michael of branching corals a lot of the branching photos u.c.l. middles 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. the 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 of mali. 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 hussain 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 there with the group but it will be 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 parley has signed an agreement with the ministry of environment shayna coordinates the collaboration. all of these dogs you see why if they only have about interception. on an island and all that really goes out people inhabited islands and all that there are some results that will get us. so the reality is it is almost $200.00 i'm going to tell you i was totally that is a lucky. $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 beach it's each day begins with collecting plastic. operations manager only for a roof up the combo hotel makes his rounds early in the morning to ensure the washed up refuse has been cleared. then. talking at the expert that our nation will. be have to showcase michel if you feel you know the. those thing it's not that. it's late so. if you would be nice if you thought it compromising much of the competition. 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 now even speaks to being from from salt lake it is a big operation to move those into the top 15 games in the game. you know and all these people but it no way to get what she now lives to be so for now i think you do lose all these extra votes that you. like mostly on the list you. waste disposal is difficult and expensive. wendt 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. of 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. to see it move the labels the move to pick. up make if you can. like these full body for these people all these things in jumble bake that you c.b.s. and said you know what the public. some of the dust makes you know you see you know hopefully the shade in again because that will reduce the value of these you know picking seem to be good enough we should. parlay for the oceans collects the plastic bottles in a warehouse in mali the bottles collected by the students have come on to 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 island. nation. the government is not going to last 15 percent it's the whole aspect of it would be 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's not. so far hardly has removed 1400 tons of plastic from the mall teams. 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 that i know said that if you don't listen so we have got you to go get jaded is funny 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 essential place where we can get a lot of this 'd body has one 3rd of the population and older is old with 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 labeled as development aid. 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. shaheen and her colleagues meet martin jones the british engineer is a managing director at the world bank is he showing shana where the garbage ships will more in the future. jones lives on the island and knows shaheen oh well. sheena isn't called 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 generator starts and itself generates because we need a school amounts of fuel to get it going once we've got it to the temperature that it needs then it's just that moment is itself 2 months i hate you won't see it that inquires paquette yeah so the amount of fuel to reuse it started minimal or to see if i think i would have bought a. bunch of i was going to. but until the burning process is running smoothly martin jones will stay on fondue. just like 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 parlay the private environmental

organization gets them from the public waste department and then transports the waste to the other end of asia for processing what do you think built on the other hand about yourself in the beds but of the 2 sort of post were. so no one could associate. them cause 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. sometimes he now feels as if she were the garbage manager. having the bottles the station is how we dispose it is the issue and how we handle the spasticity should write mission that in the ocean now most of the. highlands we have had burning in and i know from mafia collecting your savings from the burn as well so when you burn it it rains all the chemicals are going into the groundwater and it's in the coconuts and in the in all the fruits and vegetables

that we grow it from our limbs so it's it's really a it's really a problem you need to find another material that's much better. the part of the team has to move on but shaheen a promise is mark to come back in a few weeks to take care of the bottles. back in mala shayna prepares for next trip to raise awareness. once again she'll be focusing on getting school children interested in minimizing garbage along with plastic snorkels she brings happiness. canada has just promised to finance a garbage disposal center on come onto the island with the 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 miss all of the 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 grandmas never leave the you know it's going to be a beautiful story but. i mean we need to be real it's reality it's not just a. i mean such a sad realities and. that's what keeps me going is. why

can't mother nature rest at night are this is a life time away and with grave consequences. like pollution the. on our modern civilization now researchers are looking for ways to reduce excess of light so that mother nature can finally sleep again tomorrow to do. next on d w. september 9093 israelis and palestinians

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