Name: Curbing our plastic addiction - 6 Minute English
Uploaded: 2020-07-01T10:33:08.000Z
Duration: 6 min 15 s
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Rob: Yes, it's our addiction to plastic that's

decay very quickly, so once we've used it,

Neil: It is a problem - and decay, by the

entangled in plastic waste, or ingest it.

could be done to solve this plastic crisis.

The first synthetic plastic - that's plastic

Rob: I'm no expert, so I'll say c) Formica.

Neil: Well, we'll reveal the answer at the

end of the programme. Now let's talk more

Rob: But the problem is that most of it isn't

have with quitting plastic but also how our

psychological attachment to this material

that's been around and it's like a push and pull.

At the one time, we're so horrified by what

we're being told we can't live without it, so

that creates a psychological dissonance -

which I think is the barrier to behavioural

Neil: But we also see the negative impact

of plastic - like whales dying - and in our

thing to do - this is the 'push and pull' of

barrier to us trying to solve the plastic

something about it - we're taking action to

reduce our plastic waste - we're turning to

something - it could be social or political

Neil: Of course there has been a big push

thing to do is go plastic-free - but that isn't

Neil: No, it isn't, and it's something Lucy

Siegle spoke about. Getting rid of plastic

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Curbing our plastic addiction - 6 Minute English

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