huge race began to. create the tallest biggest and the most beautiful structures. this is how massive churches are created. in droves starts april 12th on d. w. . always does everywhere in the industrialized world 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 and more to recycle and end up in landfills or 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 this what have you worked on it gives and solutions to this problem that's what we talk about to be alone welcome to equal india i'm some of that. the spike increased involvement. a lot of still ends up in nature many a time in places where people go for a. relaxing stroll this is where blogging comes in a train that combines collecting garbage and jockey originally from sweden blogging is a new form of equal free and india is not far behind in exploring it for the. leaves on a mission he wants to get in because the streets of it is a monument to toss. away 25000 pounds of plastic race today but he has been

gathering help for some time now has found thousands of lawyers across the country for 5 years they have been practicing trash collection is what. grace is. it 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. what do we call them we call them. because of that ash but how do you miss it so our mission statement was we wanted 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 stricken to a city collection point. this is not a one. did i stand when i would do some good thing so there is one particular. chord in the morphine i think all day in the morning is full up in my body and i am getting very much in order to get this point of time so i'm feeling really good and i will definitely spread even myself i. do know is one of the foodie a city in the state of maharashtra and quite a property of the birthplace of our newest blog moved. river going to founded the movement here and has been with the group of a sense support has grown not with has around 2400 members. a lot of people have. already paid a lot of. it's their job and there could actually be more actually i have to take

a personal challenge and leave people that we can begin to give me so i don't look like it is long challenging recently. the notion of combining environmental activism with fitness to help people invent fired up their 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'll have you know. i didn't i mean a lot of last words. like who are going where doing any good after. anger there is a company. you don't really mean it would have been you well let me bring in. selling the bottles opens up a source of income for these vendors. however

blogging is only one way of getting close to mitchell. said he's researching the healing effect of woodland on the stressed out city do as the caller just organizes food move the strongest. true the good. mobiles are switched off no want to speak. out in the area of south delhi there is nothing to be heard of the nearby mega city no cars airplanes. not to make it romanticized which i mean often people would sort of associate 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 knock it and about the forest and the authorities and to make it fun and i just about. neighbor george i will meaning

into. rustling leaves. rushing brooks chirping birds. lake city slickers. what. has been the silence especially. of quite amazing how. you know. something new about the understanding issue and you know all of this in this. just. you know piece. indians are increasingly enthusiastic about environment and they mostly live in cities and crops long ago

that something has to be done the plastic grates 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 me you know. i'm not. just collecting garbage is of course the only way to solve the waste problem especially plastic waste is that a feasible alternative to plastic bottle plastics seem to be promising for now there are more by would be created than any conventional plastics available today a reporter look at some of these alternatives to find out if they could help one of the biggest problems facing. this is supposed to be there for the future.

obviously not specifically in this because it looks like crap. this this this. this is supposed to be the. lastic of the future looks like normal plastic feels like more plastic acts like almost nothing but is made from plot it pollutes less than conventional petrol based plastics and in some cases is even biodegradable perfect right plastics pollution problems so 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 a biodegradable. bioplastics are called that because they're bio based meaning they derived from biomass like sugar cane potatoes. instead of petroleum they companies like coca-cola and done have already started using bio bottles they're

functionally identical and indistinguishable from petroleum based p.t. one of these bottles is bio based one is petroleum based and there's no way i can tell which are 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 for me is 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 bioplastics production the myth less greenhouse gases. making them feel retic late a more eco friendly alternative 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 40 even produced a saudi being partly made out of you guessed it 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 the plastic is bio based doesn't the fairly mean it turns back into soil. comes from the chemistry of the material you can produce me 2 years from. taken by all of. the best

plastics 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 non-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 you also a non biodegradable plastic act just like petro based plastics and just like them

can clog up and accumulate in marine animals actually about 45 percent of bioplastics produce 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 compostable compostable means that it biodegrades in a specific amount of time in a specific condition this it's 3 months in an industrial composting facility you need to collect them when you need to send you can. then only do. ok if you don't collect and you just seem kind of enrollment. no you don't you can

you can create the same problem of your far as a bass player needs in that show conversely 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 plants that are growing for bioplastics can have a big land water and carbon footprint diverting crops away from food sources and harming the environment with pesticides. some bio plastics companies are working towards growing and using local sustainable crops or producing plastic from by a waste instead. of the inputs from bio plastic so it's really hard. on the consumer this is close who coauthored the study that looked at the land water and carbon footprints of bioplastics. you couldn't easily replace.

the plastic even just for a way where you want to use plastic because your requirements in terms of plain. juice and water consumption goes through so a lot of us they calculated that to replace all plastic packaging with bioplastics we need more than half of the world's corn production. it's a. sad but it's true that doesn't mean that using bio classics never make 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 teabag back can contain plastic coffee cup saws all food packaging in general because packaging that yeah has inside of it or a touch does not get recycled so the only in the past we didn't handle that type of product is through compost so replacing all of these conventional plastics with

easily biodegradable for example home compostable bioplastics could be a good idea. other examples are fields for agricultural use that can be ploughed on the ground or fishing equipment which reportedly makes up 10 percent of all marine literally by replacing all pitcher always 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 close to book order. 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 with far too weak from a-z. to waste planet some amount of waste is in ever to good especially in large cities with 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 her render slowly. your eyes burn your throat hurts and you feel sick your fear it's as if someone's 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. with them it's all because of the dumb p.r. . but here julie if it. means about 500 metres from the house she was born in. the us is the land field near the village a subpoena is one of the dozens all around the mega city of moscow has 32 hectares

in the area for about 45 soccer pitches. only a few years ago the pit was some 30 meters deep sea coke residence now is a hill rising about 20 meters high and it keeps getting bigger ass to the populations health problems. the f.s.a. hey buses that some days is take so on barely she couldn't open her apartment windows her children 8 year old delia and 7 year old cover slava 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 clinton one. of 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 move we went

back to the same doctor an oh what i thought what a miracle the noises in their lungs were gone how come very simple we moved away from the land fill. the fence or heave us case was no isolated one waste disposal is one of russia's most pressing issues great peace 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 find enough space for the s. to be deceptively tons of waste as 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 in the results. julia fetzer either 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 hydrogen sulfide ammonia and other politicians. would have 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 alarming their activists report them to the environmental 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 city of clinton but received no response. and so judy a fettucine has to consult her detector before she takes her children outside to

see what is the we analyze the air today who are you know right now it's looking good so we can go visit grandma and shop over. julia fed a story this 67 year old mother valentino. still lives in their home village the huge new yeah come and have some tea and sells each. 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. 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 know if that is how he shows her kids her old pretty 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 the one 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 for more things to mark or the. mountain of garbage keeps on growing and there are even plans to expand this 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 of a new pope was what every form the acquire some students in the netherlands proved to be true they demonstrated that you can make an electric car from got it. this car is literally rubbish complete trash. but we use whole different kind of waste and also recycle waste but mostly on sort of waste as well luko is the

brainchild of students from the i'm told in university of technology. fund at mit is the dutch teens project manager. so arches she 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 is normally what you throw away in your home on sort of household waste so it's very often. their message is a simple 11 call it when least when it's recyclable materials. we're only with 20 students and not all full time and we start from scratch so it's nothing this and we have to think of all of ourselves and we don't nobody ever build a car before. starting from scratch can sometimes be an advantage and help to focus inventive minds on these sanctions. 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 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 it so i hope it was for you. 6 better is here there are 6 smaller backs. for. if you're better is empty so folks all to see you sitting in their estimates for disco and their shows are actually made out of coconut. or share oversight of the tea. it will also hurt for all visitors this way to game theory although this is a course. second so they are very old school. that is powered by 2 electric motors in the year wheel so. it's

a dream come true to drive. it's a sporty looking little move with a top speed of around 90 kilometers in the old. place. and fully charged it has a maximum range of 220 kilometers. we really hope that all the car companies a lot of companies start using race materials because you have me 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 or bio based or waste. in the interior and we want to show it's also possible to build a chevy out of it and hopefully in the coming here we also see that happening. behind token university of technology has a reputation for innovation and creative young minds the people in 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 that team went on to ski for top prize in 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 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 out and out of to even india and germany are good but.

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