Curated Video
The Challenges and Opportunities of Recycling
Over the last two decades, recycling has become not only the best way to reduce landfill, but a profitable enterprise in it s own right.
Curated Video
Ensuring Christmas Safety: Lights, Trees, and Dishware
Discover essential safety tips for a hazard-free Christmas. From choosing the right Christmas lights and trees to understanding the risks of various plastics in your kitchen, this segment provides expert advice to keep your holiday...
Financial Times
Are deposit return schemes the way to cut litter and emissions?
FT Food Revolution - As Scotland prepares to add an extra charge to drink cans and bottles, refundable upon return, the FT’s Madeleine Speed looks around the world at the pros and cons of established deposit return schemes, which aim to...
Curated Video
Natural and Manmade
Dr. Forrester shows how to identify parts of a system that are natural and manmade. She shows how to identify the sources of manmade products such as plastics, metals, aluminum, fabrics, paper, and cardboard.
Curated Video
Plastics: Could Organisms Replace Them?
A video entitled “Plastics: Could Organisms Replace Them?” which explores the origins of plastics, current human reliance on plastics, and issues such reliance can create.
Let's Tute
The Scary Truth About Plastic in Our Bloodstream
This video discusses the research that has found microplastics in human blood and the potential threats it poses to human health. It explains how plastic particles enter the human body and the harmful effects they can have on human...
FuseSchool
BIOLOGY - Environment - Carbon Cycle part 2
Photosynthesis and respiration help carbon to be cycled in nature by using energy from the sun. As living things grow, they have to build up large polymer molecules from small molecules. Protein comes from joining amino acids together,...
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Natural Resources: Natural Resource Alternatives
Everyday we use natural resources. This series of programs introduces students to the importance of natural resources in our lives. Renewable and nonrenewable resources are differentiated with examples illustrating each. The positive and...
Professor Dave Explains
Synthetic Biology and Materials Science Part 2: Nature-Made Plastics
In the previous tutorial we outlined the basics regarding synthetic biology as applied to materials science. We can engineer microorganisms that will produce virtually any compound we want, via a series of reactions that are catalyzed by...
Espresso Media
What's Really in Your Chewing Gum?
In this video, the speaker explores the ingredients and concerns surrounding chewing gum. There are concerns about the safety of these ingredients, particularly vinyl acetate, which has been linked to adverse reactions in large doses....
The Wall Street Journal
Pew Charitable Trusts Scientist Responds to Plastic Packaging Waste Di
Winnie Lau of the Pew Charitable Trust's preventing ocean plastics project presents a response to the discussion with Nestlé CEO Mark Schneider on the issue of packaging and plastic waste at Global Food Forum.
EarthEcho International
PlasticSeas: Exploring the Impact of Plastic Pollution on Australia's Marine Ecosystems
The EarthEcho Expedition team explores the impact of plastic pollution on the marine ecosystems of Port Phillip Bay in Southern Australia. They visit Marine Protected Areas and interview experts to understand the unique ecosystem and the...
Next Animation Studio
New study finds microplastics in 90% of salt
Researchers from South Korea and Greenpeace East Asia have found that 90% of table salt sold around the world are contaminated with microplastics.
msvgo
An Introduction to Garbage
It talks about waste/garbage, identifies solid and liquid wastes and classifies them as biodegradable and non-biodegradable.
Next Animation Studio
Study finds plastic exposed to the sun emit greenhouse gases
The study found that some of the commonly-used plastics release methane and ethylene one they are exposed to sunlight.
EarthEcho International
STEM Career Closeup: Marine Biologist, Author, and Documentary Filmmaker
This video features a marine biologist who shares her experiences in collecting venomous stonefish, communicating science to the public, and discovering sea slugs. She also talks about the impact of plastic pollution on marine life and...
EarthEcho International
STEM Career Closeup: Plastic Pollution Educator
Growing up by the beach in Coffs Harbour, northern New South Wales, Anthony Hill has always been a keen surfer and ocean enthusiast. After discovering plastic floating in the fjords of Norway in 2011, Anthony began raising awareness...
EarthEcho International
STEM Career Closeup: Founder of Environment Center
The video features someone who shares his journey from being a railway Slipper Cutter to becoming the founding director of an inner urban environment center. He emphasizes the importance of community involvement and citizen science in...
But Why
Garbage in the Sea
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a huge area of ocean where hundreds of millions of tons of plastic garbage floats, brought there by a swirling ocean current. Much of the waste comes from single use items like plastic bags, straws, and...
EarthEcho International
Youth in Action: Fighting Marine Pollution
Shalise Leesfield, a 12-year-old from Australia, saw the problem of discarded fishing line polluting nearby beaches and decided to take action. She installed fishing line collection bins and turned the collected line into bracelets to...
Next Animation Studio
Flushing disposable contact lenses is adding to plastics pollution
A new study by Arizona State University found that people discarding their disposable contacts by flushing them could be contributing to plastics pollution.
EarthEcho International
STEM Career Closeup: Founder of Marine Debris Initiative
The director of the Blue Foundation coordinates the Australian marine debris initiative, a national network working on removing and preventing plastic pollution and marine debris. With 20 years of experience as a driving instructor, the...
EarthEcho International
STEM Career Closeup: A Day in the Life of a Marine Biologist and Conservationist
Dr. Kate Charlton-Robb is the Founding Director and Head of Research at the Marine Mammal Foundation. With over 16 years experience researching dolphins across southern Australia, Kate achieved a Bachelor of Science with a double major...
Learning Mole
Cring Oceans
This animated science video lesson is all about pollution and crying oceans. Students will love this engaging and interactive video as they learn more about and study oceans.