16 Ways To Solve Trash, From Recycling Jeans To Making Bricks From Tires – Season 4 Marathon
We are running out of places to put the 2 billion metric tons of garbage humans make every year. But people, companies, and governments all over the world are trying to save it from landfills by putting it to good use or eliminating it altogether. Here are 16 stories about efforts to turn tires into bricks, seaweed into a plastic substitute, and more from our fourth season of World Wide Waste. 00:00:00 – Intro 00:00:33 – One Nigerian Entrepreneur’s Solution For Millions of Old Tires 00:10:08 – How Used Hotel Soap Gets Recycled Into Brand New Bars 00:19:05 – How The World’s Largest Paper Company Makes 1/3 of Cardboard Boxes In America 00:30:57 – Can Indian Seaweed Replace Plastic? 00:40:46 – Can Pineapple Skins Replace Soap? 00:49:20 – How Millions Of Jeans Get Recycled Into New Pairs 01:00:22 – Most Ocean Plastic Flows From Rivers. Can Giant Trash Barriers Stop It? 01:10:34 – How Bricks Made From Invasive Seaweed Clean Mexico’s Beaches 01:18:37 – How A Sheep Wagon Became One Man’s Doomsday Survival Plan 01:31:31 – Sewer-Diving Robots Clear Toxic Waste People Used To Remove By Hand 01:43:44 – How People Use Trash To Get Around Israeli Blockades in Gaza 01:55:21 – How To Recycle Makeup And Toiletries Packaging 02:04:53 – How Disney’s Magical Trash Tubes Ended Up In New York City 02:12:56 – How Bricks Made From Trash Help Build Schools In Ivory Coast 02:21:10 – How Polyfloss Uses A Modified “Cotton Candy” Machine To Make Plastic Fibers For Insulation 02:28:23 – How Adidas, Asics, and Other Shoemakers Deal With Waste 02:40:40 – Credits Credit to : Business Insider