War On Plastic with Hugh & Anita
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Every minute of every day, the equivalent of a garbage truck full of plastic is emptied into the world’s oceans. In this new four-part series, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Anita Rani explore where this problem is coming from and what we can all do... to try and solve it.
Anita and Hugh visit a street in Bristol to uncover the overwhelming amount of single-use plastics we have in our homes, and challenge its residents to try and significantly reduce the amount of single-use plastic to discover how easy, or difficult, it is to live without it. During the experiment Anita and Hugh put our household items under scrutiny, revealing our addiction to bottled water and the hidden plastics in wet wipes. They also explore clever solutions for reducing our dependence on plastic.
On a mission to reduce our plastic consumption at a national level, Anita confronts organisations contributing to the crisis. Anita visits wet wipe companies to ask why they aren’t telling us about the plastic they contain. She joins two young activists who are campaigning for McDonalds to stop giving away plastic children’s toys and puts questions to the producer of a third of all plastic in the UK: our supermarkets.
With plastic so prominent in our everyday lives, Hugh puts micro-plastics under the microscope and discovers that plastic is raining down on us from the air, in our domestic spaces, and may well be entering our lungs. He is stunned to discover that at a time when everyone is more aware than ever about the importance of trying to reduce the plastics in our lives, the UK plastics industry has big plans to expand the amount they manufacture. What does the future of plastic hold?
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Anita and Hugh visit a street in Bristol to uncover the overwhelming amount of single-use plastics we have in our homes, and challenge its residents to try and significantly reduce the amount of single-use plastic to discover how easy, or difficult, it is to live without it. During the experiment Anita and Hugh put our household items under scrutiny, revealing our addiction to bottled water and the hidden plastics in wet wipes. They also explore clever solutions for reducing our dependence on plastic.
On a mission to reduce our plastic consumption at a national level, Anita confronts organisations contributing to the crisis. Anita visits wet wipe companies to ask why they aren’t telling us about the plastic they contain. She joins two young activists who are campaigning for McDonalds to stop giving away plastic children’s toys and puts questions to the producer of a third of all plastic in the UK: our supermarkets.
With plastic so prominent in our everyday lives, Hugh puts micro-plastics under the microscope and discovers that plastic is raining down on us from the air, in our domestic spaces, and may well be entering our lungs. He is stunned to discover that at a time when everyone is more aware than ever about the importance of trying to reduce the plastics in our lives, the UK plastics industry has big plans to expand the amount they manufacture. What does the future of plastic hold?
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Starring: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Anita Rani
Produced By: Keo Films
Broadcaster: BBC One | Year of Production: 2019 - 2020
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