so. i'm richelle carey in doha these are the top stories on al-jazeera the coronavirus pandemic it's had another grim milestone with global deaths attributed to this disease passing 11000 rippin countries italy and spain are struggling to stem new infections despite unprecedented lock downs and now the u.k. has joined that as paul brennan reports. across europe coronavirus lockdowns have largely emptied the streets to reduce the chances of person to person infection in paris residents face a $150.00 fine if caught outside without good reason exercise is permitted even encouraged but new restrictions have been imposed along the river seine and around the eiffel tower you have to be sure that we are at the start of this crisis as i

have reminded the french people in the beginning of this week we put in place measures to result this 1st wave it's a race against the virus despite many 2 weeks in lockdown it's only has seen the numbers dead and infected hitting record new highs people are only allowed out for work medical reasons or emergencies and those allowances are expected to be made even tighter this weekend this is just a snapshot of life in central london but compared to the lockdowns in france and italy the difference is striking shops are still open people are still walking around driving around each and every contact an opportunity for the virus to spread i have a message for young people. you are not invincible even if you don't get seek their choices you make about where you go could be the difference between life and for someone else until now restrictions in the u.k. have been advisory rather than compulsory but in order for schools to shutter finally has come into effect the gates will not reopen on monday at his latest

daily coronavirus briefing the prime minister's guidance to leisure venues became a closure order we are quick to be telling telly cafes pubs bars and restaurants to close tonight as soon as they reasonably can and not to open to more newly published documents hints at the struggle ahead u.k. government's latest scientific advice makes sobering reading sage has warned the government that a combination of case isolation household isolation and social distancing of vulnerable groups is very unlikely to prevent critical care facilities being overwhelmed and in general social distancing and school closures to the mix would probably work if kept in place for a long period how long the government has been warned the to be effective a policy of alternating between more and less strict measures would need to be in place for at least most of

a year. around the world governments are enacting emergency powers imposing draconian restrictions and confining whole populations in their homes and there is no imminent exit strategy paul brennan al-jazeera united states and mexico have agreed to restrict nonessential travel across their border there are shared border to contain the spread of the coronavirus at follows a similar agreement between the us and canada tunisia has joined the list of countries that have ordered a national law town the measures will stop people leaving their homes and traveling between cities cafes and restaurants and all major cities will also be closed sneezer record its 1st death on thursday. north korea has fired 2 missiles into the sea off the coast of the korean peninsula according to south korea's military at follows 2 launches earlier this month the u.s. and china have appealed to north korea to return to talks on ending its nuclear and missile programs almost 30 security forces have been killed as an

afghan military base was stormed in the south but government blames the attack in civil province on the taliban the armed groups signed a peace deal with the u.s. last month as part of that agreement the taliban was supposed to begin talks with afghan leaders about reducing violence. court has sentenced a man who shot 4 people dead on a tram last year to life in prison just said 38 roll gottman tennis had shown no remorse and was fully responsible for his actions despite having low intelligence and a personality disorder 5 others were injured in that attack as are the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera said you now to sand wars.

we bought the house about 2 years ago hoping that we would be able to retire here but from here you could see how much sand we've lost underneath the house. the world is running out of sand consumed by industry and construction stolen and transported by criminal mafias around the world that bought them to have them put it all got up at the foot of creativity i like the map i'm not exactly. washed away by rising sea levels we have been in the middle of the indian ocean for the last 5000 units he can just die. lost to human greed and stupidity. when we use that sand that mean we loose. our life. we've never needed so much sand so badly with beaches and entire islands already disappearing who will live in the sand and worse.

for most of us san makes us think of days at the beach sand castles and sunshine and once the holidays are over we slip back into our busy lives. but is feeling the sand between our toes or caught in our bathing suits the whole story. does this so familiar substance play any other role in our daily lives. standard is what i like to call the unsung heroes of law it's because they're just endlessly examples. of the way in which sarah and intersects with daily lloyd's which we all really know commonly aware of. sand has quietly infiltrated every corner of our world melted and transformed into glass it sits on every shelf. it's also the source of silicone dioxide. a mineral found in our wines cleaning products

detergents paper dehydrated foods hairspray toothpaste cosmetics. and an astounding variety of other products we use every day. but it's. mended such as. you. think about your computer. you know and it can be manufactured if you do not have high quality said. the minerals extracted from sand are at the core of our hyper connected society a form of basic material for microchips without which our computers credit cards bank machines cell phones and many other devices would not exist. sand even alpes of supply in our airplanes the plastics lightweight alloys of the fuselage and jet engines even the paint and tires are all made with sand.

it's almost become like a the air we breathe we don't think too much about it but you can't live without it . and the industry with the biggest appetite for sand. construction. for the last 150 years sand mixed with cement to form concrete has shaped the contours of our increasingly urbanized world. because of its low cost strength and ease of use disgrace larry has become the dominant building material around the globe. the quantities used are astronomical. to build an average house it takes $200.00 tons of sand. for a larger building like a hospital around 3000 tons. each kilometer of

highway devours 30000 tons. and to build a nuclear plant the estimate is about $12000000.00 tonnes. production of sand exceeds 15000000000 tons. and that is a quantity that is so huge that it's beyond imagination how much is 15000000000 you don't know because no other resource is used in such vast quantities as sad maybe with the exception of water. so where in the world does that much sand come from. let's just say the sand men who work in the aggregate business have not been affected by the economic downturn.

behind air and water sand is the most used commodity in the world. business is booming but meeting this demand is not always an easy task sand is not something that's easily found like you might think it is used to be that you'd have a sand and gravel deposit and you'd simply go and dig it up out of the ground so you'd have sand to make your roads bridges and buildings up but that type of material is all been taken away it's gone abuse it already. with the positives of surface and exhausted we started dredging rivers for sand but this is lead to flooding. now we've turned to the oceans for sand. to satisfy our seemingly insatiable appetite for sand we've industrialized extracting it from beneath the waves. and the workhorse of the industry is

a dredger. a giant tanker equipped with a suction arm capable of pumping huge quantities of sand to the surface. the right bessel in the right location can pump up to 400000 cubic metres of sand to the surface every single day. each dredger cost anywhere from $25000000.00 to $200000000.00. but the sand is free. so the thousands of tankers combing the world's oceans at every incentive to suck up as much sand as possible for their increasingly hungry clients. an astonishing example of this appetite within a few decades this fishing village has morphed into a modern architecture is

a sandbox for developers were no fantasies too grandiose. but as projects. of sand and huge volumes of sand and construction projects concrete and just making land has been doing with the with the officially constructed island. even bigger consumers of sand. with a booming economy the emirate launched in business expansion project. after the year 2000 with the price of state soaring as a result of speculation developers bet that it would be cheaper to make land than to buy. the world cost over $12000000000.00 and more than $150000000.00 tons of sand stretch from coastline. with the still under construction flying high in the seemingly endless supply of money and sand

embarked on an even more extravagant project. the world. the world is an island paradise would run president had opportunity can be found it is almost as resort official archipelago of $300.00 islands designed as a map of the world absorbed $14000000000.00 and $3.00 times as much sand as the palm. the world. a place beyond imagination. today the world is a mirage the work site has been abandoned since the onset of the financial crisis in 2008. deserted island is now parked in the sun awaiting the uncertain day when millionaire buyers will again descend on to buy and restore its glory. to kill the corporation managing the palm in the world the crisis is more than financial overdevelopment is totally liquidated to buy as natural sand resources

and you think we'll find of cause dubai is on the edge of that there's a they've got old asylum they need like all the gulf states dubai has sand everywhere so why doesn't the emirates simply help itself to the desert. desert sand is the wrong color end of sand for building a lot of fishel islands why because desert and all the grains have been blown around by the wind is typically very round and very smooth if you want to use it to build an island they don't stick together you need sand that that is more angular rougher rougher age say that naturally sticks together. see sand is perfect for island building and construction but it's in limited supply sand is not a sustainable resource. although its own stocks are exhausted dubai is far from given up.

the burj khalifa at the time of construction the world's tallest building was built with sand from half a world away. we have a saying in english which is selling sand to the arabs which is obviously a joke. that that's actually come true in the case of the by. $3500.00 australian companies exports into the arabian peninsula their profits of tripled in 20 years accounting for a $5000000000.00 jackpot. and australia is just one small part of a global trend that reliant on importing sand from other areas you see is this huge trade around the world moving from one another for different purposes such construction and land reclamation. singapore is another city at the heart of the sand wars. and 30 years the country known as the switzerland of asia

has become one of the richest in the region during this time the population has more than doubled and the 63 islands that make up the city state are bursting at the seams singapore its were lying on the import. for its very existence in the land masses literally increased 20 percent over the last foresee it is and that's largely been reckon nation so literally pouring sound into the sea to create new land. singapore is already transformed 130 square kilometers of water into land and is planning to add another 100 square kilometers by 2030. having devoured all its own reserves it's for ratios appetite is targeted at its neighbor supplies. one after another cambodia. malaysia and indonesia have beach decided to ban trade with singapore but its addiction to sand is not easy to restrain. singapore is being

accused of expanding its coastline with illegally dredged satins from neighboring states. suspicions of sand trafficking hang over singapore and the dozens of barges filled to the brim which imo daily and it's important prove that the city state has found an alternative source but where does the saying come from. tommy guns beer. guns are. you going to hear very every day every week. this what is the visual but don't. put it. in. your individual. did on. your 4th division nobody hours ago. thanks to local traffic and

networks singapore and dealers with false identities working for fictional companies continue to find supplies of sand in neighboring countries. but the other come. but in the legal system. which i think is it just it was invisible is a great mistake but this is not this case. thank you very much. the law with the tacit support of the government for most loyal client. the son trade in singapore is if he usually have a political as the mass of the baucus is far as we're concerned it's just a is bill the south as you know leader in the region particularly with the last global sun that is but that companies will brain imports of that country and should be its human rights violations environmental degradation and damage the livelihoods of local people. the effects of underwater dredging are far from

benign. much of the ocean floors rocky or covered with only a thin layer of sand. built up over tens or even hundreds of thousands of years. as you dredge up a set. of course all the the any walls and plans on the sea floor they will all be dredged up as well and therefore whatever living communities are they will just be the sand is the primary link in the underwater food chain remove it and the survival of all species from the smallest to the largest is threatened. like many archipelagos many of indonesia's islands are literally made of sand and intense dredging has triggered a series of chain reactions. 92 percent in the nation's fiscal challenges

come from tension of the city because of mining activity is when this coral reef we lost fish. livelihood. everything loss of fish habitat directly endangers the survival of thousands of indonesian families but that's only the 1st of sand dredging to adverse effects. if you have an oil made of sand it's only there because of could spirit sea of natural processes wind waves water currents time of year and so if you start removing that. then you've upset the balance of the conspiracy and waves and currents will learn start to move the rest of the set. after the extraction of sand a combination of waves currents and gravity slowly fill in the back you. so the

removal of underwater sand can have a very noticeable effect on nearby beaches and islands. and so by a combination of the natural growth this is and human excavation the island can literally disappear. one of the most stunning and packs of the trade was the disappearance of some of the islands off the coast of indonesia which have literally vanished when we use that sand. our life. once an island disappears the international maritime boundary changes all is required to these become geopolitical issues as well as simply commercial and resource issues. 25 indonesian islands have already disappeared. like coal and gas sand is now on the frontline of the world's hunger for raw materials. scarcity and dangers local

communities and sets governments against each other. as demand builds the circle only becomes more vicious. morocco's gentle climate has been welcoming tourists for years. but its famous beaches have also been attracting some strange 4 legged visitors a constant stream of men and donkeys descend on the beaches 7 days a week. in search of. sand. for men and the donkeys have taken so much sand that some beaches now look like the surface of the moon. rock has been experiencing a construction boom spurred on by

a competitive real estate market. the builders are happy but they need plenty of sand legal and otherwise. that. i wrote that i have i don't want to give you. are you going to bend and addenda going to be mad c or not do you have enough to know are coming up to no no no no my love my bubble got cut your. but not by me i got them help oh yeah. look i do one thing yes i did was really i do what you guys really do with their day but they didn't come but you know you're not going out you're right not them have them come we don't look good i'm not good at going to create a video i like them i like that lap it's estimated that 40 to 45 percent of the sand used in construction in morocco has been stolen mostly from its beaches.

loaded onto trucks the sand is sold directly to unscrupulous developers but that's not where the problem ends. without proper treatment salty beach sand mixed with cement is highly corrosive make america's new buildings ticking time bombs in danger of collapse. ironically the beach is meant to lure the tourists are being stripped bare to build hotels and condos that may turn out to be death traps. in mumbai lavey enjoy. the position of being the financial capital of the country andrea also have

a huge housing boom construction boom that's because of the influx of so many new people into the city. but the indian economy booming construction has to keep pace and like in so many other battlegrounds of the sand wars easy profits lead to corrupt practices. the value of sand is such that it's a commercial commodity that is smuggled i mean the it's a big business is smuggling the fam. sand mafia is the most powerful criminal organization in india. and lot of the people in the whole. who control of the sand mafia oso controls a lot of the construction the construction materials businesses in bombay as well as the constructions themselves. in addition to that they also control the administration through their political contacts so that just completes the whole

value chain right from the extraction to construction the the profits in each bottle fit the administration and the police. under the eyes of corrupt authorities the sand arts ply their trade in broad daylight and more than $8000.00 drugs inside scattered across the coast and river banks of the subcontinent. for the mafia's beaches are easy prey because the sand is literally within arm's reach so they had even the most popular tourist sites the places where you expect to stretch out on the beach and worship the sun. the tentacles of the mafia's however are just adding to the pressures facing the world speeches.

just 2 years ago there was a row of houses here. about i think about a house though from about here all the way down to the condo and those houses there on the water the shoreline with going right past them so they ended up taking them out of these houses here with their on the beach front were row number 2 and i the fact that the housing won't be here and 5 here. we thought the house about 2 years ago hoping that we would be able to retire here. but from here you could see how much sand we've lost underneath the house. because it was up to level with the cement but of course it went out into the ocean. so. the beach area was about the length of a football field and over the last 2 years the

a scart mint is underneath the houses so. the erosion on this part of the beach is much quicker than we anticipated or that is deemed to normal. globally between 75 and 90 percent of beaches are actually undergoing some sort of retreat and that's only going to get worse. certainly al-jazeera london broadcast center 2 special guests in conversation people think that racism is having personal vitriol towards black people and there's no understanding of what systemic racism is unprompted uninterrupted success comes with a physician if you're not upsetting people you're not saying the f. 100 meets any oh. there is not a family in britain i believe that has not been touched by empire studio be on script aids on al-jazeera when the news breaks

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i'm richelle carey in doha these are the top stories on al-jazeera more than 11000 people worldwide have now died from krone virus italy has called in the military to enforce its lockdown after reporting more than 600 deaths in just 24 hours and the u.k. of the government has ordered the closure of all restaurants pubs theaters and gems a minister boris johnson said the news will be starting friday and closed indefinitely u.k. government also rolled out new financial help for private sector workers promising to cover 80 percent of employees salaries if businesses kept them on the u.k. has more than 3 and a half 1000 confirmed infections. help organization has issued a warning to young people that they are also ball mobile to this virus he says

a significant number of patients requiring hospitalization are under the age of 50 today i have a message for young people you would not invincible this virus could put you in hospital for weeks or even kill you even if you don't get seek the choices you make about where you go could be the difference between life and death for someone else. the united states and mexico have agreed to restrict non-essential travel across their shared border to contain the spread of the coronavirus apollo's a similar agreement between the us and canada in normal times these massive flows place of a spirit or a health care system producing a global pandemic they threaten to create a perfect storm that would spread the infraction to or border agents migrants and to the public at large left unchecked this would cripple our immigration system

overwhelm our health care system and severely damage our national security we're not going to let that happen or korea has fired 2 missiles into the sea off the coast of the korean peninsula according to south korea's military apollos to launch as earlier this month the u.s. and china have appealed to north korea to return to talks on ending its nuclear and missile programs almost 30 security forces personnel had been killed as an afghan military base was stormed in the south a government blames the attack and simple province on the taliban the armed groups signed a peace deal with the u.s. last month as are the headlines keep it on al-jazeera the news continues after sand wars. the world is running out of sand consumed by industry and construction stolen and transported by criminal mafias around the world. behind air and water sand is the most used commodity

in the world. where humans have intervened and we've built structures a wall concrete seawall a highway a hotel a parking lot the beach can't move back and we see long term beach lost. as part of the natural cycle beaches adjust to seasonal changes and summer beaches grow thicker and in winter they recede and level off to better absorb the energy of the waves to survive the ocean salt beaches must have enough space behind them but we build too close to the shore so with nowhere to go beaches are overcome by the waves which carry their sand out to sea. if you have an eroding beach what is the problem. not the symptom the sim symptom is the beaches eroding but

what is the problem. what's causing that it's us. we are drawn to coastlines today 3 quarters of the largest cities in the world population are on the coast as the population growth accelerates the world's hyper increasing density by 2025 to 3 quarters of the world's inhabitants will live near the ocean and those ribbons of sand which surround the continents are feeling the pressure. if we think. of the water and i hope that we learn from that but now we're here. and we have to figure out how to make projects. that is wider and that's what brings tourists.

in florida 9 out of 10 beaches are in the process of disappearing along with the future livelihood of all those who depend on this economic engine. each year of the planet's tourists head for the beach beaches feed the hotel industry as well as recreation transportation food services and a multitude of other sectors in some areas almost half the g.d.p. depends directly on beaches. letting them disappear is out of the question. so what we're trying to do is try to mitigate those problems try to lessen the impact and that's why we have to take these unnatural acts pumping sand into the beaches. to keep their beaches viable cities that can afford to invest astronomical sums in their. dredge home sand from the ocean floor and force it on

to the beach. some people see this is a solution others see it as a band-aid which only true. it's the symptom. they good to put up the beach and say this is beach nourishment but it's just another hole. those big machines that when they go take this there in killing everything within that sand as ground put into a pipe crust moved and then it comes out and pumped the life forms in that part of the beach aren't prepared to be buried alive and suffocate it. it's a killing process for the sake of dollars. peter planet is a temporary remedy after a year to the sand has been washed out to sea and the whole process must be started again from scratch nonetheless this method is highly popular to the delight of the dredging companies it's a matter of big money big big influence green it's not

a pleasant thing to say you see this beautiful beach but behind it is something that's not so pleasant. in a desperate maneuver to try to trap the sand on the beaches coastal engineers are advocating the construction of dikes breakwaters and all sorts of other structures . but sand cannot be so easily tamed. the constant movement of sand is not necessarily always cooperating with the way we want the place to be it will fill up harbors and all it will wash away from beaches where we like tourists to come and so that balance is something that we all dramatically changing just by building on. all by building a sea wall around the extends out from the beach we build a wall to to contain sand to keep it on our beach what do we do we stop the sand from supplying the neighbor's beach. the tragedy is that people are just not

aware they're not aware that an action here is going to have a reaction somewhere else so we all have to be very careful when it comes to redeveloping the coastline we have a responsibility because we don't want these great wonderful treasures that we want to share with our children to disappear because of greed because of irresponsibility. and because of just not dan paying attention. in order to avert further catastrophe it's important to understand the source of 90 percent of the world sea sand often a long way from the beaches. for the most part it starts in iraq somewhere that breaks down it might be in a river from ice or snow or rainfall and is that grain comes out of the granite or

the sandstone it gets into a small stream and then a larger river and in a normal world ultimately will work its way all the way to the shoreline. it takes thousands or even millions of years for a grain of sand to reach the sea and it's a journey full of pitfalls. in america we have been building one dam every day since the dec relation of independence and 7761 a day. 80000 dams blocked the rivers of the united states and china where the demand for energy is exploding dams are popping up everywhere so that by 2020 not a single waterway will reach the sea. and in the rest of the world there are at

least 845000 dams and it's not only water they're holding back so all that sand that should be at the beach is behind the dance. one quarter of the sand reserves of the planet are hostage to these dams and the sand that makes it beyond the dams will run into another trapped river dredger. although it's regulated in many countries it's still a widespread practice especially in countries where legislation this week results about 50 percent of a sandwich or nurse the world's beaches will never reach the sea.

the coastline like many other environments it's like the earth was always thought so big so vast that we couldn't have an impact on it we built a dam for water or electricity which is a good thing but downstream there's no more sand so somehow we have to figure out how to bring all those things back into balance by taking some conscious steps to try to reduce the impacts of those things we're doing as a civilization. is coming. to you. on the. green after green beeches slowly erode victims of decades of human interference. if you add the rise in level b. or sure you get an ecological time bomb. to

see right it's just going to happen a lot more quickly without saying. but it's not going to stop there it's going to take out in all half of manhattan and it's going to this could take our cities as well it's going. keep coming. the sand is our barricade and we have to understand that. in the middle of the indian ocean sand is a matter of life and death. of the sand divers have been collecting call sand from the lagoons for years and selling with developers. but with sea levels rising this sand harvesting is leading to some serious problems. and. sad it is

a very precious commodity and the moment it's because this one millimeter of the ocean touching you constantly every minute every 2nd every day every year is such a false and it is eat. or you don't deny. the mall deaves our road at a moment here right residents do what they can to protect their homes but many beaches are little more the memories. really not god and i'd get all of them are sick in a demonic in the home in a body did it come up was how to undo what the law gave the one nun a difficulty down the dick only numb the dental building i got in riyadh only make a name on a clinic the highgate at the lodge i didn't have a month in and it only kind of money keyboard unless the united made any to come over and. several 100 islands have already been evacuated

and today the refugees crowd into larger and better protected islands such as small as the capital. already overcrowded new houses are being crammed together. but in another better irony of the sand wars new. construction requires ever more said. we have been in the middle of the indian ocean for the last 5000 is we have it in history that goes back 2000. you can't just die. far from the mild deaves beautiful threatened beaches greed and speculation drive the global markets for sand and show no signs of slowing down. bombay is not an isolated case there's never been so much construction but at the same time housing has never been less affordable. one 3rd of urban populations now live in slums while go cities and empty apartments are being built all over the

world. in china 65000000 flats are empty yet the construction industry is flora xing swallowing up one quarter of the sand extracted on the planet spain holds the unfortunate record as the european country most addicted to sand in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis 30 percent of the homes constructed since 1906 sit empty entire airports have been built without seen a single passenger and in dubai the emirate continues to build and import sand even if 90 percent of the apartments in the burj khalifa are bacon. but sadly real estate speculation doesn't hold the monopoly on the wasting of said governments are also to blame. i would construction uses inexpensive see said the strips of asphalt we've built snaking around the world

have swallowed up massive amounts of the world's beaches. think about the number of roads that governments across the way have to beat it's the public sector why the largest can do most of sad. how the sand wars even registered on our political leaders radars. access to energy in the developing world forestation on climate change on the reform of the agricultural common policy on the common fisheries policy on learned on not traversal says i don't access to water without come here very often you find that you need a program to get a lot was before it's going to get on the agenda. we talk about water because we know there's a major problem is that it's right now in europe and we have had the debates on that we've had the policy we're implementing a policy and soil we're still having a debate. on science we're not having the debates.

it's fair to say that petitions scientists engineers come together and find alternatives for them or for the foot for the use they used most machines construction. can we continue to build and at the same time for yourselves from this dependence on sand. or other materials capable of replacing concrete. from the straw that's burnt after the crop is done you could build straw bale houses which use no cement. except maybe the slab on the floor but and there earthquake proof those houses are perfectly insulated and they're fireproof you don't have to build concrete buildings you see this building right here this building was built with 95 percent

recycled materials all the steelers recycled it's made from. japanese cars you know it's all recycled steel and when this building is finished they can melt this steel down to make more buildings. there's so many materials which can be recycled i think we need to exhaust those and in the meantime maybe the world changes you know some years ago people used to build not with this quantity of reinforced cement concrete but a different methods of construction perhaps 35 different methods of construction but in the meantime at least we need to use recycled materials as far as possible. like strong metal our homes are recyclable and rubble can be really used to build roads or new housing projects.

but these solutions must face our usual inertia and relentless lobbying by the construction industry. construction companies are equipped for and know how to work with concrete so radically changing our construction practices is an uphill battle . what if there was another granular material that might substitute for sand. there's one very interesting beach north of san francisco called glass beach and it turns out that for years the city dumped. all of their trash on to the beach the glass that got broken up by the waves and got rounded and today this is this wonderful sparkly shiny sort of a magical beach is started out as a garbage dump when nature is done the glass beach has inspired people to attempt a similar trick thousands of kilometers away in florida.

which is something that has to be disposed of and takes landfill space or something like that into an asset then you've killed 2 birds with one. i think everybody realized that bias is made out of saying that if people start scratching their heads and say well maybe that's a good use of it to return it to science. glass bottles and packaging are everywhere they're usually collected and recycled into new containers but when it's crushed into find pieces that glass can be just like sand got all because your core characteristics it's uncontaminated in regular beach sand it always looks like sand but it behaves exactly like sand so it is safe and i mean there's no reason to expect a difference. sand from recycled glass is one promising alternative for the beaches of florida and elsewhere on the beaches where it has been tested even the sea turtles have adopted it as a place to lay their eggs. as much as one quarter

of the glass that we throw away is not recycled and ends up in the. crushed it could be a perfect component in the making of concrete. but compared to natural sand this sand is still too expensive. when sun begins to cost high maybe. other sources can't compete with it though attentive can compete with that right now there is no competition you cannot compete that's something that is going to take the a truck bottom. pricing. as sand alternatives and new construction methods struggle the game budget a must see the sand gold rush is gaining speed and more battle fronts are appearing . on the coast of britain hundreds of families survived by traditional fishing. but today the fishermen are angry. a multinational with

a thirst for sand plans to exploit the ocean floor destroying their livelihoods. but what need an issue does. it doesn't matter. so i'll go so this is a. good job with the global. companies have come to brussels complaining about it not sure if i was in rules say. and that does rules that sort of things we need. so what they try to demonstrate is that by doing it by taking out sand from the not so rare there is no impact. going from you know me doing this well you know so i get on quite often with a great deal more preschool seduces a. lot of them see if they move it says. yes

for me and all the while. said chris is i'm also doing no even move. so. blue book is going to do for sub sub. into the only assume it will be st. exasperate of the brittany fisherman has shaken up both the elected officials and the citizens inspiring them to mobilize against the seizure of their sand with religious. work.

perhaps grassroots movements such as this will mobilize other groups around the world to stop the sand wars. once people know once people understand what the issue is and how important it is whether it's each grain of sand on that beach or the importance of that beach in their community to their lives and their community i think there's hope. so you see if. this is the sand for useful construction this sand has been taken from there. from the beaches so it is much is there take these sand the soviet ocean to be more and this will have a very seat is in either. go to the beaches enjoy the beaches learn about

the beaches and then do something about it. let's not let the beaches disappear. i believe that the younger generations of the planet must come out and tried to impress upon others the gravity of the issue in but is happening to the planet and this cute we must save the beaches. given the scale of which society is built with and i mean cern deserves a little more respect. whether it's more freeways whether it's more dams we've got to get away from these gigantic seams and get back to a simpler. where living.

they've been tremendous environmental victories at the beach itself it's been left to fight for itself. maybe needs us to fight for. the fate of the world's beaches is not cast in concrete perhaps the day will come when we'll see said with fresh eyes conscious of how every grain plays a role in the health of our planet and in our lives. then by working with nature instead of against her we can win the senate wars for the good of a song. well

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