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a 129 hours since the disaster. and on friday night, a woman was find alive and dear back here. she survived a 120 hours under a collapsed building vessel seller has more from the epicenter caught him on morass . now, i'm just in front of one of the collapse blog. so this is just one of hundreds in the city. you will see blogs after blog apartments off that our partners are level 13 are so much white grad across the city, particularly the city center of this matter is mostly destroyed, cut them on much was regarded as one of the most loved cities of turkey. and recently i have been here, the city that i see now is completely different than the one i have. recently. international aid is arriving in the distorted areas of northern the syria plains, chattering supplies from the rise of out of eminence. oman june is here, and libya have arrived at

a 2nd un 8th on via 14 sharks has crossed into rebel held areas of syria. the un warns more than 5300000 people have been made homeless by the earthquakes in democratic republic of congo. fighting has been going on near the eastern town of saki, some 20 kilometers west of the regional capital goma. it comes a day after and $23.00 fighters interest closer to saki, prompting funds to free their homes. east africa leaders have called for an immediate cease fire. us fighter jets have shot done was being described as a high altitude object over the small time of dead horse and north eastern alaska. the pentagon says it posed a threat to flight safety. they've come 6 days out, or had shot down a chinese balloon over the united states. your nuclear watchdog chief file groceries in moscow has been holding talks with the head of russia state new to farm ross autumn, may discuss the situation. ukraine's depletion nuclear power plant repeated

shelling of the plant, which is not controlled by russia as raised concerns about a nuclear accident. those are the headlines. the news continues here on, on to 0, after us rise, goodbye. ah . the explosion of plastic waste across the world threatens the very survival of life on our planet. every year, up to $12000000.00 metric tons of plastic into the ocean. from poisoning marine life to cheering landscapes and cloaking waterways, plastic waste and the environment is set to trickle in the next decade. the problem is so vase, it can seem overwhelming. but by re imagining this waste as a resource,

we can begin to redress the balance. i'm don't, can ya, in cameroon, where a young entrepreneurs turning the tide on plastic waste by building bolts to bottles and megan the cub in, 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 is plastic problem is painfully clear. plastic waste of clogging up the streets and rivers up cameron's major cities polluting waterways threatening marine ecosystems making life especially difficult for local fishermen . 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. 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 ish. smile is so many, it's while i have to meet, you know, some resume that i mean it's quite a place to meet. i must say. so is this normal here in dweller? no. you know, so sat, what is that? you have order black things that are troy, we're by people in this, we in the household and then you have the river, the water that collect 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 edukit on how to money dealt with. so unfortunately is no more, 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 a full blast, no one gay. 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 could to blame is shown in people myself by showing the way through them. ishmael began an initiative to clear up the waste from all of 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 bed 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 weight in water, of course, it's called the fetal than 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, they know who sar green is burn here and count ability to sions her or 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 the 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 refer 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 board or so is that why this idea came to you? yes. because the portion of the river and now you cannot catch fish because the

fishing area is full of glasses. so i've got 2 hub, not only declaiming to reverse, but also to provide support. because it is not easy in the villages for someone to buy simple board. so now with buell 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 do that. so we tie this. yeah. not yet. not so bad at ya 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 got it isn't so bad it once he's built the frame.

ishmael ties it 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 is 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 booth take just a few hours to build and there 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

ishmael 1st started giving away his e commerce, it was easy said and done. these looked 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. so when we went to the one you have is walking, and then they start to do 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 through it was a funky entry, but this feel so much better, it feel stable. i don't feel and 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 faculty enormous issue, a plastic waste in cameroon. what an incredible young man that's 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? and then how do you think having this new boat is gonna change things for you or one for a month or so? you said you the airport. what. what if it, if, if you could,

but would fill up us with alopecia, who 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 monitor is if they ship them off. so up with some like you will put the shipping on, but it won't be there will be, will, was fully mostly severe. mean, wonderful, also for 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 camille 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. maybe he can have more income to his family. since he started in

2016, the growing success of his ico both has inspired ishmael. to do more, it's his ambition to clear up cameroon. and that begins with the country's 1st bottle recycling scheme. oh, this is the echo bean. i corbin is made out of $255.00 and it was like $1000.00. so this a place where people can come and bring their plastic ways. this is the starting point of excited to do. usually install is stored in system of plastic waves and water. 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 it should be like of an example in that regard. we em to supply recording in areas of draw out all the corners in font of all the show is supermarket this cool. so it will be easy to carmen, pick up the wave,

recycle it. so that is the vision where we 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 what's a good to junk on? got to be left gone. you gotta do to john is alyssa to take care of environment, stick 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, a print foreign mental campaign is 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 an 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 outweigh some pollution. you keep products cycling within that economy for as low 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 is also constraints are mm hm. pollution is the hot topic in the world, environmental damage that it causes is long lasting and wide ranging. the last 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 is 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 gums are older my from oil. in fact, gum is a very similar material to latex bicycle in a cheese. and every year we chuck away $100000.00 tons of it globally,

much over straight on to the floor. gum is 2nd only to cigarette that 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 oxford street alone. 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 warrick, 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 was $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 offer. 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 shameed the race a bit further back. yeah, i got a better wrangler. i see. for sure. by the way. yeah. moving one. yeah. yeah. it's very much like a very huh. coming out with it's gonna be quite a satisfying job. it's phyllis, who much tougher must have respect for the guys doing that. so with the time it 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 cup. i think the most impressive thing about them, they're actually made out the recycle during gown river. i knew you could recycle 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 job to be honest. i just couldn't believe that this could be made out of people's material. just makes a big. oh, that's so honored to you and it's disgusting. but that when you re life i've been for ethan cars 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 me. 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, you must be honest. hi, nice to 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 dispos of waste chain. come me i dear, is that somebody can come along pop there, 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 a 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 was 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 renetta 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 prices in action at the gum dropped factory in worcester. so once we get the full gum dropped, 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 me yeah, we then mix it with alpha recycled materials, which yet he said and compound it to produce these palate which go on to rush you make. then when you come droppin only michael stuff again.

the gum tech material can be moulded into a whole range of products, not just cox, 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 the council 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 stream that we looked at and i am the gum drug story continues to great. there are now some 650, comes up locations across the u. k, from train stations and city centers to ac, what am schools? i'm with new interest in europe and the usa ana 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 who at the university of winchester, where they come, dropped, charles began, they employed a scheme designed to do more than just keep gum of our streets. as well as installing the gum drops. they also gave away the 10000 reusable gum based cups. with the scheme inspired a paradigm shift in attitude to waste and letter environment officer lis harris was behind introducing gum job to the campus. how much of an effect have these congress 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 $10000.00

bees 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 recycling when, by having your coffee or how things close to these gum dropped 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 he's single use products. and 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 to 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 back problem. with a bi degradable variety made from coconuts with clever ideas like these, we may just be able to stand the plastic type

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