ferguson thankfully with the help of leading experts on the part. of this. is not life as we know about all in this together our new web series. to sustainable discovered about how she. starts many on w. hello welcome to eco india a sustainability magazine that trains the spotlight on solutions to some of the most pressing problems in the world today and introduces you to change make us who are making this possible i'm funk i'm home coming to you from mumbai in india. to the head of the show refugee women in delhi are working towards creating

a blossoming free world with a peek into a matriarchal community in indonesia sumatra. and how the city of athens is preparing itself against the impact of climate change. first a heartwarming story a group of undergraduate students in delhi is working with of gandhi women who are refugees in india to make meets bones and both that and but most of the 11000 of ghani refugees in india live in delhi project but the idea is not only giving these women a source of livelihood but also helping create a society with less of plastic. in. the desert but prematurely and out of the on 30 the old lady on their way to work.

the 2 women are of gone refugees. arrived in the indian capital delhi 5 years ago with her husband and. her husband is unemployed she is the breadwinner it's a job to produce at the very. town. we live. in afghanistan that until broke out there and bombs were falling up an event. my husband and children's lives were in danger. that's spent we decided to come here. for the project. the students from delhi's girls said of the initiative with the help of the you see the united nations refugee agency. is

basically an amalgamation of 2 sons geared towards pot through and through basically means your pencils and something that you can eat during and with your pencils so when restarted our the project we would looking for all communities who require that invention are socially as well as economy backwards and very very had the boys i've met with axes and you and i got in touch with the un and see out of the of gondor a few. many of gone refugees live in the district of including bin ish she earns about $1500.00 rupees a month roughly equivalent to going to do u.s. dollars. work is you. don't know about the concept of edible cutlery yet. that's why even though i have been working here for the last 3 years the money. it's not

crap we get paid only when i was boys get sold at the fair it's good that we are doing because we are trying to replace plastic. and eating from plastic utensils can cause a lot of. very depressed that with both made up for example it is a great thing. not just for people's health but also for the environment. the basic recipe includes white flour rice and of a protein some of the bones are chocolate i'm in flavor of the production the kitchen has to be used within 15 days what isn't used can be bad to add to bill utensils decompose within just 2 weeks. to make him 1st we make the dough and put it into the machine then we ship it and put it into the oven to be baked finally we clean it properly before it's made very forcibly.

experienced groups have had a hand in developing the formula. the food safety of the project has been off the should be approved by indian the tortoise. biggest principle that it's trying to work on is that i do catering the was a single use plastic and it was an avid in fact that plastic is taking over the void and it's high time that you stop talking and start doing and when you're done so then go out in the market and tell people they're mostly shocked in the. placement of plastic what do you say so. a lot of potential in that idea so you've been pursuing that since. the world appears to be drowning in plastic waste in india online delivery services also generate $22000.00 tonnes of it every single month. the students have enlisted professional help from the food industry to ensure. they can compete with conventional packages.

didn't she even we started out we had a little problems going out there because it was a very new concept to the people but off successful miscreation seminars and we did see how do people like to reduce events and in various qualities we were able to create a sustainable demand for the product. first there were language barriers and just had to grow to burnish and asean have already achieved a lot of learning to manufacture the utensils they're now turning to sales. we have also gone to stones a couple of times to sell before. the team makes all the arrangements and we had. one ball fetcher the last one rupee. we also get a share of profits then the absolute. 5.

10 minutes india vandeman was one of the most challenging aspect cities with projects that it was difficult for them to open up was because they're in a completely different world completely different country with no identity but then with video sessions with the community where we taught them their language a little fun learning their languages and with the exchange of cultures you finally able to do it. among project 1st customers discovery and greater noida daughters between $250.00 to $300.00 goals every month they're mainly used to serve ice cream it is a stock. now we've all seen that heart wrenching image of marine conservationist pulling out lumps of plastic bags from sea to what have you wondered what happens to have your plastics spoons for example but they.

up in a landfill let's find out. if you've ordered delivery food today it might reach you with a non edible staple disposable plastic spoons. an estimated 79 percent of single use items designed for immediate disposal accumulate in landfills or are left as litter around us. to understand the environmental impact of these single use plastic spoons we need to examine their journey from design to disposal. what does the lifecycle of a plastic spoon look like fossil fuels are extracted with drilling rigs then refined often causing pollution and harming local communities and biodiversity. these materials are then transported to a factory where they go through a chemical process known as polymerization producing small pellets of plastic called nergal's. the pellets or than ships to another factory where the spoons are

manufactured after which they're shipped off once again this time to distribution centers where consumers purchase them. but even before it's been used the spoon has already done irreparable damage to the environment spills and negligent transportation lead to not olds ending up at sea and eventually in the food on our plates at the same time inefficient supply chain management means more fossil fuels are burned and more carbon dioxide finds its way into the atmosphere and that's not all just 9 percent of all the plastic that's been produced in 1950 has been recycled. consumers typically only use plastic spoons once. after that they become a solid waste that finds its way to landfills oceans or incinerators. since the plastic isn't biodegradable it can remain in the environment for hundreds of years we need to avoid plastic waste in the 1st place and improve the recycling

system. having seen that the 1st question that pops in my head is is there a way to avoid plastic use all together one of my tools friends or try to replace plastic in her day to day life tells me there it is possible but not easy to designers in general seem to have found the solution after much trial and error they have bio plastic sheets and bags made of saving which can be put into a compost heap once you're done with it and that's it well let's take the. packaging that decomposes after it's used. it disappears without causing any damage to the environment. researchers and designers around the world are trying to realize this vision.

among them a product designers katya instance ava's. the trigger for that work is the amount of trash that they themselves produce. for the couple have long been aware of the issue. but despite their best efforts they're aware that avoiding packaging altogether is still extremely tricky. for about 15 years ago we were standing in our pantry wondering why a 3 person household generates a bag full of plastic waste each week. even though we're very careful this is. every day food items cooked meats cheese coffee and tea it all has to be packaged apartment 2 years ago there's a verse started producing compatible film and packs made from cellulose from which waste which decompose when they come into contact with bacteria in the soil in

france italy and switzerland you can put them in the organic waste bin. indictment of in germany this isn't possible at the moment we're working to provide evidence that our film decomposes brilliantly in industrial composting facilities and together with waste management companies we're also striving to find a solution to the problem of how these materials used in sorting plants so that they can be turned into compost in germany too. another challenge is coming up with packaging that seals in a roma for half a year now spend savers has been working on a multi-layered composite of all coffee packets. just like a plastic packet coated with other men yet it protects aroma and keeps the coffee from going stale. the new product is currently undergoing laboratory testing. well you know. what every foodstuff comes with its own challenges not serfaty

cheeses bioactive coffee is a roma sensitive so every product has its own characteristics and they have to be tested i can't make any assumptions that's the challenge you have to try everything out and that takes time and it takes money because it's quite possible to the uk. but the savers have already won over many customers for the single last cellulose phone for example vegetable supply is like sun mom. the organic farm packs its way as an open crates the heads of lettuce and other salad greens will to if they aren't covered monica's sandman switch to box made of compatible phelim 6 months ago as the german waste disposal system doesn't cater for them some mom has come up with an interim solution. that. customers can definitely return these bags to us and we'll compost them not all of our customers have compost heaps or a composting bin but they can bring them back to us compost on it just have to see

what. the vegetable delivery farm would also like to avoid using conventional plastic for their potted habs but because the thin film used for the leafy greens would come into contact with soil and the pots it would start decomposing too quickly causing it to rip too easily. xavier's have developed a new film for the application it takes twice as long to come past due the new film decomposes in $12.00 to $15.00 weeks in industrial facilities in natural conditions it takes longer to break down the new original cellulose film so it can come into contact with soil a moisture we can package plants with it without it breaking down straight away. avoiding packaging altogether is unrealistic in today's global food industry but there are more and more alternatives to conventional petroleum based plastic film. box. shifting focus now indonesia is home to the voice of

largest me think of the mean i think about people here property family name and land boss is down from the mother to the daughter just like in matriarchal communities in care law for example our team visited vesta and sumatra with 4200000 minnows continue to live in practice there's centuries old tradition. she's the boss. so is she. and so is she. among the mean and kaberle people of sumatra the women are in charge but. what. about women are strong because in our tradition and culture they hold a strategic position where the leaders the moral guardians that the pillars on the foundation for the women have authority. what makes this matriarchy even more

unusual is that it's in a country where the majority of the population is muslim and the power the women hold isn't just symbolic unlike most traditional communities around the world my sons and heritage from their fathers here it all goes to the women from bournemouth are there. it's the woman who owns everything. she owns the house the property the fish poems the rice fields. every segment of it merely advise me to sit on my thumb at the bottom one. is one of 2 men one half 1000000 men women and she lives on the island of sumatra where she produces the most expensive coffee in the world. coffee beans come from coffee cherries that have been eaten in definite hated by the asian palm civet it's a highly specialized product and popular all over the world. so i asked about another yeah. i actually started this business on my own without help from anyone

not the government or anybody else so. i started my separate coffee production from 0. to accept of the. going up as i added obviously. i just thought if other people can do it why can't i . that's my motto that's why i've survived in the civic coffee business to this day . it's typically dominated by men. who move is the only daughter in the family so she inherited the house and fields she employs farmers from all over the region and determines the prices herself passed down from one generation of women to the next the 1st land of western sumatra has been a source of wealth for the people for centuries. but

i'm not really i've. talked to my whole lot younger so i think there's a lot to learn from me now by women. from their self-reliance. from their respect for other women. and from their independence. when mean and care about couples marry the man moves into the wife's house and what's in her feels most men come from other families in other villages opinion about inheritance is divided. from the us if i haven't really thought about marriage yet. i know that's still a long way off or maybe when you. eliminate say my poor widow who i think we should respect the traditions inheritance should go to

the daughter where i'm. obviously not thinking i was educated men should be leaders they should be a man. but in our culture it's the women who have the privilege and that's not right if you. can connect religion says it should be the men who lead because women need to be protected that's their privilege of being and i think anything that's the way it should be i'm not the only person with this opinion you can see out of there. as i am. grouping got. i often get into conflict about this with my family. we're going to be our own there's a woman in my family who says men have no rights. young it's not that i have no

rights we have duties it's just the inheritance that only goes to the woman what. they mean and care about us certainly safe from the threat of male dominance the women are in control they have economic power and authority because of what they own. every man on what about a person dreams of having a daughter. and i gave birth to 3 sons who are. now in india extreme heatwaves during the summer months have huge ship with cautions there's a loss of life in many of the genes in the country climate change is not a myth anymore and is not exclusive to only some parts of the planet pick athens

for example the city has to deal with drastic shifts between extreme droughts and hiv aids the new idea stablished office for resilience and sustainability is start with looking out for nature based solutions to make athens climate resilient let's take a look at how it's going so far. the renowned athens acropolis seen from the top of nearby mount like a better us for athenians like a better us is even more important nowadays because it still has traces of woodland 80 percent of the metropolis is a densely built cauldron of cement with summer temperatures easily hit 38 degrees celsius climate change is also aggravating conditions in the drought plagued arid landscape linear had enough their rising heat and the long period of heatwave creates drought and we have problems because also we do have. a different type of rains these days also due to climate change we have shorter

periods of time that we have enormous amount of water coming down in a very short period of time so this creates flooding and flooding creates erosion so we have this double phenomenon of dryness and a lot of water which also leads the land and creates land there over 3 years ago 40 percent of the areas annual rainfall gushed down here in only 5 hours and washed away most of the topsoil. athens is one of the european cities most at risk from drought and farce fires the deforestation of the slopes of mount like a better has disrupted the area's microclimate as well the downpours of recent years turned roads he into want water taunts now athens is responding we're replacing all the asphalt of the road that goes up and down the hill which is a proximately 3 kilometers taking it off and putting a special type of material that is what the permeable water is a key element when it comes to cooling athens down that's why the head of the

city's waterworks is showing a rare antiquity the final stretch of a fully functional aqueduct dating back to the year 125 it channels $5000000.00 tonnes of water a year which until now simply drained. unused into the at and su is we tried as a duck to use it in the 80s but if the quality of the water then was not that great so now that we have a very good serious system we can speak again about using the water of the how dreams are conducted not for drinking but for other non-portable uses like for example watering plants irrigation also washing roads or washing. waste bins so these are things that we right now often use drink of the water to do things that is actually

a great waste the aqueduct is still intact here because it runs underground for 20 kilometers it's unique in europe groundwater trickles into it along its entire length which can be accessed at over $200.00 locations downstream the national gardens in athens is not only in a way since of retreat from the hot city's bustle it's also important for the local climate the aqueduct is already irrigating the gardens that in turn cools the surrounding area. the national garden has just launched a project aimed at cataloguing its entire inventory all $7000.00 trees and $5000.00 bushes with photos latin names and trunk sizes sensors will also record temperature and humidity the project's findings will be transposed across all of athens. it'll help to improve care of watering of trees pruning and

to replace city plant stocks we have about 90000 trees in street lines and we want to have for each one of them they are regarding their health their height and what kind of eco systemic services it gives to the city syntagma square with the greek parliament sits is the beginning of one of athens main shopping foreign affairs warshel will also play a key role in combating heat linea is having 16 water fountains installed. you need to say you need room bury us to give them protection then you need water like i made up public water fountain that so that people can drink water. and water and woodlands to cool biking cities in athens and around the world. i hope you had many takeaways from today's should we be back next week with many

more such stories to help you make an informed choice for a sustainable future until then good bye.

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