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someone in the good incentive goals such a unique bias of why the number of coble e bikes, all the strength of germany is set to grow and how a phone go. we point should 5, even the simplest inc king oppose for full takes us through africa's west coast funding to save that, every year gotten a generates a stat green $1100000.00 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 cleaned up is going to be back breaking work similarly and listened 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 good quality plastics. if the up it came down to pace, you frequently to face this, we are able to separate the reset cloud both from the non reset. that was because we want to the most states and they'll come in and see that they can be some value from these things. what i've done, finding them, you know, what's always what it weighs, such as across call. a lagoon had been turned into aquatic waste dumps. we'd 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 the problem from beach with plastic punch is working as they see the data collection of form of citizens science as a way out of the mess we uh, when docs in between us, hello not the solution for the plastic solution minutes, because this i didn't this high side, they'll be much less coming in power, buy stuff, that's a very good activity to collect relevant data. and once we have well situated onto date is the one the sound, what the police on what this polluted and also which brian this which campaign yourself. what do you think 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 accidents 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. thanks to groups like plastic bunch done. i became the 1st country to monitor a plastic devry density, according to you what guidelines the data it's loaded onto a un platform containing the world's largest citizen science. thank this is unmarried, let's a officials of gunners. the technical service said again, if at this very useful then when you're cleaning 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 think coverage. tar isn't too. um, it's affects aquatic life. being able to present 15 beaches is of course also find sold a gun of $1000000000.00 tory sector. meanwhile, full citizens, scientists like richmond and kennedy, quite group. the hard work is only just begun once to see that data turns into meaningful change. no, no, we understand the problem to solve it. so we need so new stance. we need political will. we need investments. 2 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 to act 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 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, i've demonstrated a solely dose of community series. really health. that is right trees. no local residents proved lost with vision on determination. it is possible to move away from traditional energy sources. and you know, way that benefits a lot of households wants to new solar panels of the printer is yeah, i'm assuming the street will be producing its very own power residents in east london. lin. 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 go. 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 autism. henry pollen done 8 olsteen came up with the idea originally they'd hope to get the entire street clinton to a great, 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 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 the. ready spent several weeks during the winter and 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 that government should support innovative ecological projects. mike says to help tackle the climate crisis, we need lots of parts 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. when they went home, 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 pump to us. so low road, the neva engine hoops the solar panels will help slusher energy bills. the the panels sunroof, it's going to be much better for the panels if we can, if they keep going and achieve. and i'm once people say to something, you know, it's on the started, they were, it is really all new stuff. and of course, cheaper builds so now the solar powered high miss austin le, rarity has that partner a major british energy company says 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 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 generates is that are required by the great, the toilet that demand. what that does is it creates this 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 grids. instead of, sorry for that fossil fuel network, which i'm thinking is decentralizing that great. and instead having 5 thousands of different renewable energy assets that themselves control the grade. and create that flexibility. heavy from now on meals like this will be caulked with power that comes straight from the roof. yes. when the rest of the street see the 1st 10. 20

houses getting the solar panels and the see the, you know, that it's, it's a viable idea and that it's not have, right. and then just a couple of off this coming up with a totally fine 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 pile and down 8 of the home. this will be just the beginning. that dream is how much of the people everywhere in the city now what's on is perry initiative for a next report. we as thing in you box heading over to germany where online shopping is a booming 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 for a couple bucks on this week's doing a beat. we find out how it is going the

electric to go buying 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 and the call gigabytes, logistics hub, they transport deliveries to private individuals and businesses. one of the companies into can provides last small delivery. it says the call gigabytes. what? well, how much is it that is the subsystem minute we have,

so 2 stops that's manageable. it's all the fault drive is it 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 our country is kind of, i actually enjoyed the journey. like on 500 on some of the news, replacing trucks with huge cargo bikes has major environmental benefits. initial estimates suggest to 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 meaning can see the cost at the 1000000 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 back to us. we can now and of very different topic flow until all too often chemicals i used to get read

of diseases and improve views bunk. these kind of bodily damage to 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 us type of the laboratory. take a look at these flowers girl well and can you to 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 that part of the take when i not, it's can cause now minutes to a plan to pass in in the from us who can see this move. it is tented by the time us thing. i've tried to imagine the destruction you've already done because the, say the cds on the ground. the parasitic plant attaches itself to the roots of

crops and then extract nutrients from them at their expense. they start to wield while the lead flourishes. margaret key so knows the problem all to 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 we for many years. so we cannot crops, but the yield was the no good school photo. well, we 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 with google mouth and sees. and i've gone to the whole lake open, i will do photo. so that from this i only harvested one bag of ways that came to me, but it doesn't even leave enough for me to rebuild them. doesn't mean the monday it would be my goodness. 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 within 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 trego. it. and it was growing to me. the mount control technician on is contrary to what we do in this knob is wanting to play, the fung us as much as we can. so that is can $25.00 to a month that's can solve the farmers 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 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 warming, the swells warming, and we're seeing dry got also moving even to some width as owns and to also some uh for the region evacuees experience in the high production areas. center 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 2 farmers to help produce more fund going up to them. they can show acute that's

can be produced to add our laboratory, you know, to now, to solve from us. i prove that this event, 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, as especially, it's a relatively easy remedy that the farmers can apply for themselves. and we end the program. well we 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. now for 6, it will visited the lagoon they simona and set a goal on a real natural beauty on their birth conservation area. to see what the protection meshes i've achieved so far, the bank growth part 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 home to herron's home or it's ad birds of prey. it's a natural paradise but low 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 i have decided to go out to sea instead of i thought like they don't bother me the good because then 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 related so it's hard for us now. the plastic, uh like a new model for getting you brian fi lives in one of the 3 villages on the edge of the nature reserve during october, november, they're not allowed to push ya. so the face on the lagoon can 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 the purchase bar. awesome, great. a major problem is that more and more people have settled around the luxury that they play that, but it usually used to have a lot of and then grow for us. so, but mangrove would 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 towards this and then any other woods. so there is a lot of do far as a somewhat over is typical visit with the mit. so that example like a little way to please. and as the band grows disappeared, the fish population was declined to be the largest body showing the put the idea of the equal costs have been working here for 10 years. they were employed by the municipality, which manages the boot. it provides locals with a live, a lot of a growing number of fishermen have started finding voices to compensate for the period when they are not allowed to fish. tourism has also developed with more and more visitors discovering the lagoon. spect technically the bio diversity. it's especially popular with bird watching these tourists are lucky enough spots in our 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 or not miserable 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. 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 backs of the lagoon. the main threats which i'll climate change related are erosion and suiting the local us can see what's happening if we conducted studies in aust,

them what they've up so soon. the data f have it on for you on it. the specially the older people who can compare with what it was like when they were younger that they consistently presented your call. you may say they've noticed before that has become sandia and has the highest self conscious setting. easy resolve, fabulous. the organization. studies also made it clear that the locals were well aware of what cost of these problems push down the d. guess, go see when we asked 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 was due to intensive fishing and harvesting, show fish in ways that damage the bankruptcy of the fuzzy. that i thought the nymphs come on is actually no cause traditionally a harvested muscles and oysters from the shoreline. said bankrupt, damaging them in the process to date,

the oysters are cultivated just above the water line, and so the backgrounds remain intact. wildlife is flourishing in the symbol of who. but with these positive developments to continue, it's vital that the remains a protect area. but 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 bye. i 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 puffy 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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