shed light on how and why. oh lou. hello, i'm darn jordan dough. with a quick reminder, the top stories here at al jazeera, the earthquake death toll across turkey, and syria continues to climb more than 29000 anal confirmed dead. but only 6 days on survivors are still being pulled from the rubble for turkish president, russia typo on said steps would be taken to rebuild broken cities within weeks.

he's denied accusations of building codes were not totally enforced. further. smith has more from antonia. one of the, the challenges for the government is it wants to move people away from these areas because it needs to stop this disaster. turning into a public health catastrophe. the air is thick with smoke and dust. there's no sanitation. people are still buried under the rubble and people are sleeping out in the open. so they need to provide the tense. there are some tense here on the outskirts of and check it out that that is they are beginning to arrive, but still aren't enough yet. but the government needs to get people out of this area in these areas so that they can, could start trying to rebuild. and trying to clear the deborah deborah, but also so they can maintain a public health will aid is now trickling into rebels. held parts of northern syria

rescue efforts were being hampered in the water in the region with many st. they felt abandoned. another unidentified object has been shot down to the north american aerospace. this time over northern canada. canadian and american forces were tracking the object before a u. s. f 20 to shut it down over the yukon. comes a day after flying object was shot down of alaska in the u. s. and a week after chinese, but it was down of the coast of north carolina. there been more protests in france against proposals to increase the retirement age. thousands of people took to the streets of paris. after nearly a week of nationwide strikes, has been to manual michael's pension reforms is set to raise the retirement age. and 62 to 64. the chief of the u. n's nuclear watchdog, raphael grossey has visited moscow for talks of the head of russia's state nuclear firm. ross, item ukraine separation nuclear power plant top the agenda, the un and rosa tom agreed to continue work on creating a safety zone. there shelling of the plot which is now controlled by russia as res,

fears of a nuclear accident. so that was with headlines. news continues here in al jazeera after thrives re imagining plastic states you would. thanks for watching buffalo ah . the explosion of plastic waste across the world threatens the very survival of life on our planet. every year, up to 12000000 metric tons of plastic and to the ocean from poisoning marine life to littering landscapes and cloaking waterways. plastic waste and the environment is set to triple in the next decade. the problem is so vast,

it can seem overwhelming fits by re imagining this waste. as a result, we can begin to redress the balance. i'm donny kennedy le in cameroon, where a young entrepreneurs turning the tide on plastic waste by building bolts out to bottles. i'm meghan the cub in the u. k. one company is tackling a really sticky plastic problem boss making unique, unsustainable products in the process. ah, here in camera ruins, economic capital to wireless, the scale of the country's plastic problem is painfully clear. plastic waste clogging up the street and rivers up cameron's major city polluting waterways threatening marine ecosystems and making life especially difficult 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. have never seen anything like this before. i don't even know how you begin to fix a 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 it's, while i said to me to most and 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 ordered black that's i've troy away by be boy in this 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 charged the river. and you can see that plaza

back before a mac edukit on how to money dealt with. so unfortunately is norma. it's overwhelming to see this that 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 k. 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 boys shooting people myself by showing the way through them. ishmael began in 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. we're 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 mosquitoes 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 possible health crisis as well, kind of serious with the work you're doing here is amazing. spent, there are so many bottles and it feels like this is just a dent and it's really only individuals like you are taking it on. there is no citywide plan or nationwide plan to tackle this enormous problem. no, no, sire green 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 check with a manager 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 in my house here. so i'm here with some of the 2 and we tried to finish a board. ishmael both built using traditional techniques. who taught you how to do? oh no, i'm for move fishing community and my daughter 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 efficient

area is full of glasses. so i thought too hot not only to clean do rivers, but also to provide support because it is not easy in the villages for someone to buy simple board. so now with fuel cheaper ethical, both that could be useful. so we have part of our seat done what's next to you on breakfast? yeah, i'd love to try to do that. so we tie this. yeah. not. 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 here. oh you did. it 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 wallace rivers and put to good use. so how much does that cost to make a boat like this with material oil? remembering simple, he doesn't have borrows the rest is yet that ah, the boots 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 fees 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 for the 1st time, for the thought they wasn't do show, it will never go in the world enough that when we went to the water before you have all his walking. and then they start to move to try to understand and try to see if you go fishing with these one. the real proof, of course, is in the floating. let go test it out as good as it. ok. you lead the way, thinking it was a funky entry, but this feel so much better, it feels 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 faculty enormous issue, a plastic waste in cameroon. what an incredible young man that, 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 and the kevin with how do you think having this new boat is going to change things for you? for one or more north? him you said the airport. what. what if it, if, if you could,

but she would feel corpus with alopecia, who argument grandpa corpus services? so maybe their accessibility and affordability of eco, both will be something that convinces people to give them a try. where did you mark please? if they ship them off sellable like you will put the chicken on, but it won't be there won't. brookeville was fully mostly swimming. wonderful. also for you to learn all orders under for me. do you want to try it out? you know, let's see how it works. with her how do you feel about camille reaction to his very own he commodes a hobby to see that i can make a once my so one get hope that maybe is going to show will be better, may be equal, have more in come 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 battle recycling scheme. wow. this is the echo bean i corbin, is made out of 255 plastic bars and it was like 1000 bucks. so this is a place where people can come and bring their plastic place. this is a starving wine of. so i 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 all the corners in font of all the show is supermarket is cool. so it will be easy to carmen. pick up is

where we say avoid 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. figured usually within the pick on club. what is your bus that goes with it to junk on? who got to be left on? who should you go there to do is 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, a for environmental campaigners, the global issue of plastic waste is now so serious it has risen to the top of the

agenda. they believe we must, we think our whole approach to the material, the scale of the plastic problem is huge. minutes over 300000000 tons a year. plastic packaging itself is 78000000 tons year. 32 percent of that leaks out in the environment. some of the biggest producers of plastic packaging in the world produce $3000000.00 tons a year. so with 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 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 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 is be hiding in plain sight. every year we chew away 2 or 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 of it,

straight on to the floor. gum is 2nd only to cigarette as the world's most listed items. across the globe, we spent $25000000000.00 on gum every year. and demand is 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 $300000.00 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 war is in charge of keeping the city streets cleaned. how much of a problem is gum in winchester? they estimate that every year councils in brickle is 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 offer. mm hm. of course is really only one way to get a tree flavor of the gum problem on our streets. i count so operations manager daren lewis is shameed the rice a bit further back. yeah. i'm going to put a wrangler. right. i see. i that way. yeah. movie look more like. yeah, yeah. this is very much like a very uh huh. and then coming out with be quite a satisfying job to be honest. hutch top 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 cups. i think the most impressive thing about them, they're actually made out the recycle chewing gum live. i knew you could return to that one bacteria. it's quite impressive, isn't it? yeah. and the series favor? oh wow. okay. so when they 1st came out, then what were your call? i thought it was a great job 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 then when you re life, i've been for repeating price 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 rural materials for the cars are collected all a the campus and distinctive bright pink bends. they're called gum jobs, and inspiring i deaf designer and abilene. high. you must be honest. hi, nice me. hi, nice me too. so these must be your bins. tell me a bit about them. yeah. these are the gum drop bins. and that they all been specifically for the despite of waste chain come me i dear is, is that somebody can come along pop there, use chewing gum in there. once it's full, the whole thing comes back to us and we recycle it. and we can actually recycle 3 new gum drops out of one full gum troy 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 drop factory in worcester. so once we get the full gum drop bins back, that goes through the 1st part of the process, which actually size reduces it. okay, you can actually see the gum dropped. van has been crushed up. yeah. in the all the other letters that are in there long will you. i chewed chewing gum, chewing gum without a cupcake wrapper. hague 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 next . yeah, we then mix it with other recycled materials, which yet he said and compounded juice. these palate which go on to rush, you make it better than you gum. drop in. only like hooked up again.

the gum tech material can be molded into a hand range of products, not just cuts, but stationary key rings, boots and shoes. clown the call. 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. it was done in collaboration with accounts announced i wanted to highlight the amount of gum letter of sasha on the streets in amsterdam sale. see the soul here is actually a map of the stream that we looked at. 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. lacking 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 liz 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

a b cups in 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 that we could link it to the chewing gum reflect playing when by having your coffee or helping to close the these gum drug 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, boom. entrepreneurs across the globe, a turning their attention to the plastic menace. in september, 201824 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 made in part 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,

we may just be able to stand the plastic type after years of age with raising the damage caused the precious gross lance, a chilling is being reversed with one of the world's biggest ever conservation projects. they're pretty emblematic of the pedagogy and if they're plentiful and they're calm like this in, then you know that the system is killing mac and that they feel no strand. and that's why i thought we wilding patagonia on al jazeera ah

hello, there were still some very lively storms moving across. c takes our se parts of the us through at georgia pushing up into the caroline as this weather system. still lurking hair dryer and brighter across so many central and western parts. having said that, as that where to whether it gradually make his way up towards the mid atlantic states as we go on through sunday. and on the back end of that could well see this will come back of snow as we go on through sunday. no. saudi snow in arizona looking fine and dry for the super bowl on sunday sunday evening. of course miss just as well. it was sunday, not monday because there's some snow coming in here as we go on through monday, some snow to around the pacific northwest into that western side of canada. but for much of the u. s. by the state, central and eastern part at least, is fighting dry with plenty of sunshine. plenty of sunshine to across the kara bay looking lovely here the east now was not too bad. you might just catch the old

shire or 2, but to the great round to these looking lottie settled and sunny, some showers there into central parts of the caribbean, where to where the sliding outs of the southern mexico some very heavy rain just making its way across believe it's guatemala, still some lobby sat there for costa rica. i also for panama. ah, ah . the earthquake deft all across turkey and syria continues to climb more than $29000.00. the now confirm dead. but 6 days on the survivors are still being pulled from the rebel. ah.