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The Real Story: How Do We Cure Our Plastic Addiction?

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How Do We Cure our Plastic Addiction?

06/04/2018 GMT

How Do We Cure Our Plastic Addiction?

BBC World Service - The Real Story, How Do We Cure Our Plastic Addiction?

We're making too much plastic and China doesn't want it anymore, so what happens now?

We have a problem with plastic. We're making too much of it and not re-using and re-cycling enough of it. Plastic is contaminating our oceans and polluting our world. Until this year China took two thirds of the world's plastic waste, but now it's saying it will no longer be the world's dumping ground. The Chinese ban on low quality plastic has begun to bite with policy makers urgently looking for new solutions. So what happens now? What has the situation done to expose the way our plastics are recycled? And will developments result in a watershed moment where we finally re-evaluate our plastic consumption? Join Carrie Gracie and a panel of experts discuss how we cure our addiction to plastic.

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