wooden canoe, more than 1000 years old, has been discovered in southern mexico. so it was found almost completely intact in a pool of water near the ruins of chicha nissan. that was once a major mayan city, with temples and pyramids experts believe that vessel would have been used to transport water or deposit ritual offerings and an open art exhibition by world renowned artists has gone on display in chiles. capital santiago works include rubber ducks fried eggs, as well as a toy robot. and the sculptures sit on the shore of an artificial late. this exhibition will start a tour of the country on thursday. i hello again. the headlines on al jazeera, the final day of the g 20 gathering of world leaders is underway in rome. several

meetings are taking place on the sidelines, including one between the us and churches. presidents. the group is expected to focus on climate change ahead of the cop 26 conference in glasgow or diplomatic editor james base has this update from room. the main plenary session when all the leaders are sitting around the table is on climate. those words, obviously important the words as a final communicate are important. we don't know those yet. they're not, it's not been released yet, but we've certainly seen a draft copy out there as obtained a draft copy. and that language in there, which talks about keeping global warming well below 2 degrees, is not the 1.5 degrees that the u. n. and most ex, but si se is absolutely essential. while among those meetings on the sidelines of the g 20 summit, we're us sectors, state and seem anthony blinking. and his chinese counterpart when g. the u. s. says blinking, told china both nations should fairly manage the trade,

competition between them and both side degree to keep the lines of communication open. the 2 superpowers have been embroiled in a trade war since 2018. the leaders of britain and france are meeting to discuss the post bricks at fishing dispute, or is johnson says he can't rule out taking legal action against france after it sees a british vessel. paris is threatening to block ports and increased checks on boats on laurie's. if the u. k doesn't grant more licenses to french fishing vessels, the sudanese teachers committee has called for a strike and all states off to don. just a day after hundreds of thousands of people rally to denounce the military takeover . at least 4 people were killed in those protests on saturday. will have more news on al jazeera at the top of the hour with emily anguish shall have the news hour up next as earth rice on the couch, because billions and losses, bankruptcy and bailouts. when will the airline industry recovery begin washing

terms diminished influence in the last of america? tesla becomes the 1st one trillion dollar automaker, where other the short, this is the truck industry, countering but cost on al jazeera. ah, the explosion of plastic waste across the world threatens the very survival of light on our planet. every year, up to $12000000.00 metric tons of plastic and all oceans. from poisoning marine life to littering landscapes and cloaking waterways. plastic waste in the environment is set to triple in the next decade. the problem is so vast,

it can seem overwhelming fit by re imagining this waste. as a result, we can begin to redress the balance. i'm don't economy le, in cameroon, where a young entrepreneurs turning the tide on plastic waste by building boats to bottles and megan the cub in the u. k. well, one company is tackling a re key plastic problem boss making unique, unsustainable products in the process. ah, here in camera rooms, economic capital to wireless, the scale of the country's plastic problem is painfully clear. plastic waste is clogging up the streets and rivers up cameron's major cities polluting waterways threatening marine ecosystems and making life especially difficult a local fisherman. mm. it's estimated that across the city of to wanna $1300.00 tons of plastic waste is generated every day. so much of it is thrown into the

cities rivers. you can't see any trace of water. ah, i've never seen anything like this before. i don't even know how you begin to fix the problem. this big is no doubt. this is a major challenge for the city. but one local man has made it. his mission to deal with it had on his name is, is smile is so many it's while i said to me to let them resume that. i mean, it's quite a place to meet. i must say. so is this normal here into ella? no, you know, so sat, what is that you have or to browse the bad side troy way by be boy news we in the household. and then you have the river, the water that call it all the ways that clubs is bridge and then you have people solving with your car and truly are part of the river. and you can see that plaza

back before a mac, educate on how to money dealt with. so unfortunately, it's normally, it's overwhelming to see this, but you don't find it overwhelming. why do you see this? and think that this is something you want to take on for yourself. i realize that all the river are full of plastic. no one kid. no one's there. what is this an hour shoak to see that? so i decided to do something. and what i've been that i will to blame is shown in people miser by showing the way through. ishmael began an initiative to clear up the waste from all to well as 10 choked rivers. he calls his company dba and nature, meaning water in nature, in the local, sour language. he recruits a team of 30 volunteers and today i'm giving them a helping hand. but it quickly becomes clear to me what

a tough job this is. where standing on this board because much of this looks like a bit of plastic. there's actually a river underneath it, so it's not very stable. it's very hot and very humid here. so when you have this amount of waste in water, of course, it's called the fee toes and other kinds of water born diseases. and there are people who live all around here. so this is not just an environmental crisis. it's a possible health crisis as well. kind of theory of the work you're doing here is amazing, but there are so many bottles and it feels like this is just the dent and it's really only individuals like you who are taking it on there is no citywide plan or nationwide plan to tackle this enormous problem. no. no, sire grooms is burned here in town. are willing to sions her are the problem for the priority. so people are we're no one's care about enrollment here. this is the

most urgent problem. so we need to change when you see in manage with a smile doesn't just see all this plastic as waste. he sees it as a valuable material and an opportunity to do good. he turns bottles into both for the regions, fishing community. and it all happens here inside his workshop. ah, bottle yard this is for is our workshop is see my house here. so i'm here with some of the 2. and we tried to finish of all each mouse boats built using traditional techniques. who taught you how to do? oh no, i'm for move fishing community and my daddy fisherman. oh wow. so when i was young, i was fishing with my dad. this technology i just adapted to the black bottles. so is that why this idea came to you? yes, because the british i'm afraid that we were and now you cannot catch fish because

the fishing area is full of glasses. so i've got 2 hub, not only the claiming to reverse, but also to provide support. because it is not easy in the villages for someone to buy a symbol boy. so now it build schepers echo both that could be useful. so we have part of our seats done what's next to you on breakfast? yeah, i'd love to try to do that. so we tie this. yeah. not a not so bad at ya. it is a little scary to think that what we're putting together, someone's actually going to be sitting on you're out in the water. so i feel a little bit of responsibility to not mess this up. i proud of my handiwork. oh you,

this isn't so bad. it once he's built the frame. ishmael ties to the base and then he adds in the scene. ishmael has built 37 boats to date, given that it takes 650 bottles to build one that's over 24000 bottles. removed from to wall as rivers and put to good use. so how much does it cost to make a boat like this with material oil? remembering simple, you just know borrows the rest is yet that ah, the books take just a few hours to build and they're so lightweight, easily transported to the ocean. it's a 3 hour drive to nearby. creepy way ish mount is the boats to local fishing. traditionally made fishing boats can be extremely expensive. but even so,

when it's mouth 1st started giving away his e commerce, it was easier said than done. these look very different to all of the local fishing, both that we see what was the reaction from the local community when you brought these here the 1st time, if it further thought they would do. sure, it will never go in the world enough that when we went to the one you have is walking and then they stopped look to try to understand and try to see if you go fishing with these one. the real truth, of course, is in the floating. they've got tested out as good as it. ok. you lead the way with it was a funky entry, but this feel so much better, it feel stable. i don't feel safe in any way. i feel really comfortable fishing and want to be

what a great idea. and there's so many possibilities of what he can do in the future that can at the same time be enormous issue, a plastic waste in cameroon. what an incredible young man. that was really fun. now we know the boat to see where the we're delivering it to the latest. happy customer was going to test it out on a nearby lake. i was ill. this is gonna be for sure. good to meet you. what do you think of your new boat in the cabin in one? how do you think having this new vouchers gonna change things for you? for robert? dorothy mm. you said the airport. what if it, if, if you could,

but would fill up us with alopecia in argument, grandpa or facility? so maybe their accessibility in affordability of eco, both will be something that convinces people to give them a try. where did you, mom, please? if they ship them off sellable, so like, you will probably be shipping on, but it won't do that will, will was fully leaves. who, when me, when you, when you to learn your or vision your, if i me, you want to try it out. you know, let's see how it works with how do you feel about communes? reaction to his very own, he commodes a hobby to see that i can make so once my so one get hope that maybe his condition would be better, may be equal, have more income to his family. since he started in 2016,

the growing success of his eco boat has inspired ishmael to do more, it's his ambition to clear up cameroon. and that begins with the country's 1st battle recycling scheme. wow. this is the echo bean i corbin, is made out of 255 plastic balls and it was like 1000 bucks. so this is a place where people can come and bring their plastic way. this is the starting point of excited to do. usually install is stored in system of plastic waves in grammar. so the idea of this echo been what you're trying to do here. where do you think it can grow to? we wonder why food should be la. gov example. in that regard, we em to supply rec will be in areas of draw out of all the corners in font of all the show is supermarket is cool. so it will be easy to carmen. pick up

the wave, recycle it. so that is the vision way. wanted were there, but how the which there is not is despite the challenges. ishmael has even bigger plans for the future by producing battle, made furniture and by educating the next generation figure you show very liberal den rubicon club. what is your boss that goes with it to junk on? got to be live gone. you gotta do, john. is alyssa to take care of environment sticky of our planet ender to clean our cities? it's an inspiration to me that even in this global see of plastic one person really can make a difference with quinn, foreign, mental campaigners, the global issue of plastic waste is now so serious. it has risen to the top of the

agenda. they believe we must rethink our whole approach to the material. the scale of the plastic problem is huge. minutes over 300000000 times a year. plastic packaging itself is 78000000 tons year. 32 percent of that leaks out and environment. some of the biggest producers of plastic packaging in the world produce $3000000.00 tons a year. so is that one producer changes the way they make plastic? that is a massive change globally. even the biggest producer, plastic packaging in the world can't fix this on their own. this is about every one competitors alike. organizing around a system that can be regenerative and restorative. if you look at our current economy, it's predominantly linear. we take a material out the ground, we make something out of it and then the majority of that material gets thrown away . we have a growing world population. we have more and more pressure on resources. the system we have to day cannot run in the long term. we need to shift that economy to be one that uses materials rather than using them up with an a circular economy right from

the beginning. you build the economy, so you design out waste and pollution, you keep product cycling within that economy for as long as possible. and then you look at regenerating natural systems through the biological materials to feed into that economy. so effectively, the straight line turns into a circle to build out circular economy for plastic, she need to go right to the beginning of the system. we need to redesign the way we think about plastics. the way we design plastics and the way we use plastics. so we need to eliminate the plastic that we don't need. we need to innovate for different forms of plastic, which are 100 percent recyclable. and we need to look at how we circulate plastics, designing a system whereby that material is collected has value, and feeds back into the system. the thing that motivates me the most about the future is there is a massive opportunity to redesign our global economy. if we redesign the economy, so it's circular, not only will we build an economy that can run in the long term, but it will unlock trillions of us dollars recommend opportunity. and it will

effectively decouple economic growth from results. constraints are. mm hm. pollution is the hot topic in the world, environmental issues, the damage that it causes is long lasting and wide ranging. but was there is a growing consciousness of the problems that passed it caused and you might even be doing things yourself to solve it. there is one problem that and be hiding in plain sight. every year we chew our way through 374 trillion pieces of gum. what you might not know is that chewing gum is essentially like chewing this piece of plastic, but was chewing gums and bubble gum to order my from oil. in fact, gum, it's a very similar material to latex bicycle in a cheap. and every year we chuck away $100000.00 tons of that globally much over

straight on to the floor. gum is 2nd only to cigarette as the world's most lifted item across the globe. we spent $25000000000.00 on gum every year. and demanded predicted to rise to $48000000000.00 in 2025. it is estimated that 92 percent of pavement in london have chewing gum stock on them. with 300000 pieces. estimated to be on august history and leg it's up to a small army of workers to clear it up. i'm 70 miles southwest of london in winchester to find out what damage gum can do. ha o councilor, john war is in charge of keeping the city streets cleaned. how much of a problem is gum in winchester?

they estimate the every year councils in britain spending more than $60000000.00 pounds a year. just clearing up gum, that's insane. it's taken me back a little bit, actually that's a huge figure and, and what could use that could be put to rather than just being spent collecting waste of effort. mm hm. of course is really only one way to get a true flavor of the gum problem on our streets. i count so operations manager daren lewis is it's a shame either. right. a bit further back. yeah, i got a better angle on it. i see for sure. i that way. yeah. movie like more like either . yeah. yeah. it's very much like a very uh huh. coming out with it's gonna be quite satisfying job. phyllis much tougher must have respect for the guys doing that. so with the privacy with

once gum is removed, it usually ends up in landfill. as a plastic gum isn't biodegradable and will never decompose. but i've heard about an ingenious new initiative is not only keeping the sticky stuff off the pavements, but turning it into something useful. coffee cops. i think the most impressive thing about them, they're actually made out the recycle chewing gum river. i knew you could retire. go that one by here. yeah. it's quite impressive, isn't it? yeah. and seriously. oh, wow. okay. so when they 1st came out, then what were your call? i thought it was a good joke to be honest. i just couldn't believe that this could be made out of people's material. just makes a big oh, but so on june, it's disgusting. but that when you re life i've been for obese inquiries estimates completely sanitary is just really inspiring. what can be done with chewing gum?

the cuts are made from a gum based material could gum tech. here at winchester university. the raw materials for the cars are collected all the campus and distinctive bright pink bends. beck, who gum drops an inspiring idea from designer analysts? hi, he must be honest. hi, nice me. i nice me too. so these must be your benz tell me a bit about them. yeah. these are the gum drop bins. oh that they all been specifically for the display of waste chain come me i do is that somebody can come along pop their use chewing gum in there. once it's full, halting comes back to us and we recycle it. and we can actually recycle 3 new gum drops out of one full gum, draw. so based on the closed loop recycling process. okay, so why gum all the solutions out there at the moment? all address gum later, once it's already been dropped, there is nothing out there that was that she addressing it from the front end. so i saw a gap in the market for a product like this and also

a way of tackling behavioral change when it comes to gum knitter and giving people as a positive way to dispose of their chewing gum. so how does gum end up in a coffee cup? in anna has offered to show me the price is in action at the gum drug factory in worcester. so once we get the full gum drop, been back that goes through the 1st part of the process, which actually size reduces it. okay, you can actually see the gum truck brand has been crushed up. yeah. we see all the other letters that are in there long will you learn chewed, chewing gum, chewing gum, without a cup, take rapper cake. orange bill then goes through the 2nd stage which separates the gum drop in the chewed gum and the other ways. we then take this met. yeah, we then mix it with alpha recycled materials, which yet he said in compound it to produce these palate which go on to rush you make. then when you come drop,

it only like goes up again. the gum tech material can be molded into a home range of products, not just cups, but stationary key rings, boots and shoes. cow, nicole, this is some of our products that we have at the moment. okay. oh, introduce you to the the gum shoe 1st. this is actually really fun project we had was done in collaboration with accounts announced i wanted to highlight the amount of gum letter of sachi on the streets in amsterdam. so you'll see the so here is actually a map of the style that we looked at and i am the gum drug story continues to great. there are now some 650 come drop locations across the u. k, from train stations and city centers to airport am schools. i'm with new interest in europe and the usa. anna has global ambitions for the company,

and it's ethos. working more publicly, there's definitely something that we want to do because that will say board and the, the awareness and the message around behavior change. and what we can actually do with, with the recycle, change them. we're at the university of winchester where the gum dropped. charles began, they employed a scheme designed to do more than just keep gum off our streets. as well as installing the gum drops, they also gave away the 10000 reusable gum based cups. the scheme inspired a paradigm shift in attitude to waste and letter environment officer lis harris was behind introducing gum drug to the campus. how much of an effect have these cops had all the sale of plastic and general kind of coffee cookies? today we have saved 85000 disposable cups and being used there are now 10000

b cups and circulation. and we have just committed to eliminating single use plastics by 2022. so the cops are really good stuff in the right direction. i think it has really capture people's imaginations because what was quite nice is that we could link it to the chewing gum re fight playing when by having your coffee or how things close to the these gum drop bins have started a chewing gum recycling craze. but it's much more than that, it's about changing people's behavior. and people like anna are inspiring people to think about the way that use single use products are, which is so critical if we're going to be able to reverse any of the current worrying environmental trends, room entrepreneurs across the globe, a turning their attention to the plastic menace in september 2018. 24 year old dutch inventor boy and slat, launched an ambitious operation to use

a giant boom on the ocean's natural currents to clean up the pacific giant island of plastic waste, known as the great pacific garbage patched. 2 months later, a crack in the system forced the prototype back to port, but the team was still able to collect terabytes of data and over 2 tons of ocean plastic waste. they report they'll soon be ready to re launch. but what can we do with all the waste plastic we collect? in the u. k, one inventor has found a clever way to plug hot holes with a new road material mate and pot from waste plastic. and in the philippines a 15 year old school boy undertook to tackle the country's plastic bag problem. with a biodegradable variety made from coconuts with clever ideas like these,

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