Explore Challenges
- Countryside in Crisis?
- The Energy Water Food Stress Nexus
- Unsustainable Fishing
- Keeping pace with a digital revolution
- Global health in the 21st Century
- Adapting to an urban future
- Educating for tomorrow
- Digital technology in Africa
- Persistent poverty in Britain
- Can the UK ever be sustainable?
- Plastic pollution in the oceans
- Natural disasters: how to improve?
- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- Britain’s ageing population
- Engineering our climate
- The future shape of Capitalism
- Migration: skills and the job market
- Razing the Rainforest
- London under water
- Concreting the countryside
- Future of low carbon energy
- Africa in the 21st Century
labour, Trade, Economic Growth, OLPC, natural resources, War, Low Carbon Energy, Fishing, aid, welfare state, water resources, LSHTM, economy, John Bird, broadband, Save Bletchley Park, Global Medic Force, Haiti, Health, uk
Plastic pollution in the oceans
Our throw away society is polluting large areas of the world's oceans with plastics, threatening marine life and food chains. How did it get there? What are the practical solutions? Is it time to re-evaluate waste as a resource?
- TALKS
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- 60 SECONDS
- INTERVIEWS
Dr Simon Boxall
Dr Simon Boxall, oceanographer, discusses the importance of the world's oceans and the issue of plastic pollution.
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David de Rothschild
David de Rothschild, Leader of The Plastiki, talks about the importance of understanding the value of waste plastic as a resource.
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Peter Davis
Peter Davis, Director-General of the British Plastics Federation, talks about the importance role plastic products have in modern life and the ways industry can help to reduce plastic waste.
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Audience Q&A Part 1
Part 1 of questions to the panel from our audience, lead by David Shukman
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Give Me Tap - Making our world a fountain
Funding water aid in Africa through reusable water bottles in UK.
Professor Richard Thompson
We talk to an expert who is researching what happens when plastic breaks…
David de Rothschild - our biggest challenge
David de Rothschild explains what he sees as the biggest challenge facing society…
The Plastiki Expedition
Made with over 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles, The Plastiki has just across the…
Interview with Sylvia Earle
Celebrated oceanographer and ambassador for the world's oceans. Dr Sylvia Earle, 'explorer in…
What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
Find out how plastic is leading to the pollution of…
Give Me Tap - Making our world a fountain
Funding water aid in Africa through reusable water bottles in…
David de Rothschild - our biggest challenge
David de Rothschild explains what he sees as the biggest…
Interview with Sylvia Earle
Celebrated oceanographer and ambassador for the world's oceans. Dr Sylvia…