(28 May 2023)
WORLD PLASTIC POLLUTION
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ARCHIVE: Potpec Lake, Priboj, Serbia – 30 January 2023
1. Mid of lake covered with plastic and waste and birds feeding
2. Various of boat trying to clear waste
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ARCHIVE: Luzira, Kampala, Uganda – 18 February 2023
3. Various of heaped sacks of plastic waste and man sorting through it
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London, UK – 25 May 2023
4. Various of chemicals laboratory in University College London (UCL) looking for ways to eliminate plastic
5. Close of researcher opening a tub of microplastics
6. Microplastics in researcher’s hand
7. Microplastics in jar being mixed with water
8. Close of tube of soil containing various microorganisms like bacteria
9. Soil being emptied into water and plastics in jar and mixed
10. Wide of Professor Helen Hailes (centre) and Dr Jack Jeffries talking to researcher
11. Close of Hailes
12. Close of Jeffries
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Helen Hailes, chemical biology, UCL
“So you have to be very careful about unintended consequences. So if there is a new polymer material that is going out into the market, then manufacturers have to think really carefully about the end of life of that material. Is it something that could go into some sort of compostable system be it industrial composting or anaerobic digestion? Or is it going to end up down at your local waste depot.”
14. Plastics on conveyor belt under hyper spectroscope camera which feeds information about plastics to computer
15. Various of camera section
16. Various of plastics being passed under the camera
17. Wide of researcher looking at analysis of plastics on computer screen
18. Various close of computer screen showing image of plastic lid and cutlery
19. Close of computer screen showing the lid is made of POA plastic and the cutlery is made of potato starch
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Helen Hailes, chemical biology, UCL
“The ideal solution would be to be able to have systems to sort and degrade, whether that’s a chemical degradation or a biological degradation. I don’t think we can leave the amount of plastics that’s currently in the oceans and people are looking at developing microbial based systems, for example, that might be able to help degrade plastics in a marine environment that could potentially have an impact as well.”
21. Various of small anaerobic digester which is being used to test different microbes on plastics
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Jack Jeffries, biochemical engineer, UCL
“So we want to reduce those times. We want to reduce the time taken to degrade plastic in anaerobic digesters, to bring that into that three week window, which is what anaerobic digesters run commercially at now.”
23. Various close of researcher adding, then rubbing soil and bacteria solution onto an agar plate used to culture microorganisms
24. Various of researcher collecting agar plates and putting them in incubator
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Nairobi, Kenya – 24 May 2023
25. Various of Irene Maithya, environmental advocate and lawyer, Moi University, Kenya
26 SOUNDBITE (English) Irene Maithya, environmental advocate and lawyer, Moi University, Kenya
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ARCHIVE: Johannesburg, South Africa – 20 May, 2022
27. Zoom out from cityscape to reveal the Robinson deep landfill site
28. Close of a plastic bag blowing in the wind on landfill site
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Nairobi, Kenya – 24 May 2023
29. SOUNDBITE (English) Irene Maithya, environmental advocate and lawyer, Moi University, Kenya
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