so in order to talk about ways that he
started to bring my friend the bin full
of resources you’re gonna see I can
bring a lot of things but I need a stage
in the stage is going to be this big
long the big blue the good planets you
probably see David Attenborough talking
about it all the time on the BBC and
this thing is important in 72% covered
by the ocean and something we love in my
family and it’s running down the blood
because my great-grandfather when alpha
round the world during colonial time in
1895 and could not finish a full world
tour and in my family we loved the sea
and you can see even at a very young age
this is something I like you know
receive a sound the Sun and a lot of
plastic beasts you can play with in
verse and it’s always a lot of fun a lot
of colors and you can play with it and
as a biologist I was a bit frustrated
because I could never really work in the
ocean all the time I wanted and finally
in 2001 we started talking about doing
an exhibition for the Darwin centenary
and finally in 2009 this expedition went
around the world and I was lucky enough
to go on this expedition
from 2009 to 2012 we went all around the
world taking pictures of the plankton
the plankton is essential for captures
of co2 for oxygen it’s part of climate
change and the carbon pump so it’s
something which is very important and
that kept on doing this and I work on
sea on corals giving in deep in the
middle of Pacific Ocean and the Maldives
in Barrow to image this world and when
you image that fantastic world you get
those things so without tiny shrimps
called copy pods and they are very
important they are all around the world
and when you take pictures of us
weighing 10,000 100,000 of them you
often do this for your information the
blue bits are the animals the white bit
is not so whatever pictures of copy pod
you take in the middle of a Pacific
Ocean 5000 miles from any land you get
this plastic is everywhere and then so
you see oh it’s bad no it’s great the
plastic is a durable material which can
withstand whatever for a huge period of
time and it’s absolutely everywhere
nowadays because we produce it’s in the
50s and that’s something we made so good
but it can last forever so this is a
bitch on fucka bites and that’s all that
you cannot find on google map until you
zoom about 30 times it’s in the blue
patch in fact
they don’t produce plastic the fish
around don’t produce plastic but
actually they get a lot of plastic
different color different bits and if
you do a net you get different bits
because we cannot talk about plastic we
have to talk plastic with an S because
actually plastic comes in different
flavors and it’s great because we can
make fabric and you’re probably sitting
on plastic as I took your phone and
Internet world is based on plastic we
went to the moon base on plastic all
those plastics made the life we live in
possible this is fantastic and durable
product we don’t use very efficiently we
just discard it and that’s the problem
the problem is not the plastic the
plastic is fantastic it’s the way we
deal with it and in fortunately for us
what is happening at the moment is
because the ocean is the largest place
on earth and dilution is the solution as
some people says we have a ratio of 1 to
5 fish to plastic at the moment and as
we are very good on producing more
plastic by 2050 we’re going to get 1 to
1 fish to plastic in the ocean and so I
advise all of you to start springing all
a bit of plastic flakes on your fish
fingers nowadays because by 20 hundreds
that’s probably you are gonna have fish
finger plastic so please start now
because maybe we’re gonna get very nice
flavors especially you’ve a blue one you
should try so the problem comes from the
fact that it’s actually a very durable
product a very good product which can
stay 450 years but after a sip on a
plastic bottle we use it for a month and
that’s a problem so the problem is also
coming from there sorry is we have a
huge primary production aid Falzone 300
million metric ton massive thing and you
can see that what most of it go to be
discounted that’s it we use it we throw
it we don’t actually use it for 450
years we use it for 20 minutes next most
part of plastic products we use and
that’s a problem and you can see that
the recycling is a tiny tiny bit and I
was talking about fish yes one to one
fish is terrible it’s ugly
let’s talk about human because actually
we are human and we have it conserve our
elf and for human it’s sorry 1 to 13
nowadays today on earth all of you have
an equivalent of 13 little plastic man
related to 8 and
thirty kilograms of plastic and this
relate to this most part of it is
discarded a bit of it is used for energy
recovery you know was incinerator that
we see smoking around lung feeding in
the sky so you don’t see the plastic
anymore because we must follow a thing
we do with plastic its waste so we just
I did so we don’t see it so we happy
with it and this tiny guy there
it’s a recycle one ten percent you say
oh it’s not but it’s not too bad
actually it’s very bad because the
discarded one tend to end up in the
ocean because that’s an easy way of
getting rid of it because you don’t see
it anymore you appear with it that’s
fine
the one use for incineration actually
you recover only two percent of the
energy so you waste in 98 percent of
that quality material for nothing and
somebody has to bury the ashes anyway
and when we talk about recycling the
recycling is so complicated super
complex you never know which plastic is
which but recycling being is getting
everything in it it’s a mixed thing
you’re actually recycling only two
percent of ten percent in a good
European country where actually it works
so that’s problematic and the problem
comes from the fact that we don’t
consider the money actually if all that
plastic we have left somewhere could be
turned into basic plastic material it’s
only already 784 billion euro and if you
go even further than we’re reaching a
huge amount of money which any
philanthropist would be happy to have –
well the world as it is
so this plastic material has a value and
we should use it now
the problem also come from this probably
everybody went for it
do you know in which when this thing
goes is the blue there and the wet there
nobody knows and we think it’s even
terrible because you end up having this
you crush it everything together it’s a
mixed bag even if you remove these bits
you still have this bit elliott’s and
then you have a stickers and it doesn’t
goes and after you try to remove the
stickers and the sister government gap
and even if you get the sticker out then
you get a wonderful thing that are
there’s so much glue on it that it’s
contaminated and you cannot use it
anymore thank you very much but
recycling it’s too complex it takes a
lot of time and basically you don’t do
it so basically you export it and then
you have a waste broker which buy it as
a very low cost and then you call it
that’s it you cannot do anything element
and then basically you make both bail
everything is mixed together and you
export it because you have environmental
regulations so you cannot do whatever
you want with your
stuff you have to be careful the
convenient thing is let’s go to another
country we have a regulation now
different and somebody will actually
remove a cap remove the label and go for
it and you probably remember what
happened to our computers a few years
ago we used to dump in Africa and there
was a stop to it and our day is where
this place with our plastic is this they
burn it they try to recover where they
can and things like that so we basically
ethically speaking having a very nice
environment in Europe and country where
we dump somewhere else and funnily
enough recently China I decided that’s
enough
keep your waste we need a good
environment as well so now it’s your
problem
it’s your plastic it’s your money you
should use it and then you say what are
we gonna do we cannot bear it anymore
the ocean is full of it and then we
cannot really smoke everybody with it so
we have to do something with it say is
no solution actually there is one which
is just across the China Sea Japan since
20 years Japan has said we should
consider waste as plastic material and
we should look at recovery their
recovery rate of plastic bottle is
ninety three ninety three point five
percent they recover absolutely
everything and now they generate money
out of that because it goes back into
their industry they don’t import plastic
pellets anymore
then making actually a lot of money but
they have rules and regulation and
that’s what we are missing in Europe
non-available I’ve seen so far none of
them are mandatory there is no rule no I
just found out nothing considering your
waste if you don’t want to put a logo
for recycling velebit you don’t want to
put the plastic one then be it these no
rules so how can we improve that the
first thing is probably the abuse
biological contamination you all right
biological community so we have to burn
it or we have to export it or we have to
bury it biological contamination is
simple if somebody put a piece of meat
on a tray at least it could tell us to
rinse it that’s basic tell me what to do
and I will do it and then simple it’s
there is a sugary drink I will rinse it
but it has to be on the bottle so
everybody know how to do that the next
thing is can we know why
which bin we are supposed to put it is
the blue thing going there it’s a green
thing where there can we have a proper
logo somewhere let’s do this
so you probably knew this one this is
mandatory everywhere every bottle if
it’s too much sugar it’s bad and you get
it read simple it’s mandatory it’s on
every logo on every single bottle its
envelope nobody can go around it
actually when you look at a logo type
this is the one bit about the recycling
alphabet is wrong that’s it so it’s 2%
of the most part of a logo you can have
for recycling and it’s wrong on the
other side you have that gorgeous thing
which tell you everything about you
should not drink it when you’re gonna
drink it anyway but you should not
that’s right for you so proper thing so
why not doing it the same way for
plastic you know what you have to do you
have to dispose of it be a good guy
rinse well you know every single bit and
if it’s not recyclable that’s bad and if
it’s bad this is red like sugar but bad
plastic bad sugar you should not do it
and don’t come by the plastic with sugar
it usually did go very badly okay anyway
and the last thing is plastic is a
fantastic product you can actually do a
lot of things with plastic let me show
you through this this is a plastic
bottle okay and actually I can cut it
and in the middle I end up with a sheet
of plastic which is a faux and like what
can I do with it oh do things I back I
can actually turn them into poles and
I’ve got a ring toss games I can play
with my friends in the backyard and this
plastic which was used for free month
maybe using my backyard for five years
and I know exactly what is already it
has been transformed right in front of
my eyes with a flat sheet I can make
bookmark easy I can make the map of
Ireland very important you should have
one it’s like the peach one but in
plastic and you can get it from the
ocean and that’s pretty yeah and you can
even make boxes ready for retail you put
a stickers with your favorite product in
it and that’s it sweat for it straight
from the bottle straight back to the
shell the plastic had been reused
transformed no shredding no trying to
sort it out where it’s going everything
is actually sorted and you can do this
thing
for information this is not a computer
simulation this is a real thing this is
our ice cream cup in my lab for ice
cream Friday
it’s made of a top of a bottle very
simply you just use it you turn it
upside down move it on the others cut it
nicely on the top and you have
perfectly set curve you can write your
name on it so nobody’s to do ice cream
which is very important
should you can make game with it as well
and this is no limits at the end you can
use the flakes and sell the flakes per
weights because the company may need it
for injection molding of parts ready to
go and I’m gonna give you a better story
you think it’s a bit kind of DIY and
cutting its thing I’m gonna tell you a
story about a company this is the world
leader carpet tile manufacturer in the
world what they have done is decided
that all the carpet tile should be made
sustainable and they were looking for
blue and the glue we found is polyvinyl
visceral and it’s in windscreen so they
basically bought all the windscreen they
could get for all the car broken
somewhere they melted that get that for
pvb and they could get carpet tile glue
for free the nil on net they buy for
fishermen give a thread for the carpet
tile you buy the carpet are they are
sustainable so they actually the only
one you can use in a sustainable
building and after eight years if you’re
not happy with your carpet tile they
take them back and reuse them so not
only this transformation is simple but
it actually bringing money it’s as a
massive value in terms of industry
because the matter you’re coming for
free so already your product is cheaper
than anybody else and Plus you are
sustainable and plus this circular
economy so it’s full benefits and it can
help your kids do lovely little arts for
Mother’s Day so you don’t have to buy
your present there are very easy and
simple and the kids love it all the
students love our project because they
are meaningful for what they want with
their life in the future so back to the
plastic please don’t burn it why should
you bear in your back notes this is
valuable material suitable for 450 years
why do you want to get rid of it and
it’s not limited to plastic bottles I
can show you something for example with
the top of a cap this is the only
chessboard which can go underwater over
your head on top of your car and the
only made of plastic bubbles so you can
do a lot of things and you can probably
guess we
is my lunch breaks for free wigs this is
bag of crisps 22 Metra’s for homeless
people which we tested in Paris and in
Dublin this winter so save on your
coffee break save on a jail break bring
me back your bag of crisps thank you
very much and so don’t burn it
don’t Lancet it we will have to mine it
again so please keep it up so we can use
it so mark it well make sure you know
where the green bits goes and we have a
black wig goes and which bin it goes and
please transform it thank you very much
[Applause]
started to bring my friend the bin full
of resources you’re gonna see I can
bring a lot of things but I need a stage
in the stage is going to be this big
long the big blue the good planets you
probably see David Attenborough talking
about it all the time on the BBC and
this thing is important in 72% covered
by the ocean and something we love in my
family and it’s running down the blood
because my great-grandfather when alpha
round the world during colonial time in
1895 and could not finish a full world
tour and in my family we loved the sea
and you can see even at a very young age
this is something I like you know
receive a sound the Sun and a lot of
plastic beasts you can play with in
verse and it’s always a lot of fun a lot
of colors and you can play with it and
as a biologist I was a bit frustrated
because I could never really work in the
ocean all the time I wanted and finally
in 2001 we started talking about doing
an exhibition for the Darwin centenary
and finally in 2009 this expedition went
around the world and I was lucky enough
to go on this expedition
from 2009 to 2012 we went all around the
world taking pictures of the plankton
the plankton is essential for captures
of co2 for oxygen it’s part of climate
change and the carbon pump so it’s
something which is very important and
that kept on doing this and I work on
sea on corals giving in deep in the
middle of Pacific Ocean and the Maldives
in Barrow to image this world and when
you image that fantastic world you get
those things so without tiny shrimps
called copy pods and they are very
important they are all around the world
and when you take pictures of us
weighing 10,000 100,000 of them you
often do this for your information the
blue bits are the animals the white bit
is not so whatever pictures of copy pod
you take in the middle of a Pacific
Ocean 5000 miles from any land you get
this plastic is everywhere and then so
you see oh it’s bad no it’s great the
plastic is a durable material which can
withstand whatever for a huge period of
time and it’s absolutely everywhere
nowadays because we produce it’s in the
50s and that’s something we made so good
but it can last forever so this is a
bitch on fucka bites and that’s all that
you cannot find on google map until you
zoom about 30 times it’s in the blue
patch in fact
they don’t produce plastic the fish
around don’t produce plastic but
actually they get a lot of plastic
different color different bits and if
you do a net you get different bits
because we cannot talk about plastic we
have to talk plastic with an S because
actually plastic comes in different
flavors and it’s great because we can
make fabric and you’re probably sitting
on plastic as I took your phone and
Internet world is based on plastic we
went to the moon base on plastic all
those plastics made the life we live in
possible this is fantastic and durable
product we don’t use very efficiently we
just discard it and that’s the problem
the problem is not the plastic the
plastic is fantastic it’s the way we
deal with it and in fortunately for us
what is happening at the moment is
because the ocean is the largest place
on earth and dilution is the solution as
some people says we have a ratio of 1 to
5 fish to plastic at the moment and as
we are very good on producing more
plastic by 2050 we’re going to get 1 to
1 fish to plastic in the ocean and so I
advise all of you to start springing all
a bit of plastic flakes on your fish
fingers nowadays because by 20 hundreds
that’s probably you are gonna have fish
finger plastic so please start now
because maybe we’re gonna get very nice
flavors especially you’ve a blue one you
should try so the problem comes from the
fact that it’s actually a very durable
product a very good product which can
stay 450 years but after a sip on a
plastic bottle we use it for a month and
that’s a problem so the problem is also
coming from there sorry is we have a
huge primary production aid Falzone 300
million metric ton massive thing and you
can see that what most of it go to be
discounted that’s it we use it we throw
it we don’t actually use it for 450
years we use it for 20 minutes next most
part of plastic products we use and
that’s a problem and you can see that
the recycling is a tiny tiny bit and I
was talking about fish yes one to one
fish is terrible it’s ugly
let’s talk about human because actually
we are human and we have it conserve our
elf and for human it’s sorry 1 to 13
nowadays today on earth all of you have
an equivalent of 13 little plastic man
related to 8 and
thirty kilograms of plastic and this
relate to this most part of it is
discarded a bit of it is used for energy
recovery you know was incinerator that
we see smoking around lung feeding in
the sky so you don’t see the plastic
anymore because we must follow a thing
we do with plastic its waste so we just
I did so we don’t see it so we happy
with it and this tiny guy there
it’s a recycle one ten percent you say
oh it’s not but it’s not too bad
actually it’s very bad because the
discarded one tend to end up in the
ocean because that’s an easy way of
getting rid of it because you don’t see
it anymore you appear with it that’s
fine
the one use for incineration actually
you recover only two percent of the
energy so you waste in 98 percent of
that quality material for nothing and
somebody has to bury the ashes anyway
and when we talk about recycling the
recycling is so complicated super
complex you never know which plastic is
which but recycling being is getting
everything in it it’s a mixed thing
you’re actually recycling only two
percent of ten percent in a good
European country where actually it works
so that’s problematic and the problem
comes from the fact that we don’t
consider the money actually if all that
plastic we have left somewhere could be
turned into basic plastic material it’s
only already 784 billion euro and if you
go even further than we’re reaching a
huge amount of money which any
philanthropist would be happy to have –
well the world as it is
so this plastic material has a value and
we should use it now
the problem also come from this probably
everybody went for it
do you know in which when this thing
goes is the blue there and the wet there
nobody knows and we think it’s even
terrible because you end up having this
you crush it everything together it’s a
mixed bag even if you remove these bits
you still have this bit elliott’s and
then you have a stickers and it doesn’t
goes and after you try to remove the
stickers and the sister government gap
and even if you get the sticker out then
you get a wonderful thing that are
there’s so much glue on it that it’s
contaminated and you cannot use it
anymore thank you very much but
recycling it’s too complex it takes a
lot of time and basically you don’t do
it so basically you export it and then
you have a waste broker which buy it as
a very low cost and then you call it
that’s it you cannot do anything element
and then basically you make both bail
everything is mixed together and you
export it because you have environmental
regulations so you cannot do whatever
you want with your
stuff you have to be careful the
convenient thing is let’s go to another
country we have a regulation now
different and somebody will actually
remove a cap remove the label and go for
it and you probably remember what
happened to our computers a few years
ago we used to dump in Africa and there
was a stop to it and our day is where
this place with our plastic is this they
burn it they try to recover where they
can and things like that so we basically
ethically speaking having a very nice
environment in Europe and country where
we dump somewhere else and funnily
enough recently China I decided that’s
enough
keep your waste we need a good
environment as well so now it’s your
problem
it’s your plastic it’s your money you
should use it and then you say what are
we gonna do we cannot bear it anymore
the ocean is full of it and then we
cannot really smoke everybody with it so
we have to do something with it say is
no solution actually there is one which
is just across the China Sea Japan since
20 years Japan has said we should
consider waste as plastic material and
we should look at recovery their
recovery rate of plastic bottle is
ninety three ninety three point five
percent they recover absolutely
everything and now they generate money
out of that because it goes back into
their industry they don’t import plastic
pellets anymore
then making actually a lot of money but
they have rules and regulation and
that’s what we are missing in Europe
non-available I’ve seen so far none of
them are mandatory there is no rule no I
just found out nothing considering your
waste if you don’t want to put a logo
for recycling velebit you don’t want to
put the plastic one then be it these no
rules so how can we improve that the
first thing is probably the abuse
biological contamination you all right
biological community so we have to burn
it or we have to export it or we have to
bury it biological contamination is
simple if somebody put a piece of meat
on a tray at least it could tell us to
rinse it that’s basic tell me what to do
and I will do it and then simple it’s
there is a sugary drink I will rinse it
but it has to be on the bottle so
everybody know how to do that the next
thing is can we know why
which bin we are supposed to put it is
the blue thing going there it’s a green
thing where there can we have a proper
logo somewhere let’s do this
so you probably knew this one this is
mandatory everywhere every bottle if
it’s too much sugar it’s bad and you get
it read simple it’s mandatory it’s on
every logo on every single bottle its
envelope nobody can go around it
actually when you look at a logo type
this is the one bit about the recycling
alphabet is wrong that’s it so it’s 2%
of the most part of a logo you can have
for recycling and it’s wrong on the
other side you have that gorgeous thing
which tell you everything about you
should not drink it when you’re gonna
drink it anyway but you should not
that’s right for you so proper thing so
why not doing it the same way for
plastic you know what you have to do you
have to dispose of it be a good guy
rinse well you know every single bit and
if it’s not recyclable that’s bad and if
it’s bad this is red like sugar but bad
plastic bad sugar you should not do it
and don’t come by the plastic with sugar
it usually did go very badly okay anyway
and the last thing is plastic is a
fantastic product you can actually do a
lot of things with plastic let me show
you through this this is a plastic
bottle okay and actually I can cut it
and in the middle I end up with a sheet
of plastic which is a faux and like what
can I do with it oh do things I back I
can actually turn them into poles and
I’ve got a ring toss games I can play
with my friends in the backyard and this
plastic which was used for free month
maybe using my backyard for five years
and I know exactly what is already it
has been transformed right in front of
my eyes with a flat sheet I can make
bookmark easy I can make the map of
Ireland very important you should have
one it’s like the peach one but in
plastic and you can get it from the
ocean and that’s pretty yeah and you can
even make boxes ready for retail you put
a stickers with your favorite product in
it and that’s it sweat for it straight
from the bottle straight back to the
shell the plastic had been reused
transformed no shredding no trying to
sort it out where it’s going everything
is actually sorted and you can do this
thing
for information this is not a computer
simulation this is a real thing this is
our ice cream cup in my lab for ice
cream Friday
it’s made of a top of a bottle very
simply you just use it you turn it
upside down move it on the others cut it
nicely on the top and you have
perfectly set curve you can write your
name on it so nobody’s to do ice cream
which is very important
should you can make game with it as well
and this is no limits at the end you can
use the flakes and sell the flakes per
weights because the company may need it
for injection molding of parts ready to
go and I’m gonna give you a better story
you think it’s a bit kind of DIY and
cutting its thing I’m gonna tell you a
story about a company this is the world
leader carpet tile manufacturer in the
world what they have done is decided
that all the carpet tile should be made
sustainable and they were looking for
blue and the glue we found is polyvinyl
visceral and it’s in windscreen so they
basically bought all the windscreen they
could get for all the car broken
somewhere they melted that get that for
pvb and they could get carpet tile glue
for free the nil on net they buy for
fishermen give a thread for the carpet
tile you buy the carpet are they are
sustainable so they actually the only
one you can use in a sustainable
building and after eight years if you’re
not happy with your carpet tile they
take them back and reuse them so not
only this transformation is simple but
it actually bringing money it’s as a
massive value in terms of industry
because the matter you’re coming for
free so already your product is cheaper
than anybody else and Plus you are
sustainable and plus this circular
economy so it’s full benefits and it can
help your kids do lovely little arts for
Mother’s Day so you don’t have to buy
your present there are very easy and
simple and the kids love it all the
students love our project because they
are meaningful for what they want with
their life in the future so back to the
plastic please don’t burn it why should
you bear in your back notes this is
valuable material suitable for 450 years
why do you want to get rid of it and
it’s not limited to plastic bottles I
can show you something for example with
the top of a cap this is the only
chessboard which can go underwater over
your head on top of your car and the
only made of plastic bubbles so you can
do a lot of things and you can probably
guess we
is my lunch breaks for free wigs this is
bag of crisps 22 Metra’s for homeless
people which we tested in Paris and in
Dublin this winter so save on your
coffee break save on a jail break bring
me back your bag of crisps thank you
very much and so don’t burn it
don’t Lancet it we will have to mine it
again so please keep it up so we can use
it so mark it well make sure you know
where the green bits goes and we have a
black wig goes and which bin it goes and
please transform it thank you very much
[Applause]
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