to postpone the olympic game set tokyo 20. 2421. of course. during the qualifying round, not least for sports heroes. actually it was a slap in the face, but now we just have to fight their mobilizing superpowers. i'm fired up and ready. count down during walk down the go to tokyo, start july 19 dw, the me ah ah, ah, ah, life is a game of give and take. most of us are careful to exercise a bit of self control, relationships, diet, korea. if we just think of ourselves,

we might feel good in the moment, but long term, it's just not healthy. the same goes for our natural resources. if everyone in the world used as many resources as us citizens, for example, we need 5 planets to sustain us. if we all lived like germans, 3 earths, china would take up to india, just about one. on average, we're using resources at the rate of one and a half us. meaning that it takes the planets around 18 months to produce or regenerate the ecological resource as humanity consumes in one here, it's becoming increasingly clear, we can't go on this way, producing the surplus of goods and just flowing them away, conserving resources, that's our topic today on made online shopping has sparks and increase in e commerce here in germany and much the world. so say you've ordered a new pair of running shoes online, they arrive, you try them on, and they don't fit. so back they online shopping increases,

so online returns due to and that has created a boom in perfectly new products, going to waste. just recently, footage of brand new items being destroyed at an amazon logistics center has sparked fury. companies have complained that it's costly to resell, returned items. germany has banned the destruction of undamaged new goods. but our retailers following the rules. an amazon logistics center in germany filmed by green piece undercover. the video is said to show brand new clothing being destroyed. it triggered a storm. growing new products and this is drawing resources, isn't cannibal and climate crisis. the greenpeace campaign called out the online giant and raised awareness of the problem of waste, takes to valuable resources, go into making clothes. one garment comes into contact with up to 3000 different

chemicals during production. on the simple presentation, it requires 2700 li tons of water suffer. one of her drinks in 2 and a half years. how can treat the problem with online retail? is that a lot of products get sent back? processing them isn't always worthwhile for the company. every year, 20000000 items are destroyed in germany alone, logistics expert, after i did the math and came up with that number. so our online retailers, the biggest problem, the line of brick and mortar stores still have a higher sales volume than online retailers. those, those do see fewer returns. but on the other hand, their amount of surplus stock left over is huge in the arms and, and the industry has grown rapidly. before the pandemic, the average person in germany spent more than $900.00 euros on clothing a year. that's a market volume of 56000000000 euros. most of which was spent on 1st fashion.

because it was the clothing chinese, they offer low price fashion that saw massive growth. being able to dress fashionably for little money, is very attractive for many people. you're going to manage, especially young people who don't earn so much more. the pan demik was a huge shock to retailers. germany have 3 loc downs in between. shops who are offering cut prices to get rid of stock. still, retailers were left with mountains of unsold, closed winter collections, for example, that can't be sold in the summer. it's because i'm a total of $800000000.00 new governments. when they sold off. it's the so called a corona collection and it's completely unclear what will happen within many retailers are saying they plan to destroy the game to see. but the mass destruction of new products is actually banned under german law. it's complete

nonsense. greenpeace doesn't need to worry noise. we don't know of a single case where brand new clothes that could still be sold or destroyed. we don't know all 20000 companies and can't look behind every door. there may be a few cases, but we're not aware of any amazon also feels wrongly accused and issued a statement. the number of product sold and shipped by amazon that have to be disposed of. it's only a few for 1000, and we're working hard to keep reducing the number items may be donated, sold it along, put in storage or recycled. retailers often pass that work onto other companies. so it's not always nice to trace where textiles and then gets to conduct a study on the disposal of stock, buy stores, the disposal of corona surplus. no one would cooperate because all these things

might just get hushed up and that it was only last year that germany toughened up its laws making the disposal of goods that are new or as good as new officially illegal. the law is mainly designed to create greater transparency, but well at work. most, nothing is slow, only applies to retailers and manufacturers and all the middleman platforms and disposal firms in between and not included. so in many cases, the law will remain a paper, tiger, and future in time. so what can make a difference? maybe we don't need so many new clothes. people in germany on an average of $95.00 garments each and $1.00 and $5.00 of them never gets more the best the can. every day. activism is the best way to protect the environment. and i knew all the time with electronic some clothes you can borrow rent shares. well,

there are lots of models, but they need state support. the only problem shopping. it's still a number one hobby in germany. and speaking of shopping, plastic cards like this are part of our everyday lives. plastic is everywhere with hundreds of millions of tons of plastic packaging thrown away each year, calling our past cities are rivers in our oceans. it's a serious issue so much so that this card gives you a clue about how much plastic you may even be eating without your knowledge. you know that you live in a world full of plastic. in the water, you drink and even the air you breathe. and the food you eat is full of tiny plastic particles. every week you ingest up to 5 grams of micro

plastics about the equivalent of a credit card. much of that will remain in your body with as yet unknown effect on your health. a 3rd of all the plastic produced goes into the packaging that you buy . if you're a german, you generate an average 38 kilograms of ways from plastic packaging every year. that's more than the european average of 24 kilograms. and no matter where you live, the richer you are, the more ways to generate. if you buy things online, you'll create even more plastic ways. chances are you'll use half of your plastic products only once and then discard them. but the plastic will stick around in you and your environment for the most part, not just for your life then. but for centuries is another statistic that surprised me. every european owns $10000.00 items on average. just

imagine what that adds up to for an entire family. when a household is liquidated, a lot of those possessions simply end up in a landfill. in many places, this is given rise to an entire industry clear in services that remove unwanted items from homes. how much of those household, goods, furnishings, and clothing can be reused, repurposed or resold? our reporter christian procedures went to humbug to watch a house clear in service on the job and experience that brings home a lesson in living sustainably. it's a typical case, fully intact, home has to be cleared because the occupants of either died or gone into care that these people move in and i know it's going to hold house to clear the to day floor. you call us

a crawl space at the back healthy. i hope you're a little motivated on and that we can get this done quickly if it's to be so if we call the house in humbugs, affluent, christiane wake far too owns a home liquidation sin has promised. the estate says that he will clear everything out. leave the house, sweat clean, so that a real estate agent can sell it. or he, he'll have the dining room. it's difficult with doc furniture right now to move the charity shop. probably wouldn't wanted, and we can't give it away. the thing calm me on the heavier and doc of the furniture, the harder it is to find a new home for it these days i can target and i've gotta sadly, the china cabinet is destined for the incinerator. maybe there's something in the next room that can be used this for the living room. we try not to just throw everything away here because we see this every day. and these days it

makes sense to real things. also a burden, a waste on the environment, which has the scope of anything like that. and then the movie is why does it not sell off the living room furniture to a 2nd. hands store in hamburg every week. christiane vacant deals with new clients in of a mile from the way family members approach a house very widely. we see a whole range of responses in some find it hard to say goodbye. i tried to walk through a lot and selves and in some cases it may have dragged on for years. and on behalf of people who don't seem to care who distance to end a project very objectively. and who would rather just get rid of it all quickly. didn't me, and as i understand base from for the last calendar entry was 7 months ago to the people who lived here to children, to another room in the family,

one face games together. the most recent inhabitant was the widow you'd like to knit and say that tend to have everything they need already and often different so that not everything will fit is home and they'll take a photo album, mementos. but i'd say that when it comes to the furniture and most of the things a lot will be left over like i feel like the teen gets down to work with the european phones. $10000.00 objects, most of the contents of this home will be thrown out filling up 5 fund. those

will be covered and the dishes they'll go to this. if you cycling center is building rebel and it's a waste, what else can you do? status or something? i think it can be wise to depart with things. sometimes she wanted, she could keep some things for herself. is she ever tempted? and has her job changed her in any way? there's been a vision that i've actually switched to having fewer things myself because you notice that you don't need that much sna. they thought the household items in a tubs, a few things still that mean, why can't they sell them? and i think someone were to hire us to sell it on consignment, be a problem, wages would need to be paid and then the whole thing would have to be in the back probably wouldn't be worth it. a little more about, most of the system that we have these things are going to the 2nd hand store. they won't get much money for it, but they'll save them garbage collection fees. it's hard work. do they ever get

problems? funds 1000000 times but people know sit around all day in the office, also get back problems the job a couple of times about 40 percent of which transport and waste collection challenges. do they just clear everything out and go their mark that much? the real estate agent wants to be able to sell the house easily. it needs to look presentable. that's why we left the lamps inside and a few curtains so that it still looks comfortable. so most of the contents need to go out of the house could be sold for at least 600000 view res. i'm when a new family missing spell. once again, fill it up with tens of thousands of new objects. being energy efficient is k. but it's easier said than done. it's not just about getting the right policies in place. perhaps the most difficult part is changing our behavior driven economist and climate takes. but claudia comfort knows this

better than most. she explains why we need to put more energy into saving energy. first one, energy saving like bob. then 234. we're always hearing that we need to save energy . energy right bulbs can indeed save a lot of electricity and money to least 100 years a year. then we use one of the trips in a rental car, our, my little splurge. this one also uses electricity. energy economics, expert cloudy a convert, understands the dilemma. saving energy is a challenge to come, how can i find, leave there to see more energy with ms bond and what you're experiencing is known as the rebound effect. you work hard to save energy, then you have more disposable income, which you spend on more energy. we have to counteract them with targeted policies

or you could see like a carbon tax for example, designed as an incentive to reduce energy use that's.