discovery. subscribe. to. a simple plastic bag is used only for 15 minutes on average but it can last in a whisper body we've got to deacon board for the work i'm in think about that. i want produces $300000000.00 tonnes of plastic every year and it's found everywhere in cities in dulce and in villages that pollute the land and the oceans what can we

do want to eradicate of dependence on plastic that's what we talk about to be how 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 shot we love trysts that might look great on us we don't notice that more than 65 percent of all textile fibers need he was in crude oil which is why the textile industry today is one of the biggest polluters worldwide if we go for natural alternatives like cotton for example we're still not out of the woods cotton production needs a lot of water you know where does it all in the world are experimenting with the wrong 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. round what needs to look for another source of income. might be the answer the plant floor issues here in the mountains. has a tradition of ham 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 tiny has been working closely with farmers to promote the extraction of hemp for industrial use. there. as the head of a federation of self-help groups my tunny has been working to create local resource based employment for the vulnerable mountain communities of the charm only district . one source of income is him cultivation itself the

other is processing the 5 bed to make clothes. but then there is 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. or 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 dried 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 rupees just over 300 the number of women working here depends

on how much hemp 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 start 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. seeds. 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're 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 rather 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 have cultivation will provide him with

a reliable income. now historical perspective of being one of the 4th blondes. there was the wolf bought. a controversial reputation let's see 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 hundreds until the 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. there is. you will end up with a needle stuck with cannabis but it has been proven. outpatient to get symptom relief for the problems that can be pain or no way. to chemotherapy or radiation hemp 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 and can be a good alternative for polish styrene or mineral will. 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 has 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. has become a darling of the lifestyle industry it's found in cosmetics like oils creams and soaps as well as food stuffs like lemonades cakes and coffee. in an ideal world we would only do with completely recyclable products we wouldn't have such a huge amount of plastic waste and we wouldn't find plastic everywhere in that environment but unfortunately we don't live in that ideal world our plastic problem is soft it's estimated that by 2050 there will be more pieces of plastic than the

number of fish you know of ocean's lucky for us that a many people who are trying to solve this problem we resistant some of them in germany. and i delete location on the who're 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 they're fishing for. and here it doesn't take long there's lissa everywhere they look and lots of different types that. kevin and i wear 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 do things 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 cain or walking around that we've got brains 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 detect early 2 items and uses data to my previous plastic pollution the aim of plastic origins is to get stricter legislation introduced on plastic waste and regulatory limits with 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 he was transported by a rigorous right now we don't know which reduce the most privileges for the group. but the app can track micro plastics in germany alone full 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. there 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 help in nature. these warnings are doing something they were always thought

was impossible. but yet the greeting down on the. digesting the number just the. 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 or 4 plastic trash in weeks rather than send to reach. a could see if come to the sentiment help clean the environment and avoid toxic plastic incineration. can pass to help solve our plastic problem

2. oh yeah yeah i had to say that my that night. at the molecular biologist who in 2017 made an important discovery. by not cleaning water maybe high. water used to find it was. but these warms 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 more plastic is plastic is a mysterious material. frankel a science writer author and real plastic. in the natural world natural substances

there you know sort of broken up by bacteria. go back to their essential. water. plastic doesn't do that. it just gets smaller and smaller and smaller but it still essentially lasts that's why micro plastic stain the environment for santa rings. for most of our history we've built things with stuff we found in nature. rocks and metals but there's the ward modernised there was a growing demand for properties that only scarce natural elements process. things like raisin silk. or ivory. in the mid 19th century and even more worrying that so many elements were being able to make billiard balls and the elements were being driven into extinction. eventually i'll

be here at the board manufacturer promised to reach a prize to whoever could find a more abundant substitute for ivory that caught the eye of an american named john wesley. who spent several years straight growing in his workshop benchley came up with the stuff so you avoid the plastic cage at begun. outlets like these celebrate divinity and they are practical but that day everything ragdoll great remarkably washable microbrews read it because they were laughed at by large enough 7 oid replaced tortoise shell coral and mother. nylon replaced silk it's funny because in the early years plastic was seen as sort of a some patients 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 just spare and unlike

bostic backs all those are extremely resistant like bulletproof 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 as like beads on a change. but plastic looks like how it feels how it behaves all of that demands 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 stop of bombs. or a key so that's what we thought. all right they have called me a war. and you can actually buy them online and watch them become it. as you feel stifled. it's not the organisms themselves.

it's the bacteria those organisms probably producing. he's a professor of structural biology and he knows everything about anything's. possible places actually says faith in those bacteria growing on the surface of. their goal is to find new bugs and they 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 arms of these technology can't help with the plastic already in the environment do 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 bet's wifey's warms can be a game changer if you think about bio recycling what you can do is take that. and reuse it again and again and infinitely in fact sounds like scifi but it's already underway for example a french company named car beyond radio using again signs to recycle bottles like these and not just once or twice but in theory infinitely if you can increase the value of the. morrow. the forwards collect the boston 1st place and instead of people actually leaving money it's a good zoom i'm still saying to people with big money to take it back home again and we use it. so the technology walks but it's not scalable yet and it's still more expensive than virgin plastics oil and gas is really cheap that means it's

cheaper to make costly drill for oil and gas than are recycled materials. we need to get least technologies working at a much bigger scale that we're currently doing now in order to even make a dent i do believe that we really need to work 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 while the 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 the necessary and serve you know. we are in a toxic relationship with plastic. we invented it to substitute and repel box in now we're turning to bugs to get to eat of it and i don't wanna live without it

i mean you know i like my glass light on right. in the middle of the road. there are. demonized issues is very and the issue is. how we use it. and here is well my screamy friend 7 important lesson to teach us. they have adapted to leave with plastic. 'd we should do the same. also psyches have been conditioned to using plastic but little by little we can. of reaching for that plastic bag plastic cup or the 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 back.

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china wants to expand its influence with this trade network also in europe conflicts are inevitable the consequences unpredictable but in jennifer jacobs ever since a chinese investor got involved here our situation has changed before the forum was privatized the work was much better and easier. china is promising its harbors rich but in europe there's a sharp warning whoever accept money from the new superpower will become dependent on it the commitment of the shaking the chinese state has a lot of money at its disposal. and that's how it's expanding and asserting its status and position in the world to be fair to the bug was making. china's gateway to europe start feb 19th on deep. w. .

this is d. w. news live from berlin democracy defenders and me in mar defy a ban on further protests demonstrators take to the streets of melbourne the world's 4th state to denounce a military takeover of their country there's no let up to the public display of anger despite military leaders threats to take action against large gatherings also coming up. seeking better treatment from one of the world's biggest companies for the 1st time workers at an amazon warehouse in the u.s. are voting on whether to join his unit.