Recycling, Water Use and Problem Plastic

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Dr Chris Smith

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4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2006

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The recycling revolution and the whereabouts of our waste are hot topics this week as David Butler describes a new technique for recycling water, Rebecca Weymouth lifts the lid on what happens to our domestic waste, Peter Barham reveals why plastic is so difficult to recycle, and Richard Thompson discusses how waste plastic threatens the environment. In Kitchen Science Derek turns old chip oil into biodiesel, and from making fuel to running on empty, Anna Lacey asks Andrew Prentice how humans cope with famine. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Live from the BBC the naked scientists.
0:07.0	Hello welcome to this week's naked scientists.
0:10.0	Tonight, buy a diesel we'll be giving you the recipe how it is that if you start with a tin of chip fat, you can turn it into an environmentally friendly fuel.
0:17.5	Also, where does all the plastic go? When you chuck something out, what happens when you put it in that recycling bin? Does it get recycled?
0:23.5	And if so, what does it get turned into?
0:25.9	Also, where does all the plastic go if it ends up in the sea?
0:28.9	The startling new evidence that suggests that actually tons and tons and tons, in fact trillions of tons of plastic are ending up in our oceans
0:36.0	in tiny particulate form and it could be poisoning the seas and eventually poisoning us.
0:41.6	That's all coming up later this evening.
0:43.2	Hello, I'm Chris Smith and also here to present tonight's program is Dr. Khatani.
0:46.8	Good evening everybody.
0:48.8	We're also going to be bringing you news tonight about a probe to Pluto and how you know if you in the morning
0:55.1	you have those little yoggy drinks in the fridge I think they're minging but
0:58.5	they've developed probiotic drinks for chickens to help beat food poisoning. I'll also be talking about
1:04.6	how you can make a monkey yawn and maybe if I'm allowed to it is six o'clock in the
1:08.9	evening talking a little bit about sex and death in spiders.
1:13.0	If you've got any questions tonight for us, we are here to talk to you.
1:16.6	We have our experts in the studio all about plastics, recycling, the environment.
1:21.9	Get calling in 08 4459, 25, 2,000.
1:25.6	You can also have a go at our quiz,
1:27.4	science-factual science fiction, and up for grabs tonight is the Encyclopedia Britannica
1:31.8	on DVD.
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