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:
https://www.greenpeace.org/static/pla...

Carbon, land and water footprint of bioplastics:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Biodegradability of different plastics:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/...

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

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