you know my grandchildren were born after the war for mourning 3. 3 generations one family on a journey through recent german history. starts number 6 on t.w. . plastic is everywhere you know what to watch lunchboxes in make up to and a favorite snake eyes and all of that don't store garbage faster than you would imagine according to the latest numbers 316000000 tonnes of plastic was produced in 28 that number is growing every year and most of it is not recycled hello welcome to india. coming to you from mumbai to be really deep dive into how we can tackle

the problem of plastic waste head on india's prime minister in that interval he is putting his might find phasing out single use plastic by 2022 the country generates 5600000 tonnes of plastic waste a huge number given how poorly it's segregated and who cycle and organization and the need is using technology to convert plastic waste back into its base of crude oil let's take a closer look at how it works. renewable mother's day usually begins with back breaking work. she surely has the responsibility of feeding a family of 4 so she needs to collect and drop 500 every day. she can't afford to buy kerosene despite a government

a scheme to provide poor households. or liquid petroleum gas reno lack clean cooking few. on days that she can find good she has to dissolve to burn a plastic. and it leaves her and her family at an increased risk of heart disease and respiratory diseases like. india generates close 226000 tons of plastic waste every year making it to 15 largest plastic waste bluto in the world. it is this type of 10 plastic known as multi-layered plastic packaging

r m l p that slips through the cracks of india's waste management system. bees are also glaringly absent from the dirty dozen list that developed single use plastic items which have been banned in india since october 2090. it was in 2009 that. decided to take matters into her own hand along with her business partner but. first 3 to 4 months we literally sat down with him with an interview as mechanical engineers hollywood engineers or anybody to do with plastics and then of eli's plastic is a fossil fuel. after months of research and failed experiments with the help of scientists friends the dew adopted a technology that converts all kinds of plastic waste into a high grade food that is environment friendly and as a high combustion well you. with production costs of about 24 apiece by little

that's about pretense of your this if you can be used as a few without any need for further processing. when you're born this sell for outboard is much much less than the diesel that is allowed. to sell for content is around 80 ppm while with us is point $17.00 p.p.m. so emission wise it's much more clean the view. is. that you do meet people where they state that. is reset. local wall and the organizations like this group of residents from 34 communities are important and do that as fight against plastic pollution we've got our societies we talk to the people we tell them the ill effects of plastic and how the

drought is recycling in an environment friendly manner and because we have been doing it from 2016 it is now become easy for us to convince societies and people in california now that. the garden city and urban township into this has become our regulars are over 100 families in this residential complex separate their waste and recycle their plastic. once a fortnight the residents drop off the collected plastic at the designated location . employees from the memorial cross the sister concern of lewd conduct these pickups from 15000 locations in 150 kilometer radius and and around the city. i.

first hard lost 6 bags and then our terms are separated from each other. the plastics been crushed then everything goes into the reactor the process called turmel catalytic the polymerization is set in motion by using a catalyst in the absence of oxygen. in a state of being but the blast to greystone the reactor is gradually heated between 150 and 200 degrees celsius when the plastic starts to melt and between 30430 degree celsius it arises the substance

that remains in the polyfuse which is filtered stored and made ready for delivery. not only is it sold at a cost of about $40.00 rupees or about half where you are. the company's it also reaches people like rita. says. look this is a little boy instead of burning ford if i use this body it is better for me but it does not harm my children the flame does not turn my utensils black there is not much pollution i. saw in those evening. has installed then plans for recycling plastic raced across maharastra and. all the

plastic raised to collect is recycled or there is none left over. fumes from plastic raised this recycling process could perhaps be implemented worldwide. if it could be made to function on. the pioneers in india and other countries are still working on it. now many countries around the world simply don't know what to do with the monumental amount of plastic waste. the u.s. and countries in europe for example have been exporting their plastic waste to china for years but ever since china stopped buying this waste and 20 the market has moved elsewhere. plastics plastic and more plastic and the stocks are only getting higher recycling companies in

germany have been pushed to their limits in recent years. because we didn't have enough processing capacity in germany the volumes involved and the production costs were just too high for huge quantities of plastic way starship broad as a result around half of the world's plastic waste used to be sent to china to be processed there in 2018 china stopped accepting as other countries have filled the gap. the main destinations for germany's plastic waste are now in malaysia $132000.00 tons a year followed by india has around $76000.00 and then indonesia in the 3rd place at more than $64.00 sides and followed by vietnam at nearly 57000 tons. of size as of mines but in malaysia the trash piles up on dumps like this they

don't recycle here at all the trash dk is polluting the soil and groundwater likable. the money is here i'm offering 1st if you have a little rummage around here you'll see a lot of it comes from germany from other european countries too and the u.s. but there's a lot from germany this is an old capri sun is on the. there's a mix of household rubbish and used packaging and. the volume is starting to overwhelm many of the importers because there aren't enough plastic recycling plants environmentalist group greenpeace discovered 45 legal and 5 illegal landfills in one malaysian region alone with garbage from more than 19 countries. the biggest export there is the us around 16 percent their plastic weights get sent abroad. japan exports more than 15 percent germany more than

12 per cent and the u.k. more than 9 per cent. recycling old plastic trash into new plastic is a complex and costly process it has to be separated cleaned and source it exports are only legal if the country they're being sent to can process them but asian countries are often found ways that's barely recyclable. the environmental and health impacts have led many countries to limit imports or ban them completely but waste still get sent there illegally cambodia recently received 83 containers with a ram 1600 tons of banned plastic waste from the u.s. and canada officially declared as recyclable materials cambodia plans to send them back. home.

leave germany conducts regular checks to prevent these kinds of illegal exports environmental authorities here in the port of hamburg want to determine exactly what in the cargo it's not always clear cut. what can and cannot be recycled he must take the bottles you see these images of them being sorted by hand made into pellets and into things like outdoor clothing. but not all plastic waste is as pure as it should be the manufacturers aren't careful enough or they just want to make some fast cash those are the criminals. that's a done deal we know. some companies are already working on alternatives to exports in plastic a chip maker and recycling company at an environmental institute have joined forces to build a recycling ship it will anchor in 7 african countries and buy plastic waste from the collectors on lands to be recycled right there on board the vessel.

lots of people make a living from selling garbage like here in sierra leone they could make 5 times more money by selling it to the recycling ship on one condition the plastic is pre-selected interesting overriding seen around 60 $4000.00 tons of plastic waste could be recycled here every year. because of the call home and of course on lot of them we need a big plant to process plastics in a profitable way and none of these countries has the means to build one that big we think we'll be able to buy our own $10000000.00 euros worth of plastic every year as if it's the middle of. it when you think it takes 10000 euros of revenue to create a full time job in these countries and we could create 1000 jobs in the region in.

building the resources to process plastic waste where it's created could help the world to start breaking down its mantle of rubbish. when plastic is not recycled. what exactly is all the waste going about $8000000.00 tonnes exports have proven end up in our oceans which is then eaten by sea creatures big and small unknowingly a group of people in the movie have come together to change this after they found the dying we're stranded on the coast with a stomach full of plastic. goes or shows how the cleanup effort con started with a tragic incident off this island near vatican norway that happened in january 27th . the doctor thought it would be hot in the probe a rare groove used beaked whale that was found stranded in shallow waters. every attempt to herd it back to the open sea failed the whale was weekend emaciated and

eventually had to be euthanized. when scientists at the university of barragan examine the whale they made a discovery its stomach was full of plastic bags. people in norway were horrified by the images tens of thousands flocked to the beaches to help. the. butterfly ghost of the coastal service had about $60000.00 trash bags on hand well enough for 5 years i'm bored there but it will come back but in no time at all they were all gone so i'm everybody wanted to go out and collect plastic waste because. ronald gross are used to work for the oil industry now he joins teams of volunteers to clean up plastic trash among the countless inlets bays and islands of noways west coast today's

destination is a small uninhabited island off barrack and these volunteers are members of a society of engineers most of the waste that washed. on the shore here comes from britain or big ships many of the bags and bottles have disintegrated into bits and pieces for the plastic collectors it's a never ending task. that's earned money the deeper you dig the more you turn up it's pretty frustrating after this experience i'll be even more careful about using plastic and i'll make sure that i dispose of it properly. that is something else. even the snacks the volunteers have brought along are sealed in plastic avoiding plastic entirely isn't easy. but if you. think i last saw you but now we want to put pressure on industry and government to look for alternatives to the

use of plastic but for me personally i'd like to keep on catching lobster here in the sea at my doorstep and i'd like my kids to be able to do that too which of them . got barlow and also that. just 4 hours of work have yielded 5 trash bags filled with plastic. that home room to go search posts what they've achieved on the internet the site keeps track of every section of coastline the collection team cleans up given the length of norway's coastline that's a herculean task. but meanwhile every political party in the country supports the initiative. the view is. the studies have shown that for every quarter or euro the state spends on supporting the volunteer effort it gets 10 times that value back in return 1st because of the clean up work itself

but also because of the way to boost environmental awareness and social solidarity i don't. want to go and other activists have had a plaque set up at the place where this environment. initiative began in memory of the whale that came to such a painful and here. with a stomach full of plastic you brought us the message about what is happening to the oceans thank you for waking up. a wake up call that's intended to be heard far beyond the coast of norway. now in most cities around india freshen hot food is delivered at your doorstep at the click of a button while this is immensely convenient what many of us don't calculate is the amount of plastic used in packaging this food and how easily it becomes trash once the food is consumed some food delivery companies in the country are trying to

change this. bangalore is one of india's biggest cities and lies at the center of the country's id industry. people often work long hours with no time to cook or eat out. some end up ordering food online for every single meal. i mean ordering and for almost. communion so you know the classic experience you can't really be. scavengers also live well on the leftovers the cultural food delivery has drastically impacted amounts of garbage in the city they have doubled in just 2 years. across india delivery companies process and on $40000000.00 food or does every month producing a staggering $22000.00 tons of single use plastic waste. with new government bans on plastic details are now switching to alternatives like manana

leaves people and aluminum although many say that those materials our friend in practical are simply not cost effective. to go numa numa numa is a maybe and i use aluminum containers like the us but they don't really hold the gravy. my so meals and this they cost around $50.00 rupees that's around half a euro. i can put bread and a spoon where am i supposed to put the curry the lentils and the chutney the things that make it worth the price. there is some you know show companies switching over from years and plastic. biodegradable materials because of specialists but it's something that we feel is required and said be done. done and no doubt owns one of the oldest ice cream parlors in the city and his product has its own delivery issues packaging ice cream is a nightmare but it always been experimenting with

a cost effective alternative based on a biodegradable by product of the sugar industry. it's been quite significant i think. over the course of these 4 months that we started using progress at least 60 or 70 percent of us to consumption has come down. it seems the idea city bangalore is on track to finding innovative solutions in different fields in the digital space and also in the real world. a 1000000 plastic bottles are bought around the world every minute the demand is driven by an apparently insatiable desire for bottled water and the spread of a western open eyes on the goal culture a german company is offering the solution. by making the usable glass bottles fashionable. tap water is one of the safest things you can

drink in germany yet more and more people are buying bottled water. it's just water there's no better. do is the c.e.o. of soul bottles a startup in berlin that produces glass bottles that you can refill. his mission is to stop people using plastic bottles. so you take the bottles for. their mistakes. in germany so we can have transportation emissions and we make them up to 80 percent of recycled materials. the caps are made with rubber and metal by the packaging used for shipping the bottles is partially obtained from recycled paper. the company has so far sold more than 700000 bottles. part of the purchase price is donated to water initiatives with the goal of improving drinking

water supplies in developing countries like nepal and uganda. this includes drilling water wells providing hand pumps and teaching local communities how to use and maintain them water is the most purchased beverage in germany 65 percent of people drink bottled water every single day but this is something completely unnecessary and most of the water bottles generally found in supermarkets are made of plastic. it's completely irrational to have passed take that we use for such a short period of time and then throw away and it just adds up to giant piles of waste the problem is that plastic usually down cycles because plastic decreases in quality the more time to recycle it and obviously this process also uses up better so it's not a 0 sum game reusing is better than recycling. with more and

more countries taking steps towards banning single use plastics glass could experience a revival. but there's a downside a lot of energy is needed to produce glass and as it is heavier than plastic it's transportation is less energy efficient. over the can say the plastic could be substituted entirety of a glass but there's a lot of things that we can think. just get away from single use that's every vertically thing. sold bottles is capitalizing on the latest green trend. refillable drinking bottle definitely is kind of the new handbag we want to make it cool and sexy and fun to drink tap water so the package is important yet for us the kind of like the bottle is a very strong messenger for our mission and their impact. but the soul bottle comes with a hefty price tag the small $1.00 sells for more than 20 euros several times more

expensive than similar glass bottles the reason for the price is that we've really tried to guarantee as much as possible a fair supply chain so for example we can compensate all the carbon emissions because very strictly and then pay a few so we can offset those emissions. this elegant glass bottle might not be an affordable option for everyone but tap water tastes even better when drunk with a clear conscience from a glass bottle. i'm sure you remember that heart breaking image of a plastic stroll being removed from the nostril of a sea turtle a few years back the entire planet is having to be for rampant and indiscriminate use of plastics i hope you will be mindful of this the next time your difficulty is in disposable plastic boxes or when your waste is not segregated correctly we'll be back next week with yet another informative episode until then good bye.

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