people who knew us for all we wanted to create the same thing with their rabbit ears and jack and i to meet them have the same feeling and scenes we lines it up by a year and a half nice being going great. members of the steam collect plastic waste they find littering their community gonna recycles no more than 5 percent of the $1000000.00 tons of plastic generated. the waste materials are carefully sorted and prepare ready to be sold. with their boy and build the young designers are among the foreigners in their field when it comes to creating wearables through up cycling. they hope to inspire as many gun ians as possible to start choosing their sustainable fashion. to get. everybody's wearing a dress in a town. where people. begin to show. the

coronavirus pandemic made runway shows impossible crew didn't just hang around waiting for things to change. in the small studio they put together a virtual fashion event model showcase the latest creations before they were made available for purchase. and. mentoring the future generation is also important to folks. he visits schools like this to speak to children encouraging them to consider a career in fashion. i reached out to them and talked to them because i believe that eve they knew how do you see the markets was and how they can make a living out something like most of them was surprisingly designed. to be strong already seems to have motivated several of the kids. many say they want to become

fashion designers just like bonfire we didn't believe anything but fed is aspiring like what's even said i want to be a fashion designer i put that because what's the swearing in and shop god is already home to a number of stragglers fashion labels but bomb phone his brother now hope to take it to the next level today tomorrow the world. almost all for all is said species in germany are in decline many already extinct one reason is the widespread use of insecticides especially in the countryside but insects are crucial for maintaining an apollo stay cool system. that is right creates is that holding it loosen the soil on them so screwed up the species nevertheless 15 council is set to saif al saud each other so many alone but even

their one month doctor is having 2nd thoughts about he's. like his father before him. house makes household insecticides the family run firm had been operating in the same way for decades until these 2 artists called its purpose into question and something made me rethink and look at insert exactly. right house and the artists joined forces they organized an event to raise awareness for insects and their preservation. the event prompted hums to trick wreck house to put his company's future on the line he's invested around 2000000 euros in the conservation of insects and other small creatures. the project also includes setting up green groups to compensate for the animals his products have killed. the roof of his headquarters has also

become a home for insects. byproducts kill insects make use. of contradiction and make insecticides one of the same time helping insects birds. from kilo to save really or is this just a marketing ploy. because these days products that can boast environmentally friendly credentials tend to sell better. because it's kind marketing done so and then this isn't about marketing because i want to see the market regina's just seen in the mornings on my product. each product has a big label about the dangers involved for them. houses now introduced alternatives that he feels more comfortable with such as this live trap for fruit flies. the insect is attracted to the side of vinegar and then

trapped in the cylinder to escape unharmed. and i asked him is already going for this products because it's not obvious why i should say fruit flies. his company has seen turnover drop by 25 percent his profits have fallen even more so wouldn't simply selling the phone be the logical business move. because selling would mean surrender and giving up responsibility whole body movement of congress and it would only benefit my rise was to carry on with insecticides crowded out as he himself by starting a business and then i have the leverage to generate awareness because it shows this transformation is possible sinus is a time for months on the business that house is keen to demonstrate his commitment to that message as he piles up the company car park to create a new inspector lysis thing but he can't say for sure when his own metamorphosis

will be complete. what do you do when your computer or one does not what many people simply toss the or devices out every year they rock a new jury an estimated 5000000 tonnes of electronic waste around 2 fahd's of 8 is recycled but much of what is left ends up in africa innovative and sustainable solutions are needed you take great africa's there for you with sectors we visit on the shitty ivory coast that shows us one way of getting these achieved. these spools of wire found in a scrap yard have a bright future ahead they'll be used as transmission lines to power small wind turbines this. workshop offered by a solidarity project here not be shunned is teaching people how to build the electrical devices. this volunteer instructor explains that almost all the

components used here are sourced from refuse this workshop was organized by i.t. specialist back our ebola. he also oversees a repair café in ivory coast capital where people are helped to mend their laptops and cell phones free of charge. to care for them. it's important for us to give them the skills to do basic maintenance so that they don't throw things away when they malfunction. and if they don't know repair is possible people 1st keep the defect divide tim's at home and then throw them away when they need space . comes up in this bus in a meadow according to the 2020 global new waste monitor 30000 tons of unwanted electronic waste were generated in ivory coast in 2019 a lot of it ends up in dumps. john has many scrap collectors and entire neighborhood lives from the trade it's where back or ebola finds the parts he needs

at bargain prices. in the power supply would have cost $30.00 euros the hard drive at least $45.00 in a store i would have paid around 90 euro's and here i'm paying just 30 so it's a big difference. apart from a few private initiatives there is no formal system for disposing a waste in the ivory coast. the collectors have a hazardous job dismantling devices that often have toxic components such as this key element in a microwave oven. as a cavity magnetrons to generate magnetic waves that can be extremely harmful. when we don't have a choice we know that it's dangerous but since it's the only way to earn a living we have to do it all over didn't fit the primary aim of the yup korea lab

community project is to cut the volume of the waste in the city but they like the authorities to go further a proper recycling system would also benefit people beyond the immediate neighborhood. since all 3 of them i believe. it could also benefit the environment with a functional recycling and recovery system we wouldn't have trash piled up here waiting for a potential buyer to come and remove one single component. then the month of august . in its effort to affect change yup kriol and his key to reach as many residents as possible 20 people attended their 1st workshop now there are plans to hold one on a monthly basis. over. and over for them as a book we want to keep this cycle going on getting our parts from scrap collectors and handing them over to people who do something with them who look profitable then those people who are learning here today will be able to go and buy those items

themselves to make a wind turbine that they what is there within the project also wants to help anyone with a promising business idea to found a startup and hopes to enable people to turn their futures around by supporting creative innovation talent in cuba and environmental protection. it is definitely an environmental win win when we come making things out of in a funny quest and that is all for this week i am sunda to no good finding gold. incompetent uganda thinking over joining us on to you to crease i hope you had a fantastic start over these amazing show it's been great fun and i hope you enjoyed it is a device the next week. thank you sons writes really great to talk about these important issues out here where it's all happening and thanks to all of us for today then i look forward to bringing you the next edition of eco offered i'm chris airlines in lagos nigeria by fidel.

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