Does recycling help fight climate change?
Kate Lamble and Neal Razzell explore how effective the globe’s recycling system is at tackling the climate crisis.
Reduce, reuse, recycle is a familiar mantra the world over. Recycling has been described as ‘one of the easier climate-friendly acts” that individuals can do. A recent poll found that, globally, most of us believe that recycling is the single best thing we can do to tackle the climate crisis. But there isn’t much mention of “reduce” and “reuse”.
This week, presenters Kate Lamble and Neal Razzell explore how successful the world’s recycling system really is, visiting Port Klang in Malaysia where huge swaths of the globe’s recycling gets sent only to end up... well, listen and you’ll find out! Kate and Neal will also learn how climate friendly recycling really is and whether there are other more important actions we can take to improve how we manage our waste.
Thank you to contributors:
Ke Wang, Lead of the PACE Program at the World Resources Institute (Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy)
Costas Velis, Lecturer in Resource Efficiency Systems at the University of Leeds, UK
Jenny van Doorn, Professor of Marketing Services at the University of Groningen, Netherlands
Farhan Nasa, Project Coordinator at Break Free from Plastic, Malaysia
Our team:
Reporter: Chen Yih Wen, Environmental Reporter in Tanjung Harapan, Klang, Malaysia
Researchers: Immie Rhodes, Natasha Fernandes, Marcia Veiga, Sarah Wild.
Producer: Dearbhail Starr
Series Producer: Alex Lewis
Production Coordinators: Sophie Hill, Siobhan Reed
Sound Mix: Tom Brignell
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
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- Mon 20 Jun 2022 01:32GMTѿý World Service
- Mon 20 Jun 2022 08:06GMTѿý World Service
- Mon 20 Jun 2022 12:32GMTѿý World Service East and Southern Africa, South Asia, West and Central Africa & East Asia only
- Mon 20 Jun 2022 19:06GMTѿý World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa
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