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has around 20 delivery rides we follow one of them on his shift. this busy customer has asked 19 year old took his easy causa to buy groceries and a cell phone cover for her. i'm working from home ploy if they can be in full because i don't have time to actually go to the store and i have to make it as. took as easy cause is heading to the supermarket the customers pay $9.00 rand per delivery roughly the equivalent of 50 u.s. sends the delivery rider gets 3 rand her delivery the remaining 6 rand goes to the company. youth unemployment in south africa is extremely high and the pandemic has only made things worse than talk was easy because i just finished school he wants to continue his studies one day but for now he's happy working as a delivery driver car led much of it was great. helping people around the. nation. back at the headquarters the calls us still
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coming in every cyclist does $45.00 deliveries per day but many people forced to stay at home during the lockdown cloudy deliveries is filling a huge gap in the township and the township residents like the unusual news service . you do get feedback from across the. basic decency to flow into bites you need. to. call him cause his next goal is to expand his fleet and to open his own online shop to benefit the environment he plans to use only paper packaging to set an example that he hopes other companies will follow and. our way of doing things is reaching its limits. and that's something we often hear
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in our days when it comes to the stewardship of natural resources it is certainly the case and the radical rethink is needed we have to protect its forest rivers. and plant and that will require coming up with ways of making on using things without creating which here are some impressive examples. astrid since spends much of her free time thinking about wild plants. her motto is you protect what you know and she's on a mission to get people to know the wild plants around them better. than the lion and that's why she created the game not to a memo a memory game that you teaches people of all ages about plant life. began the stupid fence and i would really like wild plants to be part of our lives
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again in fact i'll even go one step further i'd also like to see them on our menu because wild plants contain so many important nutrients that are often missing from the culture of vegetables we eat nowadays. and as she made sure not to a memo was produced to a standard called cradle to cradle. but the cradle to cradle standard means more than just come possible it also means that during decomposition little to nothing is released that could harm the environment printouts loci is the 1st in germany that prints to this standard. inherited the company from his father and has transformed it into a fully green operation. basically i think it's the responsibility of a company to make sure that its products don't harm the environment. that we need to make a profit so that both our staff and. company can make
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a living. but we're not looking to make a profit at the expense of people and nature. of course. this means making every step of the process to sustainable the printing machines provide climate control for the building which uses a water reset kill ations system the machines are also c o 2 neutral and the paper and printing colors both carry cradle to cradle certification making the change from a conventional printing house to a sustainable one was an easy decision fellow. not mentally much more expensive. but you do need to be willing to reorganize things of course when you rethink production. a lot of things need to be completely overhauled you need a whole new approach. this is the challenge facing the entire printing
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industry more than half of the paper thrown out 12 wide ends up in landfills and more paper is produced every year paper can take up to 20 years to break down and that process releases c o 2 and me fame into the atmosphere alcohol and other chemicals from the printing process also see from the paper into the environment a catapult magazine found ebony i mean free to speak on printing on a different sort of paper to save trees. this is the magazine issue where we changed over from normal paper to recycled paper so here i calculated how many trees were filled with normal and on the back with recycled paper if publishers would simply switch from normal paper to recycled paper it would be a huge step. to sure it would be so much less damaging to the environment. it's a viable solution for big publishers says. simple and catapult says it costs them
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less than one percent more to use recycled paper and if people opted for the same high standards as asked him to put in completely sustainable printed products could become as common as wild clumps. our next report takes us to senegal many of the country's 15000000 inhabitants live beside the atlantic ocean where the sea level rise caused by climate change is making the existing problem of costly russian worse 4 decades ago a forest was planted in the northwest of the country to combat the problem of shoreline retreat that is right near to and changed the lives of farmers and fishermen there but now population growth and other factors of putting a strain on the forest and local communities are now walking together in order to maintain or given improve the forest hill. abounds a fall harvest of opposition plans that's not something that former money so takes
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for granted here's one of over 20000 farmers living in the near hughes region of northwestern senegal many live close to the closed and still potentially facing threats of erosion and sandstorms but the valves of trees is helping to protect them. almost 200 kilometers long it's 500 metres wide at its narrowest point. the forest was planted 40 years ago as a shield against wind and coastal erosion. from city of ramadi new suburbs right here when you know was once nothing but was and is is known for his living in the for these trees with a plug that up there we deal with in cause like they call that much learn these things in here in the produce of
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a cultural activities they've made it impossible for the foremost to sense and hear . the. today 6 of the sons of senegalese vegetable production comes from the ny is region. an estimated 225000 tons of produce here under. it has become the country's food basket and it was a pine trees that farmers like a small to say to create their fields. if you really want to because we were good. it was only after the trees were planted that were able to live and work the land. at 1st you could only put up temporary shelters because the sun knocked out everything in its path instead of pine trees asunder stable and because of that you have a fertile forest and buttes homes i can cultivate vegetables want to. talk not
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a model of a not a man. it's a delicate balance though the farmers need the trees for protection but the growing population means the demand for timber for feel and fulfilled in felecia is also growing and. the solution the forest has been divided up into some 200 plus monitored by different i would cultural and forestry groups. each group decides which streams can be felled according to strict school says. some planes up sounded to replace and each reason to shut down this newsreader leave us some planes to fund those all over the coast. the holy book but only in the early days as you can see it's because of the abundance of pine trees that we have for thailand so maintaining the forest essential to the work of our association it will be in order to do the washing we have to plant and
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replenish trees point before it's crucial to sustainable development when it can but that again when a dog like the young trees are wanted in their plastic shoots to ensure the absorb as much moisture as possible then the plastic is cut away to let the tree take root over $50000.00 trees are planted each year and hopefully they'll also protect future generations informant's from inclusion sand and rising sea levels. it is good to be reminded of it and looking after the environment can really pick all that is over the health lead today thank you for joining us it is a goodbye from me but we know you're here in complex until next find feasted by neal to by phone alexandra it was a pleasure co-hosting the show with you and to our viewers out there remember you can find out more about environmental protection unsustainability on our social
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media platforms but for now i'm now it's a signing off from abuja nigeria see you again.
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