slaten 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. do we know exactly where we should start 1st you know measure pollution newsgroup from everywhere. we know that most of the crucially we found the ocean is transported by rigorous right now we don't know which groups of the most polluted there are for the pretty ones. 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 vehicle 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 of 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 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 hair. these warnings are doing something that we always thought was

impossible. but yet they creating the non-bank readable. 'd jesting the non digestible. they're even plastic. this is how they would use a piece of styrofoam in just the week. if we could harvest their super power we could get 3 of our plastic trash in weeks rather than send to reach. could save countless animals help clean the environment and avoid toxic plastic incineration. can prosecute in bags help solve our plastic problem busy.

sure there are. oh yeah yeah i had to say that mine that night. she spit it up at the molecular biologist who in 2017 made an important discovery. by not cleaning water maybe hide it was. basically. what they used to find. 'd but these warmest managed to eat their way out of the plastic bag it's something. to grasp the importance of these 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 natural substances

there are broken up by bacteria and. they go back to their essential elements water. plastic doesn't do that. it just get smaller and smaller and smaller but it's still essentially blasting that's why michael plastics stained your environment for centuries. for most of our history we've built things with stuff we found in nature. 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 silk. or ivory. in the mid 19th century worrying that so many elements were being able to make billiard balls and

the elephants were being driven into extinction. eventually obeah of the board manufacturer promised to reach price to whoever could find a more abundant substitute for i pray that the eye of an american and john wesley. who spent several years to bring in his workshop benchley came up with the stuff so you like the plastic age it begun. adverts like visa celebrate divinity and they are that it that they everything a rag doll be markedly washable microbrews read it because they were all laughed at my wife. sent along to replaced shell coral and mother. nylon replaced silk it's funny because in the early years plastic was seen as sort of a salvation in 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 others are extremely resistant like bullet proof vests what 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 and it's like beads on a change. what a plastic looks like how it feels how it behaves all of that commands and how builds them together and the reason why plastic lasts so long in the environment is that nothing of all to break down to stipe of bonds. or at keast that's what we thought. so i bought these warms. are like they are called awards. and you can actually buy them online and watch them become. as you feed them stifle. it's not the organisms themselves. it's the

bacteria those organisms probably if you see you say. he's a professor of biology and he knows everything about any things. were actually certain. places actually just faded those facts. on the surface of the testing. to find new bugs in bacteria they can't they just plastic isolate their enzymes and then enhanced must produce them in by reactors. obviously we can't just create your own hands arms of this 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 back. sounds like scifi but it's already underway for example a french company named carpio's is a radio using again signs to recycle bottles like these and not just once or twice but in theory if in italy if you can increase the value of the. sensitized to morrow. move forwards collect the past in the 1st place and instead of people actually giving money to goods and i'm still saying people will be doing money to take it back over again and we use it. so the technology walks it's not scalable yet and it's still more expensive than virgin plastics oil and gas is really cheap

. means it's cheaper to make because they drill for oil and gas than are recycled materials. you need to get these technologies were actually a much bigger scale that we're currently doing now in order to make a dent i do believe that we've really been somewhat hard. 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 take. acid and we're using them all too often to make things that are trivial under necessary and serve you know. we are in a toxic relationship with plastic. we invented it to substitute for a pail box and 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 the fact that my glass right in the middle of the . issue is the military only issue is around. and here as well my school you my friend 7 important lesson to teach us. they have adapted to leave with plastic. 'd we should do the same. our societies have been conditioned to using plastic but little by little we can. of reaching for that plastic bag plastic cup or that pick up container every small action comes i'll leave you without thought and see you again next week for what entire team in india and germany good buy.

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