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swedish and all that type of product is through composting so replacing all of these conventional plastics with easily biodegradable for example or home compostable bioplastics could be a good idea. other examples are fields for agricultural use that can be plowed under the ground or fishing equipment which reportedly makes up 10 percent of all marine litter but replacing all petro based plastics with bio plastics is just not realistic and to be honest downright unnecessary $130.00 estimates 40 percent of plastic produced is packaging a lot of which is avoidable if you kill there's no civil court order to really. look at it 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 have 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
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every day with far from easy to waste plundered some amount of waste is in ever to good 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 sustain her render slee. your eyes burn your throat hurts and you feel sick. 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 times over the limit. with them it's all because of the dumb p.r. . but here julia feticide means about 500 metres from the house she was born in the alice escape plan field near the village
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a subpoena is one of the dozens all around the mega city of moscow is 32 hectares in the area for about $45.00 soccer pitches. only a few years ago the pit was some 30 meters deep say coke residents now it's a hill rising about 20 meters high and it keeps getting bigger best of the populations health problems. to save us is that some days is they so unbearable e. she couldn't open her apartment windows her children 8 year old delia and 7 year old cover saba started feeling ill more often the point came when you here couldn't take it any more she moved away from her home village shop over 7 kilometers to the town of clinical one. that would 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 hearing plane for
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us later after the movie went back to the same doctor an oh what i thought what a miracle the noises in their lungs were gone how come they're essential we moved away from the landfill. the feds so he 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 in process and only 2 percent going to incineration plants the rest goes straight into dumps ironically the 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 ground water and air over and over local residents opposed tested as here in congress but rarely have they seen any results. giulietta so he
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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 kimono yet another politicians are good at it up with them but will use this data to compile what we call them up of the stands for the whole area and then decide if you can go outside with the kids who are not meeting. their results are lower mean the activists report them to the environment agency regularly in 2700 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 city of clinton but received no response. and so judy offense really has to consult her detector
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before she takes all children outside to see what is there we analyze the air today who would you know right now it's looking good so we can go visit grandma and shop over. julia fetisov eva's 67 year old mother tina. still lives in their home village the huge can you yeah we come in have some tea and sausage. with. her grandchildren maija coming to visit even if only briefly her house to his perilously close to the landfill but she's not going to move away from. you 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 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 you live hadassah he shows her kids her old property quickly
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before the wind turns and the smell is unbearable again all her efforts to have something done about it have been for nothing but that's the one so i don't know how long we can keep on fighting this system we're too few and we're starting to feel helpless and desperate and the cord that's a. mountain of garbage keeps growing and there are even plans to expand the field. when garbage ends up in landfills and there's no longer to recycle it leads to ways to roll more to do it 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 gaap which. this car is literally rubbish complete trash. but we use whole different kind of waste and also recycle waste but
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mostly on sort of waste as well you tell is the brainchild of students from the i'm told in university of technology. fund is the dutch teens project manager. so our sissy is built out of this material which is flex and the recycled p.c. bottles and with some other cool materials so that's this actually and that's what we use in our interior as well and this. it's normally what you throw away in your home as one sort of household waste says very often. their message is a simple 11 call it when least 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
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a minor miracle a car fashioned from recycled waste. championing the cause of sustainability while at the same time for 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 of course so i opened up that was for you anyway and she did look at 6 better is here there are almost 6 more that are facts and can easily be swapped for forex for a song if you're better is mc so shocked to see some girl who's sitting in their estimates for his car and versions are actually made out of coconut cyber or share oversight of the tea bowls very fond of it is this cereal this is a go for seeds 2nd so they are very bold. that is
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colored by 2 electric motors in the rear wheel so. it's a dream come true to drive. it's a sporty looking little mover with a top speed of around 90 come on that is in the. police charged it has a maximum range of 2. 120 commodities. we really hope that all the car companies a lot of companies start using race materials because you have you really want to show that it's possible in many applications 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 race. in the interior and we want to show it's also possible to build a shastri out of it and hopefully in the coming year we also see that happening. behind tobin university of technology has a reputation for innovation and creative young minds to keep on plugging away
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instead of resting on their laurels in a previous project students looked at another future mobility option and entered the ultimate competition the world's solar challenge in australia and that team went on to ski top prize of the cruiser class for years in a row. the problem of producing too much we used 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 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 but.
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. to kick off. this town atmosphere means listless clay stuff from x. . blocks of guns and on relentless fights sensible. nonstop excitement to the final match to. form the seagull. on t.w. . the more your 5 keys to safer food. keep clean to prevent coming. for a draw and cook foods to avoid cross contamination. cook
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syrup to kill microorganisms. keep food safe temperatures. to prevent bacteria broke. gives safe water and safe raw materials to avoid kentucky. food producers are the ones primarily responsible for the safety of the food. but you can protect yourself and your family from diseases and the whole pipeline the 5 key is to say for food use them but you also have a role to play. this
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is from efforts to move a stranded container ship blocking the suez canal finally make progress draggers and tug boats working around the clock through the stern of a 400 metre long vessel racing house that this busy waterway will soon we'll. also coming off thailand or paris for a wave of refugees fleeing the bloodshed at me and mosque thousands are said to have crossed the border and are on the move after the deadliest weekend since the
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