Inside the Lab That Could Solve the World’s Plastics Problem (Unsolvable: Episode 1)
June 7 — Plastics are everywhere in our lives, but those bottles, utensils, and electronics can take hundreds of years to decompose. Since the material is too useful to abandon, we’re faced with two problems: how can we develop environmentally friendly products, and how do we clean up the plastics we’ve already discarded? We travel to a materials lab in Minnesota and a recycling plant in California to find the answers in this episode of Unsolvable.
Post Series: California
- 1.Deep Sea Fish Farming in Geodesic Domes: Upgrade
- 2.Aquaponic farming saves water, but can it feed the country?
- 3.Rising sea levels will put U.S. homes at risk in near future
- 4.What Can Beijing Learn From Los Angeles’ Pollution Problem?
- 5.Inside the Lab That Could Solve the World’s Plastics Problem (Unsolvable: Episode 1)
- 6.Sea Shepherds finds a dead sample of the most endangered marine mammal in the world
- 7.Farms under the sea could feed the world in 2050
- 8.California wants its grizzly bears back
- 9.California’s ban on animal-testing could remake cosmetics industry
- 10.Person on the Street Reactions: Tobacco Impact on the Environment — Tobacco Free CA
- 11.Damien Mander Is Waging War On Poaching | Rich Roll Podcast
- 12.This Family’s Fight Against Climate Change Starts At The Top Of Centuries-Old Trees | Nightly News
- 13.How drought and the fight for water is splitting the state of California
- 14.California Makes Years-Long Climb From The Depths Of Exceptional Drought
- 15.What’s Causing the California Water Crisis? | NowThis
- 16.Carbon Farming: Harnessing The Power of The Soil
- 17.Takeout creates a lot of trash. It doesn’t have to.
- 18.Hope for dwindling northern white rhinos with artificial insemination