so you do 5 minute for minute. morse power and beauty. having all. the fits in the pantheon of the great tenors certainly he's one for the ages. look up. scott taylor. starts july 10th on the w. . welcome sick label 3009 fizzled about buying things because we're told that boosts the economy and not just in industrial countries in the middle classes of emerging

economies are also the constant target of seductive advertising campaigns this too much of everything including information. but how do we deal with it. and what happens with all the stuff we no longer want most countries have a trash problem only a few really recycle. rubbish piled high in the streets of beirut after lebanon's not just waste dump closed in 2015 it was already groaning under 15000000 tons of excess trash sounds took to the streets to protest against the situation has anything changed since then. the beaches in the lebanese capital beirut could be beautiful. but the reality is they're often half buried under garbage. so these young people are getting ready to transform their local beach they're taking part in

a campaign called run unclean it's the brainchild of eddie and his n.g.o.s live love beirut the group spends part of the time jogging and the rest picking up litter the events store up to 200 people. many young people in particular are fed up of waiting for the lebanese government to take initiative. this is part of the outcome of the crisis that we heard a few years ago we see that people are more and more concerned whereas all the problems facing the environment in lebanon and we are very happy to see that all the people young people families use are all coming all together in order to remove all the trash. much of the rubbish that the group picks up was not dropped on the beach but washed up by the sea that's because beirut's 2 largest garbage dumps are located right next to the water the team spirit is evident as young people from

beirut's muslim and christian communities come together in a rare joint project there's a lot of pollution in lebanon so we could do anything just so we can. help the local authorities are absent when it comes to waste management and i think we should put it on record that while we were running to clean this part of the beach because we saw the mayor walking in the opposite direction and we asked him to come help and lead by example and he said he was too busy. 3 years ago local residents forced the closure of what was then the main local dump garbage was left to mount up in the streets of beirut as garbage collection services was simply suspended not . heads up the nature conservation center at the american university of beirut she says the government let the crisis happen despite repeated warnings it will happen again because we don't seen from the government any plan to implemented

a sound waste management solution so it will happen in some cities but in some other cities where positive change has been already implementing it will not happen . these days garbage collection is once again working normally in beirut but the trash is simply taken to a new jump sometimes it goes to an incinerator but that pollutes the air recycling containers like these and not yet widespread these ones were provided by c i'd be shocked as company he says since the garbage crisis more people are keen to see recycling introduced. people have really embraced and they're asking us for more and more locations but the problem really however is that sometimes people leave their bags outside the bins they don't put in if you keep bags out other people bring in the garbage bags and they were places near those bags and then sort

of generates into a mini landfill. in addition to the recycling waste his company also solves through 20 tons of household garbage each day he's employed $23.00 syrian refugees to do the work giving them proper contracts and the local minimum wage equivalent to some $500.00 u.s. dollars a month the company collects metal textiles paper and huge amounts of plastic c.r.p. shaka open the facility in the middle of the garbage crisis taking out a loan of more than $700000.00 u.s. dollars. the garbage processed here gets 100 percent recycled organic waste which makes up. high percentage of garbage unleaded on this turned into compost. the problem was before the crisis is that all this worry is would go to a landfill and when the crisis happened this was the instigation to build

a facility like this one where you have sorting and composting and where nothing goes through the end of the intimidating. but that's not all on the roof of this refugee center in beirut he's putting some of the recycled waste to good use cod shock his company makes what he calls eco boards out of plastic waste they used to create raised beds the vertical gardening the beds of filled with compost generated from the organic waste. the rooftop offers over 100 square meters of space on which to grow vegetables there are $3000.00 plants here in all. a group of women at the refugee home have set up a catering service using the vegetables is there an accompanying. morphine yeah i'm back here and i have been. outside my home

have a good day and income. for my my family. meanwhile eddy batar from the beach cleanup campaign is pursuing new solutions for beirut's waste disposal a mobile phone up allows residents to have paper and plastic waste collected from their homes his drivers deposit the waste in the carriage ready for a partner company to collect and recycle it. they're now getting between 60 and 100 orders a day. if that demagogue we will relieve the room to grow and the people want more of those services because it's hard. in just 6 months 15000 people have downloaded up and 5000 households using his service regularly. parts of old clothes also

find their way into the trash most within a year many of them unworn every 2nd the equivalent of a truckload of textiles arrives at a trash depo or is burnt making 500000000000 u.s. dollars worth of wasted goods a year. the clothing industry is also environmentally damaging every year over half a 1000000 tons of textile microfiber end up in the oceans the equivalent of $50000000000.00 plastic bottles. greenpeace says that between 200-2014 worldwide clothing production doubled it's now around 100000000000 items a new clothing. in germany consumers buy an average of 60 such items annually and wear them just office long as they did 15 years ago. and spend time on from the german clothing foundation is

a patient man and he doesn't mind his job unpacking boxes of discarded clothing and blankets in the city of homs that but over the past 5 years he's noticed a change people now throw in all kinds of items that simply don't belong here it's . a construction site warning them. of. clothing banks are increasingly being used as garbage containers perhaps a case of people not only having too many clothes but too much of everything so how is this happening to. the cotton fields have traditionally been a key factor in the production and pricing of quality clothing global cotton production is on the rise climbing 14 percent last year alone nevertheless the proportion of textiles containing cotton has dropped that's because of the growing over production of clothing and other textiles worldwide. cotton is

gradually being displaced by synthetic fibers with the chemical industry eager to expand its share of the supply chain as a quick glance around shopping zones in germany confirms synthetic clothing is all the rage in addition to the low prices that can cater to different requirements being comfortable jura bull and breathable and umbrella organization for clothing collectors in germany is alarmed by the trend toward more and cheaper textiles i've . every year in germany 1000000 tonnes of textiles off thrown away that's the equivalent of a queue of trucks covering 1000 kilometers. it's unrealistic to expect all that material to be used for people in need. you know from all we calculate that less than 10 percent is actually given to local charitable initiatives. like i give them . as for the other 90 percent that's passed on to sorting companies which later

sell it on the world market the priceless companies pay has fallen in recent years to $300.00 euros per tonne 5 years ago they were paying 400 per tonne back then the surplus of used clothes was not as excessive and the quality was better to. those highs to untie the proportion of poor quality textiles those which are no longer wearable is rising and the problem especially with these low quality items is that they're often only partially recyclable if it's whole. if you believe the advertisers people who want to look good don a new outfit every day more troops in many western countries are bursting at the seams because clothes are cheat or rather in market speak good value for money and compliant customers duly take the bait. the profits of prime mark h. and m. and other global retail chains are rising sharply as are their share prices and

customers are wearing clothes for ever shorter periods of time it's a classic consumerist cycle. spend steinman from the german clothing foundation has reached the next collection point this makes the one with the building site beacon look pretty orderly. so what's his impression of this container. not so nice. there was i guess where throwaway society sadly a lot of all. of us need for something smells a bit rancid here. and. what does he mean by rancid. it's things like someone's throwing away their rubbish in here. what was his most extreme experience so far. as the rotting food with maggots i've seen it all. but poor hygiene is not the only problem

facing the clothes collecting organisations. the materials have become noticeably thinner. parcel donations help to compensate for the declining quality. people who send donations by post to the german clothing foundation tend to wash the garments before hand they seem to give more consideration to those in need. nonetheless it's becoming increasingly expensive to ensure the requisite quality when it comes to the bales of compressed clothes that eventually go for sale on the world market. for mr i've got something we have to sort through a huge amount just to get to the 4 or 5 percent of good quality items. around 80 percent we can only sell to industry for uses filler material and use the income to finance relief aid projects that we are because they feel it's here. but it's

a system under threat african markets which for decades have provided new homes to german cast offs are becoming more selective. uganda for example is making efforts to boost its own small scale textile industry. that's one reason why the economic area the east african community wants to halt imports of secondhand clothes starting next year it's a move that many say is long overdue but not everyone's applauding after all many consumers in countries like uganda do benefit from access to used european clothes . next on 2nd hand for flu matter a lot of people secondhand is the best option for getting quality clothes. secondhand autumn's are often cheap and good plus that trading them can also provide people with an ankle. through flu mention back in germany the flood of

discarded clothes is not set to stop anytime soon so german clothing recycler so access working with. many major high street retailers now take back clothing this means the stores can claim their businesses are more sustainable and in the best case scenario companies like renu sell in sweden recycle the clothes and turn them into a form of synthetic cotton. and the consumers they get vouchers in return for their old clothes to put towards more new purchases from their favorite stores. information that something people complained about jewing they were in a sense back then of course only scholars have access to all the knowledge compiled in manuscripts and books. now thanks to the internet a flood of digitized information has become part of daily life. whether the

students tradespeople children over such as more than half of people worldwide use the internet. 400 hours of youtube video material are uploaded every minute. 103000000 spam emails landed our mailboxes every day. $500000000.00 tweets are posted to twitter per day. that's $6000.00 tweets per 2nd. it's more than any one person could process in a lifetime a constant bombardment of stories images and marketing can overwhelm leading to information overload. but what accounts for this cloud. with new information being produced at such a rapid rate everyone feels pressured to produce new content just to keep up.

newspapers update their on line sites throughout the day. and audiences to have gone global anyone can make a video and upload it and the number of news and media portals continues to rise. too much information too many choices many people respond in one of 2 ways. we can become overstimulated. addicted to the constant flow of information but. our stress levels rise and we worry we might overlook something interesting or important. others go none lose interest in the information and succumb to the colorful flow of images. us when we're stressed we become forgetful then lose focus busy where i find worrying is the polarizing effect where we see everything as black and white we're quicker to perceive a situation as threatening when we are overwhelmed we're more likely to go on the attack. psychiatrist than cause it's

a conduct research at the center for internet and mental health at the shotty university hospital in berlin. mentioned people have a need for information but this glut the way the media is always blaring the alarm makes us afraid even of the real world we live in a virtual reality we might be walking through a safe city but the constant flood of scary headlines makes a. afraid. we're pummeled with opinions claims and counterclaims it can become difficult to distinguish between real news and fake. and there's little to help make sense of the chaos. search engines don't necessarily give us the best results but the results promoted by paid advertisers. it's a big problem when the internet is entirely controlled by money that has to stop as a society we need to step in both politically and as individuals. the internet

affects our brain maybe even rewiring some studies have shown that constant multitasking on our computers and devices over taxes are prefrontal cortex. another said he has shown that the area of the brain responsible for thumb movement is larger in people who use a smartphone. so we can't just say the internet is dumbing us down. it's mentioned when humans began using their opposable forms and using tools it changed their brain structure we began walking more upright so that we could better use our hands our brain always has to adapt to new conditions it would be terrible if it couldn't. so how do we adapt to this new reality some radically limit their exposure others try to approach the online information in healthier ways but there's no getting around it nowadays everyone needs media literacy.

more than 821000000 people on our planet suffer from starvation one in 9 of us doesn't have enough to eat and yet a 3rd of food worldwide is wasted north america australia and new zealand tops the list of food waste is in 2nd place europe. meanwhile in sub-saharan africa generally very. little food is wasted but south africa is a clear exception. tachyon a front man pays regular visits to the garbage dumps around cape town. she studied the waste to a lifestyle of many south africans and says changes urgently needed. every year the landfill alone receives thousands of tons of food waste it comes from restaurants factories and local farms.

reus to make that a surge of food is dumped in south africa every year this has significant ecological impacts because all that food has compounded water and energy and from a climate change perspective in the landfill it emits harmful greenhouse gases both nice and carbon dioxide inside africa up to 12000000 people don't know where their next meal is coming from and yet we're wasting 10000000 tonnes of food every year. question has spent years looking at ways of reducing food waste here in the western cape he works for the regional department of agriculture from bollman has come to visit one of his projects which he believes could provide a model for the rest of the country. has managed to persuade farmers to donate their food surplus instead of plowing it back into the ground lizette kloppers farm

is the collection point. 7 local farmers bring their excess produce here. you should see the quality it is not thrown away food it is export quality that they just deliver. pleased seeing me anything even if this it at the mall on the spot to something though that's not good enough they want to deliver the beast so yes they want to give sometimes several tons of food arrived here in a single day government sponsored vehicles then transported to soup kitchens in nearby townships like a.v.m. park which is home 220000 people. poverty is right here as our gang violence and drug crime and it's often the children who suffer most. of that so today we're cooking a dish with pumpkin to take hose carrots and other vegetables then we'll serve it

with rice that's what we're giving the children today. by the time the soup kitchen opens crowds of children are already waiting it feeds $150.00 of them a day serving nearly $3000.00 meals a month if it weren't for the soup kitchen those children would go hungry. to have the center only caters for children many of whom are undernourished. most people in the township live from state benefits the soup kitchens may be a lifesaver for some but they're still not the ideal solution long term. handouts are not going to put us on a sustainable chick tree we need to look at the whole system and we need to look that that leaves for a change to tip the system into a positive state be a for looking at the issue of farming both on

a commercial level how bit of farming practices can be. implemented but also for small hold the farmers so that they are both environmentally and economically sustainable. another example in a park shows just what smallholder farming can do a few years ago some of the residents teamed up with the department of agriculture to begin growing their own food the township now has 45 food gardens where members plant fresh vegetables for the local community those in need can come and collect for free the garden project has been running since 2015 instead of getting paid the members get a share of the harvest. as there were still to be cultured to create food gardens for community groups the purpose to live in the community to food produce to the bulls but we soon realise that it's will not be enough to address the food security problem. and therefore be supplemented the food

with donations that we get from the food surplus project that we're doing with the commercial for those in the. major food retailers are now joining the initiative to instead of disposing of food that is past its sell by date the retail chain woolworths donates it to charitable organizations that work with the poor all the food is still within the use by date and to ensure it remains refrigerated at all times woolworths issues it directly from the shops cold storage room. and it has given me great hope for the future that we will no longer have the absurd situation of wasting a 3rd of all the environmental and climate impacts that go along with that and actually work together through the value chain to ensure that all edible food is an idea he reaches those who need it the most. today the unsold food is going to

a homeless shelter. in cape town it's a practice that could work for the whole of south africa in a country where 12000000 people regularly go hungry at least a part of the surplus food could be put to good use. that's all from global 3000 this week as you know we love hearing from me so drop us allowing to global 3000 that d.w. dot com wolf is it us on facebook d w global society by phone now.

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