Earth Day 2022 Fact vs. Fiction: Bill Nye Breaks Down Eco-Friendly Myths
Fact or Fiction: Every day, each person in the United States makes about four pounds of garbage.
"It could be about right when you count everything," Nye explained. "You take all the manufacturing waste, all the industrial output and divide it by the total number of people. That could be two kilos or 4.4 pounds.""That's fiction. If you really could really recycle it, it would reduce our carbon footprint because we wouldn't be extracting petroleum, oil and gas to make the polymer in the first place," Nye explained.
"They can be made of these modern biodegradable plastics," Nye said. "I have a corn plastic coffee mug. And there's a whole thing now of corn plastic food film, they call it. But it's not everywhere. ‘Can' and ‘is' are two different things. ‘Couldn't be' and ‘are' are two different things.
Fact or Fiction: The amount of non-biodegradable waste can be decreased by reducing, reusing and recycling. "Yes! Reduce, reuse, recycle," Nye proclaimed. "If you reduce the amount you're throwing away or going through or making use of, then of course you'll produce less waste. Reusing is great. In the case of materials that can be recycled, that is to say repurposed or taken from one use and used again in a different use? That's fabulous. That's recycling."
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