and the weekly radio. if you would like any information on the coronavirus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at. science. always does everywhere in that industrialized world it's a part of our every day 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 you 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 on sun with that. despite increased environmental awareness a lot of we used still ends up in nature many a time in places where people go for a jewel of a relaxing stroll this is where blogging comes in a train that combines collecting garbage and jockey or digitally from sweden blogging is a new form of equal freak this and india is not far behind in exploring it for the . dominant views on a mission he wants to get in because this creature it is a monumental dog's people their throwaway. 25000 pounds of plastic raised today but

he has been gathering hemp for some time now has found thousands of lawyers across the country for 5 years they have been practicing trash collection the work. does 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. the sanitation. coming to your pieces and cleaning up your. what do we call them we call them got today while our point was there. because of that ash but how do you miss it so i do mission statement we want to tell me. that. he seems to be on the right path is now well known as

a success when you go from this person not because it would be nice 475 cities since 2019 at the end of the crash history can do a city collection point. it's not a wonder. when i would do some good thing so there is one particular. i think. would be in my body and i am feeling very much in order to get to this point of time so i'm feeling very good and i definitely. do know is one of the city in the state of maharashtra and quite appropriate the birthplace of india's plug movement. of founded the movement here has been with the group ever since supposed has grown. and 400 members.

it's their job and you're going to be there to actually start work remotely i had a big of a personal challenge and we've people that we can begin to give me just so i didn't look like it is long challenging recently. the notion of combining environmental activism with fitness to help people when vivek fight up there on your followers. but the bloggers are ambitious 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 even if it's anybody's i think. we'll have you know that i did and then you find a lot of last words we. use so we'd like to go and work them into it so you get out of the great no anger there in the company you got leave when you. don't really mean it would have been you well you don't let me bring in. selling the bottles opens up a source of income for these women when. however

blogging is only one way of getting close to mitchell. said he's the setting the healing effect of woodland on the stressed out city dweller he caller just organizes food more the strongs to the books. no one to speaks out in the area there is nothing to be heard of the nearby megacity. 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 leave. russian groups chirping birds. on a major hike. what. has been the silence especially. how. you know. something about your. understanding an 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 plastic 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 there are more by would be created than any conventional plastics available today our reporter looked at some of these alternatives to find out if they could help one of the biggest problems facing us. this was supposed to be the classic feature. obviously not specifically in this because it looks like crap.

this this this. this is supposed to be the play. lastic of the future looks like normal plastic feels like your plastic x. like almost nothing but is made from plop it pollutes less than conventional petrol based plastics and in some cases even biodegradable perfect right plastic pollution problems 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 both

worlds they are functionally identical and indistinguishable from petroleum h.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 companies like nature works are growing in the last part thanks to consumers like us wanting more eco friendly products and compared to petrochemical based plastics 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 the i mean but in general bioplastics production emits less greenhouse gases. making them feel retic lee 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 ford 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 necessarily mean it turns back into soil. the beauty comes from the chemistry of which you produce me 2 years from. they can go. to your closet based.

this is. 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 bio p.t. also a non biodegradable plastic it acts just like petrol based plastics and just like

them can clog up and accumulate in marine animals actually about 45 percent of bioplastics produce today. not biodegradable ok so let's talk about the bio degradable plastic. for example this plastic which is poly lactic acid and 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 calm possible means that it biodegrades in a specific amount of time in a specific condition this 3 months in an industrial composting facility you need to collect them when you need to send it to composting then only to. ok if you don't collect and then you just seen can they roam and there's. no you don't you can do

you can recreate the same problem of fuel for as a base even the converse in facilities depending on where you live are few and far between and many don't even take 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 by a 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 to dump it on the consumer this is close he coauthored a study that looked at the land water and carbon footprint of bioplastics. refiled

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 will do so a lot of those they calculated to replace core 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 plastics 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 things coffee cups saws or 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 or home

compostable bioplastics could be a good idea. other examples are for those 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 picture of ace 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 civil court ordered stories due to civil war 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 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

every day we are far from easy to waste plundered some amount of waste is in able to go especially in large cities waste management is a complex issue and if not done correctly it can have some cream and far reaching consequences our next report from russia will help us understand splitter. the fumes from the landfills start to sting horrendously. your eyes burn your throat hurts and you feel sick leave your fear 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 merge and see services have the tech to $25.00 times over the limit or up with them it's all because of the dumb p.r. . but here julie if that is what he means about 500 meters from the house she was born in the us is a land field near the village a subpoena is one of the dozens all around the mega city of moscow just 32 hectares

in the area or about 45 soccer pitches. only a few hears ago the pit was some 30 meters deep single presidents now it's a hill rising about 20 meters high and it keeps getting bigger as to the populations health problems. if it is a haven us is that some days it's take so on barely she couldn't open her apartment windows her children if you're old 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 you weren't cut i've eaten that with 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 an oh what i thought what a miracle the noises in their lungs were gone how come we're very simple we moved away from the land fill. the fed so he gave us case was no isolated one waste disposal is one of russia's most pressing issues create peace 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 the country with the largest land area on earth can't find enough space for the estimated 70000000 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 to congress but rarely have they seen the results. julia fessor 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. who 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 the 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 the effect is really has to consult her detector before she takes her 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 over . julie f.l. so he is 67 year old mother valentino. still lives in their home village. can you yeah we come and 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. where would i go who could i sell my house to with all that stench out there they're not exactly lining up for you and how could i live in the city i only get a pension of about one $190.00 euros and i'd have to pay $130.00 euros to rent a one room apartment. pay visit with grandma for a couple of hours you live hadassah he shows her kids her old property quickly before the winter 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 my hoard it's. a mountain of garbage keeps 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 is what every farm 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 a whole different kind of waste and also recycled waste but mostly on sort of waste as well luko is the brainchild of students from the untold in university of

technology. lisa fund and is the dutch teen's project manager. so our she is built out of this material which is flex and the recycled b.c. bottles and want some other cool material so that's what this actually and that's what we use in our interior as well and this is normally what you show way in your home on sort of household waste so it's very often. their message is a simple one might call it when least when it's recyclable materials. are only worth $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 a cycle one. 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 course so i hope it was for you maybe i should look at 6 better is there there are more sick smaller birds and can easily be swapped for 4. if they're better is empty social to see some girl who's sitting in their system a sort of scar and versions are actually made out of coconut. or share both sides of the. people's vote for all of it is this way to game theory although this is a core seat 2nd so they are very close well. that is powered 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 kilometers in the. plane. 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 you really want to show that in spottable in many occasions and i think it will take some time 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 share c. 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. the 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 a very of the consequences of your choices if you've shown how 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 entire to even india and germany good but.

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