This video is sponsored by Bunz. I'm going to spend the next 24 hours without
touching or using anything made of or containing plastic. 24 hours,
no plastic. But first I need to take this off because it's entirely made of
polyester, and polyester is a type of plastic. And actually my socks, which I
thought were entirely merino wool when I started this, they actually contain a
bunch of nylon which is another type of plastic. Oh, and my pants,
they contain type of elastic fabric that is plastic. Oh and the elastic, I have to..
get rid of these too because they- they're not- they have plastic in them.
okay. Now in order to do this project I need to film it so I'm making an
exception for my camera and for my tripod, both of which are mostly made of
plastic. But I can't use my phone so I'm gonna just do one last thing set an
alarm for tomorrow, save, and take off my glasses which have little things of
plastic on the nose. I'm gonna plug my phone in cuz as of now I have no way of
telling the time. First thing is I got to make myself some socks. The flooring in
my apartment is almost entirely carpet and fake tiles so, both of those are made
mostly of plastic which is why I have set up the longest game of 'the floor is
lava' using these little cotton tea towels which are 100% cotton. I can't use
my refrigerator during this project but here's some food that I can eat. Well it
turns out that reading with a magnifying glass instead of my glasses just gives
me headache so I'm gonna have to get a little more creative with what I'm
to do with my time. It's been just this much candle and I'm already so bored
that I'm doing something I thought I would actually never ever do again in my
life: I'm setting up dominoes. Plastic! By the way all of the plastics that I'm
avoiding in this video we're all made from fossil fuels. It's dinnertime.
I've got canned chili. I also can't cook it um because my stove has plastic
throughout it. I'm going to sleep but I'm not saying that I'm going to bed because
what I'm actually sleeping in is a pile of 100% cotton towels on the floor. It's
gonna be cold and it probably won't be very comfortable but there won't be any
plastic in it. So, I tried making coffee this morning but without a kettle or a
microwave or a coffee machine or a bodem to use (because all of those are plastic)
my coffee was terrible. Ack. But I have a back-up plan.
The floor is lava the floor is lava the floor is lava. This is cold brew coffee,
and this freeze your coffee first thing, it's a trick I figured out before my bio
dome project because I couldn't cook then either and coffee is very important.
most of the water and my house comes through these black PVC these plastic
pipes so I stored up a bunch of water and I've been using that to wash my
hands and to flush the toilet. Luckily my toilet is porcelain but the
seat, the seat is plastic so that's been kind of awkward. I can brush my teeth
with a bamboo and charcoal toothbrush instead of a plastic one. And I can use
baking soda or make my own toothpaste instead of using something that comes in
a plastic tube, and I can floss using silk, but there's a few things that I
just can't get away from. Like, I had cavities a long time ago and now I have
white plastic fillings in my teeth, so I am
always touching plastic. There's another exception that I want to talk about in
a moment. Candle snuffer take 14.. Now I gotta find
something else to do. I can't go outside because in Vancouver the roads are
partly paved with recycled plastic. By now you can probably tell that most of
what you own is made with plastic. Humans are obsessed with the stuff. We make 300
million tons of it every single year and of that 79 percent will eventually
become waste in landfills or in nature like our oceans where scientists predict:
by the year 2050 our oceans may have more plastic in them than fish. There's
already so much plastic waste built up in our oceans that when researchers go
looking for it they can usually find microscopic bits of plastic in sea salt,
the sea salt that you eat. And that brings me to my last exception with this
little project which is that: it's probably in my body. Because when
researchers looked at the stool samples of eight different individuals from
eight different countries, every single one of them had plastic in them. So it's
probably in me and it's probably in you. Now we can make major steps towards
getting rid of plastic without having to live like this. And that's because half
of the plastic we create is made to be used just once,
it's single-use plastic, that needs to stop. There's two things that you can do.
Number one is to take a long hard look at the plastic waste that you create:
figure out whether it's bottles or plastic packaging or bags
and find alternatives. And number two is to push your local governments towards
banning single-use plastics like shopping bags and takeout containers
some of these things are gonna stick around for a thousand years unless we do
something now. Yes! That was 24 hours. While working to reduce the amount of
plastic in my life I recently discovered an online community called Bunz. They
have an app and it's super simple you can post things on there that you no
longer want to use and you can find things on there that you do want to use.
On the very first day that I went on to their app I found these steel tiffins
and I've been looking to buy these already and it was really easy and
message to the person I biked down the street and I made a trade I gave them a
Christmas gift that hadn't even left the box (I won't say from whom) and in
return they gave me these steel tiffins. The whole process was super easy and I
finished that experience thinking, like this is really great... and I should
totally ask Bunz to sponsor me. Their app is entirely free and it makes
trading with people super easy. So, check it out with a link in the description.
There is a new kid on the block. I have added this tropical plant to my robotic
garden because Sir Stabbington the cactus was just getting drowned with
your love. So this new plant needs a name leave a comment in the description and
subscribe to water either of them. Thanks!