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Hi guys! I'm Charlene from BBC Learning English.
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With one million drinks bottles just like this one
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being sold around the world every minute,
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plastic pollution is a truly international problem
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and more and more of us are looking at ways
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to use less plastic in our daily lives -
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or even to live 'plastic free'.
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With the world's first plastic-free aisle
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opening in a Dutch supermarket this week,
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everybody's talking about it,
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and I'm asking three questions to find out the actual
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words people are saying. Question one.
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How concerned are you about the amount of plastic
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in the environment?
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Really concerned. It's affecting everything, isn't it?
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Yeah, it is really concerning you know, you see all
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the beaches washed up with plastic
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and everything like that... it's not great.
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Very.
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Who do you think is responsible for solving
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the plastic pollution problem?
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I would say the governments of every country
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could legislate against so many products
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being manufactured in plastic.
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Well I think the government have a big part to
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play in it, retailers, all the shops, but also people as well.
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Unfortunately, it's all of us...
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Until there is less demand for plastic, these companies
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are going to keep producing it, unfortunately.
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Could you see yourself making a conscious effort
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to live plastic free in the future?
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Yeah, of course... if we all start thinking of ways to live
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plastic free, I think we can eventually get there,
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it's just gonna be a long process.
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I have thought about it a lot... I would love to
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but yeah, at the moment I can't see how
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that would be possible.
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Yeah I think I could. I already do to a certain degree.
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I kind of go to shops more and - more than often
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that don't do plastic bags.
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I don't think it's a necessity, put it that way.
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So there you go: Everybody's talking about 'plastic free'
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and now you can too!
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There's a recap coming up in just a second -
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but don't forget you can find out more about this
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topic at BBC Learning English dot com,
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you can also find us on Facebook,
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Twitter, Instagram and YouTube - and get talking!
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