the site was click devices present, dw used on instagram, and follow up the hello everybody, and welcome to a new edition of a co operate. the environment show brought to you by a tv in uganda, gymnast dw, and charles tv, rock ca, nigeria, i'm crystal lens, and here's my co host, sandra in uganda. hi greece. 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. what met this

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 grow. and how of 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 the generates a sad green 1100000 tons of plastic waste, but 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 clean up is going to be back breaking work similarly and list and future. well, this is a mission with

a difference. these volunteers on from from beach east of gun capital across and not just collecting old ways. this group called plastic punch have a plan, this sorting, 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 volunteers come around, community members speak to shoes. if the applicant shoes if applicant, plastics are frequently plastics. if the up it came down to pace, you frequently to face this we, we are able to separate the reset cloud both from the non reset. so that was because we want to the most states and they'll come in to see that they can be some value from these things while they're done. finding them, you know what that weighs, what it weighs, such as a cross call. a lagoon had been turned into aquatic waste dumps with only a tiny fraction of the city's 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 corner like drilling, that a big deal of the trash washes down to prom, from beach, with plastic punches, working as they see the data collection a form of citizen scions. as a way out of the mess we. uh, when does between us hello not not the solution for the plastic pollution minutes because this i funding this high side, they'll be much less coming to a higher buy stuff. that's a very good activity to collect a relevance visa. then once we have concentrated on today is to understand what the police on what this polluted and also which brian this, which company itself. what do you think by collecting these weights that we are able to understand by analyzing what the surface of this $0.40 would be? where are we on the cell where the surface would be?

and that is where we have what i thought called direct our awareness access. and also solution finding efforts with the data crews 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 these come me into the show. and then the ones that i really say 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 to 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 decade. then you went environment programs as the only solution is to fundamentally change how we use plastic things. the groups like plastic bunch gunner became the 1st country to monitor a plastic devry density. according to you what guidelines the data loaded onto a u. n. platform containing the world's largest citizen science dataset unmarried. let's a officials of gunners that technical service set it up. it's very useful then when you're cleaning to the beach, they also compiling data that would let policy make us appreciate the value of the activity one. to also appreciate what we are doing to ourselves in terms

of nick for him to be just to the extent that one it doesn't then coverage taught isn't to um, it affects aquatic life. being able to present for scene beaches is of course also find sold a gun, a $1000000000.00 tory sector. meanwhile, full citizens, scientists like richmond and kennedy, quite group the hardware cuz 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 a self awareness. we are listening to the science. we are listening to the same and what the results uh given us when we make sense and we need some acts now and for us, of the citizen sciences of clean, the stretches from from beach and the trash data, it has been load. 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 our trash 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, i've demonstrated that a solely dose of community series. really health. that is right trees. no local residents proved that we've vision on determination. it is possible to move away from traditional energy sources. and in a way that benefits a lot of households wants the new solar panels of printers. yes, i'm assuming 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 it 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 henry pollen done. 8 olsteen came up with the idea originally they'd hope to get the entire street linked into a grid, but some of the roofs are 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 direct action solution for it, which is what we've kind of created here. then it kind of 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 found 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 that government should support innovative ecological projects. mike says to help tackle the climate process, we need lots of parts of money which make it really upset the easy for people to get much funding or took it properly subsidized to,

to ton that buildings the houses or the businesses into power stations. when they went home is that they might, even, by the way, when i hillary power and then 8 olsteen of filming the installation of the solar panels. the 1st step from the pump 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, some of you started, they were, it is really on the stocks and of course, cheaper bills. so now the soon, the power time miss austin la ray richie has that partner and major british energy company. since that pioneer is here in the okay,

we've got pretty much like the one of my site dated good systems. so it's really reliant on fossil fuels. so it's 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 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 controls agreed and create that flexibility. levy from now on meals like this will be caulked with power that comes straight from the roof. so when the rest of the street see the 1st 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. hi brian, that just a couple of off this 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 dean who this will be just the beginning. that dream is how much of the people everywhere in the city watts on is perry initiative for a next report. we have thing in your box heading over to germany, where online shopping is a booming market. that means a lot of delivery traffic bots in munich, more and more parcels, and now being delivered by a bike. this is why the city has settled logistics hub because of bikes on this week's doing a beat. we find out how it is going. the

electric to go bike can transport as much as a small truck. then not only is flexible and a nation 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 they've given the amount of commercial traffic. and the fact that we see a lot of potential and a switch to sustainable electric cargo bikes. but we're making this a key factor in our overall mobility strategy. instead of 5 companies of warehouses in the call, gigabytes, logistics hub, they transport deliveries to private individuals and businesses. one of the companies into cap provides law, small delivery. it says the corporate bikes with, well, how much is it that is the subsystem minute we have so the stops that's manageable,

it's all the fault of drive as a paid by the hour. it's not like other large delivery companies when they're a 120 parcels and it's almost impossible to get it all done in a day in our country is kind of actually enjoyed the journey. like on $500.00 on total fitness replacing trucks with huge cargo bikes has major environmental benefits. initial estimates suggest the following. 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 meaning either 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 for on car box to us. we can know and very different topic until 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's, only surviving tropical rainforest, a fungal we phone, a guest we is being developed in aust. type of the laboratory. take a look at these flowers girl, well, in kenya too. well, in fact, strike go purple, which we might be pretty, but it's devastating to crops, viruses and dry soil and poses a serious threat to harvests as agronomist adults can boil, explain if the policy takes when and it's kind of caused some damage to a plan to pass in, in the fall, as you can see this move, it is tented by the time you have seen. i've tried to imagine the destruction you've already done because the save the cds on the ground of the parasitic plot attaches itself to the roots of crops. and then extracts nutrients from them at

their expense. they start to wield while the weed flourishes. margaret keesa knows the problem all too well, which we regularly decimate her mace and milledgeville for you. oh hi, ongoing measure to from what we've been struggling with the problem of which weed for many years we close crops, but the yield was a no good school follow. well, we're trying to stop it spreading by sweeping. i'm dead brain and the animal waste . woman and distributing it in the field, but it doesn't make any difference. we're go, go myself and seize and i put onto the whole lake opener. we'll go forward to that from that's. i only harvested one bag of ways that can in the 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. you manage the projects tooth. pick a company for a team of scientists produce the fungus that kills the strike a plot. i didn't see with the research on the bell control, so let's try going using say i'm looks as far as this phone goes as isolated from my wilton's trego. it and it was growing to me. the amount control technician on is contrary to what we do in this knob is want to play the funk us as much as we can. so that is can $1.00 to $5.00 to a month that's can solve the fun lives in great capacities. 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 uprooting 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 warming, the swales warming and we have seen dry got also moving even to some width as owns . and to also some quoted that region is that these, experiencing the high production, 80 ascending means the food in security. also is, except 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. they can. so acute that's

can be produced to add our laboratory is not enough to solve from mazda elk grove. this event, counties we operating. so that is the reason why we were in gauging, village in oakland, produce stuff and they really never opened, had class pretty. 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 researches 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 moving tanya onto the areas where they clicked on. el protected were visited the lagoon. they simone there and set a goal, an area of natural beauty, a new birth conservation area, to see what the protection meshes of achieved so far. the macro forest of the simone nature reserve are a habit touch for foster ray of species. the lagoons, mix of fresh and salt water creates a breakfast environment and a rich ecosystem that's helped to herron's color. it's and birds of prey. it's a natural paradise. but local fishermen on not to have a negative effect in the legs to be that big if we're not allowed to fish in the

lagoon, then we don't really have any of the options available. coming in, some fishermen have decided to go out to sea instead of i thought like they don't bother me. another one, you have to be sent back. i think i didn't want to do a lot of times they kept something, but there is no in yes, any patient as in the nature relating. thank you. so it's hard for us now to go like a new model for getting you brain fi lives in one of the 3 villages on the edge of the nature. reserve it during october and november, then not allowed to push here. so the face on and the lagoon kind of recover. so cold eco got make sure the rules are obeyed. they also ensure they are enough arresting faces 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 other 2 lagoon used to have a lot of manual for us. so, but mangrove wood isn't

a huge demand. 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 any other woods. so there is a lot of do far as a somewhat over is typical piece, automates a lot of them for like a little way to please. and as the man grows disappeared, the fish population is decline to be the largest bodies shown to put 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 lagoon. spect, texting a bio diversity. it's especially popular with bird watching these tourists are lucky enough. the spots in our spring a. ready around $2500.00 tourists visit every

month and locals with a guide. the visitors helped fund the nature reserve and also boost the locals income or not the problem you have to open them. you know, 20 percent of the revenue goes to the women who do reforestation with them and then the 2 communities that live around the lagoon get 10 percent each. another 20 percent goes to the eco gasket. are they all 13 of them? and they come from the villages to help us. so remember that this is all vapors 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 repair. 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. they, we conducted studies in aust,

them what they've observed soon. the data at time it, unfortunately the specially the older people who can compare with what it was like when they were younger that they consistently presented your call. and they say they've noticed before, it has become sandia and has the highest salt con, selling easy resolve tablets. the organization studies also made it clear that the locals will well aware what cost of these problems push down the d. guess go see when we offer them 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 fuzzy that i thought in them for school. one is actually no codes traditionally harvested muscles and oysters from the shoreline, st. bankruptcy damaging them in the process to date,

the oysters are cultivated just about the water line. so the backgrounds remain intact. wildlife is flourishing in the someone of who. but with these positive developments to continue, it's vital that the remains of protect area for 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 increase merry christmas and a puppy? 22 people. thank you so much for the opposite engagement with the problem. we hope to see you soon for now do take care and see you soon. i the, the

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