Why is it so hard to recycle plastic - People Fixing the World, BBC World Service

Every year the world produces 400 million tonnes of plastic – the same weight as all the humans on earth. Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 Only a small proportion of this is recycled, and this isn’t proper recycling but “downcycling” – the new plastic is of a lower quality, meaning that almost all plastic eventually goes to waste. But now French company Carbios is using enzymes to break plastic down into its chemical building blocks – which can then be used to make high quality plastic again. So is plastic on the brink of becoming a resource like glass or aluminium, that you can keep on moulding and recycling again and again? People Fixing the World's Myra Anubi has been finding out. Listen to more here 👉🏽 Watch more from People Fixing the World here 👉🏽 ---------------- This is the official BBC World Service YouTube channel. If you like what we do, you can also find us here: Instagram 👉🏽 Twitter 👉🏽 Facebook 👉🏽 BBC World Service website 👉🏽 Thanks for watching and subscribing! #BBCWorldService #WorldService #recycle #plastic