prompting the government to begin culling pigs on farms in the area vehicles coming and going from places where the disease has been found or being sprayed with chemicals to prevent it spreading further proving that the virus came across the border from north korea will be difficult if not impossible obviously there is no human or vehicle traffic through this area but there is animal traffic and last week the body of a dead wild boar tested positive for the disease elsewhere evidence of what south korea is trying to avoid china the world's largest poor producer has seen almost 200000000 pigs killed or culled and its production is forecast to be down by 25 percent this year the virus is now being found in around 50 countries and is wiped out more than a quarter of the world's pig population to help them fight the outbreak the south koreans have been trying to get more information from the north. unloaded and as we have mentioned previously we have informed the north of the operator of the in the

south and also proposed to corporate on quarantine efforts but they've had no response in the meantime dire intensifying their battle against african swine fever but they know there's nothing they can do about what's going on in north korea wayne hay al-jazeera island south korea. it is parliament has overwhelming overwhelmingly very sad to reduce the number of its members seats in the lower house will be cut from 672400 they'll now be 200 senators instead of 3 $115.00 the government says the naval streamlined parliament and save millions of dollars. now cobbles largest historic part has been reopened after lying around for almost 3 decades the gardens that chill sits in with the front line in afghanistan civil war now they are part of a larger restoration project that us reports from kabul. rubin are not people who got engaged in june teaches they come to chill sitting garden for dates 3 times

a week. that i think it is nice for a picnic and a pleasant place for men and women to enjoy time together without any harassment she also turn is kabul's largest historic public garden it just reopened to the public this summer it had laid in ruins for 26 years after was heavily damaged in the civil war and you can still see signs of their conflict on the walls of the buildings. before the civil war it was peacefully but during the civil war they destroyed it it wasn't pieces still during the war i came your i would walk and jog around the garden for exercise i never stopped. in the ninety's this was the frontline. has lived opposite the garden all his life now he brings his grandchildren entrance used to be free because all the walls were destroyed now it's 40 scenes which keeps the park running. the whole at the end of the day when i

go home and i think about the people i remember the smiles on their faces and it really makes me proud. and it's not just smiles green urban spaces bring economic and community benefits too in kabul it's rare to find a safe space which children can run and adults can connect scientists are also finding increasing evidence that big green spaces boost mental health. just a tune is not the 1st to start a garden to get a new life in kabul is following the success of bubble gardens tree opened in 2008 after it too was heavily damaged in the civil war it now. it's more than $1000000.00 visitors a year the park was built by the 1st emperor of the mugu dynasty after he conquered the city nearly 15 hundreds bubble bubble was a personality a poet a scholar a pioneer as well as a leader he was always thinking about the people of kabul and that this city is

part of the ice will always say these gardens are a gift from heaven because buried here he demanded a term with no roof so he could see the sky and hear people enjoy his garden and i was this is what i can hear not explosions or sirens but afghans embracing a real urban oasis and a little joy ballasts couple. and this is al jazeera and these are the headlines turkey says it will begin its offensive into syria shortly and it might not be doing so alone an aide to the president says turkey's military will be joining forces with the free syrian army when it crosses the border into syria troops have been gathering on turkey's side of the border since monday night taki says it wants to create a safe corridor and rid border areas of u.s.

backed kurdish forces. ecuadorian president lenin maranoa has ordered a curfew in areas close to government buildings this comes after thousands of protesters fought with security forces in the country's capital quito during a 6 day of violent demonstrations many are angry about harsh economic reforms. i'm about 200 meters of the entrance to the jewish national. where she. was able to tear down the these barricades and almost make it inside they were pushed back with tear gas and other 2 other message the been doing this all day long trying to cast a new national simply lost its way to. the united nations is suffering a cash crisis and is warning it may not be able to post stuff at the end of this month a 3rd of its member states have not paid their share of the costs secretary general antonio terra's says u.n. operations around the wilds could be compromised portugal's caretaker prime

minister has been asked to form a new government despite his party falling short of majority in parliament the country's president met leaders from all parties following sunday's election and declared antonio costa the premier designate his socialist party will now open talks with far left parties which helped him form the last government but costa and other leaders haven't ruled out putting long term commitments off until the future is released parliament has overwhelmingly voted to reduce the number of its members seats in the lower house will be cut from 632400 they'll now be 200 senators instead of $315.00 the italian government says the move will streamline parliament and save millions of dollars and salaries and expenses but critics say the changes could weaken democracy well those are the headlines the news continues here after the stream to stay with us. philippines president roderigo to turkey says he's

cracking down on the communist insurgency but some fear it's a deadly campaign to silence his critics as the death toll rises one a one east investigates detergents new war on al-jazeera. could you fit a year's worth of trash into this jar then we talk about the rise of the ciro waste movement i. could be allowed and here in the stream tell us about your trash not often that we ask that on twitter or in our live chat. cheap clothes packaged foods plastic utensils we use them and quickly throw them away it's convenient but as rubbish builds up more people are embracing 0 waste living the goal is to reduce the waste that goes into landfills and oceans by consuming less photos also compost recycle and shop with their own containers and

bags taking to the extreme some households have reduced a year's worth of rubbish into one small job but the movement has its critics some accuser always sit here and say being elitist because it can be expensive or time consuming to shop for groceries and household items at specialty stores others question the effectiveness of the strategy they argue that economies thrive on consumption so until that system changes landfills will keep growing but advocates would counter that change is actually coming for example large companies including starbucks and disney have announced plans to reduce single use packaging more than 90 countries including india add new zealand phasing out plastic bags all together in an effort to be more eco friendly joining us to discuss 0 waste living is all to wicca from new york city order is a journalist who covers environmental issues including sustainable fashion also

with us is a hair months or founder and c.e.o. of 0 waste or bare necessities she's based in bangalore india and joins us today from to help those who are long gone. and finally we have to go and sing as she joins us from new york city she is the c.e.o. of packets free on the face behind a blog called trash but also it's really good to see really looking forward to this conversation our community because they had a lot to say about this and actually this show was pitched by a member of our community so i want to start with a video comment from someone named christy larson she's the founder of a group called earth savvy online 0 waste store and here's how she's thinking about the topic 0 waste can feel overwhelming to begin with because you have to rethink pretty much everything but once you've established the new habits you take one step at a time and it just becomes like a new normal it's easy it's a little bit more time consuming because you're making your own products from scratch you're making your own deodorant toothpaste and cleaning products i get

a lot of satisfaction out of doing this stuff i feel like that the negatives outweigh by that being a fence of this lifestyle i feel more connected to the people around me more connected to the planet lays a cog in the system and move a 3 dimensional conscious human being more and i love that he thought that i'll decide to cut a writter at the point bring it home she talks about 10 always living is for her for you how do you conceptualize it what does it mean for you are you making your own deodorant. sure so when i started talking about the 0 waste lifestyle 8 years ago it was really cool because i was really the 2nd person to write about it in a mainstream capacity innocent person that really popularized this movement i feel so excited that so many people are taking it on and doing different things with it to just create a whole different type of reality that we can live in as consumers and as human beings and when i started living this life now there was no book or play book it

was really where my using plastic where am i creating waste and how can i reduce that and the reason i started trash for tossers was to make that process easier for people to reduce the amount of time that they had to spend to make products that help to eliminate plastic and waste and so for me i started with that you actually make my own use but now i make a lot of products that i currently use but the whole reason i started 3 which was the world's 1st year waste lifestyle store was to make it even easier for people who wanted to live as your waist lifestyle to be able to find all the things that they needed to do so. and also say i've seen you do talks with a job like this and you say i've got a year's worth of waste in this job sat what did you put in your job what is in your job right now. good question and you know credit god or darn contact concept tags i used to contact lenses medicine you. know what about 9 when i went on under the long bike rides and. i'm just thinking

about this order it's really difficult to conceptualize the idea of recycling so much and being so sustainable that you will entire years worth of rubbish actually fits into a little job is not something that you could even contemplate the alpha things i think for most of us if feels like a major struggle. yeah and i think for a lot of people it is a major struggle and anyone who really understands the way the global recycling system works has trouble conceptualizing this because a lot of things that people think are recyclable are not so there is a lot of which cycling that goes on battle caps anything that's under 2 by 2 that get shaken out of the facility stretchy plastic technically recyclable most likely going in the trash. there's a lot of things that people put in their recycling bin that are not recyclable at all and so i think a lot of that is going on when you see people getting their waist down to just

a very little bit so we have another example of how someone does it how they make it work this is classic on twitter he says i make my own fresh cheese with dairy and glass bottles it's not necessary to keep things fresh with oil put a plate on the bowl or wrap things with fat free paper or rap they go on to say on twitter that we have weighed supermarkets this much as possible we visit the market in small shops and we take our own bags that are boxes with us so lauren run us through an average shopping trip for you. sure so one of the coolest things about reducing waste and eliminating plastic is when you go shopping to a grocery store you actually avoid it most i also so i buy a lot of my peers at farmer's market but you can go to any grocery store and really shop without waste it's just going into aisles that have produce an instant buy produce act it should plastic you're going produce that's literally just wrapped in what it is so let us doesn't need plastic to be lettuce you just have to take it

home and watch it and i actually really enjoy that process of getting in touch with my food using all of it composting the scraps and really knowing where things are coming from and where they're going when i buy food so i bring my own bags to the farmer's market or to the grocery store are my own jars to refill with things like all of the oil so if living this lifestyle i really reduced the types of things that i'm consuming which ultimately led to meet eating things like fresh fruits and vegetables things like rice and beans so my lifestyle is so much healthier my diet is so much healthier which over 8 years has resulted in me having more energy and saving a ton of money so i am just thinking the way that no one is describing had i shall be a typical market day many people who are in the villages in india well in even living in a big city in india that idea that you would actually take a plastic bag to go shopping that doesn't even make sense there's something else that you also pointed out that really fits into this idea this concept of recycling and we using and we can often find this and perhaps the developing world where you

we may have already ability in the west and well have a look here on my computer this is a data while described as one of the world's best food delivery systems you want to explain exactly what happens and how this works because this is sustainability right under your nose. yeah but actually my favorites you know with examples from the indian context so now it's the double which is an 18th century indian invention it's a combination of food equipment but also supply chain system and they've done their studies even at harvard on the top of that and the margin of error is like close to nil and essentially every day to who 1000000. healthy home cooked meal of been delivered and flying about 7000 that bubble as in mumbai in just one city alone and i think that's a phenomenal example of you know it's there's absolutely no plastic there is you know it's really kind of the type he says of the whole food delivery. phenomenon

that we see today that is extremely reasonable and i think it's to your point i think go to waste in india is actually really in our d.n.a. because the bazaars i saw that if we don't have to wait for the weekly farmer's market that is not your farmer's market outside your house at any given point. so in a lot of things that we are talking about in the end it's just a kidding about going back to how we used to do things because kind of in there and we had western stories that were giving you predicted amount of package fruit and so that's my kind of advocating for the kind of going back to europe to see how we used to do it and embrace it was one of the you know if you're. inventing the wheel it's all things that people have done in the past less than a 100 years ago people lived without plastic this is living a less travel in my grandmother janet one of my employees is indian and her family is indian from yeah and have said you know russians we've been using those since i was a child stainless steel containers been using those you know making different meals

out of leftovers they've been doing that for my grandmother made her own laundry detergent so none of this is novel and people think that it's impossible but it's totally possible it happened less than a decade ago. well i think it's possible if you're ok with the fact that or you remember that our grandmothers did a lot of these things themselves because they were stay at home. a lot of the packaging that was invented so they want to get out of the household and having to bake bread every day and. you all of these things that require a lot of time and now that we have a lot of dual income households we don't even have time to go to the farmer's market because it closes at 3 pm. and get all of the package. or. i haven't done a single apartment by myself and i've been living this life now for 8 years i think it's totally possible for anyone to reduce their waste. being a woman and having

a single income. luxury of 0 use doesn't mean that you have to eat in a relationship or expend extra time i find out that your response now saves me time and saves. me so what i did. and lauren and i'll do and i think the people in our community better on both sides of where companies very much result. here where you're coming from and i want to bring in our community because i think there are people on both sides of this that can hear both of your points of view and so i want to share a few of them several people in our live you to chat right now talking about what you're talking about one person says for example take our orders from restaurants cause a lot of trash if you're willing to eat from the restaurant then eat in the restaurant another person says i'm thinking of bringing my own tupperware to the taco bell drive thru is so one solution there but there is pushback here and i'll give this to you tales of darkness at their hand oh i'm not practicing nearly good enough

that's why i'm here in this you tube chat but making one's own toothpaste that seems extreme and another person on twitter that i bring in kind of echoing that point there bethany says. some people don't have the time to commit to growing their own produce or making their own products and they don't have the money to shop in 0 waste stores if they even have one near them normal supermarkets often have a limited range of low waste options so sitting on the point you were making hours and but before i go to you i want to pull up this article you wrote not too long ago for a box the complicated gender politics of going to 0 waste because it kind of plays into what those 2 commenters for saying can you elaborate on that. sure so 1st i notice that most of the 0 waste community is composed of women and i was wondering why that was and i think it comes down to a few things that living sustainably actually has been gender arise in a lot of way a lot of men see sustainable lifestyle as

a sort of feminine pursuit it's also keeping your household waste down to 0 or close to 0 is something that is just added on to the list of things that women have to do for 2. to run our household right we're doing all this emotional labor all this work and planning in order to you and your planning to raise the kids if we have them do all these things and then on top of this now 0 we have to get our waist down to a little bit and then on top of that the other thing is that women are still largely locked out of the rooms where these little decisions are being me that are producing more plastic so for example fossil fuel companies have invested $180000000000.00 into constructing plastic production plants around the world and that's going to as estimated to increase cost of production by about 40 percent now that is a supply side problem and it's all that plastic is going to end up somewhere.

whether it's in my household or it's not in my household it will probably end up in guatemala or cambodia or other developing countries where. multinationals are aggressively marketing their packaged products and especially places that don't have the ability to process all of this packaging and recycle it so i think that so far in this conversation we've been talking from the perspective of people who have been educated and lived in the west and we're not taking enough about where the plastic is really coming from which is about 90 percent of it is coming from 10 rivers in india china and africa and we're really going to address this problem we need to think about what's going to work. they're not what's going to work in new york city guess i want to show you this interview as i want to show you something my in my family i have a system my brother in law who are very good about we cycling they started off recycling and did it nicely and it sort of layers and they washed all the packaging

and then they got more and more into how sustainable can they be then they started to make products so that they had no packaging around the house and this is just sort of an insight into what it's like when i visit them because i have no idea here where to put my leftover rubbish because our systems are quite complicated have a look. this is in its rules to be going so i was in 5 weeks how do the now introducing. high so this is where our cleaning products start lemon and white vinegar left in there for 2 weeks then to go is siphoned off as a bit of alcohol that is disinfectant the skins then squeezed and added to and a lot of water which reaches of aids and the grease this is a washing up liquid that is sort of crystals and histidine soap together and a little bit just because you did not is ill you can if you squeeze your plastic

and it bounces back it's not recyclable so i have a confession to make when i visit them sometimes i'm so intimidated by their systems that i actually put the rubbish in my bag and i take it out for you and i don't give out there where to put it but the question is they are very dedicated and they have an amazing system in home but what difference this this really makes i had to think. what's the point you know the question yes you know i started living so you know it's when i started working with in bangkok and often we speak a community that migratory you don't have citizenship rights it can access electricity they're living in housing but also cycling in. all types of when it's what they get harmed so whether that's broken glass and all of that and i think you know you only need to look at problem because i think it's

a social justice issue where that in in country is. a sort of country should be not they were established in countries like india and china of course now china i think that we don't know any but also. in whether it's you know cotton but you know a disproportionately better one kind of community rather than. origin you know that i'm for and i think we need to kind of treat think the way my country doing things at the end date is the social justice issue you know why we think of another style water is less valuable than ours. when we talk about rethinking this here from bethany on twitter who says after around a year of trying to force myself to be plastic 30 waste i realized that it actually wasn't something i wanted to aim for anymore as it created too much pressure but the changes i have still made even if i'm not perfect those matter so with that in mind i want to play a video comment from someone who tries to break this down for us and gives us some tips that we can all use this is trevor thornton he's

a lecturer in hazardous materials management. in the australia i believe and he sent us to he sent this to the stream. recycling is good for the environment but avoiding or reducing lights in the 1st instance is the why the guy that's the preferred approach so we can we stop have a look in the rubbish bin see what the sorts of things are in their food vices a good example 35 to 50 percent of advice is food food that we could have a that cooked or perhaps not bored at all if we had been a little bit smarter in the shopping there are lots of other things to do do you use reusable packaging do you take a reusable bag to buy your groceries do you need the lid on the coffee cup when you're going to be sitting around having a coffee it's all about thinking about something you can do and then doing it well so i want to bring you back into the conversation because by lot of people as good as you heard this can be daunting and this can be frustrating so what are their 1st steps that he would tell people. i agree with that you know i started living

a 0 waste lifestyle to align my day to day actions with my values for environmental sustainability my personal goal in life is to create large scale positive environmental change and when i started doing this it was really for myself to live in alignment with my values and the reason that i've continued is because it did add so much benefit to my life i don't believe that everyone has to live this way and i actually agree with a lot of people it is inconvenient for many people but i'm on a mission to change that so i believe that living a 0 waste or lowest lifestyle should be convenient and should be accessible and it hasn't been for a really long time why is that i believe business and subsidies are the main driver of that rationale and so i'm on a mission to change that i started package free to make low waste living easier for my community and people who have access to online shopping but i strongly align myself with the fact that every person no matter who you are where you come from

should have access to cloud x. that are low waste and safe our homes and our bodies in the environment i believe that it's a basic human right and so what i'm on a mission to do is start manufacturing products at economies of scale that make them price point competitive with the products that people are already using every single day but it doesn't have to be a choice of economics or access or where you live to be able to have products that are safe i'm on a mission to make your waste and sustainability in plastic free living accessible to every single person why hasn't anyone done that yet i don't know but i don't think there's any better person in the whole world than need to do it and that's why i'm so passionate about starting package free growing our company and bringing 0 waste to the world knowing that some of the time to humble brag about i don't know alone no pass think waste let me show you the soap and i should have on twitter that had a video that stuck with me kind of home to me he says put in thailand i just want to show you a few seconds of things you don't know what's going on until you want to little bit

more. time losing then and not seems to be stop wait until you see what it is some can and this will shock can the system. the mall it's in a sandwich bag how does that get into thailand so i can probably say how about up there actually. there is a huge problem in the developing world with things called with single use stock shapes and they were manufactured in order to give low income people away cue by something that is more affordable so wash their clothes with it and they become extremely popular and. that's what capitalism has done to this problem and i don't think we're going to address it by throwing more i mean you fracturing or war entrepreneurship and i think we need to go back to advocating to the government here the i'm so glad you said that because so much interrupted i

think this is so important last month the united nations prime minister narendra modi made an announcement that was huge particularly concerning the conversation that we're having here about plastics and sustainability and no waste this is what he said at the u.n. have a listen. you know huge last week as i came in here on the wall at the entrance of this building i noticed the call to make the united nations free of single use plastic i'm pleased to inform this assembly that even as i'm addressing you today a very large campaign is being started across the entire country to make india free of single use plastic in the next 5 years on. so i had no one there was saying earlier she felt that she was the woman to change the way that we view plastic in the way that we use plastics but i think that somebody like prime minister. who actually can say we're not using plastic starting from the ship and probably could do something bigger than plastic but what

a piece of product they're already using every day there are no better options you can't just ban plastic willy nilly and expect that all the sudden people are going to have leave to buy don't buy the product that they're using every day it's not one sided unique you heard create the illusion before you create legislation it's not the whole time i was going to get a few seconds i want your head and when he said don't tell tight hold her tight tight for a 2nd go on go ahead say ok quick one of the i think an ecosystem approach so i think we do need but i legislation in place i think we also do need that i'm not sure we need behavioral economists working on it we can design cities and grocery stores that help people you know with the nominee not the exception i think policy being a policy not that i think that you would win but you could institutionalize things and create scale and that and i think. they want to create incentives or maybe mpg companies just spend the money on the budget on 3 bumping that. in tax cuts for

enterprise like not and mine to basically exist and do what we're doing and you can make an exit did use the cost on it and of course that in the clip you saw there india is not the only one who's proposed this janet here on twitter says i love this discussion and can yeah we bring our own bags to the store the plastic ben is a way of life for us even when buying it airport duty free shops we put stuff in our bags but we can all do more to achieve 0 waste. i think our thing here is really we need to ban it one of the biggest problems is that oil and gas you know that is that a voice of law and saying the law and thank you for joining us so i am on still and alden with kathak you very much as well for being on our program talking about 0 waste as on the strain and i will see you next time and so watching everybody take .

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