Plastic waste eaten by enzymes ⏲️ 6 Minute English

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Plastics can be difficult to recycle - could a recently discovered enzyme help? Neil and Beth discuss this and teach you some useful vocabulary.👇👇👇
❓❓❓ According to the UN, around 400 million tonnes of new plastic is produced every year. Which of the following, if placed on a set of scales, would weigh about the same?
a) all the people on Earth?
b) all the cars on Earth?
c) all the elephants on Earth?
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Vocabulary:
✔️incinerate - burn
✔️landfill - method of dealing with rubbish by burying it in large holes in the ground
✔️brittle - easily broken, cracked, or snapped
✔️downcycling - creating a recycled object of lesser value and quality than the original waste object
✔️enzyme - chemicals found in living cells which cause changes in other chemicals to happen while not being changed themselves
✔️show promise - have the potential for success in the future
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@bbclearningenglish 3 ай бұрын

You can download the audio and a free programme transcript here 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english_2024/ep-240229

@whiskeylullaby9556 2 ай бұрын

It is horrifying to learn that the weight of plastics produced by the world each year is as much as that of total people living on earth. Half of plastics we have used end up in landfilling but it is sad to know only less than 10% can be incinerated. As recycling appears to be more downcycling, the good news is the scientists have disvovered some enzymes that can be used in recycling plastics into its building blocks. I'm utterly glad that the LCC enzyme show promise to break down even stronger plastics. Hope the world is gonna be clean as much as it used to be.

@trangdieu.18c 3 ай бұрын

VOCABULARY FROM VIDEO “Plastic waste eaten by enzymes ⏲ 6 Minute English” 1. Be sort of: in some way or to some degree 2. Remoulded = change: to completely change the character of someone or something 3. Incinerate : burn 4. Landfill : method of dealing with rubbish by burying it in large holes in the ground 5. Brittle : easily broken, cracked, or snapped 6. Downcycling : creating a recycled object of lesser value and quality than the original waste object 7. Enzyme : chemicals found in living cells which cause changes in other chemicals to happen while not being changed themselves 8. Show promise : have the potential for success in the future 29.2.2024 VIETNAM ALL THE BEST FOR YOU ^^

@quocle397 2 ай бұрын

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@trangdieu.18c 2 ай бұрын

@@quocle397 Có chứ em nha. Về cơ bản, học ngôn ngữ giống như một đứa bé học vậy em á. Đi theo trình tự 4 kỹ năng NGHE NÓI ĐỌC VIẾT em nha.

@quocle397 2 ай бұрын

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@lanfrancopignoli5553 3 ай бұрын

This service is simply outstanding

@Iswearcrixket 2 ай бұрын

Indeed!

@PhamPhuongNga-fr1rm 3 ай бұрын

Thanks BBC

@languagelearningsessions 3 ай бұрын

We absolutely love the subjects you choose for the lessons🙌🙏

@dailyenglishtopics.official 3 ай бұрын

Interesting video. Thank you for uploading

@gdgdgdhrhrhrh2954 3 ай бұрын

Thanks you

@htoo425 3 ай бұрын

Hi everyone, I'm from Myanmar. The situations here are getting worse day by day. 😢

@paolobragantini2991 3 ай бұрын

WONDERFUL!

@ximuoidethuong 3 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot

@CarmenGonzalez-xr9de 3 ай бұрын

Thanks 😊

@veronicanorambuena3263 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for making these videos!

@bbclearningenglish 2 ай бұрын

😊 Thank you for watching!

@fizz3373 3 ай бұрын

Thanks

@theworldofmusic5895 Ай бұрын

Incenerate: đốt Landfill: chôn Brittle: dễ hỏng Downcycling = recylce nhưng clg sp sẽ đi xuống Enzymes Show promise: có tiềm năng

@Sergio2006A 3 ай бұрын

Great news!

@keithshum8780 2 ай бұрын

Thank you , love this channel🎉 Hope plastic risk can be solved one day. New enzyme may be the plastic terminator.

@user-eh7fw9er1o 3 ай бұрын

Hello teacher thank you a for a video

@kienvo 3 ай бұрын

Hope one day, scientists are able to create enzymes that can eat nuclear waste!

@Timo_UA 3 ай бұрын

I'm afraid, nuclear waste cannot be neutralized using chemical reactions, it needs other types of transformation which affect the nucleus.

@kienvo 3 ай бұрын

@@Timo_UAUnderstood. It’s not necessary “enzymes” but any mechanisms that could neutralize nuclear waste! Nuclear waste is much more damaging and dangerous to the environment and livelihood of our planet than any other wastes!

@donatelladelpriore3375 3 ай бұрын

Or Humans 😂

@blackyrocky7438 2 ай бұрын

And then what will happen to those enzymes???

@ruuriritaso8588 2 ай бұрын

this video includes interesting things that I did not know.

@user-dm6pi4fx5h 2 ай бұрын

One of the problems with these enzimes in my opitnion is to prevent them from recycing the plastic which is still in use )))

@minegarden Ай бұрын

Yes, I agree

@promax._03 2 ай бұрын

Hello everyone ❤ , the best speech is about plastic

@ibrohimjonmosinov8858 3 ай бұрын

0:46

@user-fo2vr5lj7i 3 ай бұрын

Good luck

@user-we1zh6yf4f 2 ай бұрын

The older I get, the more brittle my bones get 😢

@lopezaguilar28 3 ай бұрын

5:47 what's the function of TO HAPPEN there? I don't make sense of it.

@andreiro6325 3 ай бұрын

When you cause something to happen, it means that you make something, a chemical reaction in this case, occur. So in this context you can use happen as a synonym for occur

@SetuRaniSarker 3 ай бұрын

Hi! everyone.l'm from Bangladesh

@bbclearningenglish 3 ай бұрын

Hello from London!

@santahy.4922 3 ай бұрын

Hi,Bangladesh! Hello from Lithuania!

@JaHIDHASA4 2 ай бұрын

Which part of Bangladesh..?

@SetuRaniSarker 2 ай бұрын

@@JaHIDHASA4 Pabna and u??

@mudithasubodhani7911 3 ай бұрын

❤

@Tanvihul 3 ай бұрын

"I have a question, please answer. In the case of spoken English, can I use 'I have got a fancy for you' to mean 'to start like something'?"

@ibrohimjonmosinov8858 3 ай бұрын

0:17

@Xyver203 3 ай бұрын

What if it was about the leap day

@SanjayKumar-gr9ot 3 ай бұрын

🌺

@tammytsang3487 3 ай бұрын

Hopefully the newest medication will show promise to me soon.

@MOTIVATITIME 3 ай бұрын

Hello 👋

@snayperD 2 ай бұрын

3:00

@mehmet.albyrk 3 ай бұрын

🎉

@hasharfarhankhan2141 3 ай бұрын

Hi, I am from Pakistan

@user-we1zh6yf4f 2 ай бұрын

There are 4 hundred tonnes incinerated at the landfill per year

@minegarden Ай бұрын

The idea of plastic waste eaten by enzymes is good but it would be better if we can replace the plastic with another product less polluting and less expensive

@nikffgame6108 Ай бұрын

Yes, but what product should we use rather than plastic ?

@user-we1zh6yf4f 2 ай бұрын

The spacecraft and its crew were incinerated by billion-degree temperatures generated by the fireball

@rickebuschcatherine2729 Ай бұрын

The problem is they already used in the past enzymes to ash cloths ! An ecological disaster! Let's hope it's not the same !

@user-wy7ei8gq3d 3 ай бұрын

Ok plastic waste increase to produce in the world

@RaquelPerez-pr6fn 3 ай бұрын

👌👌👍👍👏👏👏😸

@Someone07... 3 ай бұрын

40th like ❤

@kwantse7421 2 ай бұрын

This is the first time ever that Beth has given a wrong answer 😅

@Joker-KS-ru 3 ай бұрын

There are not subtitles in other langouges. For study new words we need to translation text, but here we can't. Stupid lerning programm.

@inflycloud194 Ай бұрын

may i said i can't understand the professor words

@bbclearningenglish Ай бұрын

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