person device is about topics that a successful. mission to climate change in terms. of reducing. the elian. clever ways to protect and restore the environment and that's what equal africa is all about i'm they can go into how does black 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 and now it's i am 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 its high. they will

pay a visit to a german town that warmed up to the idea of geothermal energy and then we'll hear about a traditional and eco friendly alternative to plastic school. fast a 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 and t. iraq or a village in western booking a fossil in that village the men up to meeting 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 dried out the plant stalks they're being hurt for use as organic or to life we may need to rappel religion was done booking a fuss so i've been trained to prepare it so what's up was organized by the technical services of the countries agriculture ministry it's a simple mixture of the plant remains are mixed with ash and water then trampled down. and left for 10 weeks to compost the root reality 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 it's all. 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 soil erosion and even improve they have bests until recently few women in booking a fast or hard 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 grad and berlin best t. in g. think tank for sustainability. affordability storm in the past we were alerted the wost pieces of land to call to vet i tried to plant a bomb baronets and other crops but the soil 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. to soil is a man 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 harvests steel it wasn't easy for the engine to negotiate the transfer of land use rights to women in the house. and. i am. and then one fairly important he explained to the men that nothing is being 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 with us you've been here oh now after 2 years the village is taking stalk there are plenty of questions for the engine but now there's skeptics even the village elders have been convinced of the projects validity and conditions have improved for many families of what was

that that's certainly true of celeste in the long ago thanks to the cross-checked 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. their sons are one but 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 corporate teams to advance the 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 find out 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 during your bits from now. from plastic waste to decorative vases. prospect 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 a waste in a cool to 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 interacting with most of them but usually take the product they remain. ok they have been seeing beautiful. looking mates in the i was in the office. 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 through a place full of all that it's been cold hell on earth. on this gigantic dump 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. i have 4 that will let you get that ball for us all with for you come. and gone as capital a crown repair shops can be found on every street corner most specialize in one type of electrical products many gunning 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 have beyond repair if you want 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 if. kojo abdul karim is one of approximately 5000 workers who collect scrap in and. old televisions fridges and vacuum cleaners all these discarded and contain valuable components. abdul karim 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 crying. for probably you under we. 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 often i'll see if i don't and. 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. out of many. covered from old fridges also gets melted down the heat is on bearable and the smoke stings the workers eyes and fills their lungs. the resulting out of minion bosley used to make cooking pots in all shapes and sizes. the toxic side effects of all this recycling are impossible to overlook the ground

is visibly polluted. lifestyle grama drowned in the waste so bad meat and milk ends up contaminated too. but it's the burning plastic and the thick dust i'm certain you have that pose the most serious health risk. for me. 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. through. security. 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 copy

cables from the work 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. grow very explosive sometimes. you speak very make it worse and if these. among. your years box of fire and the explosion is all over 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 other workers in the area. we need to be. there needs and. prices of. we will all

line and we see this is someone you sell at this truck that is how much you sell it was the wild rose and because of the profits going nature of this exercise it was easy to prove that. the inauguration of the new recycling center 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 all of you this is planet earth where we live this is the water and here is the crust inside it's hot magma which warms up the world. here in peru lattimer no one is considered too young to learn about the potential of geothermal energy these children are visiting a municipal owned company called i e p which directly harnesses geothermal. in many ways it's typical of small 10 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 cooler. 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 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 hese 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 he who wants to be in a position to supply every home in the time 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 it's great.

that c o 2 emissions have gone down so much and pull off. this preschool is among the institutions being supplied with the clean energy source or that the introduction of the system would have produced an estimated 114000 more tons of c o 2. like to expand further we want to start more drilling. geothermal activity here is very promising so we're going 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 pool our. and of course heat 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

a lady harvest out in the sun to dry don't they auntie that's right 0 but my part is not without its own problems because the produce is only contaminated by insects or dust or spoiled by the way now a woman's environmental program has set up a solar drive tent to improve you like see what they've done. farmer rebekah a para is processed in the course of a have this with the help of her new book 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 server 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 dry

a tent has been constructed for the purpose of drawing 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 out came to this community actually for burial and it was on the market day i when i came i saw that the family lot of tomatoes and a lot of the tomatoes some pick away in abundance but. by the time we're going of discover that the woman did not sell this to marcus and they were ready to give us the view to give it away at present just didn't matter if. the basket.

from. in the past miriam luto was often forced to sell her produce far too cheaply because it was on the verge of going bad when dried pop or relative of papaya keeps a lot longer and the new tent is a great improvement in terms of our genes i will offer to. whenever i am i want i'm pretty used right outside to go it will eat them up and flies will pass on name when i dried them inside the tent be afraid just flies and they get right still looking fresh and the nutrients in fact. 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.

this is the tense is of great help us it's going to be in days we'll try our crops efficiently for details and have lots of harvest restage due to an expected release even when the promise cannot sell on market days they drive them and sell out of season and make a 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. the. products so direct to put up a monetary need as to take it and it up and we call the highest this jr takes it takes about 2 things so the money each person that comes to the product so there's no 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. 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 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 renewable traditional and made by hand in uganda. by returning to his roots an entrepreneur from and begin found a way to make money free natural resource and protect the environment across a simpler revived a practice common to his forefathers. these straws are long ago artists as used in

them are for drinking the local booze. in uganda and the stores we used to they used to get them from they are guidance and other places so we saw it that it would be a great opportunity for us to buy single use plastic straws we plant best when. the production process is simple to cotton to surge grasses trained to the right length before being washed and sterilized in boiling water. the straws made by mother nature are 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 are we are right we are not on we are not only we bought this product but we can 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 products including up and coming restaurants 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. so consumers here welcome the organic alternative. this is the best famous feel good before it is the people and that must be that

thing going on when you are better i would absolutely use them a little i think feel like you can clean them. and any connection akram samantha has a vicious schools for his business he wants to see plastic straw use age in uganda drop 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. signing up 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 going to halliburton.

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