Microplastics are everywhere | Sarah Dudas | TEDxBinghamtonUniversity
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- We live in a world of plastic. From the clothes we wear, the electronics we use to the food we buy, our lives our surrounded by, and depend on, plastic products. Over time, all of these plastic products break down into smaller and smaller pieces to become ‘microplastics,’ or plastics smaller than five millimeters. As we study microplastics, we are learning that they are everywhere - in the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat. In this talk, Dudas will lead us through a day of plastic use, how and where we use and generate microplastics, and what we can do about it. Sarah Dudas is a biologist at Fisheries and Oceans Canada, a biology professor at Vancouver Island University and an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Victoria. For the last seven years she has led the Ecological Interactions Research Program, working with federal and provincial governments, industry and non-profit organizations to study the effects of human activities on coastal ecosystems. Her research includes investigating marine biodiversity across regional and local scales and the effects of historical and contemporary shellfish farming practices on surrounding ecological communities. Recently, she has focused on the issue of microplastics and their presence in the marine environment and our seafood. Dudas’s professional affiliations include the Hakai Institute, Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution and the Aquaculture Association of Canada. She is also a member of the United Nations-led Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection microplastics working group. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
MIcroplastics in our environment is dangerous for all life on this planet, including ours.
How so, I cannot find any evidence of microplastics causing harm to the human body. I only can find sources that mention they are everywhere.
@@RAIDGroup2 plastic contains many toxins like BPA
Hm
Oehhhhh we are all gonna die now....
The climate change nutcases have distracted us all from the very real pollutant killer that is looming over us all, even as we speak...
Hemp and bamboo can be used to create more environmentally friendly packaging etc. instead of more and more plastic.
Plastics are not just in waters but are now in the atmosphere as well. Microplastic will continue to disintegrate to become even smaller and dangerous.
I was born in 1945. I remember a (mostly) plastic-free life. I don't see why we can't go back there.
I quoted you in my speech
The reason we can’t go back is because plastics are cheaper, and companies won’t use the extra money to get rid of plastics
@@thomasmancini5762 Damn true
It's really sad but I can't help blaming the generations of my parents and grandparent for the condition of our environment, that my generation has to face. How did it happen
Because humans are becoming greedier, lazier, and overall just more careless about themselves and the environment.
Thatk you Sarah, please dont give up, never give up,
this is worth it
I wish I had been at this Ted talk .BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY IS RIGHT Down the ROAD. I remember the first liquid laundry detergent, when quilt material was always 1oo% cotton, when there was no creamora, when vegetables weren't in plastic containers. I miss those days. I also remember taking apart old cloths and using good parts to make new.....unless a time comes that it doesn't take both parents going out to earn a living there will be no reduction in time saving plastic usage. There will be no make it, make it over or heaven forbid.....do without.
10:15 we live in a society
True but big companies and the government should be held responsible and accountable. They're the reason this problem has gotten so bad. Why put not only the blame but also the burden of responsibility on the consumer and individual? It isn't our fault that this problem has gotten out of hand so why are we expected to fix it?
Our need for plastic in everything we use is what leads to the production of it in the first place. The faster we accept our part in plastic becoming this mammoth of a problem the sooner we can put an end to the need and hence the subsequent production of it.
I agree that big corporations should be held responsible for producing it and making us dependable on it but we can only pass the blame so far. We need to do our part in curbing it and that will set the course for a change (albeit a small change but an immediate one).
@@emelydas5486 great mindset in regards to the problem man. We gotta focus more on fixing the problem at hand first
If everyone thinks lime you nothing will get fixed
Thank you for this presentation. This is a tough problem to solve.
Turns out the first great filter is plastics and we failed it.
Lord help us all
Wow...!! That was amazing information on the incredible menace of micro-plastics. Thanks, Dr. Dudas, for sharing. Well...! I am doing my part and I seriously (desperately in fact) wish that people should realize the gravity of negative impacts of using plastics.
Yes. Right on.
Yes. Right on!
There should be a ban on single-use plastic. A company, selling its product, should only be using recyclable plastic. There is a study which says that nano-plastics are in water bottles that people have been drinking unknowingly for years. I, for one, fear that the nano-plastics I have consumed have leeched into my body, and pose a risk to my health going forward.
That would not work the alternatives have even bigger impacts
Buy a water distiller
@Tom Jones Everyone is responsible, not just Asians. Although much plastic is produced in China, it's being produced for our demands, we drive their business. So actually whites, blacks and Asians can all make a difference by stopping consuming plastic products
jiyoung mia No matter what people wont stop buying plastics. The asians need to be stopped because they’re the source.
That would be great if plastic could be recycled forever or even reycled into the same product. Its usually upcycled into something with less quality.
Wake-up call to humanity!
Very interesting lesson !
Need to make plastic from hemp oil not crude. It’s biodegradable.... pretty simple answer for not producing more of the dangerous toxic plastic they never goes away..... then start a massive worldwide clean up of the crude oil plastic..... get it done. This is your final warning on the matter
Cleaning up all microplastic is impossible. :( But I do agree with you about doing something.
@@snowballfalling9077 Perhaps our only hope is _Ideonella sakaiensis_ a bacterium that eats microplastics.
@@snowballfalling9077it's quite possible ...there is special specific bacteria 🦠 for that and other method like white eggs material to remove microplastic
20200102: The elephant in the discussion is: Forget about the so-called micro plastics. What about the micro-micro plastics. A polymer CHAIN of 1 million to a link of 2 x monomer. They each require the same ENERGY to break the link. For every chain = 1 million monomers there could be half a million 2 x monomer links. How do they affect CELLS?
Good video and as far as microplastics are concerned, once they are extracted by any system, how are these microplastic residues eliminated (don't tell me about recycling)
Actually plastic lasts almost forever and it's killing off a massive amount of the bird and seafood population.
I agree so much on second hand goods, I wish when I got married I hadn't worried about having everything matching so much
Very interesting
If one considers all the ways plastics end up in the atmosphere, including tornados, wildfires encountering civilization, wind erosion, hurricanes, tsunamis and others- it seems necessary to place a one-use tax on plastics not intended for recycle and engage a national reclamation strategy using unemployed US workers(if they are tired of unemployment insurance) and introduce the next generation to what they will be spending time and money on to attempt reclamation of the earth from the plastics rampant within. Part of a green new deal?
Seriously good point... we need to write our officials, great idea of creating new jobs recycling and picking up after ourselves! 👍
I wonder, does ice with microplastic contaminates melt quicker?
only 11000 views,
not cool, mostly do not wants to change
Rohit Singh RAJE Yeah people don’t care. And the less they care the bigger of an issue it becomes.
most ppl don't want to know !!!
gvt debt
plas waste
both will strangle us if not stopped
Sadly
Hemp clothing compared to synthetic fibers is like comparing a lump of plastic to a block of Iridium.
This is terrific, where can I find the diagram of the old 3 Rs with the new three Rs, please?
Seems like.. she is about to cry!
I’m gonna cry listening to these facts from this well informed educator 👩🏫 our future is seriously being threatened
massive production of plastics.. negligible decomposition of discarded plastics... we need a decomposition chemical or gassifier or oil extractor to process the horrendous mass of discards or biodegrade them.. or we will strangle on it
is cellophane biodegradable ?
man... ! ...think of tire tread grinds... millions of tires grinding microparticles 24/7.....
when will officials realize we must be breathing plastic particles ?????
Right! everytime you walk past a roof being tarred or smell burning rubber or brakes, imagine .... our nose is filtering these plastics...... this must be the cancer source
@@DSTREETMEDIA
certainly one of them
@@DSTREETMEDIAwe shud use more train and busses as mean of transportation....reduce cars...and phased them out...only train and some lorry for transportation
The Victorians used celluloid, so we used plastics before the 1950's. 🇺🇸
But a gazillion metric tonnes a year.
Everyone thinks of domex/lizol/vim etc..but none knows what will happen to the plants that absorb that water
Ecc 8:9
YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY PLASTIC FANTASTIC
My schools making me watch this ..
Good of your school
Good teacher you have!
これを英語の課題にするとか、ジェラルド厳しいなぁ😭😎😂
ラーキンス草です。
@@user-ho4oy4tg7o ぴろぴろぱぁ
Read, study, analyze, question and don’t believe everything you’re told in social media and tedx…
🤔🤔🤔
Here is how i reduce plastics and put it to the man the plastic bottles i drink i fill with all the little things and easily fragmentable things like paper and plastic and store them inside the bottles ive been drinking we can start recycling everything its all a matter of energy and to recycle the world's plastic into containers to be recycled with 0 other matter is already here all thanks to kilopower
What would be the solution?
There isn't one. People are out of control.
u will still be consuming plastic even after i and you die. u can never be plastic free
Marcial Glori
boyan slat is making a dent in the source of macro plastic.. rivers deliver plastics to the ocean..the interceptors are catching tons...a good start....tons boyan collects will not be on their way to microplastics in air sea or land
oil rendering... incineration.. converting to reusable plastic chip stock..roof tiles...floor tiles...down purposing..
ingestion... that's the bad boy
air water food.. wtf...what's the fix ? how long can you breathe microplastics before sickness of death.. before you stop getting oxygen from air ? ? ? ... will microplastics build up in your lungs ? what about that...
can electrostatic attraction be used to trap airborne particles ?
how the f......ilter will we capture micro scopic bits .. threatening llungs. muscle.. organs...eyes ?
a. microplastics have to be ended...
b. microplastics have to be sieved
how do we sieve the ocean ?
@@memesensei3330 yes there is, hemp plastic is an amazing alternative that we could use. Vote and use your voice to educate others on the upcoming dangers if something isn’t done
End single use microplastics by using your money to make corporations change packaging!
Plastic might go down as humanities worst invention
The pandemic created the largest plastic waste of all time...
Lean, estudien, analicen, cuestionen y no se crean todo lo que les dicen en las redes y en tedx…
Wow all of this talk for an ad for Orwell 1984 dystopia.
Ban plastic
Nature totally suffers from Man's poor spiritual condition. "Man is organic with the world. His inner life molds the environment and is itself deeply affected by it. The one acts upon the other and every abiding change in the life of man is the result of these mutual reactions." ~ Baha'i Faith
Didn’t mention plastic used and/or wasted in medical fields.
3:27
She’s so nervous lol
It's better if we go back to the stone age to live longer because everything is natural.
Chumping on kebab boxes
I like your ASMR mmmmm micro plastics
Hahaha, I was thinking asmr as well!
Hahah, I was thinking asmr as well!
We’re doomed
I wonder how much wind turbines contribute to the problem?
So u mean dust.
This kind of sounds like mental illness… How much is the plastic really rubs off from the plastic things that we use and into our air?? We breathe? Or are we worried about us just about throwing the things away in general? Well the key is to buy things you don't want to throw away, not to get rid of plastic entirely. Plastic is extremely useful; the culture of buying new items constantly instead of reusing/repurposing/making the most of the what we have abundantly. I just wanted to be clear because the whole visual illustration of our plastic use feels a little misleading if it is not primarily concerned with single use plastic/plastic that is thrown away. I understand the anxiety about the contamination of the water supply. (from the plastic in our clothes wringing out in the washing machine). however: does it actually absorb through our skin cells/epithelial layers? Rather, does it pass along with our food into our feces? Maybe that could even help it decompose faster? Lol? I hope that helps ease some of the anxiety regarding the plastic in our every day life. , I believe in our collective ability to do the right thing when we need to.
it gets in our bodies cells for sure, I've researched it, I'm a doctor
I'm buying 10 pounds of glitter and flushing it
Yeeeeeeessss! Destroy the earthlings!