Why recycled ocean plastic is (often) a lie

The Oceans are swamped with plastic and famous brands are here to the rescue: Adidas, Coca-Cola, Ocean Cleanup and many more. But how does this work and is this really the way to save our oceans?

We’re destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn’t need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What can we do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we’ll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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Read more:

Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6223/768

Plastics in the environment: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/421/publikationen/fb_kunststoffe_in_der_umwelt_engl_final_bf.pdf

Future scenarios of global plastic waste generation and disposal: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-018-0212-7

River plastic emissions to the world’s oceans: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15611

Turning ocean garbage into products – Consumers’ evaluations of products made of recycled ocean plastic: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330164838Turning_ocean_garbage_into_products-_Consumers’_evaluations_of_products_made_of_recycled_ocean_plastic

Author: Kai Steinecke

Camera/Video editor: Henning Goll

Video editor: Frederik Willmann

Supervising editor: Kiyo Dörrer