Hemp and bamboo can be used to create more environmentally friendly packaging etc. instead of more and more plastic.

MIcroplastics in our environment is dangerous for all life on this planet, including ours.

Plastics are not just in waters but are now in the atmosphere as well. Microplastic will continue to disintegrate to become even smaller and dangerous.

Thatk you Sarah, please dont give up, never give up, this is worth it

I was born in 1945. I remember a (mostly) plastic-free life. I don't see why we can't go back there.

10:15 we live in a society

True but big companies and the government should be held responsible and accountable. They're the reason this problem has gotten so bad. Why put not only the blame but also the burden of responsibility on the consumer and individual? It isn't our fault that this problem has gotten out of hand so why are we expected to fix it?

Thank you for this presentation. This is a tough problem to solve.

I wish I had been at this Ted talk .BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY IS RIGHT Down the ROAD. I remember the first liquid laundry detergent, when quilt material was always 1oo% cotton, when there was no creamora, when vegetables weren't in plastic containers. I miss those days. I also remember taking apart old cloths and using good parts to make new.....unless a time comes that it doesn't take both parents going out to earn a living there will be no reduction in time saving plastic usage. There will be no make it, make it over or heaven forbid.....do without.

Lord help us all

Wow...!! That was amazing information on the incredible menace of micro-plastics. Thanks, Dr. Dudas, for sharing. Well...! I am doing my part and I seriously (desperately in fact) wish that people should realize the gravity of negative impacts of using plastics.

Wake-up call to humanity!

There should be a ban on single-use plastic. A company, selling its product, should only be using recyclable plastic. There is a study which says that nano-plastics are in water bottles that people have been drinking unknowingly for years. I, for one, fear that the nano-plastics I have consumed have leeched into my body, and pose a risk to my health going forward.

Turns out the first great filter is plastics and we failed it.

Actually plastic lasts almost forever and it's killing off a massive amount of the bird and seafood population.

Need to make plastic from hemp oil not crude. It’s biodegradable.... pretty simple answer for not producing more of the dangerous toxic plastic they never goes away..... then start a massive worldwide clean up of the crude oil plastic..... get it done. This is your final warning on the matter

Good video and as far as microplastics are concerned, once they are extracted by any system, how are these microplastic residues eliminated (don't tell me about recycling)

I agree so much on second hand goods, I wish when I got married I hadn't worried about having everything matching so much

only 11000 views, not cool, mostly do not wants to change

If one considers all the ways plastics end up in the atmosphere, including tornados, wildfires encountering civilization, wind erosion, hurricanes, tsunamis and others- it seems necessary to place a one-use tax on plastics not intended for recycle and engage a national reclamation strategy using unemployed US workers(if they are tired of unemployment insurance) and introduce the next generation to what they will be spending time and money on to attempt reclamation of the earth from the plastics rampant within. Part of a green new deal?

I wonder, does ice with microplastic contaminates melt quicker?

Plastic might go down as humanities worst invention

Very interesting lesson !

Very interesting

Seems like.. she is about to cry!

The pandemic created the largest plastic waste of all time...

Hemp clothing compared to synthetic fibers is like comparing a lump of plastic to a block of Iridium.

massive production of plastics.. negligible decomposition of discarded plastics... we need a decomposition chemical or gassifier or oil extractor to process the horrendous mass of discards or biodegrade them.. or we will strangle on it

This is terrific, where can I find the diagram of the old 3 Rs with the new three Rs, please?

Ban plastic

man... ! ...think of tire tread grinds... millions of tires grinding microparticles 24/7..... when will officials realize we must be breathing plastic particles ?????

YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY PLASTIC FANTASTIC

is cellophane biodegradable ?

What would be the solution?

Everyone thinks of domex/lizol/vim etc..but none knows what will happen to the plants that absorb that water

Read, study, analyze, question and don’t believe everything you’re told in social media and tedx…

これを英語の課題にするとか、ジェラルド厳しいなぁ😭😎😂

My schools making me watch this ..

The Victorians used celluloid, so we used plastics before the 1950's. 🇺🇸

Ecc 8:9

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Didn’t mention plastic used and/or wasted in medical fields.

Wow all of this talk for an ad for Orwell 1984 dystopia.

Here is how i reduce plastics and put it to the man the plastic bottles i drink i fill with all the little things and easily fragmentable things like paper and plastic and store them inside the bottles ive been drinking we can start recycling everything its all a matter of energy and to recycle the world's plastic into containers to be recycled with 0 other matter is already here all thanks to kilopower

Lean, estudien, analicen, cuestionen y no se crean todo lo que les dicen en las redes y en tedx…

Nature totally suffers from Man's poor spiritual condition. "Man is organic with the world. His inner life molds the environment and is itself deeply affected by it. The one acts upon the other and every abiding change in the life of man is the result of these mutual reactions." ~ Baha'i Faith

We’re doomed

This kind of sounds like mental illness… How much is the plastic really rubs off from the plastic things that we use and into our air?? We breathe? Or are we worried about us just about throwing the things away in general? Well the key is to buy things you don't want to throw away, not to get rid of plastic entirely. Plastic is extremely useful; the culture of buying new items constantly instead of reusing/repurposing/making the most of the what we have abundantly. I just wanted to be clear because the whole visual illustration of our plastic use feels a little misleading if it is not primarily concerned with single use plastic/plastic that is thrown away. I understand the anxiety about the contamination of the water supply. (from the plastic in our clothes wringing out in the washing machine). however: does it actually absorb through our skin cells/epithelial layers? Rather, does it pass along with our food into our feces? Maybe that could even help it decompose faster? Lol? I hope that helps ease some of the anxiety regarding the plastic in our every day life. , I believe in our collective ability to do the right thing when we need to.

I wonder how much wind turbines contribute to the problem?

So u mean dust.

It's better if we go back to the stone age to live longer because everything is natural.

She’s so nervous lol

Chumping on kebab boxes

I like your ASMR mmmmm micro plastics

I'm buying 10 pounds of glitter and flushing it