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- Season 1 1999-04-12
- Season 2 1970-01-01
- Season 3 1970-01-01
- Season 4 2002-01-01
- Season 5 2003-05-11
- Season 6 2004-04-12
- Season 7 2005-01-01
- Season 8 2006-01-01
- Season 9 2007-01-01
- Season 10 2008-01-01
- Season 11 2009-08-15
- Season 12 2010-02-23
- Season 13 2011-10-06
- Season 14 2012-08-17
- Season 15 2013-01-01
- Season 16 2014-03-30
- Season 17 2015-01-10
- Season 18 2016-01-09
- Season 19 2017-01-15
- Season 20 2018-01-14
- Season 21 2019-01-20
- Season 22 2020-01-18
- Season 23 2021-01-04
- Season 24 2022-01-23
- Season 25 2023-01-22
- Season 26 2024-01-21
Season 26 Episode
- Season 23 Digital vs. Real: Digital Twin - The End of Privacy?
- Season 23 Dying Out of Sight: Hikikomori in an Aging Japan
- Season 23 Women's Livelihoods in Crisis: Bearing the Brunt of the Pandemic
- Season 23 COVID-19: AI Decodes the Research
- Season 23 Miracle Body: Breaking Limits with Hyper-Adaptability
- Season 23 Tsuneta Daiki: Creation through Destruction
- Season 23 2030 At a Crossroads to the Future: Climate in Crisis - Realizing a Net Zero World
- Season 23 Origins of the Pandemic: Part 1 The Beginning
- Season 23 Origins of the Pandemic: Part 2 Uncontrolled Spread
- Season 23 Myanmar Coup: Digital Resistance
- Season 23 2030 At a Crossroads to the Future: Hunger Pandemic - The Catastrophic Cost of Excess
- Season 23 Voices of the Children: 10 Years After the Disaster
- Season 23 Inasa: Whispers on the Wind
- Season 23 Decommissioning Fukushima 2021: Ten Years on from the Nuclear Accident
- Season 23 Unknown Stories Revealed by Fixed-Point Cameras
- Season 23 2030 At a Crossroads to the Future: Plastic Pollution - The Toxic Cost of Mass Consumption
- Season 23 2030 At a Crossroads to the Future: Playing God - Editing the Building Blocks of Life
- Season 23 TOKYO REBORN: The Metropolitan Expressway - The City's Artery
- Season 23 Choose Life: Helping Young People at Risk
- Season 23 TOKYO REBORN: Shibuya - Transforming a "Monster"
- Season 23 Vision Hackers: Updated Takes on Saving the World
- Season 23 Myanmar in Turmoil: The Inside Story on the Military Crackdown
- Season 23 2030 At a Crossroads to the Future: AI Warfare - The Dark Abyss of Autonomous Weapons
- Season 23 Prayers for the Pandemic: 1,300 Years of Ritual at Todaiji
- Season 23 The Dementia Mentors: Lessons from my Senior Peers
- Season 23 The Fallen Fortress
- Season 23 The Pride of Yokozuna: Hakuho's Lone Battle
NHK Documentary - Season 23 Episode 16 2030 At a Crossroads to the Future: Plastic Pollution - The Toxic Cost of Mass Consumption
0.00 57 minutes In the series "2030" we tackle the challenges facing humanity over the next decade. In this episode, we investigate the emerging threats posed by plastic pollution to life on Earth. The hyper-convenience of our modern way of living produces staggering volumes of plastic waste daily. Scientists now know that this waste breaks down into ever tinier pieces, spreading right across the globe and posing direct health risks, including through bioamplification of toxic additives moving up the food chain. We explore the drastic changes it will take to deliver a sustainable future for our planet.
