Bioplastics are said to be the “better” plastic of the future: biodegradable, eco-friendly and just as convenient. But is that actually true?

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What can we do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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More about biodegradable plastics:
greenpeace.org/static/planet4-eastasia-stateless/84075f56-biodegradable-plastics-report.pdf

Carbon, land and water footprint of bioplastics:
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590332220303055

Biodegradability of different plastics:
pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.8b02963?af=R&

Reporter: Kiyo Dörrer
Video Editor: Henning Goll
Supervising Editor: Joanna Gottschalk

Thank you to the additional interviewees: Janis Brizga, Hans Meerman, Katharina Schlegel

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