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casual funds in the amazon. yet the automobile industry doesn't care about the supply chain. profit. all that much. illegal leather stats may said on d w. the one of the best ways to protect and preserve the environment is through local solutions that help communities list sustainably. well, we're checking out some of those ideas on this new edition of eco africa. i am chris at length coming to you from lee goes. nigeria, good to have you with us today. the boss is sold to crease initiatives that start from the ground up can often set an example and influence people across the board
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is i am sandra holmes, the 3 nobody you write to income prolong you can do. here is what we have coming up . the quotes and almost in town they were using voucher reality to help the boys. they use a young interesting you, you'll be a, with a stylish solution to bostic pollution and how small scale form is kind of for the toothpaste dot to diesel. we've clean solar energy let us begin a ride to in uganda where many communities are named via the amount of plastic with that is littering. the streets, clothing suit was on humming the environment. organize with management could help a lot until then. it is up to people like, you know, plus people to find creative on wanting ways of dealing with these plastic like
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life you never have to do come to you can use anything but easy. but daughter is cuz he does not fall in the way on money collecting plastic bottles. the company is lead touch with them, including the small patch of land where she grows her vegetables. she sells the plastic with to a recycling company. who was the moya on this topic about $24.00 euros a month. cool. me 5, buy a waste of plastic bag. see if i can get one. i mean i get 24. you're letting me. but it has to be heavy. you're going. the door is covered up, slid, what to not keep a providence in democratic republic of congo. about 80 years ago. she's one of the about 1700000 refugees living in uganda most come from neighboring thoughts of done the democratic republic of congo, and ruined the countries that have suffered on the conflict and civil war. as
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a result, your gun that is home to the largest surface you population in africa. me think that the need seems like a huge challenge. now, duties, viewed eyes to move in the to young body. if it you settlement in west a new gun, the there is the west collection point to close to ha, from how god in the pavement arrives. those points on how mobile account she can use them to make purchases in shops or get a cash disbursement you of the dock. i'm a blessed to be that these people bring more plastics. it helps the environment. you know, the plastic chunk, the environment, tell you my best of the plastic. this was the sort of fatality, the so you lose is it's $42.00. if we continue to collect and elastic decided were again, it's fatality. you know, normally what the problem was already turning plastic recycling into a business that was the idea of vent to put in your front. can you shop?
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he and his team also developed the of which went online a year ago in 2 locations in the city of dean j and he's done, you've done the on here either. if he comes in west of the country and for equal plus time, this is just the beginning. we think it's possible to talk about this more than the median refugees engage in recycling as a business. and i need a smaller door law in the uh, from plastic recycling. quite clearly the environment. if we can do that, then we assure that we a heating the triple bottom line, which is the people planet and personality. the worst plastic has been brought from the come to the companies, 53. the come part of this is where the plastic it's shredded and melted and then turned into roofing tiles. the tires are lightweight and cheaper to produce the
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conventional play tires and they can be dyed in various colors. to replicate the appearance of natural clay or concrete. they've already been used on several roofs in kampala as we make them a 100 percent from plastic west. they have brick, red, they look like they know more creat dies by the way, by the a tooth ends, lightweight with 0 breakages and reduce the cost of construction loss. the company recycles more than half a medium kilo swath of plastic bottles. that's a lot for a small company, but it's very mex, a dentist the roughly 220000 tons of plastic with that's produced every uh in the country. so far the gun and government hasn't come up with a plan to reduce plastic use. and there is no national recycling system to the dismay of environmental experts and do that. i'm searching, i think it is out on the list. so then the percent of the plastics are being
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recycled and the rest is being displayed. the is being thrown into the environment as a result, plastic waste is a problem across the country. it's mainly local organizations that are trying to stem the tide of this young, bloody lessons. you come to the n g, okay? international brooks echo plus tile on board to help with the plastic recycling. what is get involved in the company? no more than $1000.00 refugees are taking part in the trash for caution program. the ends you as also noticed that the program is making a difference. we have to do with the nearest ups when such intense or plastic corrected or by the video over the last 3 months. that is a lot in terms of their voice, you know, toner, plastic being corrected in terms of removing it from the environment. but you're looking out to and every time that we have you visited for their critics. as for the aggregate, as for the plastic recycle, as for those who are picking press because the source of income with the us any
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incentive more plastic waste is now being collected for recycling. if you don't have a front can with dish up, pays a visit to, to young lady is us to show how the up was on. so many refugees here, the ability to on a small income mix like huge difference. and of course the, in this kind of, most of us, the single mother, we no longer with a husband wants to me. so i think a bonded us with the children's does yet. but this business has helped us stuff because we have something to do every morning with trunk can, will you show and doty is viewed, i have both inbox in a new part and it's paying off the entropy anyways. no getting in touch with the organization so that he can launch is program even more if he comes collecting west plastic is one thing preventing good is another way of if you appear next to meet an answer for you was settled to reduce the country's addiction to plastic
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shopping box does right, sandra and our company is not just talking pollution in a stylish way. it's empowering women and creating jobs in the countries capital. the eco friendly and fair backs for men, women for work or for going out and produced locally in ethiopia. impossible? well, not for keeter's test by a cute is founded to but you see up here in 20. 19 in this suburb of addis ababa, she just created 31 jobs for women like us. all the women are weavers and work from home. she just comes regularly to collect the fabric they make. or after this, we use these 5 weeks for different states defense of bucks. so we can balance was the way that she just had the idea to start a business 5 years ago. at that time, she was
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a student and she was living in this area which is known for this big dump site in 2017 a land site on the site cause the death of at least 130 people. after this event, she just wanted to do something for the neighborhood. one of the reasons why that happened with the existence of select these functions, the garbage, a doctor, we got the concepts escalator back. we. so it's at that time if we produce environmentally friendly shopping box like states, our body shop, each box, we can replace draft each box. but she soon realized that the initial capital needed to produce paper or fabric for shopping bags was too high for her. so she looked for another way to create jobs here in old domains, so live around here and that, and also the incident happened outside in this area. so i wanted to create that job fortunately before, so i'm going to leave it around here to non, you was one of the 1st employees of cheapest. that is very uh,
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i'm trying to see if she's due to the fall break as i want it. or as i trained. huh . so it's ok to non you looks after 3 children. this work allows her to provide for a large part of the family's needs with the money she's given me. i pay the rent for my house from i also have an extra jump doing she ruba has to, with the money from that i pay the risk food, etc. it's all done on a with the fabric made by the women. he does returns to our office in the city center of addis ababa. the bags are been made in this small room cheetahs, selves $60.00 to $75.00 bags every month to cope with the crisis and to reuse the leather scraps she started to sell smaller and cheaper objects. like wallets were bracelets. she also often works at night to sell her products and a concert home for the future. she dreams of selling more and more bags to create
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more jobs for women. and in the longer term, she loves to relaunch her idea of ecological shopping bag. building up a small business can be a real challenge, especially when you're trying to be sustainable. that's possible green solutions that often still also find out. she'll reach for many, but it doesn't have to be that way. let's go to start like a know where i'm in the opportunity that project is helping small scale families make the leap to clean energy. it's a desperate scene. the water tank is bowen, dry, the ground water pump is broken and the diesel kindest is empty. all abandoned by a senegalese pharma, overwhelmed by the effects of climate change and rising fuel costs. it's a growing problem here. they are farmers who use 1200 meters of diesel to irrigate
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a single heck to of agricultural that company. we are in the i s region in north west in senegal, a region stretching 180 kilometers between the capital call and the city of san luis. it is the countries vegetable growing hub, but it's raining, less and less here, and the ground water levels are dropping. so young cool button d'ye it is currently cultivating potatoes and onions on is we use tech to plot. but he's also managed to cultivate overseeing and other vegetables on this land. to until recently this antiquated diesel generator was a small hole, the only means of pumped the ground water onto disputes. now he has 9 solar panels to this clean energy is helping him to save money and keep his business afloat the fall every night before
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getting the solar power. and i was facing enormous difficulties because my diesel permit, i'm because older and more than 60 does of diesel offering broke down may i? but with this installation of the solar panels, my consumption has dropped quite 20 meters, photos of my current every day to my higher form using solar energy. but i can switch off the diesel generate at noon. you can just use the solar power for the rest of the day. loses young coal button d i boat, the solar panels with the help of a small load equivalent to 6000 bureaus. thanks to support from a state bank. the only has to be pay off of the loan. the loan was broke, good by an association in t is in the south of the region that represents more than 20000 vegetable farmers. my, my do d, i a has managed to secure a micro credit for solar panels for about 300 of these members by a sending a least financial institution. the long term goal is to d,
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called an ice bombing in the region and save livelihoods in the face of the time in crisis seen with the local. but it's a problem is we don't model nice all ways of working and take into account of wiggling water resources. that's why we have to introduce solar panels so that farmers say money conserve, wanted supplies, but add to save jobs. drop a, got the liaison spilled diesel contaminates the soil and kind of get into the ground floor to like other farmers. young coal button b, i is confused. yes. think about the benefits of switching to play energy for mazda and get that know what, what, what am i doing to boost the hospital that we have had and cause about the harmful effects of using diesel? it's not just a smoke, the fuel can also pollute to the ground and the harvest. but the pharmacy was to lose diesel. don't have any other choice anymore because anything, any more i'm on. when like i'm on the thing. the guys up ask us all of the new
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money personally, i wouldn't have any more diesel on my feel. i the if i had 5, so like whether or not they, they, they, they thought it all but the small, whole, the content for to do that. that's on hey, according to agronomist i'm, i'm a do so from the senegalese in g o n deaf food willed so says the micro finance system favors big farm is the slow season going associated. it will lead to event. that is, the interest rates are often a problem that, that they often too high. and that means that the producers frequently don't have the flexibility to commit to such an investment. davis is my that when you, what is the, what we are seeing is that people with more capital than the small whole, the other ones profiting from this kind of investment. ne, wanna keep your uh, but a positive that is more affordable. solar facilities like young cool button
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b. i is good health regions. pharma survived the new. yeah. yes. region is also crucial for food security. this for the child coastal strip produces more than 60 percent of the tenant goals vegetable. rapid climate change caused by human behavior have been effect all over the world on extra politics, those to a place that's having to deal with too much water rather than to re to then is in italy is facing rising sea levels. while on the same time, its foundations, us thinking the was from a city has already installed high tech floodgates, bought the a wondering, easy enough. the venice has fascinated the world for over 1600 years. and for just as long people have been scared of floods or worried that
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the city could sink into the sea. this is the latest attempt to protect venice. 78 metal barriers that can be raised to separate the sea from the laguna. the system is called most signal triple symbol. if we hadn't had most a dentist would have been irreparably destroyed on november 22nd or 2022. it was the 2nd highest flood in history called, but nothing happened to them. we were able to protect the lagoon and venice of del, provide long ebony, so, or elizabeth to spits has already given the order to raise the barriers over 50 times, less to compare search, see, and she's having to do it increasingly frequently. so think about the jeanetta bell curve feet the most that we now know that mostly is a flexible instrument that does not always have to be opened and nor at the same time, sec danville today. we know much more about plants and wind. so we're in a position to act again, flooding that out within 50 has the most
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a system only partially to guarantee the exchange of water between to see the most common very easy to go. so that might, it, does that mean venice can be saved? climate experts predict that the sea level could rise by 60 centimeters by the end of the century. the oceanographer gate arc when the keys says that most it is just buying time the most else and he's moved enough to save. finish a moment. yes. at the moment seen so definitely in the next 1020 or 30 years. but if the sea level rises by 50 centimeters, and it will have to be $300.00 to $400.00 times, that's once a day 1st. i mean it wouldn't manage the shaft that it moves. it won't be able to cool as a structure, but nor will the lagoon manage it because of that. it's the exchange of water. did i want it? but often house gosh, marco single vinny from the venice institute of marine sciences is researching the
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lagoons eco system. he says the frequency with which most a is being used has not yet had any major consequences. but this could change if the lagoon is separated from the sea more frequently and for longer periods of time . the time. okay, so minutes or so to say it could be that at some point we'll have to decide whether it makes sense to maintain the lagoon as a salt water, lagoon, or noise at home for see the long closures interrupt the cycle between the sea and the lagoon. which is fundamental for venice and we're all of them. you know, it's what creates the laguna floors openings, which determines what plants and animals can lived. there are the 2. we're going to face the tough decisions because they could understand the future. whether to save the lagoon or the city, the nations would ideally keep both the sun marco is the lowest point of venice and the 1st applied work is currently under way to rates the square.
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the going to my buddy now were raised to a $110.00 centimeters in the square would no longer be under water because it would manage up to a $110.00 centimeter with like flooding and uh over a $110.00 centimeters come. and what was the system would close? so in other words, there would be no more flooding on. so son michael he says that venice, as we know it cannot last forever in any case. at some point the lagoon will have to be separated from the sea. and the venetians will be forced to decide what kind of a, by those cannot be rescued. we have to decide to save some vent investment. there is only one bending and it keeps not. i'm been in a difficult decision. one venetians hope they will never have to make the pad to deal with what level problems may lie ahead. con,
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really help quotes in girl is around the globe. are trying to understand how to adopt to the effects of climate change as you about to see some farmers and kind of guessing some innovative on striking count. it's not your average teaching age virtual reality technology takes a bit of getting used to but with the help of these headsets, kind of runing, cotton farmers, a landing have to adopt most sustainable practices, boosting their hobbies, and their incomes. fit to do for much jump in this type of training, plunges farmers into a world where they can practice the message and practicing helps them understand the challenges better and adapt accordingly adopting hello. what do you, how low key learned how to, from cotton, from his parents? but now he's willing to try out new approaches. i'm getting new skills. the high tech headset transposed into
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a cutting field for and the most is learning experience. he can see the crops close up from his desk along with any info stations, and dangerous pass. the training also shows in some creatures a beneficial, such as spiders that feed on the castle pin is the can destroy his cotton chrome. if i'm going to video, come and you're like, wait, right there in the video, we can see exactly what's happening. plus it's been a great help to was uh, it was been a great help to me. so i'm, i work with a company my real well in northern cal, marine is the centers, the country's cotton industry is the main cash crop growing in the region. and one 3rd of arable land 2 is used to cotton production. many families depend on it for their livelihoods, of 10 minutes specializing, including how the why g hello keys. one is for children at school, his wife and 2 of his neighbors are going to help him with the harvest. hokey is
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planning to put what he learned on the course about pest control in sustainability into practice next year. when it's time to associates again is an attempt by at least the i won't use toxic chemicals because they cause a lot of problems. boscus i did on the buckle, is that these i products kill all insight and say, but if i have some a useful, okay. it will see you start to see that goes the, our animals and that bad for the air that we believe that i know so long as if i wouldn't use toxic fertilizes either. i'll use organic fertilizer and i stayed clean again on top. see the farm? i learned how to make how comic pesticide spray on the virtual reality course by mixing names, the powder with water olive oil, and a little washing up liquid. it's not any better for the environment, the chemical pesticides. it's also a lot cheaper. the training sessions are organized by the international clinton
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advisory committee and financed by the gym and development agency. the g, i said it must have learning in a virtual environment that replicates real world situations is also cost efficient . it reduces the sort of expenses associated with stem to training methods, such as traveling fuel north and cameron. and these, these a 3rd of the rain full of the rest of the country and climate change is exacerbating the irregular rains and drought. to tell you up, i look for the sign. it was but it isn't rain, nothing rose, come on. that's a problem. also it is up. we'll see it even if the crops start to grow without rain and they would loss them properly. that's another one of our challenges will see. the farm is learn how to best top is the cotton to preserve its quality and avoid dust contamination. hokey is also started using
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coal sacks rather than plastic, not least because that means less waste. 250 farm is have already taken part in the virtual reality cools, and 90 instructors have been trained up to pass on the new skills is climate change, confidence comments with new challenges. hello, g. hello, key in this family. a team to keep up with the times whether it is high tech or low take, or a mix of the to the best solutions walk best. when the impala the people they are supposed to help. i am sandra co forms, the 3 nobody signing up from complex rights here in uganda. thank you, sandra and i am christa lansing lagos. nigeria, thanks for joining us and do checkouts echo offer. got online, formal grid stories and ideas. see you again. next week the,
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