We Need More Sustainable Packaging, Like, Yesterday

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Since the advent of single-use plastics, we’ve become awash in waste. Barrels of petroleum are extracted, turned into plastics that contain products, which are then opened and the containers thrown away. It’s a bonehead process start to finish.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.5	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
0:41.3	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:43.0	I'm Josh and there's Chuck and we're just a couple of dudes yapping it up about packaging
0:48.0	waste because this is Stuff You Should Know.
0:50.6	Let's go.
0:51.8	Yeah.
0:55.1	It's always fun even after all these years to just sort of not know what's going to come
0:58.7	out of your mouth at the beginning of an episode.
1:01.1	Same here.
1:02.1	Oh, like as yourself.
1:05.5	I think this is a nice little addendum or not addendum but just in the same bucket as
1:10.1	our recent bottled water episode.
1:13.6	And we did one on littering and the ultra processed foods episode I'll touch on this too.
1:19.0	Yeah.
1:20.0	First recycling and landfills and I just I love at the end of our whole career we're
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