they actually attempted to pather with pollution blaming israel for the crimes of hamas there with illusion did not pass things to the united states and other brave countries that did not support it but because it's. this with pollution is being discussed by the general assembly mr president if you go about time to expose the forsooth of the situation in gaza and the row the clearest demarcation between right and wrong if you support this with illusion you are supporting hamas let us set the record straight with the facts first the palestinian rioters were neither and. no defenseless second the true

would cause of the violent violence of recent weeks with the terrorism all debated by hamas it was the master of the fatted who went to attack and went to retreat it was come arthur decided when it would send its own people to wade into harm's way in even to their death third it is hamas that is recognized by the terrorist organisation by australia and new zealand canada the european union japan the united kingdom egypt and the united states and finally it will be very clear that the only country facing that double standard on the world stage and he'll in the general assembly if well

today the general assembly seeks to join the so-called un human rights council in geneva bypassing a grossly biased with solution condemning israel. if you are the same council that has one permanent agenda item for condemning evil and one agenda item for every other conflict in the world the purpose the of the general assembly should come as no surprise in the last year alone the general assembly adopted twenty revolutions condemning evo there have been ten emergencies special sessions of the general assembly since the founding of the un five out of the ten were in israel

the tenth asian the one we're in now is about israel it was first convened in airplane nineteen ninety seven it has been open for over twenty use this session i've been reconvened eighteen times including today it is not only a mockery of the u.n. to the abuse and misuse of the u.n. just for comparison the devastation in syria that of claimed five hundred thousand lives and displaced thirty million people i've never resulted in an emergency special session of the general assembly these type of worldwide assault if there would only. it is not criticism if you know the difference in opinion on policy it is

semitism mr president if you will of gone to great lengths to improve the humanitarian situation in gaza beef by the fact that we withdrew fully from gaza in two thousand five. hundred the transfer of hundreds of tons of goods into gaza every single day. it is hamas that destroyed the crossing providing entry to those goods if you come on let's give international aid the money that you give to gaza it is hamas that in two thousand and seventeen spent two hundred sixty million dollars on terror with them yet it is how math that it is not even mentioned in two days with the aleutian

i ask you all i ask them both of turkey why couldn't you include the mass in the revolution i asked them battled over julia of bangladesh venezuela. with the revolution do you support terrorism do you support suicide bombers hamas was not alone in generating this conflict mahmoud abbas the palestinian president has refused to pay the palestinian authority include even gaza for months while evil worlds with the un and others to promote development projects in gaza

it is the baths and the palestinian authority that hold progress back even wants to help the residents of gaza but humanitarians gestures must go both ways we will not rest until a velleman give to you sharm el fayad and the baddies. in that golding i return safely to israel mr president the situation taking place along the fence with gaza is very clear even democracy defending itself how mass is a terrorist organization attacking israelis and palestinians. they'll fall if the u.n. passes this with lucian it will have signed inviting it's an equivocal support for terrorism against israel let's not

pretend if i feel thrilled to attack stalk home tomorrow i think i would be held responsible for that. you file carried out thought that perry's the un would issue this strongest condemnation of al qaeda only when hamas attacks israel that the un think to blame israel the moral majority in this chamber should not tolerate a different standard for israeli victims of terror i have a simple message for those who support this revolution today you are they munition for hamas is guns you are the warheads for hamas is missiles

mr president we will continue to do everything in our power to save innocent lives on both sides of the fence but make no mistake even we'll never compromise when it comes to the safety of our citizens when it comes to defending our country i vote for this with illusion either vote for hamas thank you. i think the distinguished representative of israel i now give the floor to do not change the un general assembly which has been discussing a resolution introduced an arab backed resolution which would condemn israel for its role in the violence in gaza recently we just heard there from the israeli ambassador saying that if they voted for this resolution they would be colluding with a terrorist organization he attacked the fact that it did not condemn or even mention

us we also had a similar. lines from nikki haley the u.s. ambassador who's introduced her own amendment to this resolution and we also also heard from the palestinian riyadh mansoor describing the recent escalation of violence in the worsening of conditions on the ground he said that one hundred twenty nine palestinian civilians have been killed including sixteen children by the israeli occupier and he said that we need protection for our civilian population let's bring in mike hanna who joins us live from the u.n. so mike they had to go to the general so they went to the general assembly because they didn't get what they wanted at the u.n. security council explain to us how this works and why this why this is different. yes indeed this was mentioned by a number of the speakers that we've heard so far at the beginning of june kuwait introduced a resolution in the security council calling for the protection of the citizens of gaza describing the israeli operations there as use of excessive force now all the council members apart from the us voted in favor of that resolution however the us

as a permanent member vetoed the resolution affectively so it was not passed that being the situation it was decided to bring this matter to the general assembly the resolution that we heard they introduced by algeria co-sponsored by turkey very similar in tone and in intent to that introduced earlier this month by kuwait but similarly we heard from the united states a series of amendments to this resolution holding hamas accountable for all the actions within gaza sharing responsibility for the violence that is continuing there so that is a scenario that we have now what would happen in the general assembly is not binding should the vote be passed the resolution be passed unlike in the security council but that is an interesting addition to this resolution which calls upon the secretary general to investigate events on the ground within gaza and to report

back to the general assembly within sixty days as to what can be done to obviate the sufferings of the oppressed and palestinians living under occupation and also to raise the possibility of an international protection force so this resolution should it be passed would empower the secretary general to take concrete steps this and like a number of previous revolution resolutions that we've heard in the general assembly which basically were symbolic without suggesting a concrete course of action this is different should it be passed to different on that front how different is it from say the vote they had when they when they wanted to reject the idea of moving israel's capital to jerusalem and mean in that case they had quite a lot of support what would the issue of gaza garner similar level of support or not. well that will be interesting to see the circumstances of that vote

you mentioned there were exactly the same there was a veto by the u.s. within the security council so it was taken to the general assembly for another session of this ongoing session of the general assembly on these due to ation in occupied territory now that a vote was overwhelmingly passed by the general assembly there were i think if i remember correctly only nine votes against including the united states of course and israel and a number of other nations but only nine against the overwhelming majority of the one hundred ninety three members of the general assembly voted in favor of that resolution now whether we are going to see the same type of response to this resolution well that is something we'll see in the course of the afternoon or even tomorrow if the debate moves into a second day but certainly there is a depth of anger about events in gaza that is an absolute desire for some accountability to be shared and importantly for some form of concrete steps to be

taken in the absence of the it billet of the security council to be able to pass some kind of a resolution that is binding in terms of international law mike hanna thank you very much indeed. still to come in this half hour a saudi led coalition which is a major offensive to take yemen's port city of her day to despite warnings of catastrophic humanitarian consequences. donald trump returns to the u.s. declaring that everyone can feel much safer north korea is no longer a nuclear threat. to freeze a world cup two thousand and eighteen is nearly upon us and for the second time in four years what he meant putin is hosting one of the planet's biggest sporting events but can russia overcome the security fears and put on

a great football of policy for the world follow all the action on and off the pitch here on al-jazeera. on october the sixth one thousand nine hundred seventy three when muslims were observing ramadan and jews were celebrating young people. egypt and syria known to surprise war against israel proud of israel primitive so to get into this situation of disaster now in the first of the three part series al-jazeera expose what really happened during the first week of the war in october on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where every viewer.

from the tropics of southeast asia to the feral islands in the far north atlantic. meets the women who cross the world for love and state to change a community. it is a. minor top stories here now to syria. the united nations general assembly is holding an emergency meeting on recent violence in gaza will vote on an arab backed resolution condemning israel and calling for the protection of palestinians but any resolution adopted at the assembly won't be binding. the saudi emirate the coalition in

yemen is in which to a major offensive to take control of the port city of her data from the rebels that's despite u.n. warnings of catastrophic humanitarian consequences the security council will now hold an emergency meeting to discuss the operation on thursday but it is yemen's second largest port after aden and a key aide hub intense air strikes have hit locations south of the city the goofy say they responded by missiles at a coalition ship who he seized her dated october twenty fourth seen as part of an effort to topple the government of president. some seventy percent of yemen's food enters the country through data and it's feared that fighting will cut off much needed supplies of food fuel and medicine twenty two million people that's around two thirds of yemen's population rely on aid and eight point four million already at risk of starving save the children says famine is now a real possibility and some six hundred thousand people live in and around her data

some of fled the fighting but many are still there as well. a major military operation is underway yemeni government troops are on the moon to take the port of her day from the rebels warplanes and warships of the saudi emirate coalition have also launched strikes on the city and reinforcements are joining soldiers on the ground for what many say is a decisive battle for control over northern yemen but they do tell later that they are here on our way to for data and we will liberate it from the who we are determined to celebrate you and mark the end of ramadan there. daters seaports is a vital lifeline for the whole thesis the sardi's say that's where the shia rebels get weapons smuggled in from iran that's denied by both and the host these

the united nations fearing what a spokesman called a bloodbath if the data was attacked by coalition forces has proposed and you deal that would see houthi as hand over their support to the un but that wasn't accepted the bourse also a vital lifeline for millions of civilians caught up in the war and aid agencies are now warning of a humanitarian catastrophe they say supply routes for urgently needed aid will be caught and more than a cool. out of a million lives are at risk the fact that we have more military operations going on will just exacerbate the situation which means that not enough we entered for the entire population of human we have already today eighty percent of the yemeni people who rely heavily on humanitarian aid thanks to the war in yemen has already claimed tens of thousands of lies mostly civilians many have died of hunger and

disease but the fighting has gone on so far none of the attempts to have its it is know how succeeded none of the players are working together regional players or or the national players so they can bring in many to the table the saudi and merit a coalition leads the campaign to drive the whole thing is out of the data and they give any capital and reinstate the government of president of the. of the rebels remain defiant firing ballistic missiles into saudi arabia and bahrain today in the capital to the death. well the nine hundred people have arrived at the italian port of catan in sicily after being rescued at sea by the italian coast guard it comes amid a growing diplomatic route between italy and france over the new telling

government's refusal to allow foreign rescue boat to dock france's president has called that cynical and irresponsible jenna how has this report. disembarking in italy one hundred thirty two migrants and refugees rescued in the mediterranean by the italian coast guard on the crossing from the libyan coast among their number more than two hundred miners and two dead bodies. heading instead to spain hundreds more on the ngo rescue ship aquarius the italian government believes it's borne the brunt of this crisis alone. for long enough and international rescue vessels like aquarius now banned from italy are it says an invitation to people smugglers and this is what it amounts to in practice file pictures of the u.s.s. trent on a navy vessel currently on patrol in the med with forty ship wreck survivors on board and twelve dead bodies it's unable to transfer them to

a german rescue vessel because italy won't give them safe harbor real time consequences real lives at stake. facing criticism from n.g.o.s the u.n. and some fellow e.u. members the italian government is unbending the far right leader now interior minister mattel's salvini who authored this change of policy has shot back at the french president for calling it cynical and irresponsible salvini his view that's pure hypocrisy here's what he told the italian senate that pretty much a no you request. from january first into the end of may moment ten thousand people have been turned back from france into italy in the relocation agreement of twenty fifteen france agreed to take nine thousand eight hundred migrants instead it's taken six hundred forty so i asked president micron to take in one thousand migrants tomorrow morning in the show of real generosity not just words meanwhile civil society has been joined by civic society pushing back the mayor of palermo in

sicily is among a number of mayors declaring their cities remain open to all we remember our grandfather we remember. were. relatives and will remember that. when their way of bajor when they were in germany where this is for america too because of the human beings there where will it be italy has a proud post in which immigration played a major part but he needs a future perhaps less so join a whole al-jazeera rome. has more from paris and diplomatic fallout between italy and france. well the french president tomorrow my call is certainly trying to calm the situation he said in comments on wednesday that france and italy had always worked side by side on the issue of migrants in europe he also urged all sides to stop getting caught in emotions now lists of course just one day off to man or mark

or sparked a diplomatic row with this in a with his comments that the italian government had acted irresponsibly and cynically in its blocking of the aquarius ship now that seem to put france on the higher moral ground and that infuriated italian officials who are very quick to point out that of course france did not put its hands up to take in your kerry's boat that we know his fall into spain and the interior minister of italy also speaking out against on france and the front simply hasn't done enough to share the burden with italy of the amount of migrants that are coming into the country trying to share that burden and ease the burden on the italian people now imagine a mark or is shared will to meet the italian prime minister on friday that may not happen italian officials are saying it could be canceled they are demanding that amount of apologize for his comments it is unlikely that the french president will apologize but he would certainly want that meeting to go ahead he says it would be

a good opportunity to talk about perhaps a new solutions. president donald trump has arrived back in washington not to a summit with kim jong un in singapore he tweeted just landed a long trip but everybody can now feel much safer than the day i took office there is no longer a nuclear threat from north korea. in one here sector state might prepare has arrived in seoul to brief south korean leaders don't want trump's decision to cancel annual military drills along the korean peninsula is expected to top the agenda and leave her surprised the pentagon and regional u.s. allies improving relations with north korea has wide support in the south but some conservative groups say the singapore deal gives away too much pride to reports from seoul. throughout south korea voters are going to the polls these elections for men as and councils are local but the day after the singapore summit many voters have international diplomacy on their minds and president moon

jane's ruling party could benefit. he deserves a credit for starting this whole process you see i'm concerned that the ruling party is becoming too powerful and that's not good. just as trump and kim are back home now presenting their achievement as a win so mood also has a lot to gain the whole thing has been driven by the domestic political reasons by three important players in front of trump and present as well so absolutely here in seoul the politics is very important movements policy of friendly engagement remains popular with majority support but the summit deal also has fierce critics conservative parties and the right wing media have attacked trump suspension of military exercises between the u.s. and south korean forces as a concession that gets nothing in return and they claim this deal is far worse than

previous ones signed by the north koreans but they've renee gone anyway also concerned about the canceled military drills this japan. we believe the us south korea military drills are vital for the security of north east asia i would like to see an understanding of this between japan and the u.s. and south korea. for north korean defectors like choke your opinions are divided one of thirty thousand who lives here he believes the country he left is finally changing. the actions he took before the summit shows their willingness for change we will have to see how they implement the declaration. what happens next it seems will be the true test of whether this is a deal of substance rob mcbride al jazeera so qatar has reportedly extended

a five hundred million dollar aid package to jordan but struggling economy happened after cutters foreign minister held talks with the jordanian king in. anger at austerity measures in jordan triggered waves of protests in recent weeks which brought down the prime minister. iraq's firebrand cleric other asada has declared a surprise alliance with an iranian backed militia chief to try to form a new government souder nazis joining forces with hard in a mere is political block after weeks of negotiations such as kurdish won the largest number of votes in last month's election and america came second but the new alliance will only control one hundred one seats far from the one hundred sixty five required for majority. spain's culture minister has resigned just a week into the job but resignation comes after local media reported that he avoided paying tax while working as a t.v. journalist a decade ago country's new prime minister petra sanchez appointed her at her last

week after former leader my own ahoy was removed by parliament in a no confidence vote for her denies the allegations a spanish king's brother in law is going to jail in yaki wouldn't carry in has been given five days to turn himself in after he was sentenced to ninety six years in prison on charges of fraud and tax evasion is the husband of princess cristina and is the closest person to spain's royal family to be convicted and imprisoned. to the ten world cup winners spain of fire their coach just two days before their first match who don't look particularly said on tuesday that he'd accepted a job to coach real madrid after the world cup the spanish football federation said it was only informed of his decision five minutes before it was announced and that sacking him was their only choice spain's football director will take charge of their game against rivals portugal friday and which then has more from sochi.

behind me is the stadium where twenty ten world champions spain will kickoff their tournament against the reigning european champions portugal is also expected to be the venue for julian to take charge of spain at a major tournament for the first time but that has all changed on choose day it emerged he would be succeeding is in a team is it down as roma dreads coach at the end of this tournament and it appears those negotiations have been taking place without the knowledge of the spanish football federation it was news they were less than happy to hear about so unhappy in fact that they've chosen to fire a lot of now his reputation at club level is decidedly underwhelming his one foray into coaching a senior team came in portugal with porto and it finished with him being fired inside two seasons but with spain he's had great success he's led the age group seems to suit european championships and since taking over the senior team after

the euro two thousand and sixteen tournament he has had great success and has guided them to a twenty game unbeaten run coming into this event and then one of the favorites to lift the trophy but they now go into their first game in a state of unexpected off the field chaos and they have a tough game to get organized for the taking on a portugal team lot of course by rail madrid's cristiana run elder. a run of the top stories are now to syria the united nations general assembly is holding an emergency meeting on a recent violence in gaza and those will vote on an arab backed resolution which condemns israel and calls for the protection of palestinians but any resolution adopted at the assembly went a binding. coalition in yemen has begun a major offensive to take control of the rebel held port city of her data from

fighter. is that despite u.n. warnings of catastrophic humanitarian consequences intense as strikes are struck locations south of the city which is yemen's second largest port after aged thirty five to say they responded by launching missiles at a coalition ship. one nine hundred people of arrived at the italian port of qatar near sicily after being rescued off the coast of libya by the italian coast guard it comes amid a growing diplomatic route between italy and france over the new italian route government's refusal to allow a french german rescue boat to dock she was allowed to land as it's an italian vessel carrying out a government mission to know how it is in rome with more. this is now migration policy here in italy and we've moved from a maritime standoff over the weekend and monday and tuesday to a diplomatic standoff now the prime minister three separate conti has said in that building behind me over there that he is not going to travel to front to paris on

friday for a show jeweled meeting with president micron until or unless the french president apologizes for its criticism of italy's moves well no sign as yet of france being prepared to do that and in the meantime of course the drama at sea goes on u.s. president donald trump says north korea's no longer a nuclear threat after touching back down in washington for meeting kindle in singapore the president tweeted that people could sleep well and feel much safer. meanwhile trump percent his top diplomat to south korea to address the ending of those military drills satirist it might from paris said the trump will resume those exercises if north korea stops negotiating in good faith next up here not just here tries to tell us if you can. charlie isn't forth but we're football fans who don't think about opening really had that lead explaining when real madrid a club worth five hundred million euros expresses

a position on something the world anti-doping agency has to take notice you'll be able to. al-jazeera continues its investigation into the widespread use of performance enhancing drugs in the final episode of sports doping the endless chase . cheap and fast tile plastic is used for everything furniture tools storage containers clothing even tea bags and glitter on birthday cards it's hard to imagine modern life without it. so much has been created that scientists are calculates the total amount ever made at eight point three billion tons. and most

of these items are used for only short periods of time or even just once before being discarded to later land and see. if nothing is done we are heading towards a planet so full of plastic that the health of plants animals and humans alike will be threatened. and yet fossil fuel companies are investing billions of dollars in producing even more of it. we urgently needs rethink how we manage the plastic we use or find an alternative. i'm juliana shot on the west coast of canada to meet people dedicated to clearing plastic waste from our oceans. imo marconi for in france where a movement is afoot to rid the country of oil based plastic. and not only that plastic waste can be found on every beach in the world from the

business beaches to the most isolated and uninhabited islands now no shoreline is untouched by plastic. and if the current rate of global production continues there could be more plastic than fish by weight in our seas by two thousand and fifty. nine british columbia people have decided. enough is enough and i'm taking strides to stop the tragic destruction of our ocean. ocean legacy is a local foundation whose aim is to tackle the growing problem of plastic pollution along the twenty five thousand kilometers of coastline here chloe dubois is one of the founders who got out and soon each year. all right we first heard. the british columbia coast is made up of deep inlets and rugged island shorelines so helicopter travel isn't just a joyride it's essential. today

we're headed to the clyde quite sound and one of the forty thousand islands that dot the coastline here. these trains are a bit tricky. it's really hard to tell just how much debris is actually here because of the logs and rocks we could spend years cleaning this island alone it's being estimated that there's about five point two five trillion piece of property in the ocean right now and a lot of those pieces that are free to move wherever they want to on the planet aside from you know the unsightly mess of pollution on the. problem as. possible because when. it turns out little sponges so any chemicals that are in the water will begin to absorb these chemicals in the plants and this is very toxic and very dangerous and. every day we're finding new animal or whale that's been washed ashore with some it's full of atsic. given

the amount of plastic here i'm not surprised wildlife is suffering we let it. out for us oh it's a yeah you can tell this is an old refrigerator there's no way we could make a dent cleaning the speech by ourselves fortunately reinforcements are on the way so they gave it our bringing more and more volunteers to this remote area and it got to be so every maybe two dozen volunteers that. many here come from different local environmental groups overall there are five thousand volunteers to call upon across the region. but with so much coastline to monitor chloe and her team rely on tip offs posted on the ocean legacy website to prioritize the most crucial locations. i found the forty foot. and here. yeah some of these are bare. here and foam has been.

fishing so when it washes up on shore. in searching for food and mistakes the sarah from from being a few. ones collected the plastic is ready for transport back to the mainland i am going to learn how to use playing our i pad one of these super pacs and i hope that the base the helicopter so i can lift it out of here when you drop so far all around the world can run over to you guys i'm going to say. since ocean legacy started the team of collected over five tons of plastic off islands like this. and they're keeping most of it out of landfills too. but what happens to the plastic they collect chloe's invited me back to the recycling center in vancouver to find out. what's the next step in the process we take all of these are random hard plastic items and we're going to shred them up. the fragments will then be sold on

to companies who will breathe new life into that. styrofoam will become picture frames and picnic benches while bits of old tires will hit the road again as new tires ocean legacy is even starting to engage high street companies such as lush cosmetics who are using recycled plastic for their signature packaging so in order to make the black pots we've needed to turn this material basically into something that looks like this. so it's still a very small project but we're looking now in our own isolation to grow this much larger to engage more industry and more cleanup groups so that we can help create an economic value for these materials they're organized as a nonprofit foundation which means that all their profits get funneled into research education and more clean up nothing goes to waste here. so what are we turning this into the next step to make us. what that's. how

are you turning this into fuel. it's a clever solution plastic is made from fossil fuels after all. to learn more chloe is taking me to the boat where they have a prototype of the machine they're developing on a larger scale we've set our parameters and the machine is essentially heating up and will start to vaporize the plastic. the plastic is converted into fuel through a process of thermal decomposition called pyrolysis the machine is air tight and oxygen free so that the plastic doesn't burn as the temperature heats up to four hundred ten degrees celsius it melts to become a liquid and then a gas. this passes through a tube into a container filled with cool water where it condenses and forms oil so who could obtain a machine like us the larger scale technology that we're looking to develop would be ideal for remote coastal or even island communities that don't have readily

accessible fuel sources that are and are also inundated with classic pollution everywhere it makes sense that these remote communities can use that plastic as a resource to write something that will benefit the community. the machine will take three hours to turn the plastic into fuel in the meantime i'm off to check out another project less focus on recycling and more on changing mindsets it's an artist and author douglas copeland studio on the other side of town what are you looking at here the same dolls these are just crazy global head dogs is the twentieth century twentieth century way of looking at fast is something shiny and coffee is great there's a reality in the world right now in our adjusting to that and so these guys here plastic boy plastic girl they will be representing the future these figures are part of douglas's installation at the vancouver aquarium and i'm getting them ready for their debut. do you like your new group home he says. oh look

fat. douglas is using eleven tonnes of ocean plastic in his show. what inspired jared to create this installation piece this place called queen charlotte islands four years ago i was up there and plastic bottles recently washing up on my sacred beach and really it was like an evangelizer moment for me so i thought well let's make an image to trash one which has been motional untangled to it i guess copeland isn't pretending to offer solutions but he is hoping to engage audiences who ordinarily wouldn't stop to think about the problem and ultimately he's hoping we can turn things around before it's too late. i'm heartened by the energy british columbia is putting into tackling the problem of plastic pollution before i leave i want to return to the ocean legacy both to see

how much fuel the machine has produced. something different colored. separating into different. yeah so what's going to coming out of this machine is a mixed oil and in that oil we can separate into cursing oil and petroleum products so you can record tricity from it power your lawn mower heat your home how are you using this you currently we're not making i'm not for the fuel to use it in a practical application so this is just our small pilot we've really got the world's interest rate now in launching these units worldwide. the fuel will emit greenhouse gases and other pollutants but at least it takes plastic out of circulation and reduces the need for fossil fuel extraction. so can we use it in the. let's do it ok. ready.

ocean legacy are planning to roll out these machines starting in british columbia in one year's time they aren't the first organization to try to turn plastic into fuel or to recycling. but what impresses me about chloe and her team is the determination which drives them to take a multi-pronged approach to tackling plastic pollution is a problem that won't go away if we continue to use and discard such huge amounts of plastic. but what i've seen here gives me hope that if other groups around the world were to work in similar ways it could be possible to make a real difference. around the world more than forty countries have imposed laws to cut down on plastics. in two thousand and two

bangladesh was the first to be hit then plastic bags after they clog storm drains during devastating floods. and in malaysia's federal territories a recent ban has been imposed on plastic bags in favor of biodegradable income possible bags and food containers. while in kenya it's become illegal to produce sell and use plastic bags with a penalty of up to four years in jail or a forty thousand dollars fine. but is it too little too late plastics may be being banned on land but they've already made their way into the sea. floating between california and hawaii is a massive comfort trash known as the great pacific garbage patch it's the size of texas and still growing. while in the deep sea one of the most inhospitable places on earth scientists have found plastic items almost completely intact but even more troubling is what happens when plastic does degrade mike plastics are

fibers granules of plastic which are defined by being less than five millimeters in the glass off of as large pieces of plastic and then due to littering runoff pool waste management and have been in the marine environment and when they're exposed to sunlight the sunlight makes them vestal and the action is the wind in the ways just breaks them down and they become smaller and smaller they don't biodegrade they don't ever really go away and because they're very small and they can be weirdly ingested by number of different mean and they can reduce the end mind. in a consume and in thailand that hands a knock on effect on groups and reproducibility we have fun michael path takes everywhere we feel that we found on the surface of the ocean with and see the water color. we found in animals like crabs and ones that live at the bottom of.

the plastic we're getting if we were. twenty five million tons of plastic waste is produced by your ph here in france alone five billion plastic cups a front away anyway. like many other countries across the world france faces a monumental plastic waste problem and this is driving a growing number of campaigners and entrepreneurs to challenge the way the plastic is used and made. will they be able to end the country's dependence on this basic material. twenty five percent of all plastic is recycled in france with the rest any up in landfills or worse illegally dumped a meeting councilor an environmental campaigner irish baron bosch at one of the many tips surrounding paris. glasgow warriors by going to see to it left each

sample an example m. . three off its limit that it limit the matter you open it once it. see a field yup traduce only are so many are. you off also now twice like me are set in arm with some of it with a new all false under me john's securely in a berth preventing. this arch. against that and emotional well if you. want good or not it's the adult dog shit said it could itch. france's two thousand and fifteen ban is a good start to encourage people to reduce their reliance on plastic things but the next target is twenty twenty when the country will be the first to ban single use items like plastic cups plates and cutlery so i'm embarking on

a road trip around france to find out how ready industry and people are for the changes ahead. first stop some roadside services. so i just stopped to get some water and a coffee that's plastic everywhere. one thing is clear it's going to take serious innovation to wean us off plastics but on the beach in san manner there's a possible solution. daveed coty manages our go back a start up creating plastic from seaweed. so why is it good as a plastics alternative to great advantage of seaweed is renewable and it's unlimited we don't need to obvious seaweed on the field and fully biodegrade it will go to see what is there a bouncy we need scientifically the make up what is it that makes it really what is

good in seaweed is different in their chain. which is very similar to the pretty matching you can find in the oil based plastics petroleum based polymers are long chains of carbon atoms bonded together these are producing thetic lead to from conventional plastic but they can also be made from a wide range of buy materials i vegetable oil. like seaweed. daveed has asked me to help them to collect the brown variety which also happens to be a non-native species a real lady that we have is too thick to see we've. been busy which is a pollution in fact and which is the date of today burnt so this can be a plastic. not going to be a plastic it's going to be but you're all of your basically be mature your which will have certain characteristics similar to plastics. how gopac started in two

thousand and ten and each year they sell forty tons of one hundred percent bio plastic made from hundreds of tons of seaweed. there it is the treasure. is in charge of production at the plant. what are the other ingredients that are in this vat so but to be omitted or. salvia is playing this one close to his chest it is commercially sensitive after all and from where i stand the process looks involved fyrst the seaweed is turned into something that looks like played before it's dried in an oven for fifteen hours. after that it's pulverized. this batch here is destined to become flower pots. what exactly does this machine do.

or do you. intend. to question. and then you know. damn if you give more and that's your lot as almost all of them at their use only. there you go straight to the garden center we have sixteen small flower pots how long does something like this take to decompose it can take. up to four more months twelve months depending as well on the coaching that we can provide if this was a plastic pipe how long would that take to decompose five hundred years it will last five hundred years in the nature so you're looking at five hundred years against four months do you see a gap in the market for your products. we give room in the market but this room should be at the same price ninety eight percent of the people are

ready to go for something which is greener which is better for the environment but at the same price. right now algo pack is the more expensive option for consumers but davey's hopeful that in twelve to eighteen months they can step up production to offer products that are only fifteen percent more expensive than conventional plastics the seaweed alternative to the really impressive but there are limitations . but these can be overcome. with the band looming stance observer and friends are experimenting with plastic alternatives for materials like milk and corn starch i'm off to see another venture in scent. is an engineer who recently has developed what he calls if we can bottle from an ingredient found in most of our cupboards in its refined foam what is this product that you want to show us it's really ok ok yes how do you turn this

into this. chemistry how is your fellow. going to replace each needs and you. may. simply fall one cuban pair met the family jay. an example. of the like and as you can. confirm it is not risen. where does the sugar cane come from the indonesian way and who does the transformation from the sugar cane to these pellets here. tap safian under lizzie yeah of course. those are new who know and who can really top what fell just. a. as the other plans nikolai's guarding his formula closely i can see why the results

look good is actually food a food product yes so if i finish my juice in this possible way and i want to dispose of it i don't necessarily need to put it in the past six waste you put it in the food waste. i want to sing was he said. there are problems bad. that's amazing but to reduce the need to grow and transport sugarcane i can't help feeling it would be better to simply reuse them nevertheless nikolaus vegan bustles our success he's had orders for two million last year and expects even more for two thousand and eighteen but like the seaweed packaging these bottles are more expensive than conventional plastic twenty five percent more expensive to be precise so could something like this really take off. so i'm here in beautiful

clara shell and i've been told that this cafe sells the sugarcane bottles but. i'm curious to know if anyone can tell the difference or if it even matters to them so does this look like plastic to you three four months i was on a dusty creek and how does it feel to know that it's not plastic. that it was a to last place but i'm an idiot that's the best level argument does that affect your decision to purchase these types of bottles of course it's good to purchase something and be able to get through it with this environment. that was an overwhelmingly positive response and it gives me lots of hope for the future. but is it really going to be so easy to rid ourselves of plastics i'm heading back to paris to meet up again with the activist our ash. to find out what he thinks. around you we just stopped using plastic. we overtopping of the figure if i become

. equal flour is a good one will do this when young. but it's actually use every drop of. a ski. at least it is well you know the. book enough we'll see if you fall you could see each. no no i was indeed i felt which was. france's ban is a significant step in the right direction it will take bold political moves like this plus ingenuity and better choices on everyone's part to make plastic a thing of the past. our planet is suffocating from plastic pollution but around the world people are taking steps to reduce reuse and recycle. in africa only ten percent a solid waste is collected mostly because of problems with accessibility but a social enterprise in lagos nigeria is sending teams on bicycles to collect

recyclable materials incentivizing people by offering goods for their waste fire a point system. and in kenya where as many as ninety tons of flip flops wash up on the coast pay here traditional ship builders and now collecting them to construct boats. projects like these are a start in helping countries and communities tackle the global plastic problem at a local level the key to turning the tide on plastic before it's too late.

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