anyone to tell me that the regular hiscox. women are striving to reform their islam with traditional prejudices. september 24th on t w. e n. t island is burning and has been for 30 years originally a small a good in the waist crisis on the mound became so pressing that the government repurposed it as a landfill now the island keeps growing with reclaimed land made of rubbish discarded junk and mounds of plastic the trash island contradicts the maldives image stunning beaches pristine water a dream holiday destination. is

a well known environmental activist on the maltese. she's fighting the garbage problem sees. the struggle of the end of the sea i think we need to also and i embrace that. you know maybe i did not be able to save the that until the one day longer out there. but i'm not at least. we hope. shaheen and her colleagues work for parlay for the oceans a globally active and geo. adi

the women are heading north. that is the moment leaves consists of over 1000 small islands of which 200 are inhabited travel and transport are not easy here daniel in the night the big bang they look at the ground and let me get the word from their head every day can't be there for nothin else they're looking. to make the day that they had they did it. not today and they go on this kind of day they are not going to now bordering on that because. there's a lot of time. there the way. they play it safe. on come on do i land the headmaster greets them he introduces himself as this my people on the maldives prefer being on a 1st name basis. shaheen

a is here to help residents on the island learn to manage their waste. the empty plastic activist receives a warm welcome and bouquets of plastic flowers. there's much to do. the 1st stop is the school. the maldives is an islamic country but girls and boys go to school together she begins her presentation it's a new topic for the children oh. no more. if you all of you have in your. last one i had a. close. one though. if you have. although he did what or is it oh no don't live up to all this you know i'm not worth of these. over the.

last stills of each i need to and the old boots are going to the see we have. so many things like these children call my no no did it his dark age now the soviets joining did that see you just so we see you they. did it shana teaches across the mall to. the organization partly believes that the way torch progress is through children and hard to reach villages. you don't only do it for the kids we do this for the kids and we also really for the students so that the kids the n.p.c. the excitement if they tell the parents there's a certain thing in the ring for the hero kid does this because there's a plastic for the fan or small because we don't know if it's get the kids enough to hold the interest of the answer is everyone knows each other here. come on do is a small island is smile and the other residents learned what that really means in

2004 when it tsunami hit. the 2nd it was bigger than the full school. surely davies to. somehow with his least insight and how would. i live that's what they did. except to feature ideas of sport so. how's that for a new you will see which is not effected by. 360 metres long and 240 metres wide people have been living here for hundreds of years. there are over 1000 residents on the island. without a wall come on do what have been swallowed by the ocean years ago. it's just one metre above sea level and the ocean is rising. c'mon do isn't for the men often spend weeks at sea fishing for tuna while the

women typically work at home. grew up here studied in india worked in mali and came back a few years ago. when their school days over he goes fishing with his 2 year old son we don't have. kids from the sea really friendly. and have a good school to study right. not to want to. go to one of them. so we don't have any issues. but there are ecological issues notably the garbage problem. the islanders dump all their trash into the sea and the way strain also ends up in the water a smile says this is the way it's always been done but he doesn't seem too

comfortable with that. but dumped plastic doesn't simply disappear it stays intact and in the best case floats back to shore. the fish aren't biting today if you do catch one you can see what else happens with the plastic wrap use we don't have any place or any here that we can treaty so people throw plastic. so the sea from the. fish is. eaten and we see them. we see them in the reef fish is so it is 30 or 40 feet so it's a very big problem for us not. going to the next morning shaheen and her team head off to a neighboring island. to students will follow

later. no one lives here. i mean you. want to do a clean up. and explain to the children that when you throw it it doesn't go away if the vocals have a calf or plastic bags it floats back it's eaten by an animal but then so that they can link to the program to do that i think and we take them smoking because we want them to understand what illegally i think is coming from from our different angle than telling them that we're losing so much of biodiversity is a better way of making them understand. it's a big day for the students. the island just just

a few 100 metres away but few have been here before. there's plastic everywhere swept up by the tide garbage from come on do but also from farther away i know all about 1st we'll start with the clean up you know nor that there is no solution for this right now we're not going to grandma's explains the different kinds of plastic and which ones are recyclable. yet over the board of corn day in order to guard it it's you know it's so every month quarter that was there any what i meant and. the indian ocean spits out all types of garbage plastic drinking cans and polystyrene foam basically last forever. if it doesn't get washed away by the flood this garbage stays here it doesn't take

long before the students understand what parly is trying to explain. the have to pay over the environmental on. go 1st it came to this. for a day and so. is it that sometimes you have to tell your parents as well enough to pull some thanks. after just one hour of the bags are full. only pet bottles are collected i don't want to get rid of each sack weighs about 40 kilos. harlee organizes a competition among the schools to try to give the children a sense of achievement. yes but it is a drop i mean so many adults can make a big ocean in the hope that there are more groups like this happening everywhere

so there's more drops dropping here. challenges that we can only recycle certain materials and we are actually the very set it saddens me to say that. only the material we can recycle but we can call it the other material as well but what is happening is good and we send it to an island or that until it gets burnt. no money needed because it's safe from the ocean it's on the beaches it's not a nice site. hopefully we can clean up the beach of everything that is washed up. the banks are carried away by the mayor and the police come onto. the little boat has to make 3 trips to transport what was gathered in just one hour it's a big job. after

cleaning up a bit on land it's time for a swim. most of the girls have never used goggles or snorkels before and only a few of them can swim many are frightened but the sea. explains what the girls will see under the water coral but only a few have their typical vibrant colors left so every war is about an animal is the me yet. and that animal is what is billed in this coral. choros i've gone what idea it has cholera or dead goto those not have cholera. shaheen and hola take those with the least experience by the hand. it's an

entirely new world to many this is their 1st visit. i mean i think that bleaching has killed everything that is 0 you see here is the border patrol's that our life cycle of the branching coral said lord the branching goes you see only those little baby was. the underwater world surrounding the maldives is beautiful ffion compare. but the farther you swim out from shore the more apparent the problems here become. the corals are all white which means they're dead. this isn't due to pollution but climate change.

is a complex weather pattern el nino has always brought warm water to the region but it's becoming more and more intense with larger masses of warmer water and the coral are dying off. back in the capital monolith. 200000 people live here more than a 3rd of the maldives population. is the most densely populated island in the world . everything needed on the other islands goes through these ports. the most important commodity is drinking water. hardly any ground water exists on the islands so thousands of plastic bottles are brought in every day most end up in the sea.

yellowfin tuna is delivered at the fish market it's a special day in the maldives. fishmonger hussein follies between 3 and 500 every day. level to one of the over to this here is a good fish. often we'll find plastic inside the animals. but usually it's bottle caps off to the group but if it were a civil war. this is shiftiness office. to parlay is when 2 conflicting parties open dialogue to resolve their differences the multi-verse is one of the 1st countries where parly has signed an agreement with the ministry of environment shayna coordinates the collaboration. all of these dogs

you see why it's there we have an interception. on an island and all that goes in which it dies and there are some results. so already this is almost $230.00 items total it is a really good. $1500000.00 tourists come every year. almost 90 percent of the country's tax revenues are made in hotels. but even on the most exclusive beaches each day begins with collecting plastic. operations manager only for a roof the combo hotel makes his rounds early in the morning to ensure the washed up refuse has been cleared when duty is when the economy of the experts in. our nation was built. so he had to showcase natural that he would be you know be. those

dates not that useful bromides on that site so the trail based if you could do the piece would be thought compromising much of it. in the center of the hotel island there is a new building. soon drinking water for the guests will be bottled here and glass bottles. the water comes from the hotel's own seawater desalination plant. this protects the environment and should also reduce costs. for no even look just gets to being those from from someplace or was it a big operation you know to move those into the stuff if he's in the game. you know the same old he's gonna stick it no 2 he does he know it's a big thing so but no i think it was all these extra votes that it would be

like not most of the on the list of. waste disposal is difficult and expensive. went garbage is 1st stored at low temperatures so that it doesn't begin to stink this eats up a lot of electricity which on the mountie comes mainly from diesel generators most of the garbage gets sorted. in this hotel alone there are up to 2000 plastic bottles a day. the reason why the cell filled glass bottles haven't replaced plastic ones long ago is simple the hotel owners also own the mineral water trade on the maldives now the hotel has entered into a partnership with parlay to recycle one 3rd of its plastic waste. is the evil of the labels feeble to pick. up make it more crude. like these full body for these we put all these things in jumble because if you see it and send it

to what you probably know of some of the last things that you know you should pull polly the shade in again because that will reduce the value of the seed to be taking to be good enough which she. partly for the oceans collects the plastic bottles in a warehouse in mali. the bottles collected by the students have come onto and those from the hotel will be crushed here and then exported to faraway taiwan there they'll be shredded and recycled the process is laborious and expensive it's paid for by donations from industry sponsors. so i had to try to find solutions and i tried to find people to collaborate and. their nastier trying to find partners the whole goal being about the future either. nation. the government is

not going to fit into that and it's the whole aspect of give it what. it would cost the white or the and then if you must intercept then redesign and not go to the next thing and i think you know if we think that it was. so far hardly has removed 1400 tons of plastic from the maldives. but every day $400.00 more tons of rubbish are dumped on the garbage island. the smoke is clearly visible from far away yet for years hardly anyone took note until a new government took over in 2018 since then the authorities have been on a mission to find a sustainable solution to the garbage sea monster shaheen also advises the ministry of environment. so we are setting up a list benigno said if you don't wish it so we have got you to go but it's

a dubious fight me and i think by 2024 yeah but to say that they're going to do. and if that works i think we will have a central place where we can get a lot of face 'd and body has run out of the population and polar disorder because most of it comes to people for face. these types of plans do not always run smoothly here as can be seen some 200 kilometers away. on the island of bon dieu the world bank built a $10000000.00 waste incinerator labelled as development teams. the plant was only in use for a few months. it's currently not operating supposedly due to maintenance work the garbage meanwhile is piling up and transport to and from the plant have yet to be properly organized. shana and her colleagues meet martin jones the british engineer

is a managing director at the world bank he's showing sahana where the garbage ships will more in the future. jones lives on the island and knows shane oh well. sheena is involved in virtually every environmental project in the maldives. but she has her doubts about whether such a huge facility is useful for the small islands. no one seems generation or stall to get itself generates because we need a school amounts of fuel to get it going once we've got it to the temperature that it may then it's just that moment is itself to most likely you won't see it then fires paquette yeah so the amounts of field what use is going to be minimal or to see the writing code of law if. he or she doesn't want to.

but until the burning process is running smoothly martin jones will stay on bond. just buy the garbage. at least it's already been sorted. what the garbage manager worries about the most is polystyrene foam fresh produce delivered to hotels mostly comes packaged in this lightweight material to keep them cool the plastic bottles are recycled by parly the private environmental organization gets them from the public waste department and then transports the waste to the other end of asia for processing one different vocal on the other hand about yourself in the beds but if you. were. so no one coworker who saves you. from corps been assisting lost lost locals to the very places to us yes 123 bad spiegel so we need to send another 133 beds for this.

sometime shit he now feels as if she were the garbage manager. having the bottles there say sure is how we dispose it is and how we handle this place to say she liked issue and that it in the ocean now now most of the. highlands that we have had burning in and i know from mafia collecting the saving from the burn as well as when you burn it it rains all the chemicals are going into our groundwater and it's in the coconuts and in the in all the fruits and vegetables that we grow it from audience so it's. really a problem we need to find another material that's much better. partly team has to move on but shaheen a promise is martin to come back in a few weeks to take care of the bottles. back in mahler shayna prepares for next trip to raise awareness. once

again should be focusing on getting school children interested in minimizing garbage along with plastic snorkels she brings happy news. canada has just promised to finance a garbage disposal center on the island with a friendly headmaster. these are the moments she fights for peace and her own son and his children they remind her of her purpose i don't want him to me so he's case like i have always. you know i don't be reading to my grandkids you know look the whales leave you know and he's always my grandma's level we've been you know it's going to be a beautiful story but. i mean we need to be real it's any other to it's not just a. any such a sad reality and. that's what keeps me going hey this. i

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