Turning The Tide | Plastic on the Ganges

FINDING SOLUTIONS FOR A PLASTIC FREE OCEAN
A female-led team of scientists embarks on an expedition along the Ganges to understand how plastic waste travels from source to sea and to help fill critical knowledge gaps on plastic use and pollution. The National Geographic Society, committed to illuminating and protecting the wonder of our world, funded the Sea to Source: Ganges expedition.

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Turning The Tide | Plastic on the Ganges

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[randomclips]

Ganges is the most polluted river in india. Government even launched a dedicated mission to remove the pollution from the river and make it clear and again start marineife in it but big officers ate the money and now this river is same or maybe more polluted than before. Corrupt officials and people are to blame also. They don't care about environment. They dump waste into the river. Industrialists dump waste into the river.We have to change our mindset first before blaming everything on govt.

[royalmarine]

"Destroying our world" now in 3D!

[angryyoungman]

I'm really Ashamed of Polluting our Holy River Ganga.

[naveensingh]

Now You see that everything that we buy from the market is packed in plastic, so Even if we ban the use of plastic bags, many products contains are coming in wraped plastic in the market.
Like chips, grains, etc

[qhuizatlantis]

There are BILLIONS of people in India and even only 5 percent will clean the river the impact will be massive

[Exxoduss]

A bad thing is- refining it is just as if not more polluting and damaging than making it from scratch & having it infest landfills-
another idea is (since plastic lasts for so long) to combine it into a mass (like bottles with lids still intact) and combine it within another buoyant substance-
Create huge flats of this with the trash that rise 10 meters (30 feet) or more above the sea level so to protect it from tidal surges.
Then cover these large flats with enough soil to allow irrigation and structures to be built onto them-
and floating/anchoring the island in the deep sea. with all the plastic in the world wastes - we could easily make a 15+ kilo meters circumference floating island
(at least it will put it to good use) & use technology and innovation to assure it not to be torn apart by storms or geo/solar degradation. sheer size for example.
Besides if the Earth keeps warming up and the oceans rise, where are all the people from the cities on the coastlines gonna go?
(you might want a few floating cities)

[d.raju.]

You are doing a GREAT JOB keep it up 🙂

[Amazin]

1:31 The irony of collecting plastic samples in a plastic bag. 🙄

[hirawrites]

the act of a person or thing that helps. a portion of food served to a person at one time:

[matthewhartley]

Why is there block why do you have to blur it out

[DoggosAndJiuJitsu]

Wouldn’t it make sense to put this video in any of the languages of the top 33 countries that contribute 99.98% of ocean trash before going to English, where the United States can understand it at large but only produces 0.02% of the problem?

[MarArraes]

the fight against residues human waste in nature is a war of silence

[shivangchaturvedic]

I have seen ganga and yes it is polluted, if we all try together we can fix this, not only from people we need government support and big business to stop dumping waste in our pure ganga. Look European rivers they are clean and have potable water, if they can we too, let's clean our ganga, say no to plastic

[SidewalkCitizenLA]

Excellent information but not a watchable video. Having to move my phone to move the camera and not being able to put my phone down was too distracting

[pdwang]

I guess that the most plastic were threw by the resident who live along the Ganges.But why?Why did the they make this choice?

[skywatch]

The use of plastic should be lawfully controlled

[Toefoo]

Or you know maybe not litter and have dumps control their trash better? You don't need to up turn and entire industry to stop people from littering

[Arakox]

india world superpower by 2020 LOL remember

[Brutaltstygg]

As long as we humans will make plastic, plastic will end up in the water because we humans are very good at throwing rubbish in nature

[brucepedersen]

Never described how to stop or gather used plastic. ie Pick it up or catch it in the river.