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up to $12000000.00 metric tons of plastic into the ocean. from poisoning marine life to lecturing landscapes and cloaking waterways, plastic waste and the environment is set to trickle in the next decade. the problem is so vast, it can seem overwhelming. fritz by re imagining this waste as a resource, we can begin to redress the balance. i'm tony kani la in cameroon, where a young entrepreneurs turning the tide on plastic waste by building bolts to bottles . and megan the cub in the u. k. where one company is tackling a really sticky plastic problem boss making unique, unsustainable products in the process. ah, here in cameroon, economic capital to wireless, the scale of the country is plastic problem is painfully clear. plastic waste is

clogging up the street and rivers up cameron's major cities polluting waterways threatening marine ecosystems and making light especially difficult for local fishermen. it's estimated that across the city of towana, $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 a problem this big. there's 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 mile is. so it's, while i have to meet, you know, the 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 or to block that side troy way by people 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, educate of 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 miser by showing the way through. 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, to 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 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 a 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 refer. this is our workshop is see my house here. so i'm here with some of the 2. and we try to finish of all ish mows both 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 the cleaning do rivers, but also to provide support because it is not easy in the villages for someone to buy simple boat. 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 try to do that. so we tie this. yeah. not yet. 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 do. this 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, he doesn't have bought us. the rest is yet that ah, the boat 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 weight 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 further that they wants to do. sure, it will never go in the world enough that when we went to the water before you of, if it 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, it's got it. okay. you lead the way through

it was a funky entry, but this feel so much better 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 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. really, this is gonna be for sure. good to meet you. what do you think of your new boat in

the cabin? how do you think having this new boat is gonna change things for you? 414, a month or same? you said you the airport. what if it, if, if you could, but would fill up us with alopecia, who saw him, unquote, alpha for facility. so maybe their accessibility in affordability of eco, both will be something that convinces people to give them a try. where did you mark visit the ship date a month? so up with some like you will put the shipping on, but it won't do that will. who will was fully most williams, 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

here. 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 is going to show would 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 a corbin, i cover in his mid out of 255 plastic or an equivalent 1000. so this is a place where people can come and bring their plastic ways. this is the starting point of excited to do. usually install thought 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 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 with with i 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 bottle 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, 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 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 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 elton's environment. some of the biggest producers of plastic packaging in the world produce $3000000.00 tons a year. so was 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 precious 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 cycle 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 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 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 is 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 cigarettes that the world's most lifted 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 august history. and now 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 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 darren lewis is off shameed the race a bit further back. yeah, i got a better wrangler. right. i see that what i that way. yeah. movie like one. yeah. yeah. this is very much like a very huh. coming out with

thought be quite satisfying jobs, fearless, but 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 cups. i think the most impressive thing about them, they're actually made out the recycle during gown river. i knew you could return to that one, but now it's quite impressive, isn't it? yeah. and seriously. oh, wow. okay. so when they 1st came out, then what were you born? 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, that's so on her to you and it's disgusting. but that when you re life, i've been for heathen 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 cops are collected all the campus and distinctive bright pink bends. they're called gum jobs, and inspiring ideas from design analysts. hi, you must be honest. hi, nice to me. i nice me too. so these must be your bins. tell me a bit about them. yeah, these are the gum drop bins. oh 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, 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 actually 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 price is in action at the gum joke factory in worcester. so once we get the full gum drop, bend 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 cupcake wrapper. hague orange dill. then goes through the 2nd stage which separate 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 compound it to produce these palate which go on to rush you make. then when you come drop in a little 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 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 gummed up.

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. 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. who at the university of winchester, where the gum 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. 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 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 re fight plane when, why haven't your coffee or how things close to 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 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 ah from above we can see streaks of clad across here that don't look to act in a huge. they are generated by storm system over took you. there isn't one be

pleased to know. there is certainly cloud coming out of eastern europe, not to produce some snow in the northeast, a turkey, otherwise. it is still sunshine by day and of course, frost by night. but those streaks of cloud will produce a bit of rain into saudi arabia to wait and more, especially the western side of the wrong way. you'll see some snow on the heights as well as that is quite wall that holds up to about 27. doesn't drop very much, even with the increasing breeze in the dust in the air during tuesday, and the shower continue rank q 8 and the far south of iraq. otherwise, we're back to sunshine for the most part. jump away from the middle east, trump of glasgow. now, almost entirely dry the rain there has been housed for the site and particularly in mozambique. now that is produced flooding ran a pooter and you can see why because we've had days of this and there are more days to come. it's present as in bob way as well, and aligned on the eastern side of south africa. and i'm surprisingly, is

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