the jingling of points and super rich were definitely around 20000000000 more or less. how do germany's wealthiest people live why do they keep such a low profile we have a snoop around to catch a glimpse. of the top of the world the disc life of the super rich starts june 10th to double. the. welcome to a new edition of eco africa the environment magazine co-produced by channel vision in nigeria d.d. will be in germany and in south africa. park in lagos nigeria

hello to all our viewers again and hello to my colleague in south africa hey andy and hello to everyone. coming to you from johannesburg today we're focusing on environmental pollution starting with the plastics gouge scientists with the alan mack author foundation recently predicted that by 2050 in terms of weight they'll be more past it than fish in our oceans we're going to take a look at some of the ways we can turn back this tide. education is a good start school children in ghana learning about plastic recycling. replacing plastic is another in uganda women make paper from elephant dung. and how about repair like smartphones manufactured sustainably. children are especially vulnerable to environmental threats due to their developing organs and immune systems smaller bodies and airways but they can also be very good

at affecting change that's why the n g o environment to 60 teaches children about proper waste disposal and also introduces them to green technology and the knowledge they take home usually rubs off on the rest of their families. saying. a big if. once a week at. school the kids have a class on environmental studies. where we are surrounded when the place is what's dead we need to see if you're not still what's happened. yes the fall sick. most of those who. are out in the class the young people on things like how to properly separate trash for recycling them want to have us the west they discovered that pepper and plastic

are valuable resources that can be sold for cash income from them has helped finance projects and study materials at the school run through paris came. busy only about recalls home has been used to all robbers just a simple use realize no says the so thinking about the coming weeks there how to salt when did brute's. because of. such it's good because it generates income from the us so much happens when the content is a food they're picked up by the ngo and barrowman 360 s is said to have been a share to the american intentionally put children at the center of the project. we've learned that children may not be decision makers but they're great influencers so i'll give the example if you've ever been around

a child i think we've all found ourselves doing things just to keep the peace or not to be bothered a little bit longer when as this came to kind of 5 years ago never in how wildest dreams would she have predicted that one day she'd be the head of the country's largest plastic recycling film environment 360 is a mixture of n.g.o.s and company and income is re-invested in new programs last year we were cycled right at 150 or so tonnes of plastics not think about 200 tonnes of paper with is this essentially was able to support all 43 schools on our recycling program we employ 13 people at environment 360 so 10 of those have actually been paid for. the rest cycling services. this is a 10 minute town a poor settlement outside a car that has a container pod on one side and enough to park on the other this is where barrel in

360 has set up is fast recycling center throughout the day steady stream of people brings material they have gathered in their districts here for sorting and weigh up to 5 tons of plastic a month the company pays by kilo caution and interesting rule is make 10 minute a plastic a plastic with 3 communities so what everywhere you go everybody knows about waste management single beating and then don't know how to manage or even keep waste and we wouldn't see plastics just lying down i don't have such date coming plastic based on color and quality for further processing she's been doing the job longer than anyone else here and have to organize the women in the neighborhood into our west because association so if in it yes sometimes the work is disgusting. but environment 360 provides us with everything we need. we have

a shower here and we can wash our clothes after work. so when we go back to the community nobody knows how dirty we sometimes are. tama has been out and about in this land since early this morning the single mother of 5 doesn't have a lot of options when it comes to making money. i'm a what up i didn't have modeled them i have had them and. model on the women in the community some of them sell water at the south provisional fruits others go to the fishing harbor to buy fish which they smoke and sell but now a lot of them pick waste on their way back home to what not love apple. you know $1.00. environment 360 well pick up the field socks later.

bobby jr high school is out for the day time to gather up the west that's ended up in the school yard in the course of the day. don't forget to wash your hands after what's now days these kids in gonna clean up the west they have produced as a matter of cause. these children already have a clue how plastic can be recycled but not everybody knows what to do with the empty plastic bottles plastic bottles are easy to buy but not so easy to get rid of they pop up all over the place littering the streets and nature to all too many end up in waste dumps or washed out to sea. plastic bottles are made from petroleum they are light practical and can be found pretty much everywhere. globally a 1000000 are sold every single minute of the day if they were placed end to end the plastic bottles sold in 2016 would form

a chain stretching all the way to the planet mercury but we don't need to go to mercury so you've bought a drink in a plastic bottle and finished it what happens next in an ideal scenario it will be re-used some can be refilled up to 15 times if there washed properly most aren't that sturdy though. many end up in a shredder where the ground up into flakes of plastic. these can be used to make products like fleece clothing very nice except for the fact that every time the fleece has watched it releases plastic particles into the water. what about the rest of the plastic bottles they get thrown away or dropped right in the street or somewhere out in nature a significant portion of them land in dumps or are eventually carried out to sea. between 5 and 13000000 tons of plastic garbage end up in the ocean every year a huge problem because plastics can take up to 450 years to decompose. if

plastic trash doesn't get caught in propellers on ships or isn't washed up on the beach in the floating pieces grow smaller and smaller as they drift with the currents algae grows on their surfaces and that draws fish and sea birds they think the particles are food and swallow them when too much collects in their stomachs real food no. longer passes through and they starve. and if those fish end up in our nets they enter our food supply directly either is fresh or can see food do we want to eat that no we don't because it certainly isn't healthy almost everybody has one but do you know where the metals in your mobile phone come from do you n.t. no not exactly to be honest but mainly i guess their mind here in africa. for example very often on that terrible working conditions and high end by mental

costs that's why adults start out came up with the idea of developing an ethical smart phone and in the process raises awareness aware of the metals that go into it . more than a 1000000000 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. i always thought that designers were in no way part of the problem of over consumption very light very fast promo cycles so i started studying for 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 model

a smart phone looks like it's easy to disassemble and repair and new parts such as improved cameras can be installed. the phone is main idea was to produce the phones fairly that 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 c c here in measure fine shakes and that's made of thomson 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. without for a while we did this. in connection again all the hating partners so that means the

mine itself the traders the smelter which is in austria but also like many fighters in time to gather and work in the supply chain the source of material from the mouth of iran now from that specific mine so we were able to we were able to work with a mind that was out of conflict but also help them have business again so that they can be. further. the fair phones are many affected in china which is also where the gold used in the chips comes from. smartphones contain more than 40 different metals itself their phone has only been able to build up a fair and sustainable supply chain for 5 of them that if it comes at a price a fair phone costs around 600 euros sustainability has become a trend but it will be a while before it goes mainstream is definitely frontier model it's definitely a topic but it's still a nation topic there is a certain market for fairly produced smartphones but i don't think it's mainstream

yet but it's a topic that may change the moment that manufacturers are able to combine fair production with performance and up to date features. when that moment comes i think demand will rise considerably. by their phone has won a number of prizes for its efforts to manufacture under fair conditions. with around $160000.00 customers in europe it has captured a corner of the smartphone market and hopes to keep growing. talents that we have tried to make mr allen 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 wreath there's 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 plain for all to see. in recent years mobile phones have become almost essential for making money transfers and handling business transactions in africa and of course you can take your phone with you wherever you go where you also have to keep the battery charged here in nigeria that's not always so easy because the past apply is quite erotic but then again engineers at the university of nigeria are working to alleviate the problem let's go see what they're doing. nigeria's national power supply is notoriously unreliable. there are frequent outages so many people depend on generators. engineers at the university of nigeria looking for solutions. they've constructed a system that converts organic waste into gas. materials such as corn husks or

wood chips of lead into the reactor what we. call. a chemical process produces gas which in turn powers a generator that produces electricity. we've never. seen. one that we've been able to deny. that we've been there would have been lying through which we know of their environment. this power plant cost about $25000.00 euros to build. because as the energy needs for the department of engineering but researchers are working on a larger version. it would take 12 of those larger versions to supply energy for the whole campus that would save the university a lot of money and put waste to good use to the people and the environment.

and how about you. if you're also doing your bit tell us about it. visit our website or send us a tweet hash tag doing your beat. we share your stories. from nigeria we are now heading south to check out a pretty amazing project believe it or not some women in a small community in the western uganda make a living by selling. dung only after i mean turning the. bank on their own enables them to send that children just school also people medicine and in the long run this woman is about. also hope that their contribution will help to discourage elephant poaching as well. oh.

elephants dong is a valuable resource for people here members of the tara community who live near the queen elizabeth national park collect these drop ins as a woman hero for people. moses is heading up the project he picked up on the idea after a group of tourists explained the process to him. off that long time suffering because of. the bhangra under strain we look on how we're going to get the compensation for the groups which are destroyed by the elephants. the plants eaten by elephants contain fiber that makes excellent paper the woman 1st soft in the dung boiling and washing it to clean it orally the remaining fibers are then built into and dried. the guitar community uses the paper to make bags notebooks and event cards scraps can be turned into

necklaces the communities products are purchased by lodges in the park and sold on to tourists for between 5 and 15 dollars. then those in the city and we use some of the money to buy school much as for friend children. that's provided. while the rest we reinvest in the hands of crafts shop and. there were. other villages have also turned to collect in elephant dung these farmers be able to make shift houses in their fields to keep watch over the crops when the elephants come they try to chase them away and keep the drop ins on average they collect about 100 kilograms of dung every week that i've got to tell. when the elephants have headed back to the park we go out and get the donkey dry it

and sell it to the tara community i am $3.00 for each bucket and that helps me buy something that's a. little bit of a moment for. now you want to know much will quickly and uganda many farmers are women often they are we don't swith no other source of income their husbands were killed while poaching in the park the elephants pose a real threat to their crops but being able to make an income from their don't has helped change their attitude towards the elephants or go without. bad feelings and out of power now we're focusing on improving this project. in us to pay for our children's school fees. screw ups avila fact hasn't had enough because their fathers were killed there too also such projects like these i was young luckily for us wildlife authorities say the qatar community's help in uganda its population of

5000 elephants to grow back in the 1980 s. they were just 700 of the animals left in the country. knows there's a god and others in the project are committed to the cause at 1st our people our own days were killed in a forest to get i voted for sale and others then they get to meet for sale and others they pose on because of being annoyed so we're also trying to address the extinction of elephants you know community because as i talk to people now they are no longer kidding and no longer boys are not going to fuss because they are gaining . income out of course i think that in a france and with the elephant population growing business is booming and most is a godless paper making startup i'm extreme what takes us today

gyptian capital. do you know what the population of. over 9000000 i mean if you include greater cairo it's actually over 20000000 that makes it the 2nd most populous metropolitan area in africa after my home lagos city. and as you know n.t. a large cities come with a lot of problems like meeting the city's food needs there's plenty of farmland along the nile of course and egypt still imports a lot of food now there's also an initiative it to use the city's rooftops as gardens let's pay a visit to one of these green oasis. every day mohammed tahar tends to his garden for 3 years now the morrison has been planting different vegetables on the rooftop terrace of his mosque in the quarter of a teen. it's a patch of green in the concrete jungle of cairo. illinois. mainly looking to create

a clean atmosphere in the area and on the roof. not much more than that. the income generated from this goes into the charity trust here at the mosque. he often brings his grandchild along who really loves rock ale. mohammed didn't have to pay for the equipment cairo based organization should do installed it for free. shareef cousin e and his brother set up the n.g.o.s 8 years ago they decided to work with hydroponics because that requires little water and no soil and the space for the efficient system on practically any rooftop. do that for families with low income this kind of project can raise income a little bit. of them a 3rd be available for that so it doesn't have only environmental benefits if it.

but also social ones. in poorer districts like hell while roofs are often cluttered with old trash should do things now setting up 500 gardens here instead the residents of this building set up their micro farm 3 months ago and now they're ready to harvest for the 1st time that i mean it's beautiful i wish everyone would do this and those who have the space should get involved and do this to. get up there unused here. installing a rooftop garden cost the equivalent of $630.00 euros but the families only have to pay around $20.00 euros of that. 95 percent of the large scale project is being financed by a swiss foundation should do pfizer any surplus produce and sells it in the egyptian capital with the help of other local n.g.o.s.

some mustapha installed the 1st rooftop garden 8 years ago since then he's put up over 200 off them. her mind it was 30 on this rooftop we're working with 2 families. because they live each one will receive 2 setups that's $420.00 plants in total many origin enough to do the stuff i'm sure do you explain to the families how often the plants need watering and which strains grow best. probably around what we have around projects where we planted seeds with young girls between $9.15. people of any age can learn how to use this hydroponic system you know with a company it's not complex or hard to maintain that they're how we determine how much. the residents also learn how to get started by placing witching

strips in all the cups they feed water to the roots. then seeds around it. they chose malaki a plant widely cultivated in egypt and lettuce. in a few months when the plants are growing to maturity the families can harvest twice a month. you know i mean we're also beautifying our roof people looking out of the window or coming up here we'll see a lovely scene. the dedication of a few families will hopefully inspire others to follow the rooftop gardens are already helping cairo grow a little greener. and without lovely view it's time to say goodbye now with our weekly roundup of environment stories. and you wrote thanks for watching and that's. in lagos and it's goodbye for me to end south africa don't forget to join us on our social media platforms and web

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