security pressure washing night. or not has been achieved but so much more needs to be john and i think people have to be a solution my name is a massage and i work at g.w. . hello welcome to eco india a sustainability magazine that zooms out of the problems leading out and bob and judy to give you a bigger fuller picture and zooms into the solutions that can help tackle them so that you can make an informed choice. coming to you from mumbai in india over the next thirty minutes. old environments and the tradition of dying fabric is making

a comeback. startup is making ethical and sustainable smart foods. and how a couple converted barren land into what is to be unlocked green forest. forest a story of a vibrant bachrach textile printing has been practiced in the west. but all for centuries now there are communities like the cup to use for who has been a source of livelihood for generations but in recent years with the looting of cheap us in turn to dave's traditional printing which is environment friendly has taken a big hit but some families of the company community in the region are trying to revive their glorious tradition. of. this state of goods about. and for being colorful that's primarily because of its

traditional textile industry and the vibrant fabrics and prints used to make the garments local people there. by generations but it has been our tradition for generations is something i've inherited so i could see it's basically runs in my blood. or shockey emma and is the fifth generation of his family to continue the tradition he belongs to the country community known in the region for making their mark in the vax bartik printing business. the while poor job. for no ancestors created prince they would use foods from the tree. oil from the seeds of

this roots is what they use for painting look really good all same with some that are on the balance right now it's an indigo or black from i don't rust or you know from turmeric. medic mr yellow but they didn't have too many colors to truth from back then nowadays all right everything is done using benefit racks we have been using it. because of market demand we have to work with many more colors and designs. to do sales we're going to do i will vault thought every market could be. the reason for the shift from month being every bit a natural printing process to one that began using synthetic dye can be traced back to the one nine hundred sixty three the decade of the hippie movement and with it a soaring rise in the popularity of the body print. meeting the rising demand from. overseas markets meant switching to chemical dyes

a faster easier and more viable option but also six decades later a few families like shook used are keen to revive the art in its own original form which is not only traditional but also more environmentally friendly. body marriage or natural law you are. natural back to continue so much longer consistent chemical printing more to do there's more demand for natural produce so many people are looking for an organic product so that's why we have started working with dyes and methods again. richard yet. another reason for artisans choosing to go organic is a very real and present in problem in the state it's lack of water resources almost fifty two percent of goods are out is turning into desert the told highest rate in

the country with another deficit monsoon in two thousand and eighteen meaning less rainfall than normal and local water resources rapidly shrinking parts of good euro are staring at an excuse water crisis. while most textile craft industries rely heavily on water in bardic the dependency is critical. comey and ngo in the kutch region has been working closely with the artisan community in areas like productive allotment unsustainable use of resources. or water study these were not very long ago we conducted a water study where we wanted to find out how much water was. being used in the

textile crafts up the reason we wanted to promote the whole technique of using the natural diet. vegetable diet can be revived. so that son of water a little bit used to substantiate. and that can also help this into an environmentally friendly graph the game. was. no longer really counted amongst the mainstream crafts of touch. and its artisans have been struggling to survive in today's modern i'm competitive market. screen and laser printing has in many cases replaced the traditional hand block style. but the use of natural dice could be the unique selling point of these artisans.

over the last ten years there has been a change in perception from a smaller scale designers the bigger ones there seems to be a growing interest in working with natural died. it is organizations like coming and if you didn't mind out of them's like shaquille who are trying to ensure that this traditional craft does not die out and that more and more craftsmen join in the revival. ever since we started using natural designs there has been a growing respect for the benefits. anything that is organic is a little more expensive because it is never intensive. but i think the future is brighter for. sales natural lives. i sincerely hope.

over the next few years. to go. through all that. like shaquille said bartik as a design remains formula for the shift to synthetic fabrics and chemical buys is very apt across india our natural dyes answer to the harmful effects caused by chemical dyes this explain that darcy. in twenty sixteen worldwide production of dyes reached nearly eight hundred thousand tonnes. as concerns grow over the environmentally hazardous effects of chemical dyes the demand for natural equivalence is on the rise sales of natural dyes are predicted to rise to five billion dollars a year by twenty twenty four but our natural diets really better than synthetic

ones. the debate is centered mostly around the effluents generated by both. loaded in toxic chemicals like sulfur in acetic acid and metals like arsenic on mercury effluents from the synthetic dying industry account for up to twenty percent of industrial water pollution worldwide. these effluents make water bodies target cut off sunlight necessary for the photosynthesis of underwater plants react with chemicals like chlorine and even form carcinogens they also see into fields contaminating the soil one of the most famous cases of dye poisoning is china's hsien river which in twenty eleven turned red as a result of several dumps of illegal dry natural dyes meanwhile are biodegradable made from plant sources like log wood turmeric and pine wood animal or in some.

forces like the dyes lack and lip and mineral sources like red lead used as the million laminated red earth and zinc white effluent from these are easily accepted back into the environment. however biodegradable natural dies are not necessarily the most sustainable option because for one rule materials for natural dies require vast stretches of arable land second a much larger amount of natural dye is needed as compared to synthetic diet to color the same amount of fabric for example while one pound of cotton may be died with just five grams of synthetic diy it would require two hundred thirty grams of natural die for the same process this means the use of larger amounts of water so what could be a solution recycling better waste management and innovation but for now it's important to curtail the use of chemicals in the dying process and for producers to

take responsibility for treating affluence before they're released into the environment. can leave also engineered an environmentally harmful product and make it into something sustainable plastic for example a recent study reveals that ninety one percent of the world's plastic is not true cycled with this in mind a social entrepreneur investor in india is working towards upcycling these plastic bags into fashionable and trendy accessories to minimize the flow of plastic to the street. this is a. tragic. sort of the project to help women. we decided to do something with last.

and hence this process of. stick. with the process is. that the. likelihood. the bloss to. use it is done carefully. in this remote village in the western india. after. she encountered on koreans. she recognized an opportunity to clear up cycling. the chemistry. on the machine jerk off this one is made by second box. on how moved. these records. people look you. up to

seven thousand rupees a month. was always a big problem because just five to six months. and especially. any of it is. so. because of that. three hundred kilometers. of. excessiveness. two hundred rupees around fifteen years. all the bags and purses produced here. to their conscious customers. the youth court. so it makes sense for

them to stay back. also to get up the fight is to. parts in their mind as to how he can do something for their lives how they can do something. the religious do for the broader gives them a sense of purpose and pride and a reason to stay here in the ridge. now here's a question for you what could happen if your party affording a mixed shop to lead and. research over the university of just that take a look at the farm. we want to analyze this fall and work out what it's made of we need to grind into a very fine powder but these are just to be safe they're ready to go. researchers at the university of plymouth in britain have opted for the shredder method to unlock the phone secrets. the manufacturers don't

reveal the exact composition of their products it turns out the main components are iron silicon chromium and copper but what's more significant are the elements that are only present in very small amounts. the powder from the blender is first burned and then analyzed in a mass spectrometer to reveal the so-called conflict elements mining fee's elements including tungsten tin cobalt gold on tantalum is in some cases leading to increased conflicts human rights violations and damage to the environment the amounts here are small but this is just one phone keep in mind that one point four billion new cell phones are manufactured every year. now that you know what your cellular film is made up of you might be interested in where the metals are coming from that startup is taking the lead by trying to produce and to go forth and setting standards to trace the source of the metals and ensure better working

conditions fearful is also want to lower device in which every element of the form comes apart and can be independently replaced. and the new mobile phone every year that's normal for many of us. out of all the people in india already have smartphones and demand is rising worldwide more than a billion new smartphones go on sale annually and the old ones they get thrown away fair phone a small company in the netherlands wants to stop this waste of resources it has developed a smartphone that is longer lasting and more easily repaired than most on the market mikhail bannister's one of the company's founders he richly studied industrial design. designers were in no way part of the problem of. very light very fast cycles so i started

studying the strategy behind the production of. products in general and for fun was a great place to develop my yes for. this is what the company's modular smartphone looks like it's easy to disassemble and repair and new parts such as improved cameras can be installed. the founders main idea was to produce the phones fairly means with fair wages and safety standards for the workers and without materials from conflict regions. they had to search widely to fulfill that requirement in northern rwanda they discovered the new book around a mining company which operates a tungsten mine this role for the sea here in measure funds. and that's made of thompson from here. the mine is close to the border with the democratic republic of congo. since conflicts in the neighboring country flared up again cells of tungsten from these mines plummeted.

you connection again. the mine itself the traitorous smelter of which is in austria but also like many factors in time. working. from them off from that specific mine so we were able to we were able to work with a mind that was out of conflict but also to help them have business again so that they can develop further. the fair phones are manufactured in china which is also where the gold used in the chips comes from. smartphones contain more than forty different metals itself their friend has only been able to build up a fair and sustainable supply chain for five of them that if it comes at a price a fair phone costs around six hundred euros sustainability has become a trend but it will be a while before it goes mainstream. until then huge numbers of phones will continue

to land in the garbage in many countries such as hearing ghana he waste is often incinerated or taken apart without safety precautions since its founding five years ago fifteen has supported a project in ghana devoted to recycling and used phones safely. what is important is that every cycle now we increase the amount of material in the world so that the industry doesn't matter where the industry has. the ability of these materials. if you want the cheaper price if possible down what is mines. ballasted regularly visits the company's partner in ghana. the workers from the local organization collect use mobile phones and store them in containers. we gave as soon as one is full it is shipped to belgium where the devices are taken apart by experts

and the individual materials are recycled or you know already. their phone has won a number of prizes for its efforts to manufacture under fair conditions. with around one hundred sixty thousand customers in europe it has captured a corner of the smartphone market and hopes to keep growing. we have tried to make this talent is very open and transparent because we want to talk more about the challenges not less so we have a different approach to sustainability if you want. as a risk as an opportunity. the name fair phone still promises more than the company can entirely deliver but it is helping to make the difficulties associated with fair production play for all to see. abandoned rice fields coffee food and cardamom is what an environmentally conscious couple found in one

thousand nine hundred one in the western cuts the region was rich in the city but it was neglected dr milo try and his wife pamela have now transformed the species into the country's first private sector. cautiously growing from a watering hole something that used to be unthinkable in broad daylight while life would never come out during the day time they were too afraid because the. hunting and poaching were pretty rampant when we came here. today more than two hundred endangered species live year and the one point two a square kilometer. thank you in southwestern india. is the life blood of bomber and a minimal worker about twenty five years ago they began to buy land the piece by

piece with their own money. what was here in ninety five were basically plantation lands or abandoned rice fields many areas were relatively barren of any type of tree cover because of having had coffee grown on them. today what is here now all of those lands have basically recovered. degree did india's private protected and reforested on a large scale. this is also what we have grown to along with. saplings and different going to preach. that they. need to priests who did say real we have had a number of scientific studies done within the sanctuary grounds and some of them that had to do with the carbon sequestration rate of native trees

versus exotic and native trees soak up much more carbon dioxide than the exotic stew so this helps to medicate or question the effects of climate change. the malodorous a letting the forest growth dead trees also in which disorder with nutrients. some centuries or rainfall the giants on the upright enjoyed. this is one of our old grandmother trees. it's a type of banyan and he's about four hundred years old. the main thing this century has changed and that is fresh water sources with these forests you will have streams and rivers. the jews who have to. create something that would benefit and. know and love

every inch of the desert this is one of our natural meadow areas it is a meadow because this is ground i under need so very few trees can get their roots down below the grand to grow but it's a great buy and so of grasses and eating for any of your grass seed are sure various steer your elephant anything that eats grasses loves these meadows. jem'hadar crops reveal the very idea of why life here like elephants on the move. to a red dog. even the leopard lives here. he

does easier to hear than see them and he should. crickets you know how much shit. you. shrink from shit from shit also. shit shut out of. the fighting to grow forests another participant who has run their companies and business people do follow their lead by up and down and back into wilderness. mrs marlow thrust out to me a body would have to wait ball will require to work towards the future the rest of the story is to give you something to think about if you have more idea. from the writer was it going to. be back next week until then back.

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