Wasteminster: A Downing Street Disaster
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- Опубликовано: 16 май 2021
- The UK government claims to be a leader in tackling plastic pollution. But in reality, they’re sending their recycling to other countries where it’s often dumped and burned, causing serious health problems for local people, oceans and wildlife. Less than 10% of UK recycling is recycled in the UK, but this is truly a global problem.
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Some observation from 15 year working as an Environmental Consultant:
1 - It costs 1000's of £ to get an export license (paper work = few weeks). Its costs 10,000's of £ to get a UK recycling permit (paper work = 12 months).
2 - The Environment Agency will not help you get a plastic recycling permit. Quite the opposite in fact. And you pay maybe £12,000 to apply for license, and £12,000 a year to keep the license.
3 - This heap of bottles is nothing compared to plastics entering our rivers and seas via CSO's (Combined Sewer Overflows) which are unbelievable, in terms of how bad they are.
4 - I spent 4 months trying to find an energy from waste plant to try and burn collected beach plastics. No takers in UK. Not one. Local councils not interested.
5 - Bio plastics have their own problems. Before we make a change we have to consider what switching to bio plastics will mean, when 8 billion people start to use plastic made from vegetable fat. Where will it come from. E.g. If you use UK oils, then that is less UK oil for food, and the short fall comes from other countries. Maybe Brazil.
Solution: Ban all plastic types except PET and HDPE. Tax virgin polymers at 20% current cost rising, 20% each year. Reduce fees for recycling permits in UK. Increase Export License Fees to match Recycling permit Fees.
I'd love to learn more about this Dorky Thorpy. Can you point me in the right direction please?
@@journalistjan Sure, I'll give you a fe search terms (greenpeace delete any posts with links in):
1- "cost of a waste transfer station southwest" vs "Charges for notifications of international waste shipments" (These export charges have gone up considerably, which is good)
2 -"Why is the Environmental Permit Application Process so Terrible? southwest"
3 - "combined sewer overflow SAS"
4 - Difficult to find information on this. But in summary my findings some EfW plants are only allowed to take certain type of waste, some are contracted solely to take waste from local authorities, and some just won't return your call.
5- "land use change from wider use of bioplastics"
If you would like to call or email further, please contact me via Southwest Environmental Limited
Another thing is absolutely horrid designs of inseparable half plastic packages. there is no recycling this for anything, it only qualifies for a landfill or burning. These must be illegal as well.
@@Sc0rr yeah. That makes recycling really tricky.
Total rubbish is the only thing that ever came out of Downing Street.
The goverment needs to ban all non essential plastics and make businesses use bioplatics (there are already so many to choose from). Its not just down to the consumer to avoid plastic, people buy what is available to them, what they can afford and what is convenient. Most people dont have much choice but to buy planet choking plastic, the government could easily change this, by making bio plastics the norm and phasing out EVERYTHING that is non recyclable.
#greenspringclean
As long as its _one type of bioplastic_. We don't want more types of plastic. Also where does "bio" come from, crop which = land use change.
@@iAmTheSquidThing I see your point, but a) what do the plastics degrade to, are we storing up problems, for future. b) where is the vegetable oil (or whatever) coming from. If we use say vegetable fats to make bio plastic, that takes away from food production, and then creates land use change pressures, that do not stop at a countries borders. Some bio plastics are not home compostable, so cause problems when people try to do that. And very often bioplastics get mixed in with non-bio plastics and contaminate carefully collected recyclables (that probably get exported to turkey and burnt in a heap anyway).
@@DorkyThorpy I said to ban 'all non essential' plastics... the use of bio plastics would be for the few items left that are actually essential. We wouldnt be using up anywhere near as many resources. We can't just switch everything to bioplastic... We need LESS waste altogether, not just different types of it. Also, the government needs to stop sweeping things under the rug and building houses over old landfill sites, as theres so many precious resources in there that need to be retrieved from amongst the rubbish.
@@Naomi-ez5ie Very true, I dare say we''l be digging landfills up within the next 100 years. Non essential: This is also a good idea, I was thinking this when I took a wrap of a multi pack of baked beans yesterday. It serves no purpose, why not just pint 1 can price, and 6 can price on paper label. Other things it is not so clear cut what is essential, wrapping cucumbers being the classic example.
This actually looks scary. Makes you realise how ignorant we are
Nice animation but it's kind of down to the people, unless the government are going to ban plastics ? I'd like it if we were using reuseable containers made from metal/glass/wood but we need someone to manufacture them and force all producers of food and liquids to use them.
@@martin096 Yes, yet the Chinese Communist Party are ostracised for doing so. The same thing happened during the cold war. The Soviets were in Afghanistan to stop the heroin production, yet the U.S. Government told lies and untruths about it. Now, Russia and Belarus have a very severe drug problem, cited to me by a Belarussian Man whom I worked with in London, who told me all about the history of their country. He also told me a man died of a drug overdose outside the door of his apartment. We are all fed lies lies lies. Anyway, where I live plastic is everywhere, Old holiday-home Jaywick is a junk yard.
@@martin096 +1 for population control
@@martin096 Yep. Right on. Plant based stuff will lead to accelerated tree genocide.
@@DorkyThorpy how can you ethically control the population?
@@3DSgeek I am not sure. It would need to be applied globally to be fair (?) I would suggest 2 child policy, before we leave it too long and have to enforce 1 child policy. If you look at the actual ethics of implementing such as scheme, I would imagine, the result would be negative. But consider the ethical outfall of ecological collapse, mass migrations, rainfall failure, famine and resource wars, which are all possibilities on the horizon. - "Population Matters" have put a lot of thought in to this.
am british and i agree with the way our prim minister stutters after every word 😂
Boris Johnson = the king of plasic
Greenpeace = the king of the nature
Plastic is a great material while it’s being used thoughtfully. Dumping it on someone else is a shameful disgrace on our nation.
Save Our Planet
Right On! PEACE! 🕊
Heel mooi animatie filmpje
Hopelijk met positieve resultaten!
Who made this video? This is excellent animation, very thought provoking and true.
Brilliant work Greenpeace. I have shared far and wide.
clever Vidja .
theres 5 huge rubbish piles floating on the sea 1 is off the WA coast Straya about 15,000 tones
PAY fishermen out of work to Net it all & pay them a bonuse per tonnage 💹💯
govts world wide should get on board NOW and start the program and start a Join up campaign
Awesome idea, ever consider making a petition? There’s ways online which can get considered by the government
This really make me cry
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execelente! queria o vídeo traduzido.
Great ad
Go GREENPEACE! 🕊
It's a drowning street disaster
The message is spot on as ever.
Well done for commissioning this GP UK
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But who made this animation? it's absolutely genius! 🎨✏️😏
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Scary and astonishing in creativity
🙏🙏🙏 #selamatkanbumi #FreeFromPlastic
Fantastic creative! Really powerful stuff. Well done Greenpeace for yet again creating work that exposes governments and multinationals and tells the truth. We the people need to act and not wait for governments to take the initiative.
Recent pipeline news got me researching, cuz I worked on a pipeline leak cleanup in "97". Just reported it cuz found out it wasn't reported. Rosedale, IN @ Racoon Creek. Wells were dug south of the bridge on east side, & pipeline is to the north so it must have been pretty bad. Just checked satellite & stuff doesn't want to grow in 1 & 1/2 of downstream fields.
Another subject I thought needed brought to your all's attention is that you need to quit putting sand in loggers fuel tanks. They just dump it out where it is, flush it out with more, and put in new. And now you've done more damage to the environment than them. They don't walk away from the equipment & leave it there.
Incredible videos
Great !
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Frighteningly, but unfortunately true ... 😔
This is a very good advert to show awareness of plastic and why we need to reduce / get rid of it. great work.
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EXCELLENT video. I will share it far and wide.
Only 10k views? What’s wrong with the world?! 😔
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Good job GP
Did anyone here know that you can put your ordinary PPE masks in the washing machine. I have picked up black, white, blue ones off the street and put them in the washing machine with my laundry. They all come out unharmed and reusable, if you so wish. (I don't use other people's but I did it to prove a point). I despair over the amount of plastic and some of the uneducated youth here in Jaywick chucking their sweet papers, tins, bottles, anything on the street and in the fields out the back of where I live. Long live GreenPeace.
Well done, Greenpeace.
Excited!!
Please make it with German subtitles, Thanks❤️💚
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Good stuff Greenpeace 👍🏻
Boris
G R E A T
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SAVE THE BIGFOOT
Jail Tme I think
Western countries always having double standards
This is bad
I Will wait for the same video but with Xi Jinping China's President.
Sending plastics to another country to burn is a great way to lower your carbon foot print lol