exactly has changed to the red lights, dark shadows, 6 tours and stuff old is 16 on dw, the one of the best ways to protect and preserve the environment is through newco solutions that help communities list sustainably, well protecting of some of those ideas on this new edition of eco africa. i'm chris gloves coming to you from lagos, nigeria. good to have you with us today. a valve is sold to crease initiatives that start from the ground up. can often set an example and influence people across the board is i am sandra holmes,

the 3. nobody you right here in compound uganda. here is what we have coming up the quotes and almost in town they were using voucher reality to help the boys to be you a young interesting you, you'll be a, we assign a solution to plastic pollution and how small scale farm 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 volume. the amount of plastic with that is littering. the streets, clothing see was on the 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 blake

life. you know, there could you come to, you can ease anything but easy, but don't risk of you does not fall in the way. it's 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 west to a recycling company. who was the moya on this to make about $24.00 euros a month. a cool me 5 by a waste of plastic bag sima. he said, well maybe i get 20 for you or let me. but it has to be heavy duty is covered up sled war to not keep a provenance 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, done. the democratic republic of congo and broom, the countries that have suffered under conflict and civil war. as a result,

you've done that use home to the largest circuit you population in africa. let me think that the need seems like a huge challenge. now duties of you guys to move into to young body. if you settlement in west a new gun, there is the west collection point close to her from her garden. the payment arrives. those points on her mobile account. she can use them to make purchases and shops or get a cash disbursement or the doc. i'm a blessed to do 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 for tailored to the so you lose is it's $42.00, you know, if we continue to collect and i like to decide where to gain it's fraternity. and on the problem was already turning plastic recycling into a business. that was the idea of when to put in your front can you shop. he and his team also developed the of which went online

a year ago in 2 locations in the city of jean j and he's done. you've done the on here either. if you do come 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 small de la in the uh, from plastic recycling y please environment. if we can do that, then we assure that we are heating the triple bottom line, which is the people planet and prosperity. 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 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 a brick red, they look like a normal crate, as by the way, by the a tooth ends, lightweight with 0 breakages and reduce the cost of construction loss. the company recycled more than half a medium kilo swath of plastic bottles. that's a lot for a small company, but very mex, a dent in the roughly 220000 tons of plastic waste. that's produced every in the country. so far that you've done 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. you'll do that on searching. i think it is that around less than 3 percent of the plastics are being 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 therefore, you know, toner, plastic and 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, i'm going to get as for the plastic recycle, as for those who are picking press because the source of income with the us any 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 mothers we no longer with a whole bunch of them is what they abandoned us with the children's does yet. but this business has helped us about because we have something to do every morning who is front can, will you show and doty is viewed. i have both inbox in a new past and it's paying off the entropy and you guys know, getting in touch with other organizations 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'll be in next to meet an extra for you was settled to reduce the countries addiction to plastic. 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 bags for men, women for work or for going out and produced locally in ethiopia. impossible. well, not for keeter's test by yeah. he just found it too, but. yeah, 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 after this, we use these uh, fabrics for different states design for fox. so click on manage with the mesa. she just had the idea to start a business 5 years ago. at that time, she was a student, and she was living in this area, which is known for this sig, dumpsite. 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, a garbage, a doctor, we got the concepts escalator back we. so it's at that time if we produce environmentally friendly shopping box like said 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 for live around here. and that, and also the incident happened outside in this area. so i wanted to create that for sure. if you for 3 minutes will leave it around here. to non you was one of the 1st employees of cheapest. that is very, very, i'm trying to see if she's due to the fabric 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 job to ensure ruba has to do with the money from that i pay the risk food, etc. so then i with the fabric made by the women. he does returns to our office in the city center of addis ababa. the bags are then 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 straps, she started to sell smaller and cheaper objects. like wallets were bracelets. she also often works at night to sell her products in a concert hall for the future. she dreams of selling more and more bags to create more jobs for women. and in the longer term, she wants to relaunch her idea of ecological shopping bags. building up

a small business can be a real challenge, especially when you're trying to be sustainable as possible green solutions. i often still also find out she'll reach for many, but it doesn't have to be that way. let's go to start again. now when i'm in the opportunity that project is helping small skill farmers 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 a single heck to of agricultural that company. we are in the i s region in

north west in senegal 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. the young cool button d'ye it is currently cultivating potatoes and onions on his 3 is picked up, blocked, but he's also managed to cultivate overseen and other vegetables on this land. to until recently this antiquated diesel generator was a small hole, does only means of pump the ground water onto his fields. 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 getting the solar found out, i was facing enormous difficulties because my diesel problem gosh older more than

60 does of diesel and often broke down may i direct with the installation of the solar panels. my consumption has dropped quite 20 meters, photos of my current every day to my higher phone using solar energy. but i can switch off the diesel generate at noon and just use the solar power for the rest of the day. young, cool button d. i bought 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 paid 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. mom, i do the i a has managed to secure a micro credit for solar panels for about 300 of his members by a certain angle, lease financial institution. the long term goal is to d carbonized bombing in the region and save livelihoods in the face of the climate

crisis seen with the local. but it's a problem is we don't model nice. i'll 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 water supplies, ad save jobs, drop a got did not know that liaison would allow spilled diesel contaminates the soil and kind of get into the ground floor to like other farmers, young cole button b, i is confused. yes, think about the benefits of switching, deplete energy for mazda and get, i 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 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. like i'm, i'm saying the guys up ask us all of the new money. they personally, i wonder if i'm 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 our pay according to agronomist amount will do so from the senegalese and g o n deaf 3rd willed. so says the micro finance system, they have a big palm, is the slow season going up. so simple, while i live within that is the interest rates are often a problem that i mean they often to 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 it is, or what we are seeing is that people with more capital than the small hold, the other ones profiting from this kind of investment. ne, wanna keep you. uh, but a positive that the more affordable solar facility is like yeah, cool. but the i is good health regions. promise 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 next. support takes us to a place that's having to deal with too much water rather than to lead to venice 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, flog, gets 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 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 single triple symbol. if we hadn't had mos, the dentist would have been irreparably destroyed. on november 22nd of 2022. it was the 2nd highest flood in history, but nothing happened. we were able to protect the lagoon and venice of del, provide long ebony, so the 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 with increasingly frequently. so thinking about jeanette authority to remove that, we now know that the most it is a flexible instrument that does not always have to be opened and nor at the same time sir danville sent today. we know much more about the blacks and winds. so we're in a position to act again for flooding that out within 50 has the most a system only partially to guarantee the exchange of water between the sea. the

goons. very easy to go for somebody that 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 and says that most it is just buying time, the most house and he's most enough to say tennis game, a man. 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 used $300.00 to $400.00 times. that's once a day 1st, i mean it wouldn't manage to shop spending moves, it won't be able to cool as a structure. but nora within like, couldn't manage it because it meets the exchange of water. uh, did i won't it. but often i was, gosh, marco single vinny from the venice institute of marine sciences is researching the 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 of the the time. okay, so i'm going to sort of see it couldn't be that at some point, we'll have to decide whether it makes sense to maintain the laguna as a self funded lagoon or not. that oversee the long closures interrupt the cycle between the seat and the lagoon. which is fundamental for venice, and we're all open to them. you know, it's what creates the lagoon floor, something which determines what plants and animals can live there. out of the 2, we're going to face talk decisions because they could understand the future whether to save the lagoon or the city the nations would ideally keep both to the san marco is the lowest point of venice and the 1st of flood work is currently under way to raise the square the get on 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 centimeters with like flooding. and that over a $110.00 centimeters come and what was the system would close? so in other words, there will be no more flooding on the san marcos. 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 bite of those cannot be rescued. we have to decide what to save some ben investments. there is only one bending. indicates my, i'm been in a difficult decision. one venetians hope they will never have to make the pad to deal with what level of problems may lie ahead. con, 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 calories 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 farms are learning, 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 that often hello watching, hello hokey, learned how to from cotton, from his parents. but now he's willing to try out new approaches and gain new skills. the high tech headset transposed into a cutting field for and the most is learning experience. he can see the crops close up from his desk along with any into stations and dangerous pests. the training

also shows in some creatures a beneficial, such as spite is the feed on the customer pin is the can destroy his cotton chrome . if i'm in the video from any like way right there in the video, we can see exactly what's happening on plus. it's been a great help to us who has been a great help to me. so i'm, i work with a company. myra. well, in northern cal, marine is the center of the country's cotton industry. is the main cash crop growing in the region. and once the desirable land too, is used to cotton production, many families depend on it for their livelihoods. are familiar to personally, including hollywood, g hello, keys, wireless for children at school. his wife and 2 of his neighbors are going to help him with the harvest. to hello hookey is planning to put what he learned on the calls about pest control and sustainability into practice next year. when it's time

to associates again. is an attempt by introduce the i won't use toxic chemicals because they cause a lot of problems. i guess 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 back to our animals and that bad for the air that we breathe, that i know so long as you did. i wouldn't use toxic fertilizes either yet i'll use organic fertilizer, an estate team in north talk. see? the farmer learned how to make cool comic pesticide spray on the virtual reality course. by mixing name c 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 to the training sessions are organized by the international cut and 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. northern cameron armies these a 3rd of the rain full of the rest of the country and climate change is exacerbating the irregular rains and drought. i got 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. but that's another one of our challenges will see. the farm is learn how to best help is to colton to preserve its quality and avoid dust contamination. hokey is also started using coal sacks rather than plastic, not least because that means less waste. 250 farmers 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 conference tom is with new challenges. hello g. hello key and his family. a team to keep up with the times whether it is high tech or low take, or a mix over to the best solutions walk best when they impart the people they are supposed to help. i am sandra co forms, the 3 nobody you signing up from complex right here in uganda. thank you, sandra and i am christa lansing lagos. nigeria, thanks for joining us and do take out echo off or go online for more grid stories and ideas. see you again next week. the

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