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got up to rebuild a symbiotic relationship with me and bob that this is going in the uk and i'm sorry but i'm. more and more people being to city 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. and threatening traditional farm life and the food production rely on one farmer bringing new techniques to heel farming hoping to migrate to the locals to come back home. it is rare for a mr moti to have the chance to lend his wife and father. the family tons of farming the hilly village of bog our 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. or some people

were so little dependent on that because just a minute so they invested more time and they're fired now it is people saw their fields and get busy with other work and can't come back to their crops for months the fields are left under it and he'll have also there used considerably nowadays. sitting at the foot of the himalayas with drugs under 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 minister he and many others have had to find more work away from home. but a few kilometers away from family farm in the village of. the air is decidedly different. these hoping to bring in a new era for the dragoons farmers she left the village to study who will

development and return determined to use what she has learned but just a little get up though you will if you ask any child what he or she wants to be when grown up they will tell you that a doctor or an engineer no one was daily 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 famo strolled to provide food not only for themselves but for every living being and therefore it is most important we were there was a rapid but that. up to 80 percent of the population in the state depends on a good culture for livelihood. in 2013 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 planting

a baddie crop beauty has increased by 15 percent. combining traditional good techniques she has learned she has also found other ways to maximise their income. she no grows vegetables and fruit using integrity cropping techniques she keeps animals and has build a climate controlled body hope she had her family are now able to live from the farms and come. all morning but they could all border line to line up your gas pedal 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. then moved on to permaculture utilizing every inch of the farm to grow a very idea of crops including vegetables spices and chillies.

michel. he is working on her small landholding into a model farm in the community. she loved a wee has been working as a farm with his family for more than 3 decades. in her own marginal land holding davy now uses some of the techniques she has picked up here or better yet. but everybody i. have a guernsey i'm learning how to sew and cut grass you know what they're on a small cloth i saw we sometimes cherries sometimes. once in a while we also grow leaves you can see to. them pretty far from the river. but women face additional hurdles despite making up over 65 percent of the agriculture workforce women in rural india i'm able to boil credit because they lack ownership

right land is passed down to families to men it is a problem that he has also done her home 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 videos you created so organizing them in this way it will hopefully help them access financial and other support when we come together as one unit there is a greater possibility of our weiss's being home. for gritty and other farmers there is a still much go ahead but she hopes increases years from changes in farming techniques could help people return and stay in their ancestral homes. in indonesia and she totally is considered the most. in the work but there are some

people who want allow that to stick there didn't mean to clean up the river and get it back to its natural state a start up in germany has found a way to fish out the wost amounts of last week when you think the water let's take a look at the 2nd part of the. flowing south of the city the tonto population of over $2000000.00 is one of the longest rivers in java the chits 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 discharged into it along with toxic chemicals from textile factories and 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 need march and cost and hitch to german entrepreneurs 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. the sectors are built because of the program to tara her own initiative to clean up the town that was once called the wells plutus 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 are 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 cycle 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 an 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 basically brings all the waste from the city of london into the cheetah in reverse so this is why press 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 flowing into the cheeto river.

overwhelming is the problem they seem 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 it is always 2 barrels. of 200 just each and we

have to voice your balls want to talk so you can really pretty sure of it. the barrels are sourced 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 upon them washing up in the chits a room is ready to be installed to galvanise construction is fitted with a bamboo platform but will it actually float. oh yeah yeah so this will be our solution for a very heavy floating rivers 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 oh. now that's one way to deal with plastic but what about making shot doesn't end up included in the forest please cycling is a big part of that germany is known as the leader in the fleet but how good is into any border del do you define. brand new packaging from all 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

charting out plastic ways 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 that people throw away in india and indonesia respectively. to get to the bottom of this i am 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 it is i'll be meeting you all day today you'll meet me all day yeah i won't let you down. 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 greely starting to get an idea of what 38 kilograms of plastic waste pipe. person actually needs but the problem isn't just the insane amount we've got them for us like misplaced items so 2 we're just going to leave it here basically and that's not what belongs in the past they've been. it's like metal and that's definitely not plastic. the industry association estimates that mis throws are present in 40 to 60 percent of bins and bags. there's a dozen there's a tent a shelf carpet drying rack and. do you. know it's time for the 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. like these things on getting any lights on but. only 2 hours into the shift and i'm already dead on my feet martine 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 the 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 5.3 tons is a lot and little it's

a lot yeah i sure feel as if we manage a lot of. all 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 metal and infrared scanners so the plastic by weight. but there

are some things that even this modern machine can't handle. what happens to the machine now if i put these all this in very good examples the 1st one hears made of p.t. that's wonderful to recycle but the black color makes it difficult for the machine everyone learns in 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. than up. on the. another big problem is multilayered plastics like might change packaging over here

they consist of up to 15 layers that can't be separated anymore the only thing that can be done shred them and burn that 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 depôt 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 at plastics produce

a proper 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. is and 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 readers far too low for what is already possible today is one reason for the low rates recycle 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 that 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 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 new products that leaves are 84 percent which get. shipped to other countries to solve those plastic producers to make packaging easier to recycle use just one type of plastic for example and we consumers should cut plastic where ever we can. a very small bring insight one reason for the. costs associated with recycling plastic was plastic and that strongly affected by the price of oil let's see how. it's already being described as an oil price in this oil price war

really is no place to crash in oil prices. big oil is in trouble. in march 2020 russia with fused cut its 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 in india in the nationwide south africa's president says he nation was. on the whole of england couple that with growing concerns over climate change. and he says he to see why many analysts forecast the end of the. day of reckoning. of the oil industry. spitting on another environmental device or. plastic. you.

what it comes down to always of the oil industry as the please mrs martin and millions just like already today she's used some 87 petroleum product is not as gasoline. as used to make most of the world's plastics streets lies are many medicines and kerosene. the 1st oil tycoons like rockefeller made their fortunes by selling kerosene gasoline was just a waste product. and was eventually replaced by the electric bulb but the industry more than offset its losses by selling fuel for the new. horseless carriage which. today's 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 constrained. all of the other drivers of oil demand has started to fall away driving has been damaged by electric cars airlines as we've 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 oil is still cheap.

and now of your oil industries investing in new factories that we lowered the price of virgin plastic even further. the growing threat of climate change could define the contours of the century more dramatically than any other but in the age of the paris agreement these by could be peter than the water can chew government which take that paris obligation seriously must and will act to curtail the use of virgin plastic because ultimately nobody likes plaskett way. this simple observation could throw water the plans of the oil industry industry is building huge amounts of new 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 it was all just green washing just pretending and actually the main victim of lying to us was themselves because actually i think tradition of materializing suddenly realizing that it's pretty stupid to have all of your assets and all of your capital expenditure in the l.a. 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 believe that the thought has given you a good chance to think about where you stand intermission to the end bought it whether your extractive or whether it will symbiote to leave you with that thought and see you again next week until the end and about it.

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