Earth Day: Is London an environmentally friendly city?

We ask Londoners if enough is being done to protect the environment in the capital.

Transcript

00:00 Millions of people across the globe are gathering to mark Earth Day and celebrate the environmental

00:06 movement. The event began in 1970 in the United States and is now marked around the world.

00:13 But today Earth Day is known as a global event which aims to highlight the importance of

00:18 protecting the environment, which begs the question, are we doing enough in London?

00:23 Do you think the City of London is, do you think we're doing enough to try and prevent

00:30 climate change in the capital?

00:31 I mean, probably not really to be honest. A bit of a double edged sword, yes and no.

00:38 I know a lot of companies now, they're going green and trying to reduce their carbon footprint

00:43 and comply by all the SDG rules and all that sort of stuff. So we are trying as a whole

00:48 but maybe not so much the individual, like even just the minor things like littering,

00:53 stuff like that. Doing, you know, starts with the man in the mirror sort of thing.

00:58 I don't think so. I mean, I don't know, basically public transportation is a huge thing in here

01:04 so I feel like that kind of helps because like, of course there are a lot of people,

01:09 it's a big city, like people are driving cars and stuff but also that has more, you have

01:12 to pay more for that. I think that puts people on more of the edge of using public transportation

01:19 more and it's, in my opinion, it's easier to use around, it's easier to get around.

01:23 But other than that, I think one of the huge issues in the city is just the trash bins.

01:28 I don't see them quite often, a lot, like I don't see them at all. Where I'm from, you

01:33 can see trash bins right there, right there, right there. So it's easy to throw your trash

01:37 out instead of like throw your trash on the streets. So that's what they do in my opinion.

01:43 I don't have a car and I don't like driving and it's an issue driving as well. Our car

01:47 drivers always seem to push back on anything that's, even though you, if you ask someone

01:52 like, "Is this a good idea?" People go, "Yes." As long as it doesn't impact them, that seems

01:58 to be the issue, doesn't it, really.