in addition to that, 4.25 billion single use pieces of cutlery the vast majority of which are plastic are also used. disposable coffee cups have been a long standing problem the uk throws away two and half billion of those every year. rob opsomer is from the ellen macarthur foundation, which aims to promote what it calls a circular economy. he explained how it works. so what we mean by circular economy, the easiest way to explain it is we look at our current economic model works. and how that works is we take resources out of the ground and we make products and we throw them away. and a circular economy is about taking that line and turning it into a circle by eliminating waste and pollution, circulating products and materials and regenerating nature. we have seen, over the last couple of years, a tremendous amount of momentum building around that idea of the circular economy and we see lots of efforts by businesses, governments, individuals, but the key
through 1.1 billion single use plates every year. in addition to that 4.25 billion single use pieces of cutlery the vast majority of which are plastic are also used. disposable coffee cups have been a long standing problem the uk throws away 2.5 billion of those every year. professor rashid gatrad is a member of the royal college of paediatricians and founded the campaign group world against single use plastics. he explained the scale of the problem. obviously everything starts at home, so once you start recycling the recyclables, and ifeel the government should be stricter with the corporates to make sure that they accurately label what is recyclable and what isn t, and also there should be throughout our country there should also be uniform colours of what goes into a recycling bin and what doesn t. at the moment there is confusion, each area has got its own colours of bins, so that should happen.
Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20211120 19:17:15 archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
panic neglect cycle that has long been occurring. whenever a crisis happens, we pay attention. we pay investment to it, and once the immediacy fades, so does our care about the problem. we can see that with delta. it was in many ways an audition of the next pandemic, one we failed, and it means that we do now need even while we re thinking about boosters and vaccinations and kavanaugh and whatever, to think about how we can better prepare against whatever comes next. we have to do both of those things at the same time. so what problems do we need to fix right now today? i think two in particular, one is the long standing problem with public health in this country. it is for almost a century faced incredible amounts of disinvestment so that the current structure is under staffed, it is crumbling buildings, it is archaic data systems. it needs a stable and substantial amount of money to make it up to scratch.
washington. understand, it s a problem that pre-dates donald trump, but we have a long standing problem and that s the influence on money. this leg has a lot of problems and closing the door between wall street and washington. 3u9ing a real ethics on the beach. cannot be trading in stock as a political matter are you basically writing off wall street money and today you re writing off a bunch of silicon valley. this is how it is to make this country work again not just for the rich and the powerful, how we re going to make it work for everyone.