my choice is this card because even the way to try to speak to troops in the. end is the question how much and i want. to tell. you. kevin ways to protect and restore the environment and that's what equal africa is all about i'm they can go into hundreds but south africa thanks for joining us and that goes with. thanks ian a warm welcome to all of you from lagos nigeria and now it's i mean here to go present this week's show but let's see what's lined up today you will see how one of africa's largest waste dumps is beginning to clean up

because. that will pay a visit to a german town that warmed up to the idea of geothermal energy and they will hear about a traditional and eco friendly alternative to plastic school. fast report concerns traditional practices in west africa where land is traditionally handed down to the males women are only allowed to cultivate lands that they've been located by the men but that can be very frustrating when the women successfully farm the plots because the men can come and reclaim them one year to the next that's now a thing of the past in until iraq or a village in western booking a fossil in that village the men are permitting the women to use the lines for long term and that is proving to be quite impressive also for the environment.

there's still plenty of life in these the dried up plants stalks they're being hard for use as organic catalyzed we may need to rappel religion was done booking a fire so i've been trained to prepare it there was a ship was organized by the technical services of the country's agriculture ministry it's a simple mixture the plant remains a mixed with ash and water then trampled down. and left for 10 weeks to compost was the real me for this soil is very poor but when you use this organic fertilizer the plants grow well and give a good deal which benefits unfun abilify don't you saw. in booking afonso unsustainable land use and deployment of pesticides and chemical fertilizers have degraded the soil that's been except baited by the pressure to feed a growing population and the effects of climate change other factors like

deforestation and long periods of drought has also played a role would sustain a bull agricultural methods celestin 1000000 go and other farmers can prevent soil erosion and even improve they have ists until recently few women in booking a fossil had long time and secure rights to farm land this is now changing into iraq all thanks to a research project run by the national energy or grant and berlin best t. in g. think tank for sustainability. of all the vineyards in the storm in the past we were alerted the was to pieces of land to call to vet i tried to plant a bomb baronets and other crops but the soil was too poor if you do manage to grow something or your husband takes the land about from you he gives you a new plot and you suffer all over again if you succeed there will tip that one too i mean a lot of what i thought of that idea to soil is a man renewable resource but when people fear losing their line. they have less

incentive to invest and manage it in a sustainable way and equal land access therefore has a negative impact on food security and so in health giving women control over their land can improve both the soil and harvests steel it wasn't easy for the engine to negotiate the transfer of land use rights to women and. i am. then 13 lamport down he explained to the men that nothing has been taken away from them but it will help them to have more if the women produce and sell so we can tell the women that they can cultivate their land long term without difficulty that reassures them some difficulty. that was now up to 2 years the religious taking stalk there are plenty of questions for the n.g. all but now this kept ticks even the village elders have been convinced of the projects validity and conditions have improved for many family over what was not

that's certainly true of celeste in the long ago thanks to the crotch it she has even been able to buy a pig and several sheep which has helped her to feed her 12 children and paid for school fees. their sons are long before the project we had a lot of problems sometimes i didn't have even 100 francs for a kid to buy a panful school but since the project started there's been a great change of family has progressed and. some women have now decided to form corporate thieves to advance their environmentally friendly cultivation methods they're going to method requires time and patience but no further investment and not only does it allow the farmers to feed their families any surplus produce can be sold at the local market. it's truly amazing what they are doing there

the same can be said of the women in our next report they are buying that so surprising and the works of art being created by mary wonder are made from plastic bottles but they're so lovely that they're even being used as a wedding decorations. here's a doing a bit from now. from plastic waste to decorative bases. they trust bottles are a major source of pollution and much of kenya they choke drainage canals and waterways thereby posing health hazards marry one jack and davis order water turn old plastic bottles into decorative objects. first they collect the ways to knock a 3 hour drive from nairobi after a thorough cleaning the bottles are cut into different shapes.

and they're painted and skillfully decorated with. the business partners sell them to individuals and organizations in the community to their bases are often used as wedding decorations. and sucked out been sending them to strategists and interacting with most of them but usually take the product they remain i ok they have been saying it's beautiful ok look amazing there i was in the offices. of the entrepreneurs make up to 60 decorative bess also week with their creative concept marian davis demonstrate that single use plastic items can actually serve more than a single purpose. and how about you. if you are also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website or send us

a tweet hash tag doing your bit. we share your story. let's now go to a place so awful that it's been cold hell on earth. on this gigantic dump site in the sense. of ghana's capital accra tons of paktika burned every day along with electronic waste and other scrap the resulting toxins pollutes the ground and the air and ruin people's health however slowly but surely change is now a foot. i don't care for 3 yet. for the powerful i for now let. us all with for you come. and gone as capital a crowd repair shops can be found on every street corner most specialize in one type of electrical products many gun ensconce afford to buy them new so they buy used devices and products passed on from developed nations and then keep having

them fixed until they're beyond repair if you know what to do. if someone brings me a television set that's beyond repair i dismantle leds and take out the parts i remove the aluminum casing and the plastic parts and then i sell it all to scrap collectors from blushing. kojo abdul karim is one of approximately 5000 workers who collect scrap an electronics televisions fridges and vacuum cleaners all these discarded and they contain valuable components. abdelkarim has learned to drive a hard bargain at across vast electronic waste dump known as ag he resells the scrap for a profit it's the only way he can on a living. i'm fine with you for probably you under we are good and sometimes you know reach. you get or you know get.

i'm lucky i always see. always yeah and you know if i just want to often i was i don't think. at the scrapyard metalworkers dismantle everything manually and find a new use for all the components copy parts for example can be taken to a workshop melted down and transformed into a bracelet. out of many i'm. covered from old fridges also gets melted down he says i'm bearable and the smoke stings the work his eyes and fills their lungs. their results are now the 1000000 balls he used to make cooking pots and all shapes and sizes. the toxic side effects of all this recycling are impossible to overlook the ground

is visibly polluted. life stopped gramma drowned in the waste said meat and milk and contaminated too. but it's the burning plastic and the thick dust and certainly at that post the most serious health risk. from. julius fogle from the university of gone to his spent years studying the adverse health effects suffered by the people who work at the waste dump. cigarette. group for the. research. in a bid to tackle the problem gemini's agency for international cooperation the g.i. said has set up a recycling center on the site. they kicked off the project by buying coated coffee

cables from the workers so they no longer need to burn them. because can attend workshops in the middle of the scrap yard protective masks and proper tools make the process of recovering the scrap metal safe an. instruction is given on how to take the electrical goods apart in a way that minimizes the risk of damage to the health and the environment. rights also as well they are very explosive sometimes. you can see that the advantage make it worse and if these are. among the group you with box of fire and explosion is all over the participants are also told how they can earn more from recycling the idea is that they will pass on the expertise to the $40000.00 other workers in the area. we need to be. there needs and.

market prices of. we will all line and we see this is somewhere you sell at this crop that is how much you're selling there was no wild rose and because of the profits gone nature of this exercise was easy to lose then. the inauguration of the new recycling scented euro launch crowned from in and around. a football pitch was also built on the site that the workers can enjoy some well and down time and some fresh and. definitely a positive step towards providing people a better and healthier environment and that's what a town in southern germany is also trying to do they want to heat their homes and run their businesses using geothermal energy that is heat from the ground beneath your feet but how exactly do you go about tapping into the earth energy.

audit of one of you this is planet earth where we live this is the water and here's the crust inside it's hot magma which warms up the world. here in proof and no one is considered too young to learn about the potential of geothermal energy these children are visiting a municipal owned company called the e.p. which directly harnesses geothermal. in many ways typical of small town southern germany but it's made a name for itself on a national level for being a trailblazer in the area of geothermal energy. ips biggest client is the multinational linda which does some of its business in poorer. for a firm with such a large operation and having a reliable heating network is a top priority. management points to the benefits of large companies switching to this type of system. linda linda has to focus on environmental protection

and show an awareness of its carbon footprint to believe geothermal energy can reduce that carbon footprint to a fraction of what it used to be. the children get to see how the geothermal energy is harnessed. this is the. this is the drilling point number 2 number one is over there the water that comes out of them both has a temperature of over 100 degrees. the pipes are warm to the touch. the water is extracted from layers of rock 3 kilometers underground a device called a heat exchanger is used to transfer the energy into the network. once the water has cooled down it's pumped back to the geological layer it came from this ensures that the water levels within the layers of rock remain constant. the

existence of geothermal activity in the region has long been well known but the push to make cooler a center for harnessing it was led by a small number of people determined to see the project through. drilling began in 2004 by the following year the facility was supplying a number of public offices with heat hoola wants to be in a position to supply every home in the town with geothermal heating by 2024 a goal that seems possible. around half of the homes here are already being supplied with the existing system. the cost is comparable to that of oil and gas leasing and maintenance costs are low. i've been using geothermal energy for 3 years now hope and so far i've had no problems with heating. we have no emissions anymore that's great.

that c o 2 emissions have gone down so much and full of. this preschool is among the institutions being supplied with the clean energy source without the introduction of the system would have produced an estimated 114000 more tons of c o 2. to expand further we want to start more drilling. geothermal activity here is very promising this so we'd like to keep drilling and supply the city of munich to down the fossil. when it comes to a vision for a cleaner future there seems to be no shortage of any kind of energy in pula. and of course he can also be produced from other sustainable sources and not just used to heat homes when it's time to dry the crops most nigerian farmers and labor

harvest out in the sun to dry don't they anti. that's right but my thought is not without its own problems because the produce is only contaminated by insects or doest or spoiled by the way now a women's environmental program has set up a solar drive time to improve you might see what they've done. far more rebate a para is processed in the course of the harvest with the help of a new ball after appealing and causing the tubers they'll be laid out to dry. and drying is the typical way people here in the nigerian village of a preserve but there's no standard method. leaving the vegetables out in the open however makes them susceptible to contamination now an alternative has been tested in the dryer tent has been

constructed for the purpose of drying fruits and vegetables. sheet metal on the roof consent trace the heat of the sun inside the tent temperatures can rise up to 50 degrees celsius slits allow air to flow in and out from all sides the cost of the materials was covered by the ngo women environment program the structure was built by the villagers themselves sometimes back came to this community for beria on the gross on the market day i when i came i saw that the family lot of tomatoes and a lot of the tomatoes some people were in abundance but by the time we're going to have discovered that the woman did not sell this tomatoes and they were ready to give us and give give it away at a price of just christmas eve big basket. and that's from me and i

think in the past miriam looter was often forced to sell her produce far too cheaply because it was on the verge of going bad when dried pop or relative a pirate keeps a lot longer and the new tent is a great improvement in terms of r g i will refer to. whenever i am i want i'm pretty used right outside he goes will eat them up and flies will pass on name when i drive them inside the tent be afraid just flies and get right still looking fresh and you know trains in fact. oh mom bottle flesh. pop or okro and popular ingredients for making soup the dried produce can be so that large markets and for higher prices during the off season then the farmers can charge 30 times more for tomatoes.

this is the tense is of great help us it's jane that we need to try our crops efficiently for details and have lots of 1st harvest restage due to an expected remiss if when the promise cannot sell on market days they drive them and sell out of season and make it higher profits. the drying tent is guarded to prevent test use of the tent follows a carefully organized shuttle. so for every person that comes. back from trying to your products so direct to put up a monitoring it as to take it and it happens and we call the highest this jr takes it takes about 2 things so they monitor each person that comes to put the product so that's my question of stealing or coming to take another person's products there

are no plans to construct solar dryer tents in other regions of nigeria to ensure that the farmers can make the most of the fruits of their labor. was simple and practical those kind of inventions are often very useful one man in uganda came up with such an idea across mambo says single use plastic items are just terrible small things of the modern world the trouble is they do so useful functions and people don't want to do without them when it comes to drinking straws for example very fortunately an alternative it is natural we knew of all traditional and made by hand in uganda. by returning to his roots an entrepreneur from a big and somebody gunned found a way to make money free natural resource and protect the environment across a mumble simply revived a practice common to his forefathers. these tros are long ago artists as used

in our for drinking their local booze. in uganda and it is true as we used to they used to get them from they are guided in and are the places i saw we saw that it would be a great opportunity for us to fight single use plastic straws we plant best when. the production process is simple to cotton to said grass is tree and to the right length before being washed and sterilized in boiling water. the straws made by mother nature then dried in the sun. once they are ready they can be used and cleaned any number of times we are looking at making people are we are right we are not on we not only we bought this product but recalled also grow product as we grow food. started his business 4 months ago

with just 50 euros today the small company employs 15 people it already has aides regular clients buying his 100 percent organic product they include up and coming restaurants in the capital kampala we've been seeing a lot of plastic waste pileup actually in our restaurant among others and really in plastic containers with straws and this is one of the forefront items which we see in a glass in front of a client every day and really it's because this is a really great place to start. it's estimated that over 1000000000 straws are used and disposed of around the globe every day and they can take up to 200 years to decompose. the consumers here welcome the organic alternative. this is the famous feel good before it is the people that let's be. clear when

you are thinking i would absolutely use them and they feel like you can clean them . and any connection. has a big school use for his business he wants to see plastic straw use age in uganda drop by almost half in the next 5 years. and i could go on me for a cool drink like that one right now but that's all for this week thanks for watching. we're signing off from the faucet in lagos see you again next week but in the meantime i think i'll try and track down some of those straws myself. why don't see if you can find any maybe one of all of you was right there in nigeria will now feel inspired to make it's very well for me to for now but do stay in touch check out our website or visit us on social media by by phone johannesburg.

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