is there. in daily life. and that school is out in the sun we should not be given a special status but be completely normal. to this day don't know why it's wrong as for the cartoon about anti semitism 11 teenagers 11 stories. i'm jewish and so. german and jewish starts feb 22nd on d w it is a bit of. a simple plastic bag is used only for 15 minutes on average but it can last in a ways by we gulp 2 decomposing from work a 1000000 you think about that. our world produces $300000000.00 tons of

plastic every year and it's found everywhere in cities in dulce and in villages it pollutes our land and the oceans what can we draw to eradicate our dependence on plastic that's what we talk about to be our welcome to call 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 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 alternative 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 a roll with t.v.'s which would cause the least amount of negative impact and hemp

seems to be one such natural fiber. introducing rather what used to live off tourism the oregon valley. is a popular destination peak season is from may to october but the pandemic has changed everything. what needs to look for another source of income. 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. had a cow and 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 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 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. 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 who want to manage as

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 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. 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 dune 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 is especially now when they so much unemployment if we only grow low t.h.c. seeds then this problem can be prevented. is already doing better in the past year here and $5000.00 rupees around $56.00 euros 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 historic perspective of being one of the 4th blondes to. use the bot. a 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 ample 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 temp was an important commodity in the european textile industry into the 1800s 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. and there is. here we'll end up with. this. program we want to get. across. the pain or no. 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 can be a good alternative policy 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. 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.

hemp 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 we bring tense of 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 founded cosmetics 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 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. lucky for us that a many people who are trying to solve this problem we resist that 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 there were and their classmates have come to do some fishing but not the usual kind it's trash their fishing for. and here it doesn't take long those 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. quite

a few 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 too. 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 do bads 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. a little 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 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. we found the ocean is transported by regrets but right now we don't know which way ghosts 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 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 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 decomposed in another way scientists have found some help in nature. these warms are doing something that we always thought was impossible. but yet degrading done on the great appeal. by jesting the non digestible. bear it in 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 prosecuting

bugs help solve our plastic problem 'd 2. sure they are. oh yeah yeah i have to say that my that night. she speak up at the king a molecular biologist who in 2017 made an important discovery. by not cleaning or maybe hide it was. basically. what they used to find was. there. but the swarms managed to eat their way out of the plastic bag it's something interesting. 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 they're 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 and smaller but it still essentially lasts that's why micro plastics stained the environment for same to release. 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 already scarce natural elements. things like raisin silk. or ivory. in the mid 19th

century were a need so many elements were being. made billiard balls and the elements were being driven into extinction. eventually i'll be here the ball manufacturer promised the rich 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 take her ring in his workshop benchley came up with the stuff so you avoid the plastic cage at begun. adverts like visa celebrative and with you know they are that they everything ragdoll lovely washable. read it because they were a lot of my heart. said annoyed replaced the shell coral and mother. nylon replaced silk it's funny because in the early years plastic was seen as sort of

a some beige nature and today we look at it is one of the chic enemies of the natural world. plastic is now everywhere some are like interest spare into like plastic bags 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 chain. but a plastic looks like how it feels how it behaves all of that demands and how the beans are going to get there and the reason why plastic lasts so long in the environment is that nothing evolved to break down to stipe of bombs. or a key piece that's what we thought. so i bought these warm. are like you know they are called your war. and you can actually buy them online and watch them become it cute. as

a few of them would stifle. it's not that organisms themselves. it's the bacteria those organisms probably producing and he's a. he's a professor of structural biology and he knows everything about enzymes. were actually. places actually to think those facts there are growing on the surface of us think. their goal is to find new bugs in bacteria that can digest plastic isolate their enzymes and then inhance and must produce them in by reactors. obviously we can't just create your own and sometimes solve the signal gee 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 that's why fleas warms can be a game changer if you think about bio recycling what you can do. and reuse it again and again and the. fact sounds like science but it's already underway for example a french company named carpio's is already 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 real sense of them are. move forwards kind of my black lab boston in the 1st place and instead of people actually leaving money to consume i'm still saying to people who'll be taking money to take it back home again and we use it.

so the technology war 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 cost of oil and gas than are 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. 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. lastic 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 under necessary and serve you know.

we are in a toxic relationship with plastic. we invented it to substitute and repel box and now we're turning to bugs to get rid of it and i don't think we want to live without it i mean you know i like the fact that my glasses right. in the middle of the. printer are. you the one is demonized plastic issue is only issue is how we. build those and here is 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 plastic but little by little we can't. reaching for that plastic bag plastic cup or the container every small action comes

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