see. the world in 60 minutes g.w. . if you ever have to cover up a murder the best way is to make an accident. raring to. read a book like this. list. the streets. clever ways to protect and restore the environment that's what equal africa is all about and they can go into how does work south africa thanks for joining us and that goes for you too n.t. thanks ian a warm welcome to all of you from lagos nigeria i'm now outside we're

here to go present this week's show but like she was lined up today you will see how one of africa's largest waste dumps is beginning to clean up because now. they 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 straw. our 1st report concerns traditional practices in west africa where land is traditionally handed down to the males women are only allowed to cultivate land that they've been located by the met 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 a tear rocko a village in western looking a fossil in that village the men are preaching the women to use the lines for long term and that is proving to be quite impressive also for the environment.

but. this is still plenty of life in the it's a great plant they have been hacked for use as a canny catalyzed we need to raffle religion wisdom booking and fun so i've been trained to see fairly it's the loss of those old amazed 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 pulled down. and left for 10 weeks to composed. yet only for this soil is very poor but when you use these are gunning for tonight. the plants grow well and give a good meal which benefits in front of a loved one bunny saw. invoking a fossil 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 the ball as great cultural methods celestin milonga and other farmers can prevent so narration and even improve the harvest until recently few women in booking a fossil had long time and secure rights to funland this is now changing into iraq all thanks to a research project run by the national energy on grass and berlin best in g. think tank for sustainability. and so forth when you're in the past we were a lot of the wost pieces of land to call to vet i tried to plant a bomb baronets and other crops but the soil there are still 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 filter that one too i

mean a lot of what i thought. soil is and then renewable resource but when people fear losing their land 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 harvest steal it wasn't easy for the injury or to negotiate the transponder of land use rights to be married and here. i am. and then 13 or 4 pounds he explained to the men that nothing has been taken away from them but it will help them to have more if the women. and use them sell so we can tell the women that they can cultivate their land long term without difficulty that reassures them some difficulty. i mean that yellow now after 2 years the religious taking stalk there are plenty of questions

for the engine but now they're skeptics even the village elders have been convinced of the project's validity and conditions have improved for many families of what amount was that that's certainly true of celeste in the long thanks to the crowd it she has even been able to buy a pig and several sheep which has helped her to feed her 12 children and pay via school fees. various sounds and one before the project we had a lot of problems sometimes i didn't have even 100 francs for a kid to buy a pan for school but since the project started there's been a great change of family has progressed and. some women have now decided to form cooperative to advance the environmentally friendly cultivation methods they are 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 do you find 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 vases. the prostate bottles are a major source of pollution and much of kenya they chilled 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 not

cool to a 3 hour drive from nairobi after a thorough cleaning the bottles are cut into different shapes. and they're painted and skillfully decorated. the business partners sell them to individuals and organizations in the community. their bases are often used as wedding decorations. in fact i've been sending them to statutes and in touch with most of them but usually take the product they remain i have been seeing beautiful. looking making the i was in the office. of the entrepreneurs' make up to 60 decorative vessels a 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 full of all that it's been cold hell on earth. on this gigantic dump site in the sense. of godless 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 changes now of foot. i don't care for 3 yet. i have 4 that will let you know that buffalo stock a solid for you come. and gone as capital a crown repair shops can be found on every street corner and most specialize in one

type of electrical products many gunning ensconce for to buy them new so they buy do use devices and products passed on from developed nations and then keep having them fixed until that beyond repair. you know one of you or if someone brings me a television set that's beyond repair i dismantle lids and take out the parts because when 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 in at like . old televisions fridges and vacuum cleaners all these discarded elektra next contain valuable components. abdelkarim has learned to drive a hard bargain at across vast electronic waste dump known as i called blush he resells the scrap for a profit it's the only way he can on

a living. i'm crying. for 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 tried to smart off and i was i don't think. at the scrapyard metalworkers dismantle everything manually and find a new use for all the components couple parts for example can be taken to a workshop melted down and transformed into a bracelet. allen many i'm. coverage from old fridges also gets melted down he says on bearable and the smoke stings the work his eyes and fills their lungs. there is also now the minium baazi 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 grammy drowned in the waste so that meat and milk ends up contaminated too. but it's the burning plastic and the thick dust and certainly add that post the most serious health risk. for me and julie is focal from the university of gone to his spent years studying the adverse health effects suffered by the people who work at the waste dump. through. security would be just great for health for the. public.

in a bid to tackle the problem gemini's agency for international cooperation in 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 the waste 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. and about 3 right cells as well they are very explosive sometimes. you speak. if these are among the peoples. sparks of fire and the exclusion of all of the participants are also told how they can earn more from recycling the idea is that they will pass on their expertise to the $40000.00 other workers in the area.

we created to be. their meats and. market prices of. we go on line and we see this is how much you sell it this is how much you sell it it was the world price and because of the profits going nature of this exercise was easy to move. the inauguration of the new recycling center launch crown 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's energy. audit of all 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 fuel 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. 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. i e p's biggest client is the multinational linda which does some of its business and paula. for a firm with such a large operation having a reliable heating network is a top priority. i.e.

peace management points to the benefits of large companies switching to this type of system. linda linda has to focus on environmental protection and showing awareness of its carbon footprint with the believe geothermal energy can reduce that carbon footprint to a fraction of what it used to be for. 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. hula 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 it's. just stupid we have no emissions anymore that's great the fantastic that c o 2 emissions have gone down so much and all of. this preschool is among the institutions being supplied with the clean energy source with that the introduction of the system would have produced an estimated 114000 more tons of c o 2. in the white house might like to expand further we want to start more drilling. one time i was geothermal activity here is very promising so we'd like to keep drilling and supply the city of munich to. 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 they lay their harvest out in the sun to dry don't they empty. that's right but that is not without its own problems because the produce is only contaminated by insects or doest all spoiled by the way now a women's environmental program has set up a sober driver turned to improve you let's see what they've done. samari baker a para is processed in the course of a have this with the help of her naval after peeling and causing the tubers they'll be laid out to dry. air drying is the typical way people here in the nigerian village of a dog preserve but there's no standard method.

leaving the vegetables out in the open however makes them susceptible to contamination now an alternative is being tested dry a tent has been constructed for the purpose of drying fruits and vegetables sheet metal on the roof consent trace the heat of the song 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 some funds back out came to this community actually for beria on the gross on the market day i when i came i saw that there family lot of tomatoes and a lot of the tomatoes and pick away an abundance but by the time we're going have discovered that the woman did not sell this tomatoes and they were ready

to give us the view to give it away at a price of just memorable save for big basket. from any of us that are. in the past miriam luther 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. whenever i am i am pretty used right outside goats will eat them up and flies will pass on names when i do write them inside the tent be afraid just flies and they get you right still looking fresh and you know. oh mom bottle flourish. papa 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. visceral attains is of great help us. try our crops efficiently for details we have lots of harvests we stage due to experts. even when they cannot sell on market days they drive them and sell out of season and make a higher profit. the drawing tent is guarded to prevent test use of the tent follows a carefully organized shuttle. so for every person that comes. then my work what fun i got products so direct to put up a monitor in it as a ticket or move on to the person we call the highest this jr takes that takes about 2 days so they monitor each person that comes to the product so there's no

question of stealing or coming to take another person's hoarder. there are no plans to construct dry attends in other regions of nigeria to ensure that the farmers can make the most of the fruits of their labor. simple and practical those kind of inventions are often very useful one man in uganda came up with such an idea. says single use plastic items are just terrible small things of the modern world but probably 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 renewable traditional and made by uganda. by returning to his roots an entrepreneur from a big and said broadband found a way to make money for a natural resource and protect the environment across

a mumble simply revived a practice common to his forefathers. these tribes are long ago artist as used in for drinking the local brew. in uganda and he is strong as we used to they used to get them from i'd be our guide in and out of our places so we saw that it would be a great opportunity for us to buy single use plastic straws are we plant best when. the production process is simple. cotton to send grass streams to the right length before being washed and sterilized in boiling water. the straw was made by mother nature then dried in the sun. once they're ready they can be used and cleaned any number of times we are looking

at making people our way are brought we are not on we not only are we but this product metric and 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 op income and restrooms in the capital kampala we've been seeing a lot of plastic waste pile up 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 off 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 that the press releases and that must be that having someone you know well but i would absolutely use them at all i think feel like you can clean them. and i mean the connection. has a vicious schools for his business he wants to see plastic straw use age and you can just dropped by almost house in the next 5 years. and i could go on me for a cold drink like that one right now but that's all for this week thanks for watching i'm now a tag 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

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