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What does a sustainable life look like?

What would it take for all eight billion of us to share the planet sustainably? A remote Danish island may have the answer

Many of us are worried about the environment, but the aim of living in a truly sustainable way is hard to pin down. Do we all need to stop buying things? Is it down to governments to make the changes for us? Is there somewhere in the world painting a picture of the end goal?

It鈥檚 a question that has bothered CrowdScience listener Cate for 20 years! She鈥檚 worried we鈥檙e not doing enough for the environment and just wants a clear scenario of what it might look like to live sustainably, in a way that could work for all eight billion of us on the planet.

It鈥檚 a big question, so this week presenter Caroline Steel has teamed up with her friend and colleague Graihagh Jackson from The Climate Question podcast to answer it.

They head to the remote Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, which is aiming to go carbon neutral by 2025 and zero waste by 2032. How are they going about it and could this be replicated elsewhere? We visit a ground-breaking project turning nappies into compost, meet a glassblower making tableware out of wasted insulin vials, and find out how pig waste can power homes.

This edition of CrowdScience hones in on Bornholm鈥檚 zero waste goal. Will the island make it?

Listen to The Climate Question鈥檚 look at the island鈥檚 quest to go carbon neutral here: 成人快手 World Service - The Climate Question, Going carbon neutral - lessons from Denmark - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct5bkg (Available from 3rd September)

Presenters: Caroline Steel and Graihagh Jackson
Producer: Sophie Eastaugh
Editor: Richard Collings
Production Coordinator: Jonathan Harris

(Image: Dr David Christensen, Project Manager at BOFA, Bornholm鈥檚 waste authority with presenter Caroline Steel in front of a giant mound of waste bound for the island鈥檚 incinerator. The incinerator will be shut down in 2032 when the island aims to be zero waste. Credit: Sophie Eastaugh)

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The Climate Question, 成人快手 World Service

Going carbon neutral - lessons from Denmark
A remote Danish island is aiming to rid itself of fossil fuels. Can Bornholm do it and what lessons can be learned for elsewhere?

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