subscribe. a simple plastic bag is used only for 15 minutes on average but it can last in a waste body decomposing for work a minute then you think about that. are one produces $300000000.00 tonnes of plastic every year and it's found everywhere in cities and villages that

pollute land and. what can we do want to eradicate of dependence on plastic that's what we talk about to be a welcome to equal india. let's start with something that most of us need and many of us love clothes when we pick up a shirt we love trysts that might look great on us we don't notice that more than 65 percent of all textile fibers using crude oil which is why the textile industry today is one of the biggest polluters worldwide if you go for natural alternatives like cotton for example we're still a lot out of the woods cotton production needs a lot of water you know where does it on the world are experimenting with the role materials which would cause the least amount of negative impact and hemp seems to be one such natural fiber.

interests used to live off tourism the valley. is a popular destination peak season is from may to october but the pandemic has changed everything. around what needs to look for another source of income hemp might be the answer the plant floor issues here in the mountains. and has a tradition of hemp production that dates back centuries. until recently people didn't know much about him potential. we grew it mainly for personal use like making shoes and ropes but now we know that this product has a value and can be sold at a price so it's only now that we're beginning to work with it commercially.

while the fruits and flowers of hemp a variety of cannabis are banned in india under the 1985 narcotics drugs and psychotropic substances act the dried stock and seeds are not. is the 1st state in the country granted a license to cultivate hemp for research and industrial use. but only the non-narcotic variants of the plant the plants that traditionally grow here in the mountains contain high levels of psychoactive substances less than 40 kilometers away from raw its village and the town of people j.p. my tummy has been working closely with farmers to promote the extraction of hemp for industrial use. there but as the head of a federation of self-help groups my tony has been working to create local resource based employment for the vulnerable mountain communities of the charm only district . one source of income is hemp cultivation itself the

other is processing the fiber to make clothes. but then there's the processing of seeds to make protein products and oils the c.b.d. oil extracted from it is used in many ayurvedic medicine so a single plant has about 1200 uses. it also grows in 6 to 7 months doesn't attract blog life and it's not labor intensive. no burden on women and children really but it. has been working on projects with the federation for over 20 years. the drive stocks of hemp are processed into fiber to one and manages a team of women from nearby villages employing them seasonally for a daily wage of $300.00 rupees just over 3. the number of women working here

depends on how much help needs to be processed in a region where work has become increasingly difficult to find the project gives women like the one a hope. that here in the hills a lot of men are alcoholics they don't earn a living usually their wives are the ones who come here and work it's the only way they can afford to light their stoves at home. on average $100.00 kilos of dried hemp stock produces about 10 kilos of processed fiber. this is then made into garments. there is a growing demand for hemp clothing as organic eco friendly fashion becomes more trendy. but so far hemp processing hasn't really taken off the primary reason being the local availability of the non-narcotic low t.h.c. seed. real for now we are unable to produce the low

t.h.c. seeds in the district we're working in that direction along with a few other companies they're trying to develop a lower t.h.c. scenes. but this needs a lot of research and it's a time taking process in the meantime industrial hemp seeds are imported from the us australia and europe. the center for aromatic plants and data was established by the government its director near penn. played a key role in shaping state policy on hemp cultivation he's working together with research institutes to develop non-narcotic seeds in india which will not adversely affect local biodiversity and that if industrial hemp creates business opportunities then why would people grow something that could land them in jail we are hoping to make these seeds available freely so that locals can grow industrial

hemp in as much quantity as they want there are already comprehensive plans for him production in the pipeline. despite the challenges on the ground experts in the sector remain optimistic that hemp cultivation could become the backbone of the state's economy. the plant has been growing in these hills for centuries and has long been misused and misrepresented the new strategy could help improve the lives of the local population. when the plant has high t.h.c. seeds then people smoke it especially now when there's so much unemployment if we only grow low t.h.c. seeds then this problem can be prevented round what is already doing better in the past year here and $5000.00 rupees around $56.00 euro is by selling raw and fiber that's only a small percentage of what he earned previously but he hopes that eventually cultivation will provide him with

a reliable income. now historic. i have been one of the 4th blondes to. use the wolf bot a lot of times. controversial reputation let's see ringback how it's evolved over the last 200. this is automotive pioneer henry ford in the early 1940 s. leaning into a prototype made of plant based materials including hemp hardly a subtle product but savvy marketing the vehicle was lighter and more stable than its metal counterparts but it never went into mass production. hemp was an important commodity in the european textile industry into the 1800s until low cost cotton imports replaced it a cannabis plant it was later banned in many countries because of its intoxicating qualities but attitudes towards cannabis have been changing in recent years.

some countries such as canada have even legalized recreational marijuana at a national level. while industrial hemp has lower levels of psychoactive substances it does contain c b d which is short for cannabidiol a drug that is said to have many positive effects including therapeutic ones there are currently 12 european countries that permit the use for medicinal purposes. and there is. your well end up with a needle stuck with cannabis but that was proven. to get symptom relief for the problems that can be pain or no. help is also being rediscovered as an environmentally friendly building material it's breathable and can also help regulate the temperature and air moisture in

buildings thus saving energy. this is classic wall insulation it can be a good alternative for polish styrene or mineral. hamper keeps out moisture and bugs when mixed with clay it can last for centuries. him is a renewable raw material but growing it is only allowed under strict conditions only particular varieties are permitted for large scale farming in the e.u. . industrial hemp is a plant that grows quickly and as multiple uses another advantage is that hemp farming uses 50 percent less water than cotton farming. camp is also being combined again with synthetic materials to form composites automobile manufacturers like b.m.w. use hemp in car door panels. people can also purchase smart phone covers made of

hemp creating these innovative materials is still labor intensive and expensive but industrial hemp has lots of potential it's also rich in protein omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids as a result c b d s become a darling of the lifestyle industry it's found in trials medics like oils creams and soaps as well as food stuffs like lemonades cakes and coffee. in an ideal world we would only completely recyclable products we wouldn't have such a huge amount of plastic waste and we wouldn't find plastic everywhere in that and why make but unfortunately we don't live in that ideal world or plastic problem is saw it's estimated that by 2050 there will be more pieces of plastic than the

number of fish in our office lucky for us that of many people who are trying to solve this problem we resist it some of them in germany. and i delete location on the who are river in western germany. take a closer look and it's not as beautiful. as. kevin know where and their classmates have come to do some fishing but not the usual kind it's trash there fishing for. and here it doesn't take long place lists are everywhere they look and lots of different types of it and kevin and the way show us some discarded newspapers and cigarette lighters they worry they could cause wildfires. and there's plenty of plastic. wise if you glass bottles to. the students attend a local high school and are taking part in an initiative called plastic pirates

it's a research project where young students get to do the work of real scientists. they take water samples and measure count and record the pieces of trash they recovered from the rivers and river that. scientists in kew use the data to generate a garbage map of german rivers and calculate how much trash ends up in the sea. since 2016 more than 15000 plastic pirates from 700 schools have collected samples from all over germany. the project is now being launched in other european countries to me for the past 2 years the school has included the topic of recycling on their curriculum. and the teachers are happy to do their part to inspire the budding scientists. out there. it's something i care about myself it always bothers me when i see people leaving rubbish behind especially when they have small

children with them and are supposed to be setting an example. the work of the plastic pirates shows that on average one piece of trash can be found for every 2 square metres of riverbank in germany. france also has a project aimed at tracking down the trash it's called plastic origins and goes a step further using artificial intelligence and an app we want to move you guys as much as brought us and citizens as we can to go on the reverse or you can create either through or walking around that we've got bands and using those data using the video footage that they are going to take over the river banks we will be able to analyze as we do. little items and uses data to my previous plastic pollution the aim of plastic origins is to get straight to legislation introduced on plastic waste and regulatory limits for the amount of

plastic in european rivers their garbage map is intended to identify especially polluted areas and it's important because it's going to help us. to know exactly where we should act 1st you know the pollution is coming from everywhere but we know that most of the poor. when we found the ocean transported by readers. right now we don't know which groups are the most polluted. but the app can track micro plastics in germany and don't fall kilos of micro plastics per person per year end up in the environment the main sources particles from the it will tires industrial waste and household garbage it's difficult for waste water treatment plants to filter out the tiny particles but a munich startup called eco faria is showing how it can be done using a simple but effective method. they prototype is currently being tested this is how

it works the waste water is pumped into the filter a powerful voice x. is generated in the pipe pushing the water containing most of the micro plastics to the top the company says 95 percent of micro plastics from municipalities and industry could be filtered out in this way. the young plastic pirates agree that more needs to be done to combat plastic pollution after just 2 hours in this idyllic location they found more trash than they can even carry. plastics need hundreds of years to decompose but they will never be completely gone the result of this process of decomposition is in micro plastics or very small particles that you can't see with the naked eye and that pollute the environment but what if you used plastic to decompose in another week scientists have found some help in nature. these warnings are doing something that we always thought was

impossible. and you think reading the non-bank readable. by jesting the non digestible. they're even plastic. this is how they would use a piece of styrofoam just the we. if we could harvest their super power we could get 3 or 4 plastic trash in weeks rather than send to reach. a could see come to the santa morse helped clean the environment and avoid the toxic plastic incineration. can prosecute in bags help solve our plastic problem busy.

they are. oh yeah yeah i had to say that mine that night. she spit up at the molecular biologist who in 2017 made an important discovery. i not. maybe hide. what they used to find. but the swarms manage to eat their way out of the plastic bag itself. to grasp the importance of this discovery we 1st need to understand what plastic is plastic is a mysterious material. frankel a science writer author and real plastic. in the natural world of natural

substances they're sort of broken up by bacteria. go back to their essential. water. plastic doesn't do. it just get smaller and smaller and smaller but it still essentially lasts that's why micro plastics stained the environment for centuries. for most of our history we've built things with stuff we found in nature would rocks and metals but there's the ward modernize there was a growing demand for properties that only scarce natural elements processed. things like raisin say look. or ivory. and in the mid 19th century and even more worrying and so many elements were being able to make billiard balls and the elephants were being driven into extinction. eventually

the board manufacturer promised the rich prize to whoever could find a more abundant substitute for ivory that caught the eye of an imaginary john wesley hyatt who spent several years or anything in his work bench came up with the stuff so you like the plastic age it began. adverts like v's celebrative in with you right there but that it may be everything you know remarkably washable. reading it because they were a lot like why. 7 noida replaced tortoise shell coral and my. nylon replaced silk it's funny because in the early years plastic was seen as sort of a some patience of nature and today we look at it is one of the chic enemies of the natural. plastic is no everywhere some are light and transparent like

plastic bags all those are extremely resistant like bullet proof vests but they all have in common is the polymers which just basically means they're materials that are made up repeating atomic units and i think of them as like beads on a change. of plastic looks like how it feels how it behaves all of that demands and how to put together and the reason why plastic lasts so long in the environment is that nothing of all to break down to stop of bombs. or a key piece that's what we thought. so i bought these. are like they are called real war. and you can actually buy them online and watch them become acute. as you feed them with the stifle. organisms themselves that. is the

bacteria those organisms probably using only say. he's a professor of structural biology and he knows everything about enzymes. were actually. places actually to think those bacteria growing on the surface of us think that. their goal is to find new bugs in bacteria that came they just plastic isolate their enzymes and then enhanced must produce them in by reactors. obviously we can't just briefly ocean with hands i'm sure some of these technology can't help with the plastic already in the environment however it could revolutionize our recycling system. to really recycle something you have to break it down to its basic elements so that you can rearrange them into something else. because we can't break down plastic

bonds we can only recycle it once or twice before it becomes unusable. and deaths wifey's warms can be a game changer if you think about bio recycling what you can do is take that box. and reuse it again and again and infinitely in fact sounds like scifi but it's already on the way for example a french company named car because he's a radio using gains i'm just recycled bottles like these and not just once or twice but in theory infinitely if you can increase the value of the real sensitizing marc . forwards i remember back up last in the 1st place and instead of people actually leaving money to consume i'm still saying people will be taking money to get back home again and we use it. so the technology walks like it's not scalable yet and it's still more expensive than virgin plastics oil and gas is really cheap slow

down means it's cheaper to make a costly get of oil and gas rather than recycled materials. you need to get these technologies working at a much bigger scale that we're currently doing in order to make a dent i do believe that we really need some more cards. so can my warms with their enzymes solve our plastic problem i think it's great if we can find things like you know. the bacteria that can. last is really a design problem it's that we're taking acid 'd and we're using them all too often to make things that are trivial and are necessary and serve you know. we are in a toxic relationship with plastic. we invented it to substitute for a pail box in now we're turning to bugs to get rid of it and i don't want to live

without it i mean you know i like my glass. in the middle of the road. there are. demonized plastic is only issue is. how we use it. and here is well my school you my friends and an important lesson to teach us. they have adapted to leave with plastic. 'd we should do the same. our societies have been conditioned to plastic but little by little we can. of reaching for that plastic bag plastic cup or the container every small action comes to leave you without thought and see you again next week for what entire team in india and germany back. it's.

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this is d.w. newsline from berlin fleeing syria's civil war only to find even more suffering aid agencies warn of a dire humanitarian situation in given the province bitter cold and the pandemic are making life even harder for refugees or speak to the u.n. emergency relief coordinator. also coming up russia expel several you diplomats for allegedly participating in rallies in support of kremlin critic alexei not only on a visit to moscow but blocks foreign affairs chief says ties with russia are at a low point and murphy is back in america back to. is back to showing the world form polish. president joe biden announces

a reversal of trump's america 1st agenda. i'm sumi so misconducts good to have you with us in syria internally displaced people in the northwest of the country are facing increasingly desperate conditions there is ongoing fighting the coronavirus pandemic is a threat and winter has brought heavy rains and bitterly cold temperatures tens of thousands of people fled to the province about a year ago in search of safety away from the assad regime's attacks on rebel territories hundreds of makeshift camps were set up close to the border with turkey but they lack basic supplies and the winter weather is making things worse and they haven't found safety either d.w. correspondent rick. visited

a family in one of the camps. bartend frame standing among charred to ruins a reminder of the horrible night 4 weeks ago when up to 5 am just his 10 year old daughter. in the bitter cold his 10 neighbors were trying to light a homemade furnace when the entire tent went up in flames. the fire spread very quickly there were huge flames and a motorcycle and some fuel exploded all the tents caught fire my wife and children were trapped inside only 5 made it out of the homes of. my sister yes i mean try to save our mother and she pushed her out she told her go i'll come out right after you but yes i mean got caught inside and she died. their youngest daughter also suffered severe burns and the aid organization brought

the one year old to turkey for medical treatment doctors have sent messages and videos but the family's not allowed to visit. the border with turkey is closed to syrian refugees the mother fatima can barely stand it. so i hope so much that you'll come back healthy but i saw the fire i fear the worst there was the final. tragedies like these happened frequently in the makeshift camps in the northern eclipse tens of thousands of people are living here in miserable conditions even basic necessities latrines food heating fuel and medical care. constant heavy rain has now made the situation worse people here were cut off from all supplies for days many tents were destroyed age organizations have been doing their best but are told. overwhelmed the situation is

made even worse by the rampant coronavirus infection rate in egypt province has risen dramatically. the. we've done what we can and together with other aid organizations and the white helmets we try to raise awareness about the coronavirus we've handed out masks and disinfectant but given the desperate situation it's not enough. of them. have to fight half family are simply glad that the aid organisation has given them a new tent some clothing and even a new furnace but they hardly use it despite the cold they have no money for fuel and they are terrified of using it anyway. my children and i have a psychological problem in the tent we are afraid to light the furnace when my husband isn't here so our children panic and start screaming when they see fire so

it's very very hard for us. to leave. when they fled the fighting and their rates up to fatah thought they would only be here for a few days but now it's been 14 months and they are too afraid to go back home to southern eclipse because the fighting rages on. we can speak now to mark lowe cock his u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs also the emergency relief coordinator he's joining us from new york mark we saw images there of the dire situation in what is the biggest threat facing displaced people all over syria right now. well i must say that's an extremely graphic compelling disturbing report your excellent correspondent has produced and it tells the truth of what is happening say tens of thousands hundreds of thousands. and now is a very difficult dangerous moment for those people because he's the middle of winter

most of. living in 12 camps so for me just as sheets of plastic. that ethane. more than 1008. 122-0000 tents destroyed. we have managed to get a 1000 trucks off supplies help across the border from turkey in january to help is not enough and we need to get more help to them so they can get through the winter mark at all of this a global pandemic how is that affected your organizations after it's to help people . yes i mean there's something like 20000 confirmed cases in northwestern syria among fortune hundreds of deaths so while we're going to need to do is make sure that they know if in the vaccination program

as you syrians talk about in your correspondents report that during all the cabinet trying to use mosques they're trying to do a few things like a raid they will they need like so many of the people around the well this access to the banks to the soonest possible mark if you could send a message to the international community what needs to happen right now to make life better for internally displaced people in syria. well it's true things. in there are one of the very shocking and striking things when you see reports like that as you see those children just like my children just like your children are. in every material just like us and they need to say you humans. don't need. warm clay he's saying all those material things that cost money and we also for results to help that they also need an answer that. is very ill outbreaks of

violence. or man in order to have some hope of a nice to be. resolution is called for just on for 10 years now. of their life being able to get better on mark low cock u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs emergency relief coordinator as well thank you so much. now german chancellor angela merkel has condemned the russia's decision to expel diplomats from several e.u. countries including germany merkel says it is unjustified and a further step by moscow away from the rule of law the kremlin accuses the diplomats of taking part in a legal protests against the jailing of alexina vall me earlier the european union's top diplomat phil supporter described relations with russia as being under severe strain at a meeting with the country's foreign minister sergey lavrov it is the 1st visit by

a senior in u. diplomat since 2017 the agenda also focused on the iran nuclear deal of the situation in ukraine and other human rights issues in the russian troops and here's what the russian foreign minister had to say afterwords. so you. were so we proceed from the assumption that the e.u. at this stage is an unreliable partner and i hope that the strategic review that takes place soon will focus on the key interests of the e.u. and that these talks help make out contacts more constructive to move borders we are ready for true through where i spoke to moscow correspondent and we sure when and i asked her if there is room for constructive dialogue after those strong words from the russian foreign minister well this is a clearly a very tense moment in russian relations ahead of this meeting today the kremlin

spokesperson calls called relations of frozen and it's clear that you know there were already a lot of bones of contention essentially between the e.u. and russia including the annexation of the crimean peninsula in 2014 by russia but now the main bone of contention is me his arrest his poisoning and the protests that have erupted around his arrest and also those detentions that we've been seeing at those protests and there was a bit of a clash today between the 2 diplomats between and between love wroth with on the one hand burrell not in so many words but essentially saying that there is no rule of law in russia at least he implied that and love rauf on the other hand accused the west of basically being hypocritical in its accusations of police violence and also repeated that he didn't that russia doesn't want you to meddle.

ok let's get a round of now some other headlines from around the world delegates from libya's rival factions have elected an interim government to lead the country until elections in december businessman abdul hamid debate about who will serve as prime minister and government alongside a 3 member presidential council libya has been divided between rival governments in the country's west and east for over 5 years. in the in march hundreds of students and teachers have joined rallies against the recent military coup demonstrators and young gone or red ribbons in support of change leader aung san suu kyi a civil disobedience movement has been growing since the military declared on monday that it would take power for one year. and europe's most active volcano mount etna in italy erupted several times on thursday night into friday morning authorities had expected the volcanic activity and secured the area no injuries were reported the over 3000 metre high volcano on the island of sicily is

a popular tourist attraction and erupts multiple times a year. u.s. president joe biden has outlined his vision for american foreign policy in his 1st major policy speech biden said he wants to reassert u.s. global leadership rebuild alliances and reverse donald trump's america 1st agenda he vowed to end u.s. support for the war in yemen and halt the withdrawal of u.s. troops from germany. the united states is ready to engage with the world again that was joe biden's message from the modeled holes of washington state department for biden that means foreign policy must be grounded in a multilateral world rather than in defense of america's interests that puts america 1st. is back diplomacy is back at the center of our foreign policy so the u.s. will once more try to find solutions to the world's problems like in yemen dubbed

the world's worst humanitarian crisis years of conflict has destroyed much of the country killing hundreds of thousands of people and leaving mournin starvation the u.s. has given tacit backing to one side of that war no more says by that. this war has to end. and to underscore our commitment we are all american support for offensive operations in the war in yemen including relevant arms sales the moved represents a broader shift in u.s. foreign policy that previous administrations have been accused of siding with authoritarian nations in the name of stability but the president wants that to end and he knows he's going to need help for biden taking a stronger stance internationally will mean having to reach out to washington's old allies in europe and elsewhere he ordered a freeze on u.s. troop withdrawals abroad including from u.s.

bases in germany the trumpet ministration wanted to pull out nearly 10000 of some 35000 troops based in the country biden will depart from that plan for america the alliances are our greatest asset and maybe with diplomacy means standing shoulder to shoulder with our allies and key partners once again. the biden administration comes to power with diplomats morale lower and its alliances chasing offers restoring both will be a huge challenge and just one more item huish geometric formations of started appearing on frozen lakes and snow covered fields in canada behind the epic artworks a retired teacher stomping around and snow show she was a to beat back as pandemic blues along with a team of friends he starts out his designs after her full drafting at least 20 artworks have been crafted so far the largest around 400 meters long each piece can take up to 3 days to make. coming up next the business with

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