and. confrontational and strong. 5 adventures. one goal. the preservation of our planet. starts november 6th on g.w. . our planet is only changing every influenced by us the people who call it home sometimes these changes are destructive because we take on natural resources for granted but sometimes we want to try to make things better by definition the nature that surrounds us join us as we find out what's happening in india and got uk to

rebuild a symbiotic relationship with ian botham that this is really going on and i'm sorry but i'm. more and more people being to cities in search of a better life the united nations estimates that more than 2 thirds of the world's population could live in a city by 2050 as a result areas are empty threatening traditional farm life and the food production we always rely on one farmer is bringing new techniques to heel farming hoping to migrate to the locals to come back home. it is rare for a mr modi to have the chance to lend his wife and father to the family tons of farm in the hilly village of bugger daughter in the northern indian rock in the state. farmers in the region were once able to make a living from their feeds but for this family those days are gone. people were so

little dependent on the other man and so they invested more time and they're fighting now against people so their fields and get busy with other work and can't come back to their crops for months the fields are left under heel had also that used considerably nowadays. sitting at the foot of the himalayas drug going to susceptible to frequent earthquakes landslides and floods climate changes accessibility these problems and made farming more difficult like many of the farmers germany is no longer able to make a living to agriculture in a state he and many others have had to find more work away from home. but a few kilometers away from these farms and the village of. the air is decidedly different. these hoping to bring in a new era for the drunkard's farms she left the village to study development and

determined to use what she has learned. but just a little get up though you want if you ask any child what he or she wants to be when grown up they will tell you i did a doctor or an engineer no one was doing he would that they want to grow up to be a farmer even a successful from a dozen and could raise their children to take a farming and that is because they don't see a very bright future in it because of the many challenges of the tree but i feel that it is only the farm was wrong to provide food not only for themselves but for every living being and therefore it is most important was accompanied by that. up to 80 percent of the population in the state depends on a good culture for livelihood. in 2018 he was among 35 women farmers from india to visit the international rice research institute in the philippines from using the crop calendar to position blunting crop yield has increased by 15 percent.

combining tradition but techniques she has learned she has also found other ways to maximize their income. you know girls vegetables and fruits using integrity cropping techniques she keeps animals and has build a climate controlled body house she has her family are now able to live from the farms and come. all morning but they get all border line to line up the 1st thing i did was focus on quality see if i trimmed our family brews and also my mother did you only the best quality seeds because that is what would help us increase our productivity. by then or by the day. then moved on to. utilizing every inch of the farm to grow a very idea of crops including vegetables spices and julie.

mitchell. is working to turn her small landholding into a model for the community. she loved a wee has been working as a farm house with these family for more than 3 decades in her own marginal land holdings davey now uses some of the techniques she has picked up here for better yield. but i read the reply to get a a bad name are not. currently i'm learning how to sew patio and cut grass you know what their god what the national mall claud i so we sometimes jerry's sometimes. once in a while we also grow leave you to. read about them pretty far from the available guy. but women face additional herds despite making up over 65 percent of the agriculture workforce women in rural india are unable to bottle credit because

they lack ownership rights land is passed down to families to men it is a problem that he has also done harm to she plans to form of women's cooperative. so they can access government support schemes. but also make a i want to be part of those groups as well they're not video to get it so organizing them in this to be able hopefully help them access financial and other support when we come together as one unit there is a greater possibility of our royce's being home. for gritty and other farmers there is a still much go ahead but she hopes increase yields from changes in farming techniques could help people get done and stay in their ancestral home. indonesia as she told them is considered the most polluted in the work but there

are some people who want allow that reputation to stick there didn't want to clean up the river and get it back to its natural state a start up in germany has found a way of fish out the wast amounts of plastic when you think of water let's take a look at the 2nd part of our series on the. flowing south of the city that's home to a population of over $2000000.00 it's one of the longest rivers in java to choose a room. in the early 1980 s. this was a tropical paradise but by 2013 an environmental organization deemed one of the most polluted rivers in the world. waste water is just charged into it along with toxic chemicals from textile factories vast quantities of mainly plastic garbage. the name of the chooser room her room program is to clean up the river the indonesian government wants its water to be drink

a bill by 2025 the military is playing a key role in the initiative. we meet march and cost unhitch the german entrepreneur has founded a startup called plastic fisher together with colonel joe doe they're inspecting a prototype of the trash barriers or booms as they call them that will be installed in the river. these sectors are built because of the program to tar him her own initiative to clean up the town that was once called the well to pollute this river and the president himself ordered to clean up this river with more than 1400 soldiers of the army we work together with them here in this sector to make their work a bit more efficient because they're going with the boat every day in this water to pick up all the trash that is flushed by the rain into the water so our goal is to build solutions from locally available materials to ensure it's cheap it's can be repaired at any time and build quickly and so we came up with the idea to deploy

one of these trash bins here these are physical barriers they are floating there around 60 centimeters steve and will catch all of the waste that is floating on in the 1st 60 centimeters of the water i felt still the challenge remains enormous the trash boom prototype is quickly overloaded on any given day there are about 2000 tons of plastic and it used to room. with indonesia's steep population growth and inadequate waste management systems waste from millions of households ends of washed by a tributaries into the cheese a room every day. this is the new river and basically brings all the waste from the city of london into the cheetah in reverse so this is why officials plan to put in a huge trash from over there around 50 meters long that you can walk on and it will block all the waste that is right now floating into the river.

overwhelming is the problem a seam progress is being made in the last 2 years thousands of tons of waste have been fished out of the river. but the mammoth task of cleaning it up requires the support of local communities and networks. plastic fishers co-founder morris schultz is visiting ram down his mantle in his workshop he's checking in on the construction of a large trash boom that will be installed in the chicken pond and. ram down belongs to the precious plastic network which is 40000 members around the world all working on projects that tackle plastic waste activists ram down on the plastic fish or entrepreneurs met through the network morgan says pleased with how construction is progressing but 1st the steel wire part will be in the water and reports. on every spot of it's always 2 barrels. of $200.00 bits of each and we

have to voice your balls want to talk so you can feel the pressure of it. barrels are source mainly from textile factories recycling materials from local businesses that would otherwise be discarded as a cornerstone of the project. crunch time the 1st of 13 large trash booms designed to stop waste from the chick a pond on washing up on the cheetah room is ready to be installed to galvanise construction is fitted with a bamboo platform but will it actually float. no yeah. so this will be our solution for a very heavy flow reversed that carry a lot of waste so i think if we prove that it works in there we can put it basically everywhere slippery the trash boom is put into position now it's time for the acid test but not until the start of the rainy season when the barricades will

have to contend with stronger currents and tons and tons of garbage but the plastic fish your team is optimistic where there's a will there may be a way to clean up the chooser room ok thank you you know that's one way to deal with plastic but what about making sure it doesn't end up in people as in the 1st place and the cycling is a big part of that germany's not believe. but how good it is into any water. to find out. brand new packaging from plastic bottles in germany we diligently separate and collect plastic but what happens after that i'm going to follow the stream of plastic waste to see if germany really is a champion recycler. well if nothing else it turns out that we certainly are champions when it comes to

charging out plastic waste germans produce 38 kilograms of plastic waste per capita in 2016 the e.u. average was 24 kilograms. it is also way higher than the 11 and 17 kilograms people for a way in india and indonesia respectively. to get to the bottom of this i'm going to become a dust man which means starting at 5 30 in the morning. to do that i need to change clothes bright orange is. i'll be meeting you all day today you'll meet me all day yeah i won't let you down because martin has been on the job for over 2 years each day he covers up to 20 kilometers on foot. i'm in for pretty exhausting time.

the sheer mass of plastic waste and packaging is mind blowing i'm really starting to get an idea of what 38 kilograms of plastic waste person actually needs but the problem isn't just the insane amount we've got of course like misplaced items so we're just going to leave it here basically and that's not what belongs in the past they've been. half as like metal and that's definitely not plastic. the industry association estimates that mist rose are present in 40 to 60 percent of bins in bags. so there's a dozen there's a tent a shelf carpet drying rack. do you. know it's time for red sticker. that says wrongly salted it's household trash and

doesn't belong anywhere near a recycling bin for plastics and that's why we take it. that these things aren't getting any lights off but. only 2 hours into the shift and i'm already dead on my feet martin tells me that he used to do these rounds on believable but the amounts of plastic became unbearable for one person. after 8 hours of collecting plastic waste we have back at where we started. a really really don't know how much stuff is going to be in there time to unload their speaks and this is just one truck there are thousands of these driving around and unloading in germany let alone the world. of whatever we manage. we have almost 5.3 tons today from 5.3 tons is that a lot and then it's

a lot yeah i sure feel as if we manage a lot. of the trash i collected yesterday get sorted here and one of germany's biggest sorting plants the place is gigantic around 7000 square meters dedicated to sorting plastic. when it gets a bit smelly in here 400 tons go through here every single day that's over 72 times as much as martin and i collected yesterday but. right now we have a lot more material in the facility because of the coronavirus we noticed a change in consumer behavior we have up to 20 percent more material in the system that needs to be sorted out. with this amount of plastic most of the process is actually automated the material gets sorted by size. huge magnets get rid of the metals and infrared scanners so the plastic weights. but there

are some things that even in this modern machine can't handle. what happens to the machine now if i put this all of this in very good examples the 1st one here is made of p.t. that's wonderful to recycle but the black color makes it difficult for the machine everyone learns in a school that black doesn't reflect light that's the way it is here too especially since it's transported along a black conveyor belt the machines simply have difficulty in recognizing which material it is the 2nd issue is the yogurt the problem here is that it's different components have not been physically separated from one another so just separate the 2 and they are easier to recycle. in the hour right. now. another big problem is multilayered plastics

like my cheese packaging over here they consist of up to 15 layers that can't be separated anymore the only thing that can be done trapped them and burn them but that releases a lot of toxins into the environment nevertheless 60 percent of consumer plastic waste is but what does that mean for the recycling rate the official number is 38 percent but that includes everything that makes it to the recycling dipper or even the waste that we export to other countries germany is still shipping out more than a 1000000 tons of plastic waste each year that makes us number 3 in the world greenpeace says many of the countries that we export to are located in southeast asia but it is also true that not all of this is going to landfill dump sites. to keep this from happening some companies are creating new products from recycled plastic here plastics producer pepper man in the north of germany they decided on

flower pots a pretty rare phenomenon in germany only some 16 percent of all the country's plastic waste is turned into new products here. i think we're definitely world champions in collecting material and maybe in processing it a little too but when it comes to turning it into a product the raid is far too low for what is already possible today is. one reason for the low rates recycled plastic is more expensive up to $230.00 euros more per tonne than virgin plastic on top of that the quality decreases the more often it gets recycled and becomes less heat resistant and tears more easily. so even with all the salting and washing which demands a lot of energy. you can make plastic 100 percent pure again and the market for these products remains small purple months put over 3 years into this project and

they're still not turning a profit. so those hold germany as a champion recycler doesn't really pan out sure we collect a lot of plastic but only 16 percent actually get turned into a new product that leaves our 84 percent which get burned or shipped to other countries to solve those plastic producers should make packaging easier to recycle use just one type of plastic for example and we consumers should cut plastic where ever we can. of bedding sauber an insight there one reason for the. costs associated with plastic wasn't plastic and that's strongly affected by the price of oil let's see how. it's already been described as an oil price for this oil price for really is no place to

crash in oil prices plunged u.s. soil fell to less than nothing. for big oil is in trouble. in march 2020 russia with fused oil production triggering a price war with saudi arabia the flooded the market with oil. right when people didn't need gasoline because they were stuck at home or he's in india are so twisted in the nationwide water south africa's president says he'll impose a nationwide look down restrictions on the whole of england couple that with growing concerns over climate change. and it's easy to see why many analysts forecast the end of the oil. is here to 200 years of fossil fuel expansion the day of reckoning has come. but the oil industry is betting on another environmental device. plastic.

what it comes down to is of the oil industry has to please mrs martin and millions just like already today she's used some 87 petroleum products. is not as good as. these used to make most of the world's plastics streets fertilizers many medicines and the care was in. the 1st oil tycoons like rockefeller made their fortunes by selling kerosene gasoline was just that which is the product that. was eventually replaced by the electric bulb but the industry more than offset its losses by selling fuel for the new. horseless carriage. to these oil companies hope for a similar shift. with plastic. plastics used to be a very small part of oil demand. but its consumption has been constantly rising.

and the corner by respond demick is exacerbating this trend. for all of the other drivers of oil demand has started to fall away driving has been damaged by electric cars and light as we discussed has been damaged by. almost the only hope left for the oil industry for growth is from plastics. the industry predicts that plastic could drive half of its future growth. but if these happens the recycling system could collapse. there have been some amazing innovations in recent years. we can produce bio plastic with plants rather than oil and we are finding new ways off for cycling need instead of extracting new fossil fuels. but their success is limited by their price. making virgin plastic for more oil is still cheaper.

and now joy industries investing in new factories that we lowered the price of virgin plastic even further. the growing threat of climate change could define 2 the contours of the century more dramatically than any other but in the age of the paris agreement these buy could be bigger than the water can chew governments which take that paris a location seriously must and will act to curtail the use of virgin plastic because ultimately nobody likes plastic waves. this simple observation could throw water the plans of the oil industry. industry is building huge amounts of needed supply of plastic and this we think is financially stupid in the context of the war on plastics. was here is an industry which is. planning to double capacity and yet all across the world consumers are saying we don't like plastic

waste from. the wall these changes and so is the oil industry but unfortunately not in the same direction until very recently this is all just green washing and just pretending and actually the main victim of lying to us was themselves because actually i think traditional materializes suddenly realizing that it's pretty stupid to have all of your assets and all of your capital expenditure in the area for now plastic production still increasing. but if public opposition to it continues to grow new regulations could spell its the klein and vat of the oil industry along with it. i don't think that the thought has given you the chance to think about where you stand intermission to the end bob it whether your extractive or whether it will symbiotic leave you with that part and see you again next week until then stay safe and the bank.

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