A World Without Waste: Circular Economy | Climate For Change: Closing The Loop | Ep 2/2

Billions of tonnes of food, clothes, electronics, and construction waste end up in landfills across the world every year. Firms and scientists in forward-thinking countries are now formulating circular economy business models, so that waste from one industrial activity is a resource for another. Reusing and recycling will also reduce the drain on nature to produce new materials.

In Part 2 of this documentary series – a century-old tradition of clothes recycling in Italy; a hospital ward in Taipei built from recycled trash; precious materials for high-value manufacturing harvested from Black Soldier flies that feed on food waste; batteries recycled with the aid of discarded orange peel; energy-neutral buildings and circular industrial estates designed to reduce waste and maximise the efficiency of cities.

How can firms, communities and cities unlock lucrative opportunities in closing the resource loop? How can a circular economy move the needle on climate change?

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About the show: Waste is generated on an epic scale. Unless we go ‘circular,’ it's game over for the planet. How can waste from one industry become another’s resource? And how do we unlock the economic benefits?
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[edwardwongks]

Excellent series. Ironically the hope for our future lies in the very greed from capitalism that got us here in the first place. If the circular economy is actually profitable, you can bet more and more companies and enterprises will start looking into this for alternative revenue streams.

[zollen]

Government should actively support and protect these kind of new industries.

[aye]

Finished watched part 1 and 2. Really good, eye-opening documentary. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

[buddhapiyao]

these videos should be shown on mainstream media not just as a youtube channel. I wish people saw less of the depressing news channels and more of these channels. there is so much going on to better this world and the common man does not seem to have a clue !!

[gravityhypernova]

Excellent coverage of a lot of really forward-looking creative thinking and science. Heard this term a lot (circular economy) without too much concrete example of how this is going to be pulled off.

[yvonnehyatt]

Give this to the homeless groups so they can learn and also teach them-the school Economics thanks 🌎🙂❤️

[muriellehundjo-akakpo]

Thanks for sharing these wonderful documentaries, we are learning a lot. And personally challenged to think out of the box and keep my environment .

[ianyeam]

Such an amazing series. Why only 98k views?

[Sagittarius-A-Star]

In the last years I got the feeling that people feel more satisfied and more important the more plastic they consumed.
Number one is Japan: The amount of plastic used there is just insane, no matter how many recycling facilities they have.
Number two would be all South East Asian countries: I got the impression that people feel more important when they got a huge amount of plastic bags in their shopping cart after the cashier.

[matthewconner]

Innovators are heroes….. ECO🌿FRIENDLY.. to improve life on🌍

[annacalkova]

Lots of great ideas tho I can see few possible problems, it's possible that they have them covered and it just isn't mentioned in the document

[___beyondhorizon]

My degrees are in textile science and merchandising, I would like to get involved in the up cycling fashion segment. That's the best way to be sustainable

[luckyunlucky]

So I haven't bought clothes for about 4 years now and I wear clothes that are 15 years old. All you have to do is look after your clothes and not worry about wearing cloth s that have a hole or 2. I can afford to spend the equivalent of $150 on clothes every month but I use that money do other things like planting trees and sustainable living. Everyone just needs to consume less and do more fun e the planet. If you can't do that then you should bot be alive on this planet

[dellmktr]

Very creative, innovative, informative information.

[raypav]

I believe the Circular Economy and reusing waste will become very useful in resource restricted scenarios, such as when we emigrate to Mars. It is something that is worth investing in for our future, both in Earth and out of earth

[josoffat]

So what about the fact that recycling was a shell game scam for over 30 years?

[cwd]

If all governments give funding to implement all these genius ideas from these smart innovators on all of the profiting industries. The earth might still can be saved from the future worst climate change disaster.

[Dandelion_flight]

@37:03 My question is do all these 3D printing and the recycling reusing reprocessing of especially plastics cause pollution to the environment, whether any detrimental or toxic by products are created in the process?

[ClaudetteHayle]

Amazazingly informative with actionable insights. Thank You!

[yvonnehyatt]

Please send this video to Farmers Thanks