How is Taiwan beating everyone at plastics recycling?

Taiwan used to be flooded with trash – but the country is now one of the top plastics recyclers in the world. How did they do it? #Planet A #reycling #taiwan Credits: Reporter: Beina Xu Camera: Kaley Emerson, Shaundie Hsu, Norman Pan Video Editor: Frederik Willmann Supervising Editor: Adam Baheej Adada Fact Check: Kirsten Funck Thumbnail: Em Chabridon Read more: Supporting a circular economy: Insights from Taiwan's plastic waste sector and lessons for developing countries https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235255092031349X Taiwan’s Transition – from Garbage Island to Recycling Leader https://rapidtransition.org/stories/taiwans-transition-from-garbage-island-to-recycling-leader/ Analysis of plastic waste reduction and recycling in Taiwan https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0734242X21996821 Management strategy of plastic wastes in Taiwan https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42834-022-00123-0 Time series analysis of the effects of refuse collection on recycling: Taiwan’s “Keep Trash Off the Ground” measure https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0956053X07000694 Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:43 Trash in Taipei 02:09 On the recycling fleet 03:12 What about AI arms? 07:24 Pellet magic 08:32 The bigger picture We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. 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 we can do and how the system needs to change. We'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess. Follow Planet A on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dw_planeta