a little surprised, i wish up now, and i am ready to dive into the hands of gentlemen to which you have you have a one to leave it from port please go to the spot and unexpected side to side. the hello everybody, and welcome to a new edition of a co operate car. the environment show brought to you by a tv in uganda, gymnast dw, and charles tv rock ca nights, area. i am crystal loans. and here's my co host son drive in uganda. hi, grease, hello, everybody is good to have you back with gold. some exciting reports about environmental protection. and sustainability coming up here is

a quick look at some of the topics that will be exploring today was met the someone in the good incentive goals, such a unique bias of why the number of cobble a bikes, all the strength of germany is set to go bend how a phone go. we point should 5. even the simplest inc, king i posts are full, takes us through after because west coast funding to save that every year gotten a generates a sad green one point. $1000000.00 tons of plastic waste book, only 5 percent of that is collected and recycled. that's a pretty shocking fee go. well, there is hope, a number of grassroots organizations coming together to see how they can make a difference. let's take a look of the beach cleaned up is going to be back breaking work

similarly and listened future. well, this is a mission with a difference. these volunteers on prime from beach east of gun is capital across and not just collecting old waste. this group called plastic punch have a plan the salting, measuring and cancelling all the items as a weapon to find back against the scourge. richmond kennedy kwaku organizes these cleanups, helping with volunteers from nearby communities. so when willing to come around community members speak to shoes if you have any issues. if applicant plastics are clearly plastics. if you are picking up to pace you frequently to face this, we are able to separate the recycle bullets from the non respect levels because we want to the most states in the community that they come based on value from these things. we're not done. finding them, you know what that weighs, what it weighs, such as across call a lagoon had been turned into aquatic waste dumps with only a tiny fraction of the cities trash being properly collected and recycled. besides,

poisoning the land, the deputies flushed into the ocean, breaking down into micro plastics, getting into the food chain and destroying the classic echo systems. and it's from places like color good that a big deal of the trash wash is down to prime from beach, with plastic punches working as they see the data collection a form of citizen science as a way out of the mess we uh, when does between us hello, not, not the solution for the plastic will issue a minute because this i funding this high side, they'll be more trust coming in higher buy stuff. that's a very good activity to call it to really funds visa. then once we have well situated onto the is the one, the sound, what the police on what this polluted. and also which brian, this which campaign yourself, what you would say by collecting these dates that we are able to understand by analyzing what this office of this fully funds could be. where are we on the cell

where the surface would be? and that is where we have the, i thought, call direct, our awareness access and also solution finding efforts. and with the data quite whose team can begin to crucial next phase. helping the local authorities to understand the ways flows and figure out how to stop it ending up in the ocean. so with that data, we're able to tell where the waste is coming from and the type of ways that is coming into the show. and then the ones that i received a couple and then the ones that i normally say couple. so this informed as, as the assembly, how to plan for the management of the waste issue. the citizen science is also a key part of a much bigger puzzle. ocean conservation is one of the united nations, 17 sustainable development goals. but efforts a come back moraine plastic pollution had been held back by lack of reliable data

from from beach and gun. as a microcosm of world wide problem, it's been estimated that we have dumped up to 200000000 tons of trash into the sea . most of its indestructible plastic, some estimates say the rate of increase the triple in the coming decades. then you went environment programs as the only solution is to fundamentally change how we use plastic things to groups like plastic bunch done. i became the 1st country to monitor a plastic devry density, according to us guidelines. the data loaded onto a un platform containing the world's largest citizen science data said unmarried let's a officials of gunners, the testicle, service study efforts. it's very useful that when you came in to the beach, they also compiling data that would lift policy, make us appreciate the value of the activity one to also

appreciate what we are doing to ourselves in terms of nick for individuals. to the extent that one it doesn't then coverage, taught isn't to it affects our project. life being able to present 15 beaches is of course also find sold a gun to a $1000000000.00 tory sector to quote, meanwhile full citizens. scientists like richmond kennedy, quite group. the hardware because only just begun once to see that data turns into meaningful change. now that we understand the problem to solve it, so we need so new stance, we need political will. we need investments, it's a waste management system. it's what they need to package and we need lots of when this we are listening to the science, we are listening to the same and what the results of given us when we make sense. and we need to talk to now and fast of the citizen sciences of clean the stretch of

pump from beach and the trash data it has been longed. their hope is that if we overly understand what happens to the plastic, we use a discount that we can truly begin to free the oceans of all trucks. again. well, it seems pretty clear that shifting to clean the fuel is key to toppling pollution . what, how easy, easy to make the 61 liberal, who in london, a demonstrative us a solely dose of community series. really health. that is right trees. no local residents proved last. we vision on determination. it is possible to move away from traditional energy sources. and in a way that benefits a lot of households was the, the new solar panels of finery. yeah. receiving the streets will be producing its very own power. residents in east london, lyn much road spends more than 2 years working for this moment and convincing the

neighbors to get on board to day. that dream is becoming reality. the pressure of saying something's going to happen and having that power station post is up in windows. so this 1st moment of seeing a come to reality is, is kind of a relief. it's joyful. we wanted the whole street to basically get the solar panels . that was the goal. we soon realized that wasn't going to happen. like it's going to be really difficult, actually to, to even persuade any one of us to is henry pollen. dunn 8 olsteen came up with the idea originally they'd hope to get the entire street blinked into a grid, but some of the roofs on suited to solar panels. and some neighbors haven't yet wound up to the idea. 25 households on lynn miss road are on board. however, i think across britain there are millions and millions of people who want to solve and put money into the climate crisis. you can offer at the that action solution for it, which is what we've kind of created here. then it kinda floats quite well with the

general public. given me economic crisis in the country, not everyone could afford to sign up. that's why the 2 artists launched a fundraising campaign that raised over a 100000 pounds split. ready and spent several weeks during the winter living on their roof and filmed it as a crowd fund. wanted to make the streets as the low cost of a story. but it also is a kind of experiment, prototype test pilot thing that could help other streets kind of move quickly to act. and that's taken lots of, you know, ideas and failed attempts to find the model that would work. the activists say 6 government should support innovative ecological projects. mike says to help tackle the climate crisis, we need lots of pulse of money which make it really upset the easy for people to

get much funding or to get properly subsidized to, to ton that buildings the houses or the businesses into power stations. what told me is that the, even by the way, when i hillary power and then it'll stain off filming the installation of the solar panels. the 1st step on the path to us. so low road, the neva engine hoops the solar panels will help slusher energy bills, the dependents under roof. it's going to be much better for the panels if we can, if they keep going and achieve. and once people say this happened, you know, it's on the started, they were, it is really on the stocks and of course, cheaper bills. so now these, so the power time miss austin le, rarity here that partner

a major british energy company says that pioneer is here in the okay, we've got pretty much like the one of the most that diets good systems. so it's really reliant on fossil fuels. so it pink time, so it's like 6 o'clock when people come home and they want to put that in is there's about a few 100 different generate to is that are required by the great, the toilet that demand. what that does is it creates a horrible kind of pollution. and of course, it's really expensive on sunny days and, and so the pioneers couldn't even produce it plus energy that can be fed into the grades instead of time for that fossil fuel network, which i'm getting, is decentralizing that great. and instead having 5 thousands of different renewable energy assets that themselves control the grade and create that flexibility. levy from now on meals like this will be caulked with power that comes straight from the roof. so yes,

when the rest of the street see this last 1020 houses getting the solar panels and i see that you know, that it's, it's a viable idea and that it's not have, right. and then just a couple of off his coming up with a totally pine. this guy did, hopefully more people want to do it. and then we're also hoping that we can save money overall by doing both buying and stuff like that. so the other streets can also get involved. hillary pals and down 8 of the hope this will be just the beginning. that dream is how much of the people everywhere in the city watts on is power initiative for a next revolt. we as thing in you bought, heading over to germany with online shopping is a blooming market. that means a lot of delivery traffic bought in munich more and more parcels and now being delivered by a bike. this is why the city has set up a logistics hub because of bikes on this week's doing

a beat. we find out how it is going. the electric, the bikes can transport as much as a small truck. then not only is flexible and emission free means of transport, they're often actually faster than the delivery trucks. that's woke up many streets in downtown munich, put them in certain ones, the guns, see the, the amount of commercial traffic. and the fact that we see a lot of potential in a switch to sustainable electric cargo bikes. we're making this a key factor in our overall mobility strategy. instead of 5 companies have warehouses in the call gigabytes, it just takes up. they transport deliveries to private individuals and businesses. one of the companies into can provide law, small delivery. it says the call gigabytes with as well. now how much is that is

the subsystem minute. we have 30 stops that's manageable, it's all the fall. the drivers are paid by the hour. it's not like other large delivery companies when they're a $120.00 parcels, and it's almost impossible to get it all done in a day. in the, our korea is kind of actually enjoyed the journey. like on 500 on some of the news, replacing trucks with huge cargo bikes has major environmental benefits. initial estimate suggest find delivery companies alone could save 6 tons of c o 2 per year . and this is just the 1st step of an initiative that goes beyond munich cost at the cities have similar projects, we're all still figuring it out. i think it's important that we share our experience and learn the right lessons from it. so we're in discussion with other cities. we'll also work together to consolidate our projects. i look forward on climbing a box to us. we can no end of very different topic blank till all too

often chemicals. i used to get the range of diseases and improve views, but these kind of bodily damage, the environment. the alternatives on the age of kenya is only surviving. tropical rain forests, a fung, but we phone a guest we is being developed in us type of the laboratory. take a look at these flowers grow well and can you to well in fact strike go purple, which we might be pretty, but it's devastating to crumbs. it viruses and dry soil and poses a serious threat to harvest as agronomist adults can boil, explain if that part of c take when i know it's kind of caused some damage to a planted pass in, in the fall. as you can see, this move, it is planted by the time you have seen, i've tried to imagine the destruction it's already done because the,

say the cds on the ground. the parasitic plant attaches itself to the roots of crops and then extracts nutrients from them at their expense. they start to wield while the lead flourishes. margaret keesa knows the problem all too well, which we regularly decimate her mace and milledgeville for y'all's high ongoing measure to some well we've been struggling with the problem of which weed for many years what we call it crops, but the yields the no good school follow when we trying to stop it spreading by sweeping up their brain and the animal waste human and distributing it in the field . but it doesn't make any difference with google mouth and sees. and i've gone to the whole lake open. i will go forward to so that from this i only harvested one bag of ways that can any, but that doesn't even leave enough for me to rebut them. does the monday would you, michael now? but to us and kenyon, scientists have identified

a fungus that kills the parasite. it's highly effective, even in tiny amounts, such as might fit on a tooth pick. this discovery lead to the toothpick of project dorcas kimball. he manages the projects, toothpick company, for a team of scientists produce the fungus that kills to strike a plot. i don't see with the research on the bile controls and started going into say, i'm looks as far as this phone goes as isolated from my wilton's try goliad. and each was drawn to mix them down control. so initial non is contrary to what we do in this knob is multiply the fung us as much as we can. so that is can quantity if i to a must that's can solve this almost in great capacity is for the last 5 years. ken boy has traveled to villages in western kenya to introduce farmers to the product. it costs about 30 year rose to treat a one acre field. until now farmers have been up routing the destructive plot to

prevent its seats from spreading further. because once they're in the soil, they stay there for years. chemical pesticides haven't proved effective and farmers are left with field harvests. that's why the tooth pick project is supported by a number of n g o is focused on food security. this brittany effect of climate change. the app is one me before it was warming and we're seeing dry got also moving even to some width as owns and to also some of course, that region if that these, experiencing the high production areas sent, it means the food in security also is except that it becomes much more kenya, isn't the only country with a strike. a problem. according to the un, 14 african nations are infested with the weed. this makes the project all the more important it's successful, it could be introduced in other countries to. so dorcas can, boy, is working with

a to farmers to help produce more fund going up to them. and they can show acute that's can be produced to add our laboratory is not enough to solve from us. i closed the 7 counties we operating. so that is the reason why we were in gauging village, you know, clump or do stuff at the village level can have passed. pretty put the final product. production itself is relatively straightforward. the phone goes just needs to grow. 20 key, those of rice are cooked and a small amount of fungus is added. then left for $3.00 to $5.00 days to incubate. the resulting 40 kilos of fungus enriched rice are enough for one, a couple of crop land. the research has found at that farm as needed to treat the fields for 2 years. that's full crops, owings that was enough to banish the strike. and restore crop yields for small hold is especially, it's a relatively easy remedy that the farmers can apply for themselves. and

we end the program, well, we've begun the west coast of africa and we to migratory bots folk to send a go and movie tanya and the areas where they clicked on l. perfect. it will visited the lagoon they simona and set a goal on a real natural beauty, a new birth conservation area, to see what the protection meshes i've achieved so far. the macro forest of the simone nature reserve or i haven't touched, was foster ray of species. the lagoons mix of fresh and salt water creates a breakfast environment and the rich ecosystem that's helped to herron's color. it's add birds of prey. it's an actual paradise. but local fishermen on not to have negative effect in the leg

into that. but if we're not allowed to fish in the lagoon, then we don't really have any of the options available coming in some pressure, but have decided to go out to sea instead of i thought like they don't bother me. and literally a good time to i think i didn't want to do a lot of times, they catch something, but there is no in yes, any fish, as in the nature relating. thank you. so it's hard for us now to go like into more up again. you brian fi lives in one of the 3 villages on the age of the nature, reserve it during october and november. they're not allowed to push ya. so the face on and the ruling can recover. so cool eco guys, make sure the rules are obeyed. they also ensure they are enough of resting places for the areas main bird species such as purchase bar. awesome, great. a major problem is that more and more people have settled around the luxury that they play the probably too long used to have

a lot of and then grow for us. so, but mangrove would isn't huge to bond. it's often thought of as probably what it was, but the people here mainly use it as a full construction of what because they know it's much more to apply to resistance . and then in other words, so there is a lot of do far as a sort of is typical piece of data mit. so that example i can, the way it is, and as the man grows disappeared, the fish populations decline to be the largest bodies showing the audio the e called costs have been working here for 10 years. they are employed by the municipality, which manages the boot. it provides locals with a live, a lot of a growing number of the shipment have started finding voiced as to compensate for the period when they're not allowed to fish. tourism has also developed with more and more visitors discovering the spect, texting of biodiversity. it's especially popular with bird watching these tourists are lucky enough to spots and all spring

a. ready around $2500.00 tourists visit every month at the locals with a guide. the visitors helped fund the nature reserve and also boost the locals income. the well not visible if i'm here to open them. you know, 20 percent of the revenue goes to the women who do reforestation work for me. then the 2 communities that live around the lagoon get 10 percent each. another 20 percent goes to eco got. they all 13 of them and they come from the villages to help us. so don't remember that this is all the papers on organizations such as bird life international are also active and the nature of the lagoon is facing a range of environmental challenges elaborately finding menache. she lives on the banks of the lagoon. the main threats which are climate change related are erosion,

and suiting locals can see what's happening if we conducted studies in aust, them what they've observed soon, the data f have it on pause. you own it, the specially the older people who can compare with what it was like when they were younger, that they consistently please, as you call, you may say they've noticed before that has become sandia and has a higher self conscious setting. easy resolve tablet the organization studies also made it clear that the locals will well aware what cost to these problems as well, that d guess go see when we ask them what, what solutions they would recommend, what practices they've noticed that seem to accelerate the problems and that should therefore be stopped. they themselves said that it's due to intensive fishing and harvesting, show fish in ways that damage the bankruptcy of the for say that i thought the nymphs come on is actually no cause traditionally a harvested muscles and oysters from the shore line. said bankrupt, damaging them,

and the process to date the oysters are cultivated just above the water line. so the backgrounds remain intact. wildlife is not rushing in the someone of who but with these positive developments to continue, it's vital that the remains a protect area. the time is flown by, i'm afraid we've come to the end of the show for this week. we hope you enjoyed the program before i say good by. i'd like to wish you all a happy only day. enjoy the time with family and friends. see you next time. same you three's merry christmas and a puffy 22 people. thank you so much for the active engagement with the problem. we hope to see you soon for now do take it out and sees it. the. the

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