Only a handful of places in the world can #recycle multi-layered plastics. #plastic #sustainability
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Laura Johnson is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied Environmental Science, Policy, and Management with a concentration in sustainable agriculture. Her research focuses on climate-smart agriculture and resilience strategies for farming communities. Laura works as a sustainability strategist, helping farms in the US transition to practices that are both environmentally sustainable and economically viable.
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Result of the plastic industry lobbying to make “recycling” seem to be more effective than it actually is.
This doesn't even say what it's recycled into? This is amazing technology and advancement but
video seems a bit pointless if you can't even share it's use.
Oh look, performative mask wearing. Cloth masks with no filters doing nothing at all. >.>'
Well, I guess the solution is to not use that kind of material to begin with, but I don't know what substitutes are viable.
I bet it Stinks! 🤢
This only works because in some parts of India the minimum salary is US$64 PER MONTH, about $3 per day.
Only exotic if you pay workers $1 an hour.
People need to put more effort and work on ways to degrade plastics …… Whatever happened to those plastic eating bacteria ?
And what is that final product good for?
What can you do with that recycled black filament?
Im the only mlp here 😢 🦄 you can have that plastic shit
Seems like more work than it’s worth
Glad somebody in the comments said multi- layer plastics would’ve taken a second more to be clear in your video.
Plastic recycling is a scam the plastic industry uses to keep us from demanding less plastic in packaging
Those flakes don’t look dry at all
I'll bet they don't use any protective gear when not filming!
We must revert to reusable or cellulose based containers.
Just saying… every time you recycle plastic, you create micro plastic in the process 😶
Not so smart when you realize that powder floating in the air is actually microplastics…… yeah . . .
Yeah no we need to stop making new plastic and go back to glass, tin, aluminum and cardboard packaging. These workers won’t be the only ones suffering from this microplastic factory they work at, but they will definitely get the brunt of it.
This looks like an Indian recycling factory. Typically of them to exploit their workers and put them at risk like this.
It looks like it's making that black plastic that smells terrible and used in really cheap things
That's all fine and dandy but what do they do with the wastewater? All that washing there's going to be a lot of nasty stuff in that water! 🤔
So many people in the comments brainwashed by their TV..
Mycelium – isn’t that the great plastic replacer – perhaps even edible!
The speaker gets more and more quieter
A tiny recycle plant, good for maybe experimental stuff
😂
Damn that people are inhaling all this shi
Ok.
Yay more micro plastics everywhere
Look at all that microplastics dust they probably all have coal lung
Those workers don't have N95 masks. They're breathing plastic all day.
People working here are prone to chronic health conditions…..such factories are not following health rules…..
So they cut them up wet them down dry them out mix them up then melt them into a string
Microplastics straight fill the air, water supply, and all those people’s organs.
We dry the plastic, then load it into a barrel full of water
Carbon based powder… You mean grinded charcoal homeboy😐
It's not recycling, it's downcycling.
What a load of effort when we could just stop eating crisps.
Waste water level vs lb produced? Gallons vs ml
Very unfortunate acronym
Recycling My Little Ponies shouldn't be THAT hard
Monkey see monkey do
And wash water discharged into local river.
In india we have bigger problems than careing about micro plastic into the body
This shows nothing.
If there were more businesses like this, with a huge reduction on new plastics. I believe the cost would be significantly lower to recycle. Since one ( if not the largest) contributor to landfills and ocean pollution. I believe it could be done rather quickly and would make a huge impact on the whole planet.
Water based adhesives….
And they all get cancer before they are 50 .. can imagine all the micro plastics those poor people inhale
the narrator is hard to listen to…reminds me of pbs radio broadcasters who could scream into a lit candle and not move the flame