How bad is plastic?

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Claim your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/sabinehossenfelder. Start your free trial TODAY so you can watch Eco Eye about solutions to the problem of environmental pollution, and the rest of MagellanTV’s science collection: https://www.magellantv.com/series/ecoeye-with-duncan-stuart Correction to what I say at 9 mins 5 seconds and at 9 minutes 40 seconds: The carboniferous lasted (approximately) from 360 to 300 million years ago and was 60 million years long. (Not from 360 to 60 and 300 million years long.) Sorry about that. Plastic is everywhere and we have all heard it's bad for the environment. But how bad is it really? In this video I explain that no one really knows how durable plastic is, that microplastics are everywhere, most bioplastics aren't bio-degradable, and that you can make steel from plastic. Yes, steel. The report about online information on plastic lifetime I mention at 2 mins 58 seconds is here: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/117/26/14618.full.pdf The paper about degradation of polystyrene I mention at 4 mins 30 seconds is here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.9b00532 The paper about bacteria on microparticles which I mention at 7 mins 30 seconds is here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31445309/ The 2016 paper about bacteria that digest plastic which I mention at 10 mins is here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aad6359 The paper about PETase I mention at 11 mins 5 seconds is this: htt

Published 2021-11-06 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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