What Next for the War on Plastic?

Frederikke Magnussen of
A Plastic Planet joined by a panel of experts to discuss what’s next in the battle against plastics.

There is more than five times the amount of plastic in our oceans than we thought we put in. We are concerned. The outcry is here.

Fishing nets, helium balloons, plastic bags, plastic particles in our food and drinks - the panel discussed the problem being in the making of plastic, waste management, the supply chains not being transparent. It’s a global challenge.

• Why is the UK sending it’s plastic to Malaysia and previously China?

• We need to turn off that plastic tap!

First we had microplastics and now we are hearing about nanoplastics, (particles unintentionally produced from degradation and manufacturing of plastic objects which behave in a colloidal manor and fall within the range of 1 to 1000 nm.)

Through eating, packaging leaching and micro-plastic getting to us when showering, humans are consuming the equivalent of a credit card of plastic each week.

Plastic micro-stuff - feed stocks creating plastic, add dangers to health, and among them, the release of toxic substances into the air and water.

Audience question “What we can do to help in relation plastic and fashion?”
Answer “Wear natural fibres, buy second hand, buy less, use washing machines that filter the microfibres (and the first two washes are the worst)”