We're making too much plastic and China doesn't want it anymore, so what happens now?

We have a problem with plastic. We're making too much of it and not re-using and re-cycling enough of it. Plastic is contaminating our oceans and polluting our world. Until this year China took two thirds of the world's plastic waste, but now it's saying it will no longer be the world's dumping ground. The Chinese ban on low quality plastic has begun to bite with policy makers urgently looking for new solutions. So what happens now? What has the situation done to expose the way our plastics are recycled? And will developments result in a watershed moment where we finally re-evaluate our plastic consumption? Join Carrie Gracie and a panel of experts discuss how we cure our addiction to plastic.

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50 minutes

Last on

Sat 7 Apr 2018 11:06GMT

Contributors

Adina Renee Adler - Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries

Jennifer Turner - China Environment Forum at the Woodrow Wilson Center.

Roger Baynham - The British Plastics Federation.

Graham Thompson - Greenpeace

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A man collects plastic from a waste water evacuation canal in the Ebrie Lagoon in Abidjan by Sia Kambou/AFP/Getty Images

Broadcasts

  • Fri 6 Apr 2018 08:06GMT
  • Fri 6 Apr 2018 17:06GMT
  • Fri 6 Apr 2018 23:06GMT
  • Sat 7 Apr 2018 03:06GMT
  • Sat 7 Apr 2018 11:06GMT

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