Are We Making the Best, Most Effective Use of the Resources We Have?

This presentation follows the journey of a single plastic bottle through the economy. On this journey, a series of traps await our plastic which will see it either recycled or end up in the ocean. Despite new reform and market-based instruments waiting in the wings, will it be too little too late for our plastic?

We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns the UN. This is a stark warning to all of us that if we want to ensure continued access to the kind of lifestyles we have, we need to act now. But even with action our lifestyles are under threat. Even limited warming, warns the report, is likely to mean displacement of millions of people due to sea level rise and a decline in global crop yields. We continue to demand access to food, energy, water and shelter – but we need to do it in a way that minimises our impact. How do we do that?