Is Recycling All Our Waste at Home Possible?
CrowdScience
BBC
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Waste, trash, garbage – whatever you call it, unwanted materials have become a major presence in many of our lives and our environment. Every year it is estimated that humans around the world produce 2 billion metric tonnes of waste. Listener Clare from Devon in the UK wants to start tackling this herself. She would like to know if she can not just sort but process all her own recycling at home.
Presenter Marnie Chesterton attempts to find out by asking the professionals. She heads out to an industrial-scale recycling plant to see if any of their gear could work in our homes, hears from reporter Chhavi Sachdev how waste collectors in Mumbai, India have to balance thrift with risk, and asks environmental engineer Jenna Jambeck whether she thinks solely domestic recycling is possible.
(Image: Garbage bags with various bits of recycling, iron, paper and plastic. Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:29.1 | Sounds. Hello and welcome to crowd science from the BBC World Service. This is the show that takes your questions about |
| 0:44.3 | all things scientific and then travels the world to find answers. You join me on |
| 0:49.8 | the doorstep of a rather lovely cottage in rural Devon in the UK where I think I'm |
| 0:54.9 | meant to be meeting this week's question setter. But she's not answering. |
| 1:00.3 | Maybe I've got the wrong house. |
| 1:10.0 | Claire, hello, it's Marnie. Hello, it's Marnie. |
| 1:11.0 | Hello. I'm outside number 11. |
| 1:15.0 | Oh. Okay. Okay. I will. Turns out I'm on the right street but at the wrong house, my mistake, just a short walk and... |
| 1:30.8 | Hello! |
| 1:31.8 | Hi! Listener found. and Hello! |
| 1:37.0 | listener found along with her delightful dog Milo. Hello, Beaeful. |
| 1:38.0 | Hello! |
| 1:39.0 | Hello! |
| 1:40.0 | Are you defending? |
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