Bioplastics and other innovations against climate change | DW Documentary
Flooding caused by heavy rainfall is a regular occurrence — and a consequence of climate change. Weather extremes are no longer limited to certain parts of the world: they’re now part of everyday life in Germany too.
Researchers from various disciplines are determined to fight climate change. At Kassel University in the German state of Hesse, for example, research is being carried out on a new method of producing concrete that is low in CO2 emissions.
In the neighboring city of Giessen, two researchers invented bioplastic – by chance. What began with a forgotten petri dish is now set to revolutionize the region’s packaging industry.
All these examples show how science is working hard to protect the climate. The film takes viewers into the laboratory — and explains the relevance of today’s research for how we’ll be living our lives tomorrow.
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Brazil is a big innovator and producer of bioproducts. 90% of its fleet can run fully on ethanol, which is a carbon neutral fuel
Incineration helps in generating power.
What I find interesting, despite the innovations, is the statement that even just one day without meat in a week would do a lot. So why are we not doing more to change people's habit of eating meat in both such big quantities and also so often? If you really want to see a change in this area, then you should finance some campaigns, educational ones, encouraging people to go for the alternatives. Once a week one should be able to go without both meat and fish, what about a nice vegetable soup? But we need more inspiration. We cannot be changing just for the sake of changing for the climate, we have to also see how it's just a nice change from the ordinary boring meat dishes we are much more used to.
Bioplastics are a sad attempt by the plastics industry to try and be green. The problem is the way we use plastics. Bioplastics simply reinforce our throw-away behaviour with ALL finite materials. A circular green economy is the only real solution.
With the certification of the oceans crustaceans will soon no longer exist, and with micro plastics being taken up by all plant life, including in the sea, that two will be choked. This is another example of technological solutions that come with great effort, but will lead to nowhere. It would’ve been better if we didn’t destroy the planet in the first place.
Only produce 100% fully recyclable plastics, or biodegradable plastics, or make plastics that sequesters CO2 from fossil fuels.
Tax the rest.
Poor innocent animals.
Bioplastic, Broad beans, Cement.
For me personally, Learning about our advancements in Bioengineering has been one of the most uplifting things I have ever learned about. It might be one of the coolest things humanity has ever achieved. We've unlocked the ability to improve our own biology & animals biology as well. The more we learn, the more we could focus on improving our quality of life & we could help improve the quality of other animals lifes as well. Once we've learned more about this stuff, then we could introduce beneficial adaptations, the list of beneficial things that we could learn within this field of study seems almost limitless.
In addition to that, I think citizen science projects have been doing ground breaking work. Especially when you pair that with our advancements in the realm of computer simulation models. All of this stuff has so much dynamic potential to them. In a weird way the fact that this stuff exists at all, it gives me hope for the future.
Then related to climate improvement:
I wish we could have improved the global mindset towards nuclear energy years ago. I don't think enough people understand how much absurd Regulations & Bureaucracy has blocked progression of our energy grid for decades now. It's a shame because our knowledge & capabilities have evolved & improved so much. I wish these talented people would get the chance to show their work to the rest of the world. This source of energy will greatly help the world improve towards the future and lower emissions. While also providing a very stable electrical grid system. Currently we do have great alternative energy options. It's just not enough to get around the fact that our energy grid is still reliant on fossil fuels. I just know humanity will be so much better off going forward once we committ to modern advanced nuclear energy options.
I wish we had the opportunities & options to build new nuclear energy so we no Longer Needed to Build so many Hydroelectric Dams.. Dams have negatively impacted so many rivers & marshlands. Affecting so many fish & wildlife & the natural flow of sediment & nutrients to so many ecosystems. I just hope we can improve all of that
Fresh water is so important.. So what If we dedicate nuclear energy to power the energy hungry desalination plants?? Idk why we aren't already doing this? Seriously let yourself think about it. Nuclear power produces no green house gases. It's extremely energy efficient. The list goes on. It's a shame we aren't utilizing this energy source more.. We have been extremely too slow, too reserved, too cautious, too inactive to even make a dent into the climate issue and our energy issues. It's holding back progression across the board in many different areas.. It's honestly getting really frustrating. I thought we would be more motivated than this. More active than this….?
nah. we use a lot of plastic material from sugar cane in brazil. its biodegradable. we've been doing that for decades. our plastic bags from supermarkets and all that stuff are from those. you can always buy from us, we make tons of cane anyway
Answers to all the wrong questions.
Great documentary as always and I love your videos, it's informative. Thank you, DW Documentary, for shedding light on innovative solutions like bioplastics! 🌿 As someone passionate about environmental sustainability, I believe promoting locally-led innovations, especially in the Global South, is crucial for lasting climate solutions. Would love to see more features on how indigenous knowledge (though I also watched the indigenous community in the Amazon) and community-driven efforts complement technological innovations!
Our clothes is a HUGE problem
It was there decades ago, but the easy production of cheap styrenes, urethanes and phtalates was a quick buck and everyone wants quick profit over sustainable. Our whole monetary system is set up this way!! Unless we have sustainable MONEY we can't even think of building anything on top of it.
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While bioplastics are often marketed as a more environmentally friendly alternative to traditional plastics, they are not necessarily safer and can pose similar or even greater environmental and health risks. Research indicates that they can contain toxic chemicals comparable to those in petroleum-based plastics and may not always break down as claimed, potentially releasing harmful substances.
Hoping the science will solve the combat crisis of green washing by itself.
100% of a cow is usable. Pasture raised cow doesn't produce any waste whatsoever. Meat is protein rich and allergen free (unless you have very rare condition, milk is also full of protein and very well tolerated by large portion of population. Poop and urine are fertilizer, hide is 100% biodegradable and can replace a ton of plastic used in clothing, furniture and car industry. Even horns, hooves, bones an hair have their use. Cows are good.
Its easy, 5 million in every major industrial area, in CARBON REMOVAL. AND RENEWABLE RETURN.😊😊😊
You will turn more in the Reproduction of tjat carbon anyway.😊
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DW: "The new material has a range of industrial applications. For example, it could be used to replace silicone…"
Me: Oh, like for breast implants?!
DW: "…which coats baking paper, circuit boards, and medical syringes."
Me: Nevermind…
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This won't work. None of anything you say.
What a waste of time and money.
Stop Geoengineering NOW
NO ARTIFICIAL MEAT.
AND STOP GEOENGINEERING NOW.
The technologies aren't failing — they're actually great and really promising.
But making them mainstream, keeping them affordable, scaling them up, getting people to accept them, and handling long-term risks are still big challenges.
The destructive force is science😅
and just like with many of the other wonder and bio plastics over the last decades I have to say again:
NONE of this matters, until you can make it competitive in price. Either by taxing fossil plastics or banning them slowly category by category to replace them.
The problem is always that these materials cost many times what fossil plastic does.
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Dow Chemical invented corn plastic more than 30 years ago. It was touted as the new cheap source of plastic packaging. Unfortunately unlike petrochemical plastic, Corn based plastic is bioactive and also sensitive to UV degradation. It's Quickly populated by bacteria and then it disintegrates losing its protective ability. They're not telling you any of this with all of their garbage about inventing new plastic they're not inventing anything new, and none of these bioactive Plastics Will Survive more than a few months in warehouse storage before they lose the ability to protect the food that's in them, or in fact infect the food that's in them with the bacteria feeding on them. They're certainly not going to tell you that because it would cut into their funding wouldn't it the funny thing that's taken out of your paycheck by the government without any due process
agenda 21 , transhumanism
Nach diesem Video ist mein Freund sicher, dass wir etwas noch Lustigeres machen können. Na, dann wollen wir mal sehen🐱
Als wir dieses Video zusammen ansahen, fragte mein Freund: "Können wir es auch so machen?" Ich lachte und antwortete: "Nur wenn wir das Bett nicht kaputt machen!😘