Explore Challenges
- 7 March 2012: 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 can we 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
David Keith, 3G, digital technology, Thames Estuary, poverty, Green Belt, HIV, Mark Easton, Lord Winston, medicine, wind energy, technology, informal economy, mobile phones, Cities, food miles, 21st Century, online, Trade, geography
Plastic pollution in the oceans : Media Gallery
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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