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Costing the Earth

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Costing the Earth: Ending the Plastic Age

Ending the Plastic Age

19/09/2018

BBC Radio 4 - Costing the Earth, Ending the Plastic Age

Solving the plastic problem. Four experts join Tom Heap to offer fresh answers.

Solving the plastic problem. The One Show's Lucy Siegle and Iceland supermarket boss Richard Walker join Tom Heap in the search for fresh answers.

How do we solve the plastic crisis? Tom Heap is joined by an expert panel to find fresh ways to cut down on plastic waste.

It's become the environmental crisis that's caught the imagination. Since Blue Planet 2 broadcast heart-rending images of albatross and turtles tangled in plastic waste enormous pressure has been exerted on government and retailers to reduce the flow of plastic into landfill and the oceans. But what's the best way to dispose of plastic? How do we reduce our consumption of such an incredibly versatile material? Are there future plastics that will degrade and disappear without a cost to the planet?

Lucy Siegle, BBC 'One Show' reporter and author of a new book, 'Turning the Tide on Plastic' joins Tom alongside Richard Walker, MD of Iceland supermarkets who has pledged to remove plastic packaging from own-label goods by 2023. Bath University's Janet Scott discusses plant-based alternatives to plastic and Dustin Benton of the Green Alliance explains how campaigners are keeping up the pressure on government to improve the treatment and recycling of waste.

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