Does recycling help fight climate change?

Reduce, reuse, recycle is a familiar mantra the world over.
Recycling has been described as ‘one of the easier
climate-friendly acts” that individuals can do. A recent poll
found that, globally, most of us believe that recycling is the
single best thing we can do to tackle the climate crisis. But
there isn’t much mention of “reduce” and “reuse”.


This week, presenters Kate Lamble and Neal Razzell explore how
successful the world’s recycling system really is, visiting Port
Klang in Malaysia where huge swaths of the globe’s recycling gets
sent only to end up... well, listen and you’ll find out! Kate and
Neal will also learn how climate friendly recycling really is and
whether there are other more important actions we can take to
improve how we manage our waste. Thank you to contributors: Ke
Wang, Lead of the PACE Program at the World Resources Institute
(Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy) Costas Velis,
Lecturer in Resource Efficiency Systems at the University of
Leeds, UK Jenny van Doorn, Professor of Marketing Services at the
University of Groningen, Netherlands Farhan Nasa, Project
Coordinator at Break Free from Plastic, Malaysia Our team:
Reporter: Chen Yih Wen, Environmental Reporter in Tanjung
Harapan, Klang, Malaysia Researchers: Immie Rhodes, Natasha
Fernandes, Marcia Veiga, Sarah Wild. Producer: Dearbhail Starr
Series Producer: Alex Lewis Production Coordinators: Sophie Hill,
Siobhan Reed Sound Mix: Tom Brignell Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith