Name: 我們在公共場合穿戴塑膠垃圾7天--它改變了我們的生活。 (We Wore our Plastic Waste IN PUBLIC for 7 Days - It Changed Our Lives)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:29:20.000Z
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plastic is one of the most significant inventions of the 20th century.

It's rise to prominence in the 19 fifties allowed us to keep food fresh, longer manufacture lightweight and malleable products, designed new fashions, create more unique packaging and store things like never before.

In the sixties, it's production increased 400%.

By 1979 more plastic was being created than steel, and in 14 2100 billion plastic bags were used in the U.

But while it's convenience and versatility has revolutionized our world, it's left us with trillions of pieces of trash thrown into landfills and the ocean.

In fact, in the last 60 years we've produced 9.1 1,000,000,000 tons of plastic, so we thought we'd create a little experiment for ourselves.

Every single piece of plastic that we use in the next week we're going to have to wear on our bodies.

We're gonna have to find a way to attach it to ourselves and continue on with our week in public uninterrupted because the truth is we do a pretty good job of hiding it from ourselves, putting it in bags and bins behind cupboard doors are closed with lids and ultimately out of our houses and into trucks.

To go somewhere far, far away, we're gonna be following our normal consumption habits so that we can actually see how much plastic were using or wasting.

I'm honestly a bit nervous to find out how much it actually is and how it's gonna like smell on my body, let alone help.

People in public are going to be staring at us.

I buy so much promises, so much plastic this way.

So it seconds as a jockstrap don't just repulsed by grace.

But we're going to use a glue that knowing the truth.

Oh, it kind of feels like a weird place to start now.

I always get this done and just rip it off, and then it is.

Also, work is eventually you can like, make a little Rosa.

Yeah, that's a definite looks like a road plastics are made of polymers, which are molecules that have many repeated part's over and over.

For example, ethylene has to carbon and four hydrogen atoms, whereas polyethylene is many of them strung together and makes the most popular plastic in the world like your grocery bag.

Right now, 99% of all plastic is made from fossil fuels.

These fuels are taken out of the ground, refined into crude oil and then broken down into simple monomers.

These monomers then go through a process called polyamory ization to stick them all together.

And it's at this stage that different chemicals are added to change the characteristics of the plastic, whether it will be flexible or stiff, colorful or clear.

And finally, this polarized liquid is cooled and chopped into millions of tiny pieces called nerd ALS, which are shipped all over the world and ultimately heated and molded into whatever shape a manufacturer desires.

These final Pastika fit into two categories.

Thermal plastics, which turned soft when heated, like a shampoo bottle and thermos sets, which are incredibly hard after they're molded like a milk crate or parts in a plane.

I happen to finish a few bags of rice and veggies.

So I'm just worried about what it's gonna smell like I have to wear this T shirt every day.

Only the smell of food it's gonna smell of B.

Oh, it's so easy to throw it out out of sight.

Out of mind is the opposite of out of sight, out of mind.

Pretty soon we're gonna have to go into public.

I'm very shy, insecure person in the first place, like Gregor's rambunctious and loud Oh, and he's like, Comfortable.

Being noticeable in space is why is it this thing?

I'm gonna be so embarrassed, and it's probably what I need it for.

We definitely do need to grocery shop, the grocery store, A place full of plastic.

This trip was going to be a big factor in what we would be wearing for the rest of the week.

I actually like can't focus every so often.

My I wish I could show you people's faces.

Like maybe it's because they were wearing garbage way would usually by these.

So we're going Teoh right now with some honey, I'm mortified that I'm gonna department I love King Well, but I don't know if you can get it when it's not package like this.

My favorite thing is Hamas, also known as Thomas.

Oh, plastic which, like in some senses, make sense.

It's so much lighter like it makes sense that business is off for plastic.

But when you're here, it's everything and not to use the buzzword.

But this is not sustainable like reggaeton doing.

Whenever I package workplaces, watch me do what they're like.

As the week went on, the plastic continued to pile up and we wanted to understand more about the impact of plastic both good and bad.

So we sat down with Rachel Salt, author of the Plastic Problem, to find out.

I am sitting here covered in crinkly plastic, so I'm gonna hope not be too loud in this interview.

In your opinion, how big is this plastic problem?

Well, I would say plastic in of itself isn't an evil material, but if every single person on the planet right now stepped on the scale, the weight of the plastic we've made is 26 times the weight of every person on our way.

Use it one time, and then we throw it away, and it takes forever in the environment to break down in a landfill that could take 1000 years.

Currently, only a boat 9% of all plastic ever is recycled.

It's unlike aluminum and glass, which, if you recycle on aluminum, can you can turn that can write back into an aluminum can.

But if you take a plastic water bottle and recycle it, those long polymer chains, which make up all plastic, get shortened and shortened and shortened each time you recycle it.

So the great of the plastic becomes reduced, and then a lot of that waste actually escapes into the environment, particularly the ocean about a dump truck worth of plastic a minute.

What kind of impact does this sheer amount of plastic have on our planet on animals?

Plastic in the ocean has huge repercussions, especially to the amazing animals that live there.

So by 2050 they actually estimate that there's going to be more plastic in the ocean than fish.

And this plastic is ending up in the stomachs of sea birds, whales, turtles, fish and causing them to starve and often die with stomachs full of plastic.

Even filter feeders like muscles, are found with micro plastics in them.