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tv   Shift  Deutsche Welle  December 28, 2020 1:45pm-2:01pm CET

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yeah there is how do you think. the onset of the corona virus has also led to changes that down there as the company is now making protective masks from production waste even in a pandemic sustainability remains an important issue. now we turn to pile and when like in india farmers often if they harvest billows of smoke since. other chemicals into the atmosphere contributing to the greenhouse gases causing climate change but one young woman has had an enterprising idea about how to make that practice go up in smoke. after every harvest thailand's rice farmers burn off the remaining rice straw and stubble to clear the land. the acrid smoke carries far and wide on the wind. in the northern province of lampung the
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harvest is underway since early in the morning women have been out in the fields cutting the sheaves with their sickles. fire there's a lot of straw left on the field typically a kilogram a kilogram of rice if it's left to rot it will release me face a potent greenhouse gas but burning the straw emits a c o 2 and creates fine particulate matter that's harmful to people and the environment. come one wants to change things after completing her studies in bangkok she decided to return to her home village and develop an alternative meaning. i mean if we're going to. get patients very hard when i grow rice and. this is tasted a long time and the. saw each bun is very nice. that when i come to my home town i
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don't share in that lie low rise much i find solutions far off learning forests for the entrepreneur rice troy's not waste to be disposed of but a valuable resource. oh she pays the farmers the equivalent of $0.03 a kilo. the golden stalks abroad by the truckload to honey i buy factory. here destroys chopped up because the air is full of fine straw particles everyone has to wear a face mask. then the small pieces of straw a mixed with hot water no chemicals are added but the mixture has to boil for 4 hours. that produces a pulpy mess which is then cleaned and dried.
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on the factory floor we meet up again with the farmers from the rice field. you can you know how this is a very good thing that i salute it used to be that we had no work after the rice harvest. but with this factory job i can improve my income whether you want to even go to. the pump is used to make biodegradable paper and packaging but machines to process the pulp are expensive so the entrepreneur exports the raw material to india we have the customer because india bassam watch off morning and table. and they last off the raw material and they contact us and they add very interesting you know our product because. our product the special feature of the table way is a thin coating of rice stuff. which which helps the product resist greased heat and
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liquids in a 2 hour test with a pub by a salad the dish stayed leakproof. yes. the next day she pays a visit to the city of chiang mai the economic and cultural heart of northern thailand. at chiang mai university they also conduct research into rice the auditorium is designed to resemble a grain of rice. here scientists support thai start ups with their expertise. you are one coming one would like to manufacture takeaway food packaging made of rice straw in her own factory she hopes it will become financially feasible. she's especially interested in the research is work on improving the rice starch film so that it takes longer to dissolve. what do people
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here actually need tableware made of rice straw. as in most cities in thailand life here is largely outdoors but hundreds of street vendors and food stands all use disposable containers. if you want to start up your own production one vendor says and pay attention to the sizes. shouldn't be too large for the customers will think the portions are too small and the price is important $1.00 box but peace would be ok. i am not. one but is the equivalent of $0.03. as a lot of coffee shop concepts about me and i am entirely sure you are being lied at policing. is moscow and asked to you let's ask the encourage. the rest. of the small restaurants. but what if they could see. the back in her home village yellow one coming one is visiting her
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grandparents. and that they never harm that. this is where she started her business a few years ago. she carried out a 1st experiments with rice straw pulp in her grandmother's cooking pots. at 1st her grandparents were far from thrilled is this why they had sent my grandchild to study at great expense in the capital. oh no i did your doc but meanwhile they have ample reason to be proud of her. and as the saying goes the rice farmers of lump of learned how to turn straw into gold. because burning it would be a terrible waste. now millions of children are employed. in the textile sector in india this is just one of the many
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sickos will be made to work immediately to help sustain their families from one b. to the next among profit organization in mumbai is making sure some of the city's poorest children have the right and the chance to please and not to get what are you about the realities of life. the palette of it is not is not just did a lead it simulating the mind but it's also very powerful in a way that it's breaking so many baddiel is that i can eat and and kids are allowed to be kids again just plain simple enjoy their childhood. i just believe that working with these kids and you know what they. it truly needed it's not about deserve the you need it there's
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a danger in. through play at very young ages you're likely to get more of them we keep reading about why the world is such a bad season is filled with such bad elements and you know why is somebody a criminal and all of that in this world but if you trace it back it always goes back to their childhood. with kindness and love and empathy i think we can really change the way this whole world functions. it became more challenging for us still people about. the power of believe what is right to play what's meant give a being a child to levels all of these things of any. 2 people you know and because there are so many other problems also is still evolving these had
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a huge level and i mean really talk about believe in a child is going on we saw it became it becomes even now really challenging for us to articulate this but having said that i mean hunger of the mind is an even worse if you ask me because it can be good of a dolphin he says. climate change or you can't see it but it's happening all around us mental health and mental wellbeing is very similar people can see it so if you don't see it you don't think it's a problem if you suddenly want to in a bad mood you fight with your husband mother or father whatever women or you pretty much in a bad mood the rest of the deal you just imagine that day is your life many of these kids have had a backstop to life and it just goes on for the rest of their lives. and then you bellow in my life and. i don't believe in the mention those feelings there are people believe it is pushing it i'm just full of belief systems soul it
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was in that how lucky for me the allowed me to be you i am as long as i was financially independent. game on you when you realize that you don't have any money because you are a liberal nobody finds all the new pieces like gods. is a very easy. test the one word god step is one even faeces so it becomes a game and it becomes very challenging for us. we walk with almost 55000 good deveny and unless and until these kids are mentally nitish are able to understand was right from wrong by themselves. and nothing is going to change. that's inspiring isn't it i hope today's episode has encouraged you to examine your choices when it comes to all the belongings of all the clothes you whittle on the floor in a chair you bite i leave you without pause and see you next week until then stay
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