says the people of east germany. the mideast tends to crown clamors for german unity journalist peter lim borg was at the scene. 30 years later looks back on the time interest of. starts december 19th d.w. . and brahmans up protection is good for all including the business sector if you want to know why stay tuned to this special edition of we cooperate our melts i agree in lagos nigeria welcome to the show and hello from me. here in kampala yes indeed when business is growing not just in africa but in europe to protecting

our planet is necessary to secure our future but it also makes good economic sense here's a quick look at what will be coming up shortly. how old buses are being used to make standby generators and we also show you how traditional recipes are driving business. and why it couldn't tourism could be a role model for green business in africa. we begin with a clever idea from ghana this west african country takes him the most he wished for . one month wondering if something productive could be made from to make sure he was lucky enough to buy cheese and soon enough these green business idea was full. of. between 208000 batteries go into each power tube made by mark penn and his team the

batteries are themselves recycled from old laptops with tests and every one of them the same one yes to go votes were the good ones go in and get there with pride to work with them and to. mark what tends to be a regular job is a lecturer at the university of energy and natural resources in the in west i'm gonna he set up this was 2 years ago he designed the housing for the battery on his laptop and recently began using a 3 d. printer for the high precision. once competed the power to you can be hooked up to an invite to chad which then sobs as an emergency backup generator that's ham targets are and therefore. are for this or partial curse for her so this may scare the horses from letting it through power. the power tubes have an operating

life of between 2110 years depending on the condition of the batteries then you just repeat with the used by trees. we try to call the waste of our freeze and try to give them a 2nd chance of course the person i am just so we go around scott's him for. these working circuit and there who are from a system called one however most of the mean there is some of them are scraps and others are. capital accra has a thriving used electronics market but in other cities too such as. people do a lot of take recycling. market has found suppliers to views bed trees across the country anthony acco from started repairing electronics goods 13 years ago. he still has also become an employee above used batteries which he now sells to and

his team but. to me when i went with what i saw right away that this was a good business opportunity they always pay on time and what they want that's why we try to hold onto our ally in the 21 especially this year and no longer gives them to the scrum here. in the form of. 10 power tubes have been sold so far they don't come cheap they can cost between 871500 euros. their customers included both private individuals and public sector institutions such as this health care center if this power outage they just turn on the power tube. we've been using power to for several years now in fact it wasn't being of tremendous benefit because there's

a power fluctuation in crimea especially in the house so since we stopped it it's us even given as a more powerful. want to go electric cars thanks. to my sins in his quest to provide viable solutions to power shortages. only takes the environment into consideration but he's here and there were things we keep them where cars are kind of 2 weeks off recycling them for the good works who bark to pollute the environment. the power to invent and he steam and need more financing in order to increase production finding old batteries will be no problem here. time for doing your bit this week in suburbs of nigeria's capital abuja good to be precise some women were brought together outside go waste plastic bags what are they doing with them turning them into beautiful handbags hand-woven and

then machine so well guess what they've also turned it into a business where we are living for their good and for the good of the environment. why are these women carrying loons through nigeria's capital abouta. still use them to recycle the plastic trash that clutters the city on contaminates the soil. the way your organization supposed both environmental protection and female empowerment. they wanted to empower women to be independent how to take care of themselves without you without depending on the old ones. cleaned and disinfected plastic bags are cut into strips which are then woven into durable fabric to produce

a range of attractive vitamins. they fuss but what. fits in on with things they felt they needed a little bats buses so. the idea was well with kyrie this think that this is our life it's. a piece of old denim is used to embellish this box. the products sell for between one and a half and 4 euros. the money earned by the woman enables them to support their family while also doing their bit for the environment. 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 stories.

and what's wonderful idea plastic waste is a cost all around the world here in africa certainly. indeed grudgingly let victoria in kenya the millions of people leaving victoria's show is a drastic impact only the environment is indeed sondra and waste is not the only problem overfishing as left more than 3 quarters of the fish species unique to africa's largest inland body of water under threat of extinction but new kinds of fish farms who helped on the situation. this vicious took took is arriving in nairobi with the fish delicacy that was never so freshly available here . it's brought a load of to lobby 400 kilometers from lake victoria and. a new type of cooling box in the cargo hold makes it possible.

for what we had. to use the back kind of basket you could carry from time to get credit and then we have to look at not going to be free and i guess i am a match for you only rationing because you want to get to the fish are going to be going to we just don't fret about the reflective. the fresh the labia comes from these fish cages in lake victoria. 5 years ago just off the island of. brother and sister team gilbert and michelle began to farm fish. they were the 1st to implement cage aquaculture here now they're harvesting some 200 tons of fish annually which is a point directly on ice. we want to make sure that less species listed as it's obvious that right now almost 60 percent 40 to 60 percent of the fish that is

caught it's lost because if so what we're doing is we're creating a quote chain for fish and on broken cold chain stretching all the way from boat to consumer rights that. this way it says that it's going to go to. lakeview fisheries uses the latest technology. like this transportable cooler made by a finnish startup. it has a cooling mechanism which is patented we're using our technology partners. that keeps the box cool. the senses that able to detect when the box is open and when it's closed. send messages to the tempest the whole time so at any time very aware of the freshness of the fish. the tilapia are hatched and grown in ponds on the island before being transferred to

their floating cages. most of the people on m func are no rely on fishing for their livelihood. during the 1980 s. lake victoria perch exports were booming. sustainability wasn't a widely known concept back then and the lake was fished clean. michelle and gilbert m.b.o. turn a profit with their farms and want to expand their operation. with support from germany's g.r.i.z. development agency they're building a new sustainably operating refrigerated warehouse to freeze their fish and. design is very abundant over here so what really makes sense is to be able to power using using the sun and so we do not be affected by the politicians so quite excited that

means you will be able to buy good solar and we're not too dependent on the unknown good electricity. the embryos want to turn their fish farm into africa's biggest and they're hoping to win the people of them over to fish farming. the next report is about a young entrepreneur who established a business when she was still a teenager rafael while on produce is not too also a camel discovered oh yeah one day she's a recipe handed down from a grandmother but how business model is anything but old fashioned she's got a production online and he's already looking into ways so expanding. every born in. one. goes out to collect leaves from the very known you're a big old beetle if bland commonly known as unduly here in cameroon. believes are

a basic ingredient in her 100 percent natural cosmetic products received over a file's business idea was planted by her grandmother and is widely used in cameroon in cooking but the elder generation also uses it to make so. everything began with my maternal grandmother who passed on lawful means everything . to my mother who was then pasta. in addition to running her business which she started at the age of 19 the young entrepreneur is studying management and accountant at university she began the project with technical help from a startup academy. that question to you was that once you've collected out plans like they do lives the next thing we did is waltz them and then leave them to moderate us you don't really sit here after 2 minutes the night like this the must

raise it is then must say the plug can be easily steadied into the tray some mixture. rafael's older sister michelle shares her passion for plants and helps out with the business so how do they know when the soap trace is ready and only seeing the 1st in just a full moon to suit a few forms on top of the putting a lot next to one a lot of them falls on top because that's when you know it's ready for the most us to do that but you can simply. after being poured into the molds the bottles are left to cure for 3 weeks but if a lot of orders need to be filled refrigeration can help celebrates the process a bar of the organic soap cost the equivalent of one euro 50. for the time being rafael lingo and takes the soap home where she markets and sells the items through an online platform the 2 sisters also deliver their

products to some of their clients themselves. today they have an appointment with a regular customer who owns a beauty paulo. in the east. it's very thin so that's why. it's so hard to. refine go and has partnered with the association of ingenious of africa a spot of a scheme to promote sustainable business in cameroon. she and her family hope that before too long they will be able to open a shop and in the long run market their product internationally. every flush toilet in any of these homes behind me uses an average of 6 liters of

water i mean many cases that's water that could be used for drinking or washing up is that it's quite literally going down the drain 2 sisters in the german city of frankfurt thought that was a waste so they decided to develop portable toilets function without chemicals oist single drop of water it's a business model that could be of interest elsewhere in the world like many of africa's big cities. they're loading portable toilets onto trailers for each it's hard work. they're not standard sanitary facilities these are compost or no water try let's novato for short and that's the name of this company that's based in frankfurt germany and the only water needed is for washing your hands. we're preparing for a corporate event tomorrow friday night they need 3 wash basins

a toilet some 3 year and also. sisters 17 and elisabetta felt set up novato 8 years ago they're both former i t professionals who are looking for a career change. we wanted to do something that involves natural cycles and isn't too monotonous. we decided to give it a go so we built our 1st toilets we took them to music festivals to see if this was what we really wanted to be doing. both the answer turned out to be yes and the company is still going strong. one of their clients is a camp for school students. the whole idea behind the camp is to be climate neutral and eco friendly so of course we wanted eco friendly toilets meaning ones that don't use water if possible. and these ones don't use any at all and no chemicals either what remains is biomass that's in no way harmful. upset

with me. for big events and long term rentals the company stops by regularly to maintain the toilets exchanging the containers and cleaning the surfaces the company also sells its toilets to homeowners and somewhat larger models for public spaces to local authorities. the principle is always the same. if you haven't go in the here we have the container there's a layer of wood shavings in the toilet already well after each use you throw your paper into the toilet whether it's also can possible it contains organic material that's so that goes in. and then you take some more shavings and throw them in. it looks clean and that binds the odor so it doesn't smell or rather it smells like wood shavings. and that's it. look at she never he

runs a cafe in frankfurt. a compost truck that was the answer to all his problems because the cafe isn't connected to the sewage system he's been renting a toilet for 18 months. we once saw one at a festival in downtown frankfurt and thought that could be really useful under certain conditions interesting approach to waste management it's great and people seem to like it and. what they retrieved from the various rental toilets and up in a big container on the company premises which is taking to the composting plant every 2 weeks 17 says this system makes much more sense than flush toilets. the problem with flush toilets is that they use water to transport the waste that's a very bad idea the water becomes permanently polluted and the treatment plants can't fully purify it again that's why the. novato still operates on

a small scale compost toilets and other water free alternatives don't get work in dense urban settings 17 thanks and that's very unfortunate. well morning medical hormones and drug residues end up in our rivers and lakes along with plant nutrients this is that's a problem because resources like phosphates are needed for agriculture. even if all that goes into the sewage plants and the residue gets burned it's gone forever. it's expensive to recover phosphates from waste water in sewage treatment plants novato is one of several small companies in germany that manufacture compost try that they might not yet be able to compete with conventional try let's but 17 feds is certain that we won't be able to use drinking water to flush toilets forever. and now let's head to the children national park in northern botswana also known as

the land of the giants it's home to the largest elephant populations in africa but that's just one reason why it's extremely popular to the taurus that's right and unloads in the park once visit as something way of life in oz not sure 13 is possible that is why it's become something of a pioneer in a move bt hopes this could be a role model for businesses across africa. that show the river in northern botswana forms the country's natural border with namibia while fishing and agriculture dominate on the namibian side botswana has put its side of the river under protection but was 50 years ago and made chhobi botswana's 1st national park . the morning is perfect for watching wildlife. the mud life of the sky beautiful. 70000 jobs in botswana depend on the

tourists to visit the country's wildlife reserves but for goby much easy working as a park ranger is much more than just a way to earn money. pike together with the i must means everything in ms everything to what some of us told is that it's so close everything is the most important thing we have to level and you must you have to protect the environment and i'm happy to be one of those people that do that in our country. the high pitched whine of an electric motor this game is one of the 1st electric safari vehicles on the african continent and besides e cars show became large also boasts a fleet of silent solar powered boats and besides that it's also managed to cut down on 95 percent of its waste and garbage. running it or tourism and focusing on it. is going to be paramount you're traveling these days

are becoming also more responsible and they would like to make sure that if they do go on holiday that they do support sustainable holiday destinations and operators. with $2000000.00 visitors every year what's one as tourist industry ranked 2nd after diamond mining conservationists around the world commend its complete ban on hunting and fierce stance against poaching across africa hunting and the growing human population of forcing wildlife out of their natural habitats many of the most fabled species have been driven to the brink of extinction. conservationist robert sutcliffe who collaborates with the chhobi game lodge is worried. even in botswana road construction poses a serious threat to wildlife. one of the main

reasons is habitat loss. i don't have elements around a lot of there is being. areas where farming and then development like the signing of pushing these animals out of the areas that have. been 2012 chhobi river and its national park became the center of the commandos and b.c. trans from t. a conservation area this is the home of one quarter of the global population of endangered african wild dogs. it's africa's largest reserve and spans 5 countries. the aim to enable on the most to migrate naturally entry. if it is paid off while giraffe numbers are dwindling in other parts of africa here but still numerous. that it's so important that we work to try to conserve

this population that this is a stronghold for for tara and it's a lazing to see them moving to zimbabwe moving back into the outside. there's no barrier to that to the new ones which is wonderful to see. but roughly 5 percent of g.d.p. eco tourism is still in its early stages in botswana but the sector is growing fast providing a steadily increasing contribution to the wellbeing of the country and its people. with an email list on the environment unprotected and a bit of money country made on the site that's all for these special edition of offical on green business it's time for me to sign up for now from kampala in uganda. and buy a buy from me to here in lagos nigeria i do hope you join us again next week children stay well and be sure to write to was on our social media. seriously.

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