Big Green Switch - Green videos - Reduce, reuse, recycle

100 Ways To Save The Planet

steve — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:57:23 +0100

100 ways to save the planet in 250 seconds!
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Recycle - My Green Film

BigGreenSwitch — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:34:08 +0100

An entry for the Friends Of The Earth Green Film Competition.
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UK Rubbish Exported To China

BigGreenSwitch — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:23:33 +0100

This Sky report highlights the issue surrounding rubbish disposal in the UK. Rubbish is exported to China so that poor chinese peasants can deal with it. As a result of this recycling dangerous chemicals are dumped into the environment. This is something the Government would prefer you didn't know.
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Oliver Heath on the power of recycling

BigGreenSwitch — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:19:49 +0000

Former Changing Rooms presenter and eco-friendly designer Oliver Heath explores some of the benefits of recycling and the new products that can be made from recycled goods.
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Recycling advert

steve — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:16:11 +0000

Short, simple and effective message about recycling.
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The sad life of a plastic bag

BigGreenSwitch — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:00:00 +0000

From the BBC website - a fun but sad tale of what happens to all those plastic bags
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Recycling

BigGreenSwitch — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:11:01 +0000

Video on the reasons why we should recycle.
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captain planet recycling

BigGreenSwitch — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 09:00:54 +0000

Recycling has never been about "energy saving", it's about waste reduction and the reuse of natural resources. Recycling is about natural ressources. Recycling isn't efficient eh? Recycling is more expensive than mining eh? What happens when Mother Earth has no more raw materials to harvest and we have to go BACK through our landfills to gather recyclable material? The more paper is recycled the less trees have to be cut. The point is to reduce the environmental impact by reducing our environmental needs. A completely arbitrary example: you need 15 square km of forest to supply the demand without recycling, with recycling you can save, as in not exploit, 5 square km of forest. So you protect larger areas which are left as natural habitats. If we didn't recycle, we'd have to destroy even more forests, drill for even more oil, and mine for even more metals. And on the other end, you save on waste. Landfills take a lot of place and are simply terrible for the environment, when you recycle, landfills take more time to fill and they don't need as much space. Recycling is not supposed to be economical. That's the whole point. It costs more to recycle paper than to to just make it. The point is to SAVE natural ressources, ecosystems, ensure that renewable sources have the time to replenish (tress growing back), etc. Not to save money. "Per Bylund is a PhD student in economics at the University of Missouri and the founder of Anarchism.net. " The myth of an article about recycling. This was a slander piece on socialism and environmentalism. "Please enlighten me, wherein lies the so-often-acclaimed success of this system?" Swedes have forests, still. Clean rivers, still. Clean lakes, still. They get to breathe clean air, drink clean water and guess what: they can actually swim in their lakes, not poisonous! Can't say that about you state, can you Mr Bylund of Missouri? Oh yeah that's right, your fish are contaminated with mercury and you can't even eat them.
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