one to one. recycling the plastic from one bottle is used to make. nothing and. they even recycle the labels and casts. among the companies heavily invested in one to one. so if we get the recycled retiring up in the us you know it's very easy for us to have a hundred percent recycled material for use if you keep something in a closed loop here replacing virgin resources over and over and over again catches up with you in a pretty awesome way and is responsible for avoiding a whole bunch of environmental consequences. throw away living. a promise of liberation. americans free at last this feature and life magazine one thousand nine hundred fifty the beginning of

a throwaway society. if people only knew the problem that they were creating when they extolled the virtues of throwaway living this is a monster creating a tear. they want to make and then you experience the alders oh constantly for years. these neighbors are talking trash as a group of milpitas california residents go door to door to buy the expansion of the new be. located in the neighboring city of san jose. they hold weekly meetings it stinks and they host town halls there is a significant odor that comes from the movie island facility sometime you know when i just go out and take a walk i just feel. doocy and i feel like story of only you he does is like

a huge bathroom you know this is so smells so bad. milpitas california a sleepy bedroom community is the gateway to silicon valley a bustling tech town of seventy thousand many citizens here say the garbage is taking over and ruining their quality of life. i'm a real estate broker and years ago very few people would ask about otar now one hundred percent of the people that are buyers within the community are asking about the odor that is going to affect property values newbie island resource recovery park here in san jose as a landfill operated by republic services the nation's second largest waste management company it's been taking trash since one thousand thirty and was scheduled to close in twenty twenty five. instead today the city of san jose is not only planning to keep it open until two thousand and forty one they want to grow it

from one hundred fifty feet above sea level to two hundred forty five feet increasing its capacity more than fifteen million cubic yards. we fill it and that is that is the fashion oh well i want to move out of this area americans create about two hundred fifty million tons of trash a year. in one nine hundred eighty eight there were about eight thousand landfills in america two decades later that number dropped to below two thousand spurred on by environmental and health concerns heavily populated areas started closing landfills and shipping trash to more remote regions. san francisco hauls its trash about fifty miles across the bay to york city trash is trucked out of state to new jersey pennsylvania even as far away as ohio virginia and south carolina and until recently america was doing a brisk business selling its crap to china but now. even china is leery times have

changed awareness of the public is much greater about health issues now than it was when new b. began newbie is one of the largest active landfills on the shores of san francisco bay i don't think it's my life in america the city of milpitas filed a lawsuit against san jose over environmental impacts caused by the landfill the bay area air quality management district which has received two thousand new be landfill order complaints has issued new b. island five public nuisance violations related to odor issues according to a district spokesman they're still negotiating the fines. trash is a big business and unfortunates a smelly business too don lynch is the northern california environmental manager for a public services the community itself seems to have some concerns about this site and the odor problem that they're experiencing unfortunately we've been a little slow to address those concerns and we'd like to apologize to the community for that here at the landfill we've had order mitigation plan that we've been

working on for years we get a lot of fresh refuse that comes in every day and we have order misting stations set up in strategic locations throughout the landfill that can mitigate some of the fresh orders. in addition the public says it invested heavily in the state of the art recycling facility to help to a very atlanta list. all of the mature that we accept over a thousand tonnes a day in the bay area california comes into this facility and we diverted from the landfill so we've processed the material and removed everything it's recyclable. think two hundred thousand tons a year are being diverted from the landfill are all forty four hundred tons of paper and three tons of plastic ninety tons of the last thirty tons of metal every day despite a very nearly fifty percent of their annual beats the landfill is still growing and that causes some to look to another possible solution. in sweden. country that

boast thirty three incinerators trash is burned to create fuel and what's known as waste to energy about half of their waste is recycled and the rest is prayer less than one percent goes to landfill sweden is known as a world leader in waste to energy incinerators like this one which utilizes modern technology to capture and control emissions san francisco authorities tell us they have no plans to build an incinerator in the bay area instead they say they plan to increase composting and to continue to ban what they call bad designs. what is your hope for san francisco what we're trying to do is really break that addiction to pasta quater san francisco is the first city in the country to ban the single use water bottle from city property in the case of our ban on single use plastic water bottles the goal here is to establish a marker laid down in san francisco to work with other cities to do the same in the meantime however we are still a consumer and dump nation republics landfill manager augustine marino says he

wants to residents to know just one thing. as the one that works in trash for a living and you hear the concerns of the citizens and yes what you have to say to them this is not a dog you know you hear that we're very often and for us you know that that we work here every day it's not fair to call this a dog this is a mother and son a very down field we take pride in what we do here these residents say they just wish they were doing it somewhere else so this is not a day i'm just waiting for my vehicle i'm fighting for the end. nobody's going to get is going to be the. mountains of trash piled high as the eye can see at this landfill just outside san francisco but inside this mass scientists see potential some of this waste is organic about forty percent of landfill waste nationwide is from food that's waste that doesn't have to be there innovators are tackling that

waste a program that takes food from restaurants and farms in the area turns that waste into energy or finding new ways or what we used to call we right now i'm a ninety percent of the waste recycling composting gabrielle is on a small cafe in san francisco's mission district she composts everything i'm a strong believer that i'm doing what i can and that is that i can what she's doing here on a small scale is part of a much bigger picture. if you look at what she's doing here and turn. diverting waste away from landfills and creating a recycling type of circuit here with everything that happens and that's what we have to look to inspired by western europe san francisco opera owners like the financial incentives to compost. a lot of these small businesses are actually doing it for economic reasons it lowers their bill for recycling for their garbage but overall money it's a way to motivate people but it's not the only motivator when the food waste is in

the landfill it decomposes and it generates methane gas and methane is a very potent greenhouse gas john hinkley the civil engineer who runs the resource we could reprogram the east bank with a combined solid food waste really quickly spot and to create fuel that has been held there now terry organic yes that's the term we use to describe this it's like a black gold. and. the process works like this food waste from throughout the bay area is trucked here to the east bay municipal utility district east bay mud the sewage treatment plant and a pioneer of green power where the first plant and north america had to be commenter gene usual and ultimately energy i began. when we started the track we've got a grammy for a fifth about forty percent of the energy we needed to run the plants and that's pretty typical her away from her treatment plant today were at one hundred thirty

percent of our to be and not allowed that's just going to double energy to do that or to vote on our neighbors next to ours. and what actually happened there we're standing by a pipe that labeled it is the heated sludge is going into an anaerobic digest digester is like a human stomach so organic material goes into the digester and in there it's bio degraded by. cherry and they feed the solid material and that solid material is being converted into bio gas and that bio dad is a great renewable energy source and it's a fuel that we use to run our engines and turbaned to generate electricity let me get this straight i had a bunch up there and i think the energy in the fuel that i am proud that i have that it goes in there that i you know collect that you're getting at the bacteria

that they're turning out and the energy that's correct each digester here is about two million gallons and we have eleven of them so that's twenty two million gallons of capacity east bay mud shared the technology and now other water treatment facilities in brooklyn new york and in california cities of marin thousand oaks fresno and san diego are using it. most of us don't think about the waste whether it's flushing the toilet or throwing things in the garbage it just kind of disappears and i think as a society we've been very successful at sort of highlighting where the waste go and i think as time goes on and the population grows and waste generation grows they will become more aware of waste generation that's a great responsibility that's when the sides have big impact and they are in the world for the next generation. so through all of this it's clear there

is a problem out there with recycling with way too much pressure what can we do is consumers well and some people think it's an individual choice we just need to get better at sorting our trash and sorting our recyclables and actually following through and others think that we need to be taking a legislative approach me in san francisco if ban water bottles and government property and maybe we can do more things like that when i work in latin america glass bottles or the norm there that is what you use whenever you get a soda from a. restaurant or something but the difference there is you are expected to return that glass bottle to the person and they recycle also times they'll give you a quarter in return but if you don't return that glass bottle you're being very rude it's like a societal norm but you're breaking i think as consumers we need to be extremely mindful of not using plastic ones so just try and increase the times piece of packaging and then just make sure that you trash in

a bleep in once you finish with it when it comes to responsible use i mean also you think about whether or not you're putting it in the blue bin at all i mean a lot of people just have this idea what i'm going to throw it in the trash and throw it in this bin and whatever it is it's going to disappear into the ether and now i'm absolved of all responsibility but it has to go somewhere i mean conservation of mass if nothing else really did make me more aware of how much plastic i'm actually using the use of plastic straw or plastic cups only those things we just because it seems like there's so many of them we just use them once and throw more and that's the absolute is nothing like standing at the open face of a landfill and going through your head of like why i threw away that yogurt container and that i had a water bottle this morning and my cups probably in there and you really start to realize how much of this waste you generate and day i'm sure you could see it and you could smell it yes doesn't it orgasms certainly a dirty job but an important one to tell so thank you for bringing that to us that's it for now be sure to check it so next time right here on techno dive deep

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you're watching al-jazeera life from a headquarters and. also ahead. the refugee footballer who's been in a thai jail facing extradition will now be free. vowing to expand expand its military might president rouhani marks the fortieth anniversary of iran's revolution. only. losing hope people who feel they've been forgotten and left to die in venezuela. fellow a top u.s. official is in afghanistan and the latest step towards ending a seventeen year war the acting defense secretary patrick shanahan is making a surprise visit to the capital kabul he's meeting u.s. military and the afghan president so this cussed national security issues shanahan says it's crucial the government is part of peace talks with the taliban tony

berkley is joining us from kabul to tell us more about shanahan's trip. i think he's here to forward to find out what the security situation is on the ground but also to reassure the afghan government that it's not been sidelined from these peace negotiations there's a fear that they've been pushed out because the taliban have always refused to talk to the afghan government directly they've always said that they first of all there had to be a u.s. troop withdrawal and then they would talk to the afghan government but this is not happened so i think the afghan government's been concerned that these negotiations have been going on they have been left out of it but mr shanahan now is taking steps to say that they're very much part of this process that cannot be a resolution of this conflict without the afghan people making a decision and that means the afghan government taking a part of it he's also said there is no timetable whatsoever for withdrawal of american troops because the taliban had released details of from the talks in doha

saying that the americans have said they would withdraw harvey fourteen thousand strong force by april so i think he's reassuring and finding out we don't know what his views are on afghanistan he was number two to jim mattis jim mattis resigned because he objected to president trump's decision to start pulling troops out of syria we don't know what his position is on afghanistan but there are questions still around about how this process will go mr khalilzad who's leading the peace negotiations for the americans is quite optimistic he's saying there could be some kind of deal by july that is worrying some people because after eighteen years of conflict with many complications here they're worried that that's going to quickly and perhaps one of the complications tony is that there are many splinter groups now in afghanistan so one can't really be sure that the taliban will be speaking for all groups during the talks. no we can't go there as you say many spencer groups or the haqqani network for example which you carried out many

attacks many bloody attacks in afghanistan we don't know if they're on board and also there's a factor of i so i saw now a lot. eastern afghanistan they got a foothold it causing problems there are concerns also that if isis eisel is pushed out of syria those fighters will come here to afghanistan and from this base the launch their attacks wherever. tony berkely with an update from kabul thank you so speaking of syria the u.s. is likely to start pulling its troops out of the country in a few weeks the trumpet ministration has been sending mixed messages on the timing but the president's top commander in the middle east says it all depends on how things pan out on the ground and u.s. backed rebels there say they've been making advances against iceland what's being called the final battle to seize the armed groups lost enclave the kurdish led syrian democratic forces are s.d.f. have been focused on and about who's in the east they say they've captured forty one isaw positions since the start of an offensive on saturday twenty thousand

civilians have left but hundreds of others are still thought to be trapped in the area but rain has backed down on demands for refugee footballer to return home to face charges twenty five year old baby who lives in australia was arrested in november while on holiday in thailand and wanted him extradited from bangkok to serve a ten year prison sentence for vandalism but it's now directed the thai attorney general to withdraw the case wayne hay is joining us from bangkok do we know how this came about way. well certainly hockey malouda you be had been in detention for more than two months seem to be a process that was dragging out but of the last few hours really it is spit up quite dramatically the first news came from the office of the attorney general as you mentioned receiving notification it says from bahrain that it wished to end the

extradition request for hakim a b. then it was a case for the thai attorney general to prepare documents to prepare present to the judge who very quickly approved the request from the attorney general to drop this case and then it was on to the bangkok remonde prison behind me which is where hakim i allow to be has spent much of his time since he was arrested in late november and we understand that he has already been released from here a short time ago two vehicles out left the prison behind us with blacked out windows we have told that he was in one of those vehicles that he has already been released from the bangkok remand prison and is now on his way to the immigration center to have his visa process because of course his thai visa had been canceled so that needs to be worked through we understand that will be a fairly quick process and he could well be on a flight back to australia tonight's monday night thailand time which could be in the next few hours and just a reminder away to our viewers catching up with the story as to why he was in

thailand why did he get caught up in the case over there. yes well he has been living in australia since two thousand and fourteen basically fled bahrain to avoid a ten year jail sentence to do with a political protest happening this something he says was a false conviction he wasn't involved in those protests two thousand and seventeen he was granted asylum status in australia he had travel documents to travel to thailand he requested those travel documents he checked with the australian authorities if he and his wife could travel to australia for the honeymoon in november that was granted iraq at the end of november november twenty seventh and was arrested upon arrival because there was an interpol written notice against his name many questions remain unanswered about how that was granted that red pole notice which was requested by bahrain and it seems it was drawn to it on the very

same day that he was given his visa to travel to thailand so it's very unclear how that came to be on exactly the same day there are certainly some allegations swirling that the thais may have had something to do with allowing bahrain to place that interpol red notice against his name that thais say nothing to do with us we were simply caught up in this wrangle between australia and bahrain what we've also learnt in the last few minutes is that this could have come about very quickly today because of the visit to bahrain by the thai foreign minister says certainly this is escalated very very quickly ok wayne hey giving us an update from bangkok thank you. president hassan rouhani says iran will continue to expand its ballistic missile program so he's been addressing tens of thousands of people into iran to mark forty years since the islamic revolution nationwide commemoration started on february the

first marking a day ayatollah ruhollah khomeini returned from exile in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine oh yes so today in order. to make different types of missiles we are not getting permission from anybody and we will not ask permission from anyone to build them our military power will continue and i would like to make it clear to you the iranian nation that our military power over the last forty years and specifically over the past five has been shown to the whole world and has surprised them. let's bring in andrew symonds he's joining us from tehran and iran marks a very important day for the country just talk us through what has and rouhani had to say what his message was. what you heard that message there from rouhani very hard edged not mild no way moderates as part of the reputation of this president who had in the past no

indication whatsoever of any hall of slack in terms of his take on how the united states has been acting on the issue of nuclear power in iran and that's of the hearts of all of those this is what he highlighted all the way through this speech in various parts that that was the enemy he kept referring it to it as the enemy of the united states and also israel he said that there would be no halting any development of the missile program he also went on to say that we've not asked for the mission nor would we wish to ask for permission to develop a knicks fan and the missile program we're talking here about ballistic missiles but the united states insists that it's not acceptable under united nations resolution for this to take place because it could have implications for a nuclear bomb in the future iran is adamant that no way can any nuclear warhead be

used on these missiles it did develop an unannounced veiling in an underground factory ahead of this anniversary celebration a new missile a big range missile one thousand kilometer missile that was a clear message to the united states and the europeans that this ballistic missile will continue now without wishing to dwell too much on this is the key to everything because the nuclear deal was was actually called off by the united states. back in may donald trump insistent on that as a centerpiece of his policy now we stand with the nuclear program still restrained because of the nuclear agreement because the europeans are keeping that alive but the united states is putting more and more pressure on and the situation is becoming more tense all the time here so when these heightened international tensions and you're as well as economic problems in iran what it rainy and they're telling you you've been out and about speaking to them.

yes indeed there is a real feeling a big feeling on the streets amongst the older generation in particular more stoic they believe firmly that the revolution is still incredibly he's still alive but under one of the biggest pressures it's ever experienced and there is a real feeling of hardship right across the border with the reaal now something like nearly a third of the value against the dollar it was a year ago that really is suffering going on and what you're hearing now from rouhani in particular is a reference to this economic situation he describes it as an economic war that's the terminology he used at the great nation of iran is in the states of economic war with them is through helping each other we will be victorious again.