you know where this shutdown we're not afraid to touch and. africa's population. and the only people you have the solution you just know. in the 7 percent you know every week on d w. waste is everywhere in not industrialized it's a part of our everyday life like this plastic bottle in my hand for example hundreds of billions of them are produced from crude oil every year many of them on

more recycled and end up in landfill it's all in our oceans it takes 400 years for each one to decompose into micro particles and even these micro particles remain on the planet for ever how do we change these what have you or 200 tips and solutions to this problem that's what we talk about to be alone welcome to equal india and some of that occurred. just by the increased environmental awareness a lot of the east still ends up in nature many a time in places where people go for the jewel of a relaxing stroll this is where blogging comes in a train that combines collecting the garbage and jockey origin of me from sweden blogging is a new form of equal frick this and india is not far behind in exploring it for that . matter who don't.

he's on a mission he wants to get in because the streets of it is a monumental. 25000 pounds of plastic raised today but he has been gathering 100. thousands of lawyers across the country for 5 years they have been practicing connection with. the grace of. god is a new word combining the swedish word lucky. lucky with outdoor running it is catching on across the world in india it is the still early days for the blog movement. when you look at. 'd the sanitation. what do we call them we call them. that but how do you. so why do. we want to.

know he seems to be on the right path is now well known as a success when you go from this person who has organized 475 cities since 2019 at the end of the crash speaking to a city collection point. where nobody would do some good thing so there is one particular. i am very much. so i'm feeling very good and i. do know is one of the filthiest city in the state of. the birthplace of india's blog movement. the movement here has been with the group. ever since support has grown not what hasn't 2400 members

. a lot of people have. already been a lot of. their job and you're going to be there to actually work remotely i had to dig up the class ledger lives and leave people there we can't do this because you think this is like a little bit like it is long challenging recently. the notion of combining environmental activism with fitness to help people invent fight up there on your followers. but the bloggers on ambition to don't just want to collect crush they want to do something with. a lot of cash which we collect is the 2nd level least so for the next week we're going to be simpler because i think. we'll have you know. i didn't remind a lot of last words which are. so we'd like to and we're doing the words are any good are good i don't know when the company got me when you. didn't really mean it

would have been you well you don't let me do any. selling the bottles opens up a source of income for these events. however blogging is only one way of getting close to matching. cities the setting the healing effect of woodland on the stressed out city dwellers the ecologist organizes food move the strongs to the books more bonds are switched off no want to speaks out in the area of south dead there is nothing to be heard of the nearby mega city. airplanes. not that will make it romanticized which i mean often people who are sort of associated the walk to be. my attempt was to use the silence and the sounds and just the feeling of being in a forest. that excitement that it gave people to sort of catch their attention and

then talk of activism and again to not rant about the forest and the authorities and to make it fun and i just about. name. ruslan leaves. russian groups chirping birds. knock down the major heights. city slickers. what. has been the silence especially. the quite amazing how. you know physical activity something new about the understanding issue and you know that this. is just. you know peace. indians are increasingly

enthusiastic about environment and they mostly live in cities and crops long ago that something has to be done the plaster grace all over the streets has become a simple fact of life which will take at least 450 years to break down the bloggers have no intention of reading that not. just collecting garbage is of course not the only way to solve the waste problem especially plastic waste instead a feasible alternative to plastic bottle plastics seem to be promising for now they're more by would be credible than any conventional plastics available to be our reporter look at some of these alternatives to find out if they could help one of the biggest problems facing us. this is supposed to be the current state of the

future. obviously not specifically this because it looks like crap. this this this. this is supposed to be the. lastic of the future looks like no more plastic feels like more plastic x. like normal plastic but is made from plop it pollutes less than conventional petrol based plastics and in some cases is even biodegradable perfect right plastic pollution problem well it's a bit more complicated than that. so bioplastics as you may have seen them in form of biodegradable plastic like this coffee cup so or cutlery but not all bio plastics biodegradable. bioplastics are called out because they're bio

based meaning they derive from biomass like sugar cane potatoes. instead of petroleum they companies like coca-cola and done have already started using bottles they're functionally identical and indistinguishable from petroleum based p.t. one of these bottles is why waste one is petroleum based and there's no way i can help it currently bioplastics only make up about one percent of all plastics but the market is growing the demand far exceeds the entire industries ability to supply right now this is really a forward she works for one of the world's biggest bioplastics manufacturers nature works companies like nature works are growing in large part thanks to consumers like us wanting more eco friendly products and compared to petrochemical based last eggs it can be 2 thirds to 3 quarters less carbon per pound at the factory again this can vary depending on how where and what they're made but in general by

a plastics production the myth less greenhouse gases. making them feel retic late a more eco friendly alternative for making plastic out of biomass isn't a new idea one of the earliest manmade plastics was a bio plastic called poxon known today as celluloid which derives from cellular. found in plants ford even produced a saudi being partly made out of your guest said soybean derived bioplastics but eventually petrol based plastics took over they were easier to produce and more versatile and that demand only kept on growing however bioplastics are experiencing a comeback and production is projected to grow significantly in the next years. but let's get into the tricky bit about bioplastics just because a plastic is bio based doesn't necessarily mean it turns back into soil.

the beauty comes from the chemistry of the meat you can produce meteors from. it they can do. all of. this as. a chemist who has studied the biodegrade ability of plastics so let's talk about non-biodegradable plastics quick and easy chemistry explanation this is ethically derived from petrol which is formed into a long chain to become polyethylene or peat this carbon chain makes it stable and durable but also really hard to break up making it known biodegradable. this is a bio based material in this case ethanol and alcohol you can make the exact same structure the exact same polyethylene out of it the leftover molecules become simple h 2 o. water there are many different processes but this is how a bio based plastic can be known biodegradable. remember the video from the

beginning that was by u p team also a non-biodegradable plastic it acts just like petrol based plastics and just like them can clog up our oceans and accumulate in marine animals actually about 45 percent of bioplastics produced today are not biodegradable ok so let's talk about the biodegradable plastic. for example this plastic which is poly lactic acid it's designed so that it can almost entirely degrade into c o 2 and water similar to other biodegradable plastic. like this this is made out of pollen lactic acid and it says compost of all calm possible means that it biodegrades in a specific amount of time in a specific condition with this it's 3 months in an industrial composting facility

you need to collect them when you need to send you can. then only. if you don't collect and you just think i'm wrong and. you're going to get the same problem of your father based on that show canvassing facilities depending on where you live are few and far between and many don't even take on possible plastics because they are so hard to distinguish from conventional ones on top of all of this the plant for the growing for bioplastics can have a big land water and carbon footprint diverting crops away from food sources and harming the environment with pesticides. stumm my own plastics companies are working towards growing and using local sustainable crops or producing plastic from buy a waste instead but the consumer doesn't necessarily know. what really improves their from bio plastic so it's really hard. on the consumer

this is. study that looked at the land. plastics. plastic even just for. plastic because the requirement. to replace plastic packaging with bioplastics we need more than half of the world's production. i know it's just. sad but it's true that doesn't mean that using bioplastics never makes sense there are a few applications where would be better to switch from petrol based plastics number one being food related plastics for example this tea bag that can contain plastic things coffee cups saws all food packaging in general because packaging that yeah has food waste inside of it or as touch does not get recycled so the only

in the past we didn't handle that type of product is through composting so replacing all of these conventional plastics with easily biodegradable for example home compostable bioplastics could be a good idea. other examples are false for agricultural use that can be plowed under the ground or fishing equipment which reportedly makes up 10 percent of all marine litter by replacing all petrova is plastics with bio plastics is just not realistic and to be honest downright unnecessary one study estimates 40 percent of plastic produced is packaging a lot of which is avoidable if you kill those low silver cord. or that right i know it's hard sometimes i know it's less convenient sometimes i mess up all the time bioplastics can be better than conventional plastics but it has its costs it is not the perfect solution the only way to plastic pollution is to use

less of it with a bio based on not. even if we try to reduce the amount of garbage we generate every day we are far too weak from a-z. to waste planet some amount of risk is in trouble especially in large cities waste management is a complex issue and if not done correctly it can have some grieve and far reaching consequences our next report from russia will help us understand this better. the fumes from the landfill start to sting horrendously. your eyes burn your throat hurts and you feel sick lyrics it's as if someone is pouring water down my throat it makes me cough i can hardly breathe they say everything's alright but to mergence the services have the tech to $25.00 times over the limit. up with them it's all because of the dump here. but here julie if it. means about 500

meters from the house she was born in the us is the land field near the villages should pino is one of the dozens all around the mega city of moscow just 32 hectares in the area or about $45.00 soccer pitch is. only a few years ago the pit was some 30 meters deep say hope of residence now is a hill rising about 20 meters high and it keeps getting bigger faster the population health problems. going. to save us is that some days it is take so on barely she could not open her apartment windows her children 8 year old and 7 year old cover slava started feeling ill more often the point came when you here couldn't take it anymore she moved away from her home village shop over 7 kilometers to the town of clinton when. the little ones always had something wrong with them one day the pediatrician told me their lungs were making rattling

noise as i didn't have to think about it i started looking for an apartment here and clean for us later after the movie went back to the same doctor and oh what i thought what a miracle the noises in their lungs were gone how come very simple we moved away from the landfill. professor gave us case was no isolated one waste disposal is one of russia's most pressing issues greenpeace figures show less . and 4 percent of waste being processed and only 2 percent going to incineration plants the rest goes straight into dumps ironically a country with the largest land area on earth can't find enough space for the estimated 70000000 tons of waste its population produces annually moscow's landfills in particular are ticking time bombs many of them fail to meet the official safety standards contaminated soil quality water and air over and over

local residents have tested as here to our congress but i really have a scene in the results. julia fessor eva has joined the effort for clean air in her home region she and her fellow activists pooled their funds and bought a gas analyzer that measures radioactivity chlorine and hydrogen sulfide ammonia and other politicians. would have it up with them but we'll use this data to compile what we call them up of the stands for the whole area and then decide if we can go outside with the kids who are not meeting. their results are alarming their activists report them to the environment agency regularly in 2017 the state emergency services finally had to react and measure 25 times the maximum allowed for hydrogen sulfide activists took the matter to court but with no success our reporter contacted the landfill managers and the city of clinton but received no

response. and so judy of history has to consult her detector before she takes all children outside to see what is the way analyze the air today would you know right now it's looking good so we can go visit grandma and shop of our. julie felt so even 67 year old mother that she. still lives in their home village. you come and have some tea and sausage with. her grandchildren maija coming to visit she definitely briefly her house to his perilously close to the landfill but she's not going to move away to where would i go who could i sell my house to with all that stench out there they're not exactly lining up and how could i live in the city i only get a pension of about $190.00 euros and i'd have to pay $130.00 euros to rent a one room apartment. they visit with grandma for

a couple of hours really affects how he shows her kids her old property quickly before the wind turns and the smell is unbearable again just to have something done about it have been for nothing but that's a lot so i don't know how long we can keep on fighting this is we're too few and we're starting to feel helpless and desperate in the cord that's a. mountain of garbage keeps growing and there are even plans to expand the landfill. when garbage ends up in landfills and there's no longer to recycle it leads to restricted role materials these raw materials have the potential to slow a new pope was what every fall maybe a quiet some students in the netherlands proved to be true they demonstrated that you can make an electric car from got bitch. this car is literally rubbish

complete trash. but we use a whole different kind of waste and also recycle waste but mostly on sort of waste as well little is the brainchild of students from the i'm told in university of technology. fund is the dutch teams project manager. so our should see is built out of this material which is flex and the recycled p.c. bottles and with some other cool material so that's this actually and that's what we use in our interior as well and this is normally what you throw away in your home as some sort of household waste is very also. their message is a simple 11 call it waste when it's recyclable materials. we're only with $22.00 students and not all full time and we start from scratch so it's just from nothing till this and we have to think of all of ourselves and we don't nobody's ever build a car before. starting from scratch can sometimes be an advantage and help to focus

inventive minds on the essentials. in just 18 months the students created a minor miracle a car fashioned from recycled waste. championing the cause of sustainability while at the same time through the ring their own potential. so that's very difficult of course but very awesome to do because you learn a lot about it so that's the upside of course so i opened up that was for you anyway she did look at 6 better is here they're almost 6 smaller bags they can be easy to miss folks for 4 days for a song if they're better resume see social to see some girl who's sitting in their system a sort of square and versions are actually made out of coconut cyber or share the recycled p.t.a. voles earth for all of it is this way through cereal this is

a core seed i can go to your fairy. is cowered by 2 electric motors in the rear windows. it's a dream come true to drive. it's a sporty looking little mover with a top speed of around 90 kilometers and. police charged it has a maximum range of 220 kilometers. we really hope that all the car companies a lot of companies started using race materials because you have me want to show that it's possible in many of the occasions and i think it will take some time but we are seeing that more and more companies are starting to use it of bio based or waste. in the interior and we want to show it's also possible to build a shetty out of it and hopefully in the coming here we also see that happening.

behind tobin university of technology has a reputation for innovation and creative young minds to keep on plugging away instead of resting on their laurels in a previous project students looked at another future mobility option and entered the ultimate competition the world solar challenge in australia and the team went on to ski top prize of the cruiser class for years in a row. the problem of producing too much wheezed is one of the biggest challenges of fossil site to now and in the future so next time you reach for a plastic bottle be a very of the consequences of your choices we've shown you many solutions to be. useful takeaways from each one of them i'll see you again next week with more such solutions as always until then from our entirety even india and germany are good

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land say we are to float operators are unsuccessful in their latest bid to refloat a cargo ship stuck in the suez canal diggers strangers. hundreds of ships. and traffic jam causing a major headache. and the worst wave yet german health officials sound the alarm over the country. they warn it could prove

deadlier than the previous 2. welcome experts are warning it could take weeks to dislodge are huge container ship blocking egypt. today to refloat the vessel was not successful around 30 percent of the world's shipping container volume through the canal daily more than $150.00 ships are now backed up waiting to enter the waterway the canal opens up a 7000 kilometer route from asia to europe the only alternative route around the horn of africa is much longer but many ships are now opting for that detour a prolonged closure of the suez will almost certainly impact trade already been hit hard. for more on this extraordinary story. by captain john

conrad he's a licensed captain of the world's largest ships an author and founder of the shipping website captain dot com mr conrad welcome to you from the captain's perspective tell me how could it come to. right piece ships have gone an incredibly large over just the last 10 years or so in the last 10 years they've gone from about 10000 container ships to 20000 container ships but as the size has increased the international maritime organization the un arm that does maritime in one day and they have not increased the crew size and they have not put new requirements for technology on the ship so you have significantly bigger ships and the same size crew the same technology really the same tug boats and equipment and navigating the ships and it's not just the length i mean this ship is about 60

meters longer than the biggest aircraft carriers in the world but it's also the weight with a doubling of the number of containers on board. these ships weigh 2 to 300 percent more than the ships of 10 years ago and again we're using 1020 year old technology aboard can't gusts of wind really blows such a massive ship sideways as the owner of the ship says. absolutely as you stack these containers up higher than you know you're a big steel wall where all the wind pushes against these containers an incredible rate the average speed of transit through the can now is 8 knots the ship was going 30 knots and we believe it was going faster to try to provide the momentum and inertia to overcome those gusts of wind but as you know driving fast down

a narrow passageway on the autobahn or during construction the faster you go the more careful you have to be especially when that wind comes in can easily push a ship like this or some of the new cruise ships they give those all those cabins that are stacked storeys high that's another ship that can be easily kept and we only have about 30 seconds i want to get this last question in which is the race to remove the blockage is proving extremely challenging how long do you think it will take to dislodge the ever given well there's a there's a lot of hope that next week in the higher high tide they can get some fuel out and they can do what they're calling a back twist where they can corkscrew it out backwards after digging and dredging both ends if that doesn't work they have to bring in fuel barges take out the fuel and then somewhere in the world they have to find gigantic cranes on barges tall enough to reach those containers and start removing the weight so they can float it up higher but again as dr mark adriano said there is

a risk of hole these ship was not designed and every time the tide comes in and out it's like bending a piece of metal it's doing micro cracks in the hall and you do than enough time and they could crack and that would take weeks at least if if their captain john conrad really appreciate your time thank you very much thank you. and steven beardsley will dig deeper into their story on business after our show including a closer look at the disruption to the global economy so stay tuned for that in around 10 minutes here's a round up of some of the other stories making news around the world at this hour at least $32.00 people have been killed and dozens injured after 2 passenger trains collided in southern egypt the crash in the province of so hog caused 3 carriages to flip over it's the latest in a series of deadly train wrecks in egypt many of which have been blamed on poor

maintenance. ethiopian prime minister ahmed says eritrea has agreed to withdraw its troops from the ethiopian region of to grey off matt said ethiopia's military would take over the guarding of border areas amnesty international has accused troops of committing atrocities against civilians in the region. officials in bangladesh say at least 4 people have been shot dead during clashes between police and demonstrators many are protesting a visit to bangladesh by indian prime minister narendra modi to celebrate the country's 50th anniversary of independence critics in bangladesh accuse modi of stoking anti muslim sentiment in india. british prime minister boris johnson has condemned china after its sanction several british politicians and organisations the measures came in response to criticism by london of china's

treatment of its reader muslim minority beijing said sanctions imposed by the u.k. e.u. us in canada were based on quote lies and deceit information. german health officials or warning that the 3rd wave of covert 1000 currently gripping the country could prove deadlier than the previous 2 there are in the public to limit social contact over the easter holiday to slow the spread of the virus where than 21000 new cases were reported on friday the head of germany's disease control center says the highly contagious u.k. variant is now the dominant strain of the virus in the country. we are facing some very difficult weeks we are at the beginning of this 3rd wave and it's triggered by the variant b 117. which we know is even more contagious and even more dangerous and therefore it's even more difficult to contain. there are very clear signals that this wave

could be worse than the 1st 2 waves our chief political correspondent linda crane is following this story for us melinda greetings why such a strong message from the head of germany's disease control center now because the situation is indeed very serious here as the health minister put it this is like the last stage in a very long marathon people are tired and yet this stage could be by far the most painful so both he and the head of the center for disease control were encouraging germans to do everything in their power to bend the curve with the head of the center for disease control warning that otherwise we could see the number of new daily infections rise as high as a 100000 cases per day just to put that in perspective we currently have about 22000 new cases a day and at its very highest point the 2nd wave was producing around

a little over 30000 cases a day in december so very grave implications especially for the country's health system and therefore this appeal by both speakers today to absolutely take every precaution possible to flatten the curve a never ending long night here linda are we seeing so many new cases because testing is now free and readily available or are people more seriously ill. this is definitely not simply a statistical phenomenon mr beeler the head of the center for disease control said that in fact they are seeing increasingly serious cases of the new variant in populations that worth formerly thought not to be all that vulnerable so working age people young people children and again that has very serious implications for

intensive care units across the country yesterday chancellor merkel called upon germans to be more optimistic how realistic is that. it's difficult to the fact is there's been so much back and forth on how to deal with this pandemic with state federal state and federal government authorities putting into place one plan then seeming to revise it at the beginning of the week this week they were talking about a hard extended lockdown over easter that has now been rescinded and it's unclear exactly what is supposed to be put in its place and if you look at the surveys people are frustrated both with the politicians we're seeing poll numbers fall for chancellor merkel's christian democratic party and they are also frustrated by the inconsistency on the corona restrictions interestingly enough

a declining share see the current restrictions as just about right appropriate but it's not like they all want them to be lifted in fact 36 percent of those answering such surveys say they'd like to see stricter rules put into place so there's definitely confusion fatigue and frustration here. chief political correspondent melinda crane melinda as always many many thanks. here's a look at some of the other developments in the pandemic kenya has put its capital nairobi in nearby counties in a partial lockdown a major 3rd wave of infections that has seen case numbers rise to their highest levels yet germany has declared the whole of france a high risk area due to the high number of coronavirus cases there and an institute in the brazilian city of south paulo says it's developed its own vaccine that is quote 100 percent resilient and expects to start using the vaccine in july in the

u.s. the man charged with shooting dead 10 people at a supermarket in boulder colorado has been ordered held without bond prosecutors have vowed to file more charges against the suspect who is expected to undergo a mental health evaluation the shooting has left the residents of boulder deeply shaken emily gorging reports. a community comes together to grieve 10 lives lost in a shooting at a nearby supermarket. hundreds of gathered to mourn and to comfort each other in boulder colorado this was the 7th mass shooting in the u.s. this year the last one even a week ago. the religion of the suspect in boulder brings additional fear to the muslim community i have spoken to some who are afraid to leave the house others who

are changing up the path of their daily walks women fearful of wearing their he jabbed in public and men with beards who feel they will be as hard at it. the suspect does not represent the muslim community he does not represent islam he just happens to have a muslim name if i am still a titian's also paid their respects to the victims and their community ted was a. precious lives lost through so and remember why so many. tonight we are keeping them and each in our prayers. officer tally. every. ricky true loner. suzy and. terry kevin.

lived. you know. this is not the 1st time that the people of colorado have had to come together to commemorate the lives that have been lost during the shooting columbine the aurora cinema these are all familiar names and the big question is how many more times will the people of color have to do this we're just deeply saddened by the gun violence and needs the stock and it needs to stop and. i can't take it anymore i'm tired of people dying for no reason it's just sad their lives cut short for for what. you're watching the news here's

a reminder of our top story at this hour experts say it could take weeks for free a container ship blocking egypt suez canal over 150 other vessels are waiting to pass through the shipping lane. for world news at the top of the hour coming up next east colleague stephen beardsley with d.w. business news stay with us. more than a 1000 years ago europe witnesses a huge construction boom.