the winds isn't lovely to red, definitely pull just the yellow. if that's what you present on purple samples, very special that's in the georgia. choose your favorite color. the tropical rain forests are under threat with more and more of them being cleared to make room for rubber plantations. because rubber is a key component of car tires. if we don't change our mobility to the mentor river will strongly increase the rise of electric vehicles. help turn the tide. the tires are getting larger and larger occlusal bill. what a tire manufacturer is doing to help stop deforestation for the sake of plantations

. and are there viable alternatives to natural rubber from the tropics, the timelines tropical climate is perfect for growing a raw materials carpet is the world over. it's 5 am and farmers. so teeth from rocks is already at work harvesting natural rubber. 7 years after being planted, a rubber tree has an annual yield of 1.5 kilograms. people have been making use of this tree sap for over 3000 years, beginning with indigenous peoples, like the maya and central america. at the end of the 19th century, the british began planting the trees in their asian colonies. it's lindsey might say, the scraping rubber makes me happy. i found the pool, like i know it's a tradition pass down from one generation to the next. do i use my grandparents

harvested rubber? i love my job. i can feed my family with the money i earned that guy on the me. the know key white's up is also known as latex. the resulting solid material has a number of unbeatable properties, such as pair resistance, rubber trees thrive and tropical climates. they require lots of water and warm, humid conditions. over 90 percent of the annual global robert harvest. 15000000 tons is cultivated in southeast asia. the top producers are thailand, indonesia, vietnam, and india. between 19932016 some 4000000 heck stairs of rain forest were destroyed to make way for rubber plantations. that's an area the size of switzerland. 85 percent of production comes from small holders, most on fewer than to heck, there's, or even ancient rain forest have been destroyed to make room for rubber plantations

. gone forever is the unique flora and fauna, as well as the trees carbon storing potential without rain forest the earth atmosphere will. she's even more rapidly, but some people are taking action to prevent further deforestation. we accompany my lawyer and then southern thailand. she's fighting for the preservation of these precious ecosystems because of this, in the ration have possible us, we enjoy it. we maintenances, i leave for full out of it. and then after that we have that use that. and we would life the next generation to do the same. and this freeze is giving them the same benefits that is, benefit pools. as interesting before and sort of mine, lilian is a conservationist and entrepreneur. she worked in the rubber industry for over 20

years and witnessed both of the terrible working conditions for farmers and the destruction of brain forest. together with a friend, she found it. i agree out in 2019 a cooperative uniting some 4000 rubber farmers they are committed to a common goal. no more rain forest being sacrificed to cultivate rubber of mine. lilian has dropped by to visit. so teeth from rocks on. one of the farmers who are graph helps by negotiating better deals for them. the small holders are working toward transforming existing mono cultures and then eco friendly and responsible way without pesticides or artificial fertilizers. the approach is still has the most out of a see in the model kind of different patients. for example, like the fence like this is not only $68.00 the come on inside.

but it's also being a source of food as well. besides the rubber, the farmers harvest mushrooms for their own use. a teet promaxima also keeps these themselves with honey of markets. the aggregate farmers are utilizing the lands full potential supporting greater bio diversity than in the mono culture which centers solely on yield. the global demand for rubber remains high due in large part to the materials 1st fatality. rather is integrated into our everyday lives. it's found in our backyards and houses and gardening gloves. it's used as flooring and hospitals and sports facilities. and it's also found in everything from condoms. to sponges and brain boots all told some 50000 products contained rubber. but most of the global harvest, a whopping 70 percent,

goes toward making tires. there were now some 1400000000 cars on the world's roads. demand is increasing and with it the need for more tires the netherlands. a research team at amsterdam spray at the end of acetate is examining land use in the tropics, paid to a fat brook as a professor of environmental geography and the leading experts on how the global demand for cars impacts rain forest. people drive more kilometers and we don't see transformations to less mobility. and if you look at countries like china, india, and all the upcoming economies, we see that there mobility is still far below your p a level because people also buying bigger cars, bigger tires needing more rubber. so if we don't change our mobility to the mentor river will strongly increase leading to more or more deforestation in germany,

new car registration. so we're on the rise after a slump during the cold with pen demik. accordingly, the demand for tires is increasing to determine automobile club or a d. c. tests, car, tire, civics, technical center, and land spelled. the team here considers all manner of environmental issues because when it comes to tires, rubber is far from the only cause for concern. rubber constitutes about 40 percent of the tire. there is natural rubber from trees in the rain forest and synthetic rubber derived from fossil fuels like crude oil and other things. the percentage filters including the harmful powder carbons, lacks 13 percent as steel for reinforcing the tire. then there are toxic plus to size or is as the tire gets, wear and tear. it releases environmental the harmful micro plastics. despite all that, billions of bureaus worth of tires are sold annually. worldwide, an average of $1.00 and $4.00 people buy

a tire every year. stacks one on top of the other, the resulting tower would reach all the way to the moon. many car drivers aren't well versed on what tires are made of, but manufacturers can't plead ignorance or they serious about protecting the climate. we'll see ending prevent the sky from tires are getting larger and larger hyphen to unfold. this may stem from strict requirements in terms of load index and speed ratings, obviously. but it's also because car manufacturers are purposely offering the option of larger tires, which customers can buy a considerable premium? the safety gains are negligible high for mid sized cars like the volkswagen gulf carmakers actually sell tires that are far too big. 15 or 16 inch tires are perfectly suitable, compromising neither safety nor drivability. but the v w golf is also sold with $1718.19 inch tires. for every additional inch,

the weight of the tire increases by 400 to 500 grams. and that means more rubber from the tropics. consumers who value protecting the rain forest shut off for smaller tires, which need less rubber. but they're not the only party involved to really quickly look at s u v. as in other large vehicles since the 22 or 23 inch tires are not uncommon these days. so it is and there's no technical justification for that tire size height. and patients, even these larger vehicles that have an unladen weight of 2 or 2 and a half times by come drive just fine with smaller tires and any kind of advice. and what's the price come in? looking at ads from major german automakers, small e cars with small tires are nowhere to be found. with an audi, bmw or mercedes, the top manufacturer is all one to sell the biggest and most expensive vehicles with maximum power. but does not help the goal of protecting the climate and the

rain forest. the ac performs a comparison test at different tires and vehicle classes representing the luxury segment is this s u v. also lining up is a compact class model. and this car for the economy class on the plus side, all 3 are the vehicles and don't t met c o 2. but the batteries makes them a lot heavier because they need more breaking power. the tires wear out faster and are replaced more often the same human test test less model. why is one of the best selling the vehicles and representative of a lot of today's s u. v. ease from all the top. it weighs 2 tons. has $300.00 horse power and can accelerate from 0 to 100 kilometers per hour and under 7 seconds. and it comes with large wheels that support the vehicles wait, and it's not exactly be embodiment deployment protection. right? no mic on has 200 horsepower. the ac expert says the vehicle's 20 inch tires are

far too big. when done same day. yeah. and then here we have a typical example of a small car which has a curve weight of $1.00 times 90 horse power and small 15 inch tires and 10. so it's a practical alternative. in e mobility, emailed mutates identities and this very vehicle now the volkswagen is being discontinued contact to funds will be understood why environmentally conscious buyers looking for a small e car are often shopping in vain. a recent 80 ac study found that there are only 3 cars on the german markets for under $15000.00 bureaus. so what is the role of tire makers? and all of this, are they working towards producing tires that contain less natural rubber? one of the world's leading manufacturers is michelin, headquartered in the french city of clack,

them all federal. it's range includes tires over 20 inches in diameter, exclusively for the luxury class. mishal lance innovation communication director says it is simply responding to market demand, food safety, but also equipment that one more presenting call. so cause gets heavier and you still get the heavier for safety. just don't you have to have the go breaks and be your brakes. have been means also will be just fine, advanced as much for others. so in terms of weight for the times, yes, we need more though. and that's why or so it's important for us to continue to innovate, to, to decrease the amount of the bill that we putting the same to you so that you feel the same performance. one way to reduce the usage of robert is to increase the surface life of the product. that's what mr. lana is researching, edits testing center on average tires last about 40000 kilometers. michelin is looking at developing tires that were out less while driving so we

created the system to be able to take an exploration exist of the, of the time to be able to catch you all, do the about the goals on the, on the, on i'm driving during the writing and we have been the and we don't, that's because we wanted to improve the west performance of outside to keep the premium with that phone. so as i was the long ago you last on the road list, how you have to make. okay. so it's very important to understand a basic make any sense of what now. and then to design the best confidence the best compounds. the developers consider a multitude of factors, different road surfaces, speeds and vehicles. michelin has invested millions of euro's at the high tech tires. but wouldn't it be simpler to develop a type of material that could replace natural rubber from main forest go back to what we use today and tell me of pope option that kind of deal seem to

just pick up the originally. so i don't think so because of the unique puts out to you. so if not, you want to have them unless between now and 2050, we just google it and make the can replace and measured quarter. but i know that kind of replace that you wanna hold up, but in fact, a raw material that has the potential to replace natural rubber already exists. for now though, there's still that dependence on roberts manufacturers, like michelin, have undertaken to do more on the sustainability front. that includes not buying any rubber from newly deforested land, but an incident and indonesia cast out on its commitment. in this video from 2017 michelin is promoting a flagship contract to protect wayne for us. it was geared towards potential investors in spring 2018. the tire company raked in funding based on the promise. but together with indonesian partners, it would cultivate sustainable rubber tree plantations. the site is located

on the indian nation island of similar truck in the province of jam. the the project was heralded as a green investment and financed with so called green bonds. the aim was to protect to local nature and bio diversity. the michelin later claimed the site had been ravaged by uncontrolled and a legal deforestation and fires without its knowledge. but in november 2022, the media cooperative box or hope bird by a report from the environmental organization mighty earth uncovered a more complicated reality. we talked to my team or it's alex, which i have asthma and satellite expert leo bought trail i wanted to know what happened to the cost. so i, i found an old, a satellite scene which was around uh from about 2012. i overlay that image with

the concession maps in my software. i'm not image. yeah, it was was the low resolution, but i could see. yeah, based training that the deforestation had to kind of been industrial being caused by an industrial actor. i could see very large areas of land and forest had been cleared was indicated that someone, you know, how to sort of take care of this area for the purpose of, of planting something. and like, i seemed rather the journalists and conservation is zeroed in on one critical question. did michelin know about the industrial deforestation? or have the company been duped? in the video michelin promised investors, a sustainable and lucrative green investment? evidence really shows the michelin new. and it is part of the local partner to really clear it and defrosted this very high concentration value

for forest landscapes and jumpy. they knew this, but they didn't tell the market. they didn't tell the investors when they went looking for $95000000.00, less of green bonds. and that was the big deception as we've been trying to highlight that ever since. how would michelin respond to the serious allegation? our interview with the companies, bangkok office was cancelled at short notice in an email micheline claim that the legally or illegally deforested land amounted to less than 4 percent of the concession areas and emphasized all parties involved in the project were aware. michelin has prohibited all forms of illegal deforestation, and was able to achieve this goal in a very short time given the amounts operational challenges, the satellite images you refer to are irrelevant for examining the dynamics of the project. that matter aside, all tire companies face

a rocky road ahead. a new you longer regulating supply chains will take effect at the end of 2024. manufacturer is like mission land will need to prove in detail where the rubber is sourced and verify that no rain forest was cleared for the purpose of cultivation after the year 2021. but how will these rules be enforced? verifying where robert originates as not without its challenges, at least at the early morning harvest, there is no question where the tree stop is from. or afterwards farmers bring their harvest to collection points. in this case, to agree on. the cooperative guarantees that the rubber only comes from plantations on land that was not newly deforested. but i agree, ike is the exception rather than the rule. and bear in lines the 1st problem of making the supply chain more transparent. the rubber from farmers and the

surrounding area is tossed onto one big pile. linking it to a single plantation is no longer possible. these rubber balls are also called coupling forever. it's what forms when the liquid latex from the trees isn't preserved with ammonia within the 1st 2 hours. it calculates a farmer well earned the equivalent of one year old, $0.20 for every kilogram of couple of the markets changed before the customers wanted liquid latex. it's now more and more cup of lump rubber as being exported to europe. that makes it easier on farmers because they no longer need ammonia. that becomes ok, knowing. the main reason behind the change copland forever is used for tire production. first the rep, it falls or drawing it in the courtyard of the cooperative. behind these huge stores rubber is being treated in another way for eventually use entire production

. the cabinets contain sheets of press, play, tex. one kilogram is derived from about 60 cups of sob from the morning harvest. teaches used to extract water over the next 3 days. a farmer earns about one year old $0.60 for a sheet of rubber, and it takes a little more than one sheet to make a car tire. the regular is transported via truck to factories. what arrives here has usually already passed through a number of intermediaries. there's not the slightest chance of identifying what came from, where the samples are brought to a lab to test the quality of the latex, then large centrifuges, separate water and impurities from the latex workers, then have to clean the sticky mass from the machines. finally,

the milky sap is stored in sine loves this current system is incompatible with a new you, regulations. determining which plantation the latex started from, would be impossible. my lilian from act we are cause visiting today. she has an agreement with a manager of the rubber factory guaranteeing that a certain assignment will be reserved exclusively for the rubber from her co operatives. farmers if all the supply chain link together and we can chopped in the into media in between. we can directly identify who is the farmer from what we are working for is in the form of cobra teeth. so cooperative is a form of the farmer's work together. so they are farming himself and they manage that kind of thing center. and if we give the opportunities to cobra to the link directly towards the factories, the into media is very short tracking the rubber of the 4000 actually act farmers in this fashion, compliance with the new

e u rules. but this level of transparency is not realistic for most of timelines. 1.7000000 rubber farmers. that's also why tire producers are seeking out alternatives to protect the rain forest and guarantee a transparent supply chain. researchers at germany's without and frown, whole for institute are working on the subjective in collaboration with the tire tines, continental, their solution russian dandy lines. could this suppose that we'd be the raw material for the tires of the future? a doing its here and understood it on the humor. this is a young root of the dandelion homestead culture to see it. that's where most of the natural rubber is concentrated is the whole thing. it is not through contracts bundled and so the rates need to be cleaned before further processing. the long rubbery threads are already visible. the raw material is then fed into a machine where the water is squeezed out over several hours.

over in the lab researches or crossing different generations of the dandy line with the help of genetic engineering, the m as to breed plants with larger fruits, to ultimately increase yields to patch to the dandy line routes. after all the water is squeezed out. what's left is sure a robber. it's treated to prevent aging then dried and lastly, stored for later production does it's a little cold soak on. do this here is the raul rubber his arms. that's what it's chemical composition is comfortable to that of natural rubber from the rubber tree . jail was multiple. lot of these. miss palmer has a high molecular weight and it's very long. this patient has it so it has terrific properties in terms of and that's to city it us institute, i'm in the perfect for car tires for car and bicycle tire size. one advantage is

that 10 the lines can thrive and poor quality soils to meet the demand for natural rubber and germany if would require a cultivation area about twice the size of berlin. continental already makes bicycle tires out of dandy line rubber. but in the next decade, it wants to produce car tires on an industrial scale to that's the time the company needs to set up its production facilities. so it will still be a while before german grown dandy lines can relieve the pressure on rain forest in southeast asia. but there is currently an alternative every year about $600000.00 tons of old tires are discarded. why not recycle them into new tires? in other words, retracting term and company king milan specializes in just that the company finds old, worn out tires with a framework or carcass, is still intact. the tires are inspected for damage with defective ones being

removed. then a machine slips off the tires, ols rapper. you know, i'm, can you think of another product that's disposed of after only 30 percent of it has been used to the dog and i can see there aren't many products like that in the world on. that's how what is what tires has, by my call you by tires that have a trad depth of say 8 millimeters. that's a winter tire, and a summer tire is usually only 6 millimeters, but nobody's actually made on. yeah. and the tire is driven down to a maximum of 1.6 millimeters is x before being thrown away. so the non good, the ends up. so the 70 percent of the material still remains this. and we make use of that. the general fun. so does not some god most use tires are incinerated in the process, emitting a loss of greenhouse gases at king my last the given a new trend. this is the only part of the setup that requires fresh rubber.

the tire has then vulcanized, at about a $165.00 degrees celsius. the old part of the tire is fully welded to the new one . more than $46000000.00 tires are sold every year in germany. we traded car tires are still in each product. their share of the overall market is just one percent, but there's a chance that this could change with the new e u law deals in on, in that for them. we see ourselves in competition with the secondary brands as a premium manufacturers and all this, we're more focused on the european produces and not necessarily in competition with the very cheap ties made an age of does this policy, we have different standards for our product. so we can always compete price wise by some kind of yeah, all dani supplies mission moment times. one way to dramatically increase the re treatment market share would be to require manufacturers to take back and recycle

their use tires. but at the moment, that doesn't look likely of the time manufacturers rely on natural rubbers. but this project in thailand shows that wayne forest did not need to be cut down to produce it. at this research site, scientists are growing pepper using an ancient native variety. their goal is higher yielding plants. i need to pull him from my lawyer and from i agree i is meeting with the researchers. the pepper is not meant to replace rubber trees, but rather to be a supplemental crump on existing plantations. selling it could bring in additional income for the farmers. the expansion of the land is leading to the 1st stations eventually. so therefore, if that could satisfy with the piece of land that they already have is the, is the most most profitable for everybody. on top of that temper,

it may be one of the options that you can choose. so that's why we have to work with the university to have the best model of it to have the best you wish it economically, it makes sense to do it. thailand is the largest exporter of rubber in the world with her cooperative mind, lillian is proving a more sustainable way is possible. perhaps this will inspire others to protect the rain forest and the climate. the, the to india. women and rooms the number of female trained pilots.

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