if there s nothing to indicate, guys, there might be some quite significant restrictions on this, then it is potentially misleading. so, is terracycle all it aspires to be? you know, my hope at the end, one day we re all going to die and my hope is that, when that happens, that the world misses me. i ve come to treyarnon beach, in cornwall, for the monthly local clean up. we re all looking for the same thing. the majority of the plastic will be on the high tide point or the car park we know there s litter up there and the sand dunes. four years ago, emily and herfriend lawrence found something that shows just how long plastic pollution can last. i found this crisp packet when i was ten years old. i looked at it, and was, like, this is not a crisp packet you would see today. i ve never seen this design on a walkers crisp packet. so i think i gave it to emily, and she said, that looks like something from a long time ago. the packet dates back to the 1980s much, much
and two teachers died in a mass shooting at an elementary school. the coffin of ten year old ameriejo garza was borne into the sacred heart catholic church, across the road from her school. those are the main headlines. now on bbc news it s time for panorama. how much do you know about what happens to the plastic in your cupboards? we built plastic as the perfect material. it s durable, but that s exactly why it s become such a problem, because it doesn t degrade. there s a good chance you ll have bought stuff with this logo on it. behind it, a company, terracycle, that says it can recycle anything. ever looked at a crisp packet and thought it would make a nice chair? but the company s been accused of greenwashing in the us. when you describe terracycle s business model to people, i often get a kind of really? look off them. if there s nothing to indicate, guys, there might be some quite significant restrictions on this, then it is potentially misleading. so, is terracyc
Back on track with targets like ending extreme poverty and tacking climate change. And president s and Prime Ministers will take the opportunity to seize the global spotlight including us President Joe Biden who arrived On Sunday Evening in new york. To talk about all of this and what we can expect from the week ahead, im joined now from new york by michael bociurkiw, Global Affairs analyst and Non Resident Seniorfellow at the atlantic council. Lets talk about who is not going to be there, rishi sunak, emmanuel macron, and modi, xi jinping. Quite a list. What do you make of those absences . Quite a list indeed. Un Secretary General laid it down and says this isnt a chauffeur vanity fair. Show for vanity fair. Id more leaders are using that excuse, that they are very busy, so they are sure show up in certain summits. In the case of rishi sunak, if reporting is to be believed, he is not only very busy but afraid to be called out at the un Climate Summit for not performing well enough on
to collection points. no one uses our programmes the way that you asked that family to use our programmes. they either are already going to a collection location, that is the most common behaviour type. or, if not, it s usually on their way and they re accumulating close to three to four kilos per waste stream. a crumpet bag, it weighs four grammes, so if you wanted two kilos, you d have to get through 500 packets of crumpets. that seems unrealistic for a family, doesn t it? but that s not how people use our programmes. i agree, no one is going to consume that level of crumpet bags. they re typically accumulating to get to those numbers, not at their home, but at a place of aggregation, like at an office. i think this is the important part when you judge a programme. it should bejudged on how citizens are using the programme today. now, can it be more convenient? and can it be easier? absolutely.
no one uses our programmes the way that you asked that family to use our programmes. they either are already going to a collection location, that is the most common behaviour type. or, if not, it s usually on their way and they re accumulating close to three to four kilos per waste stream. a crumpet bag, it weighs four grammes, so if you wanted two kilos, you d have to get through 500 packets of crumpets. that seems unrealistic for a family, doesn t it? but that s not how people use our programmes. i agree, no one is going to consume that level of crumpet bags. they re typically accumulating to get to those numbers, not at their home, but at a place of aggregation, like at an office. i think this is the important part when you judge a programme. it should bejudged on how citizens are using the programme today.