TEDTalks Mike Biddle, We Can Recycle Plastic /

Less than ten percent of plastic trash is recycled, compared to almost 90 percent of metals, because of the massively complicated problem of sorting beach shoes from auto parts, discarded cell phones from drinking cups. In this TEDTalk, plastics engineer Mike Biddle talks about the logistics of plas...

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Other Authors: Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase., TED Conferences LLC.
Format: Video
Language: English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2012], c2011.
Physical Description: 1 streaming video file (11 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Mining Mountains of Trash (2:33)
  • Metal vs. Plastic Recycling (1:37)
  • Environmental Arbitrage (1:38)
  • Traditional and Sustainable Business Models (1:59)
  • From Plastic to Plastic (2:49)
  • Credits: Talks: Mike Biddle - We Can Recycle Plastic (0:05)