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what secrets lie behind you swallow. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore. sites. d.w. world heritage 360 get to know. me. hello from kampala welcome to the leftist edition of our environmental program it off wicca a coal production in germany n.t.v. in uganda on china's t.v. in nigeria i am saundra to know you're on to the next health will be packed full of interesting stories on good ideas my lovely colleague nieto from nigeria has more
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details thank you sandra i'm now in tideway here in lagos and i am glad you could join us today show will take us on lions to hippos to gardens on sea to just one example of ideas up protect our environment and make it a bit more livable here's what's coming up on the show who will be taking a look at how they're using plastic to build roads in south africa. what towns in a dream to stop with so i was yes i'm killing lions. and how a german company is pondering environmentally friendly battery recycling. but 1st sandra has today's top story over to you just new to our top story is really all about him really is enough because we love to change our health so it's really like them straight calling long shots and part of me in bright colors pale we've all extensions may be the answer but they'll hope to. made of plastic fibers which
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results in a lot of waste now a young woman in pink will replace the synthetic extensions but i'm not sure environmentally friendly material she didn't want to price for it. for many women their hair is their corning or if they are lucky it all just falls into place and shines but sometimes even the loveliest hair needs someone at this hairdressing salon in nairobi they use size 0 for hair extensions and braids in a wide variety of colors their own of the saloon are some took us a bully came up with the idea to use a fibers in head dressing she founded as a braids 2 years ago after kenya advantage single use plastic products and to then hex tensions were usually made of plastic i prefer. on say so because big
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boys may when grain phone doesn't sting they make him roll in doesn't cut it when being painted size so 5 by extensions are not just eco friendly they also proved to be cheaper over time the hairdressers here say demand is growing. look at branding with size so here is very good because even when my clients and do their hair they still use them but if in fact a care is only used one is safe and then thrown away the difference is that this text well not to braid and like synthetic hair and it also states noma within said the cat i bred very fast some to drugs once a week took america almost 400 kilometers west of nairobi together so i saw lives and process the 5 bands together with my employee as a camel back. hair
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fibers are soaked in solution to soften them and then left to dry then they have died and packaged each set sounds for they quiver went off one us dollar some took us a boor is confident she could grow our business in relation to come in this invention is due to the notice from the central government of kenya. they said that this 1030 we are polluting the environment i removed and right on me so i stayed and thought how to remove synthetic ones when i tell you the same basic then they take their biodegradable natural hair on a mint back to the sun one in nairobi 10 of their regular customers are committed fans of the new braids and extensions and some talk of buri has enjoyed the support of the think positive are tentative exists mentorship program run by the destroyed
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techie money center she dreams of selling her eco friendly fashion park that's around the world one day but for now she's concentrating on the domestic market in kenya. those expenses made a slice of company is the full force that so they're not really a budget that environment but he thinks about about how buffy's what's going saying oh yes book 6 substances traditional once these on us it a new a once more and that's because may help link young couples nicole and other metals that are not only dangerous but fun with some fun only of all it's a lot of these chemicals can be separated unfrequent now a company and so many cars pushed up the recycling efficiency considerably. germany is car country statistically every 2nd president owns an automobile christiane harnish does too. the engineer also knows that when old cars end up in
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the junkyard a melting of scrap and waste is created harnish wants to salvage and recycle as much of the old cars as he can and he'd like to make a living from it. he runs a small company that recycles car batteries. he specializes in batteries for electric vehicles which contain a lot of valuable raw materials especially metals. but it's not easy to extract them and it can also be dangerous. but that didn't discourage the businessman. the batteries are already out there so it makes sense to extract the raw materials and reuse them we saw a huge potential in that. so 10 years ago the process engineer founded the do's and fed company this special shredder is at the heart of this firm it shreds the scrap
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batteries turning them into granular it. there's a good reason for the thick steel plates in the machine they protect the inner walls from the liquid components in the battery electrolyte which is highly explosive finding a way to separate the electrolyte from other components was the biggest challenge they took harnish 10 years of drawing calculating and testing now the pure battery fluid flows into a steel tank. this is the electrolyte fluid no one else can do that his company sells it to the chemical industry. the granulated lands in the sorting machine which results in a grayish powder. at 1st glance it doesn't look like it's worth much. be fooled this is the fuel for electrolytic it contains lithium cobalt nickel and
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manganese and that's what we want to extract. to do that tarnish needed experts on chemical processes he found them at a university close by professor to a b s albert knows exactly which acids can be used to extract the precious metals without dissolving them. but isolating numerous metals from the great powder is a challenge even for him he was so taken with the idea that he became a partner at deuce and felt. in the meantime the specialist in hydro metallurgy is able to break down the great powder step by step into its components cobalt sulfate the carbonate nickel sulfate and manganese sulfate. in this pure form the precious raw materials can be used in the production of batteries.
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i wanted to keep the impact on nature as small as possible it's naturally desirable to keep the cycle of raw materials as small as possible the dusun field company has proven that it can extract precious metals from batteries albeit on a small scale soon though these special shredders will be placed at various locations around europe. and instead of the recyclable powder christiane harnish wants to be able to sell the precious metals themselves for that though he needs his own chemical factory funding to do one to a lot of thinking about it all but it's wonderful when you see that what you've come up with is being put into effect. he can already recycle 75 percent of the batteries he gets his competitors only manage a 3rd of that as a pioneer in recycling christiane harnish has shown what's possible. now it's time for this week's doing good it's
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a really good idea for the environment so you think the continent. well in the east and can't return the new 7 foot media was going to be tested in a few countries but it's he's already looking like an old manatee still conversation old men something. that's right sandra i mean it's good for our continent all the way it's got profit growth uses up waste from 1800000 profit all 603 to 3 and keeping our kind of waste out of be environment will definitely make a difference. in south africa only 16 percent of plastic waste is recycled. the rest ends up in landfill sites all the environment the municipality of port elizabeth is now building the 1st of
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a plastic road in the region the asphalt makes contains pellets made of shredded plastic waste they come from a firm in scotland that wants to test this new kind of roadway in south africa. the right i think that we are the big factors that would not be recycling on. board the right but. by removing a protected by the pentagon reducing them but there are. why mention the need for you to know that the department of the byproduct of oil. obviously reducing the fact that that's right into that boat. and potentially into. the company says that compared to standard concrete roads there's also last longer. if the test proves to be a success the company will consider building a plant in south africa to process locally generated plastic waste each kilometer uses the equivalent of 684000 plastic bottles making the environment
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a little bit cleaner. and how about you. if you're also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website or send us a tweet hash tag doing your beat. we share your stories. now humans. living in the same region not a good mix. often hunted and killed lions in retaliation for the big cats attacking the livestock. spirit or even poison and lions are. now a project that's trying out a simple solution to ease the problem making friends think areas where because i can spend the night in safety. people have protected their herds. using natural barriers made of shrubs and bushes cows and goats are an
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important status symbol and a vital source of income and food but lions sometimes get into the corals in times of drought the natural virus can dry out so the messiah have gone on the offensive the predators themselves are becoming prey the difference is that today beyond just a spear people can pick up poisons they can pick up guns and that means that they can kill a lot more animals in one go and so instead of just losing one lion in a conflict incident we can lose the entire pride to 1015 animals at a time. experts estimate that around 37000 lions live in the african savannas 2 decades ago since then the number in africa has dropped by 40 percent putting lions on the list of species considered vulnerable to extension the main reason is the loss of habitat and lack of prey but on open 7 as well lion still roam poaching for
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body parts and revenge killings are the next most significant threat not only in tanzania verse is the big new sort of red flag on the rise and lions are now being killed all over southern africa in large numbers and never have their faces cut off their feet packed off or think it's more than 50 lion monitors from a cycle munity as have been trained by the african people and wildlife initiative in tanzania where they had to convince members of their tribe to protect the lions instead of killing them. warriors like to te petro is one of the monitors it thinks it's important that both humans and lions have enough room to live. if we were to continue protecting these lions our children we continue seeing them and future generations will continue seen them and they would then protect lions because they will be educated to do so. thousands of these live in fences made of
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acacia trees and chain link fence have been put up with the ngo. the modern fence makes it more difficult for alliance and to the corals and in this way it reduces the size loss of life stuck. in several years like 9 years that's the time i've had a living fence have not been attacked once not a good council absolutely. 2750 lions were killed here for attacking live stock this year then reports only 2 had been killed thanks to the living room and the work done by the lion monitors. it's been beneficial for all sides of the line population can recover and so can the herds in messiah community has.
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now led her to the waters but this time in west africa a sanctuary around the black border reviving northwestern ghana is only natural habitat for pygmy hippos in the country a couple of years ago there were only 2 conservation efforts by the local community have helped them bounce back activists believe they are almost 40 hippos living around today. while those hoping to catch sight of the rare reclusive animals have a good chance here in northeastern gonna near the border with ivory coast and bikini. you'll often see the head spalding in the waters of the black hole to river . pygmy hippos are viewed as totems by people in the area they're especially important as cultural symbols for the wall or a low b. tripes. after lie the high
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school is one of the chief ranges of the web community here. he recalls how local village chiefs founded the conservation program 20 years ago. the reason. he poor and meant is to keep the poor life and with interest. so that children in the next generation. the he poor and the. poor also use the. opportunity for the whole. the tourist season has started up again but the roads leading to the area are bad and the journey is difficult. tall guy j.b. anyhow mina says that prevents many tourists from making the trip thanks to the conservation initiatives the number of pygmy here is increased from 2 to almost 40
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the project has also been boosted by the number of visitors who come. really interesting because. people all over the world and we receive visitors. $8900.00 every year so the numbers increase and because of that where. i work for my community and we get benefits from the get and my community people are going to put. visitors pay around 6 year 8 for a tool that's a week's wage for many people in ghana a large part of this income is divided among the villages in the protected area. as a result these women and girls no longer have to walk all the way to the river to fetch water all the residential areas now have their own wells co financed by the century. the center also runs an alternative livelihood project in beekeeping
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the beehives attended by local people sales of the honey will provide additional income for 5 communities here. so what is going to happen is if they harvest and they have a deal they can sell and then use the proceeds to put more hives into the fence and also get profit out of it they use their money to send the children to school to buy clothes for the children one of the local people who has benefited from the hippo protection issue if it's a mile or a booty. his teacher training was paid for by donations. the 24 year old has been back here for several years and now teaches children in one of the villages in the protected area. i disagree
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level armor subject to chop article in english language teaching them because most of them are british fluent when it comes to spoken and there was a pretty much attention to whatever where students would be r. or d. adopted what we call good or quality lists and most girls. right now up to a lie is a haiku is busy assigning his people to the new safari routes this century success over the past decades has motivated neighboring communities to several villages further up the river now want to join the initiative to benefit from protecting me . our next trip what takes us to the different capital do you know what the population of carries over $9000000.00 is being cleared greater carries out to be over $20000000.00 than makes it the 2nd most populous metropolitan area in africa after of course by legal and also found near to large
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cities come with a lot of problems like meeting the city's food needs there was plenty of farmland along the nile of course and egypt still imports are a lot of food now there's also an initiative that is wanting to use the city's rooftops as gardens let's bear visit to one of these green or says. oh. every day mohammed to her tends to his garden for 3 years now the more reason has been planting different vegetables on the rooftop terrace of his mosque in the quarter of a teen. it's a patch of green in the concrete jungle of cairo. mainly looking to create a clean atmosphere in the area and on the roof but not much more than that. the income generated from this goes into the charity trust here at the mosque.
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he often brings his grandchild along he really loves role cayle. mohammed didn't have to pay for the equipment cairo based organization should do for installed it for free. shareef cousin e. and his brother set up the n.g.o.s years ago they decided to work with hydroponics because that requires little water and no soil and the space for the efficient system on practically any rooftop. i left a lot of us and mother did that for families with low income this kind of project can raise income a little bit. of them averred be it was really well for the so it doesn't have only environmental benefits but also social ones. in poorer districts like how one roofs are often cluttered with all trash should do
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is now setting up 500 gardens here instead the residents of this building set up their micro farm 3 months ago and now they're ready to harvest for the 1st time that i mean it's beautiful i wish everyone would do this and those who have the space should get involved and do this to. get up there unused here. installing a rooftop garden cost the equivalent of $630.00 euros but the families only have to pay around $20.00 euros of that. 95 percent of the large scale project is being financed by a swiss foundation should do pfizer any surplus produce and sells it in the egyptian capital with the help of other local n.g.o.s. mortaza mustapha installed the 1st rooftop garden 8 years ago since then he's put
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up over 200 of them. are lined up with ricky on this rooftop we're working with 2 families work. because each one will receive 2 set ups that's $420.00 plants in total. after. the staff i'm sure do explain to the families how often the plants need watering and which strains grow best. much probably we have run projects where we planted seeds with young girls between $9.15. people of any age can learn how to use this hydroponic system in a way that. it's not complex or hard to maintain or how we damage my mention of. the residents also learn how to get started by placing wicking strips in all the cups they feed water to the roots. then seeds are added. and they've chosen malaki are
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a plant whitely cultivated in egypt and lettuce. in a few months when the plants are grown to maturity the families can harvest twice a month. the young into we're also beautifying our roof people looking out of the window are coming up you will see a lovely scene. the dedication of a few families will hopefully inspire others to follow the rooftop gardens are already helping cairo grow a little greener. that's all from us today we heard a lot of fun and we hope you enjoyed watching it it is a good bye for me. here in kampala. and from me. in lagos see you next week but in the meantime head over to our social media platforms and let's know what you think goodbye and see you again very soon.
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was the speech of his life perhaps his bast certainly his most difficult chancellor helmut kohl addresses the people of east germany shortly after the fall of the wall good book. 1st for germany. journalist peter lim was at the scene. 30 years later looks back on the. december 19th. w. . shit head of things this is the new ball speaking welcome to the show with the ding dong ha. concert. with the extremists live. live.
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the be. above the boat . this is detail for us live from the pro-democracy rallies in hong kong the largest crowds in mumps organizers say 800000 people took part in what they call and allows chunks of the city's pro beijing government correspondent past the detectives also coming up a major finding gold so fractured india's capital delhi the early morning blaze leaves militants to see people dead most of the workers who was sleeping inside the building.
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