is different powered losses. they are peers and rivals with one daring gold to outsmart nature. for a longer, healthier, and fuller life. one of the most insightful discoveries in the history of mankind. down the hedge. more life starts may 28th on d, w. m. ah, a child's surroundings should be clean and safe by both inside and outside their homes. children are exposed to pollution that poses a danger to health and environment. only going the other day. we need to youngster

staking action to protect their peers and the future of the planet. hello and welcome. i'm son that it's natural for parents to want to shower their kids with gifts more often than not endorsed. presidents are made plastic research, se 90 percent of the toys manufactured worldwide. a made of plastic materials contained duck, since he had an india one young activist is working to raise awareness about the hell puzzles of plastic toys. and that environmental impact after the discarded ah ah, a child donated destroyed call to the young eagle voice is from the little white glove . not because it's broken, but because it's plastic. the club meets once a month to collect plastic clippings. as we all know,

that plastic is actually very harmful because it's a non biodegradable. so i want to make a big change in the environment and i got the more about being an eagle warrior would help it. the plastic eyes are bad because they contain heavy metals like lead and other chemical substances which are lay harmful for the o nature. and when we burn the plastic, they prep, they release chemical substances into the average causes air pollution. the little white glove got to work about 6 months ago. they've already collected around $220.00 clothes of plastic doors to be picked up by a recycling company. the ultimate mission, to rid the world of plastic doors. it was the idea of 10 years old. so you know, rhythm from bangalore. she has an own podcast and has a started an online campaign in the say no to plastic toys. when they click on it,

they can sign our petition. and we raise this petition to notify the indian government. hey, these plastic toys are destroying our health. that is dry, ever since we have the stop it. so we're waiting for 500 signatures because we have some 300. now we're waiting for $500.00, then it will. i will petition will be more with . there are now over a 100 eager warriors involved in schools are supporting the campaign. guitar is supporting her daughter ceo's drive to stem. the flood of plastic close to 50 percent of the plastic that's being produced annually is used in the toys, industry, toys and games industry. and it's a $90000000000.00 industry. and all. no one to 90 percent of the toys right now. across the world are made of plastic. plastic is made from crude oil,

around $1800000.00 tons of carbon dioxide all emitted every year during plastic reduction. the non governmental organization, toxic sling has long warned about the dangerous effects of plastic and children and adolescents. children are specially more prone to no impacts of toxicity. faster for their growing, ah, their bodies are increasing their growing rapidly. bad metabolism is much faster. dick consume much better. so when it does the body, it stays in the body. it grows. if i, if i sent it back lisa, bye. and many of these chemicals have things like dust to sizes, soft nose flame retardant, stabilizers colorants and fragrances which are you still toys? they all are chemicals, and many of these chemicals that read nor to day are known to be extremely dotsie

and hazardous. but there are alternatives. wouldn't die making as a traditional grafton in it was almost wiped out by decades, long flood of commercial plastic toys. but recently demand for wouldn't play things has picked up again to the delight of the artisans of jenny putnam, who had produced colorful toy creations here for 3 centuries. the city is known as the toil of cannot accosting a small and large craft company, such as ought to some bright, c. e. o. shy the newer has seemed ups and downs of the industry. today her company employees, 90 workers. the toys are all made from a soft looking for known as even more lead the people thinking and the awareness on the eco friendly match of thought at

this increasing domestic market. the slightly improved, uglier, like you know, we had almost like $7030.00 at ange, like 70 percent export market, then 30 percent us domestic market. we had to now discount to $64.00 b. the company has focused on and one man believe friendly production. it saves it big, fixed times, less than a g to produce stores than it would the equivalent in bluffed it. and it only uses organic beams that it made from 6 blonde b as big such as in bigger from blue to mary for you. and for 1000000 for read artisan cried develop the beams with a design company. it comes from nature degrees. very fast for daughter, isn't it? eco friendly. what most important difference and uniqueness in general, but not i use the coloring is done using lack waddington difficult luck. ah, that isn't natural, is it?

in fact, best it is, it. the company says it only uses wood from large branches, eliminating the need to cut down trees with an eye to sustainable growth. it plans to meet greater demand by planting its own trees. but what we're trying to do is to have a kind of sustainable on both of the tree to get on to trying to negotiate that the government artisan pride has already met with officials, to request land where it can grow its own thimble. ah, the eager warriors have their own request. they want the government to ban plastic toys once and for all those equal barrios in bengal, a part of a global movement of children and youth fighting to protect their environment. enabling focused on we met another young activist who is alarmed about the effects

of plastic toys and is making a difference with her own sustainable alternatives. ah, meet them, she the 30th centimeter toil dawn from pakistan. she is the brainchild of emma danesh. they live in, he had old environmental activists lived in karachi. the daughter dressed in traditional bach gift on the attire are part of her work, just feet the planet. the idea gone further from was because one because i love marine life and then i saw a hermit, crab stock inside a plastic doors hayes and suffocated, and suddenly died. so that's why i taught these type of dog eco friendly dog would be better than plastic. so i called her visit because says i in her though means in violet. ah, bazaar. it's now just one of $7.00 that

a man has designed. she makes the prototype with her grandmother. over here we are making a dress for the dog. the dogs are then produced by them from poor neighbourhood of got out. she provided them with an additional source of income. the cotton is locally thoughts from pakistan. the man felt the dollars for the equivalent of 7 years on her website. she uses the proceeds to run an educational back from a children empty booth up to 15 years of age. can log on to the site and learn about climate change and its impact on pakistan and emitted short videos and sentence. give young viewers a deeper understanding of the topic and at the end they can and for different gifts by competing with a man's daughter half turned into

a small social enterprise buck a sans national incubation fentanyl, which helped the young companies in this dr. phil has also given a man, it's backing to the world is fortunately, the sub somebody has use of learning management systems has increased, especially during the pandemic. knew that this bolton is unique because it tells us things about climate change, which we may not already know because it gives information for children an animated video format to deal with. and this makes it unique ridiculous. your tractor pakistan is among the top 10 countries most affected by climate change. the damage from extreme weather events like drought, is close to $4000000000.00 annually or guard activists. i'm glad that a younger generation is picking up the fight for the future. and they've actually inspired their var, you know, a hell to account, they'll be leaders who are supposed to be making the decisions which are needed to

combat climate change. so i have a lot of faith and i have a lot of hope for this younger generation than because you see it is there, well, which is going to be spoiled if nothing is done for them. a man is continuing her drive to raise awareness. she recently published climate storybook. it includes contributions from $25.00 children, ado she hopes will move parks and mines because it takes hundreds of years for plastic to break down. it's conceivable that every toy ever made from the material still exists. many of the products we use in our daily life are considered and recyclable. but as our report are discovered, there may be a solution that's been around for decades. it's called chemical recycling. this reactor is supposed to do the impossible recycle the on recyclable

such as these tiles that would otherwise just be bond or end up in landfill. a possible solution chemical recycling. i think it breaks plastic down into its original components to create new plastic and infinite cycle. at least that's what the companies are telling us. but is the technology really a solution to the looming plastic crisis? ah, generally we collect and then we're sold and saws and sought some more, all mechanically. and that's how we recycle 99 percent of all plastic waste in europe. but with these tires that the lower recycled rubber can only be used for a few things though like race tracks for example. and the world only needs so many of those, but there's an abundance of tires. so instead of reciting them,

they are burned because of the heating value at pirate facility and germany old tires that would otherwise just be incinerated, a broken down into their original components. in the 1st step, the tires are shredded 3 times the outcome. textile fibers, steel, wool, and rubber. the fibers can be used as insulation and the steel is melted into new steel again. so far, so good. but chemical recycling goes a lot further than this, and that's why this rubber goes into that thing. a paralysis reactor that cooks everything at a really high temperature, the rubber granules i put in at the very bottom and make their way up to the top of the tower. then gravity does its thing and everything drops. what's the bottom? the rubber granular is heated to around $700.00 degrees celsius in the tower. it's practically cooked out and breaks down into its components. the result in gas is

this charge and supplies. the process with electricity in the m 2 solids come out of a plant, paralysis, oil and coke, or cabin black. but as you can imagine, it takes an immense amount of energy to heat that much plastic because you essentially breaking chemical bonds. and this amount of energy is also one of the biggest concerns from an environmental point of view when it comes to paralysis. and i'll gather remains at the end of the process. and that goes through a cleaning system, then into a buffer tank and from the buffer tank into 2 thermal plants bought on. these are actually power generator of sarcasm by layer 2 big 12 cylinders. and they produced electricity for the whole plant to linda when they put a soon informed post gun silver or the whole planted. so it's really completely interview self sufficient, even though it's such an energy intensive process, if it were isn't, yes, it is, even though it's considered so energy intensive hog this means that pirate energy

recovery process is producing enough energy to heat free 100 family homes for an entire year, this concept of paralysis that's done here is the most popular way of chemical recycling. currently. facilities are popping up all over the world. like here in india, china or saudi arabia. the problem is that on many commercial scale, chemical recycling plans out there and the companies mostly keep the data to themself the main advantages at the moment. oh, pyro says that it's better than incineration at the moment. now obviously incinerating plastics is just about the worst thing you can do anyway. so that's quite a low bar said to reach. we've seen some studies that suggest that if you can mechanically recycle, then chemical researching doesn't tend to be better than that. but there are some tradeoff said because you're in product from chemicals, ducting is equipment to virgins that can be used more application after one hour.

and that's how the rubber turns into this carbon black. and it's basically like coal and goes back into tire production because this is what ties i'm made off like 40 percent of the tire is the so called carbon black. but there is more apart from the gas and the carbon black. you also get this, which is a relative or it's very similar to crude oil. and when you smell it, really also it's not like gasoline, but you can basically make any plastic you want out of it just needs a little more processing. so it's possible to recycle stuff, chemically, when it can't be recycled mechanically. that's already an improvement because it's safe. some virgin crude oil. but what does that mean in terms of tackling the plastic crisis? let's look at europe for that. in 2020 europeans collected 29500000 tons of

plastic waste. of that, about 35 percent was recycled? 23 percent ended up in landfills and 42 percent went into energy recovery and most of what went into energy recovery about 8000000 tons of plastic. could in theory be chemically recycled in europe alone? the technology does make sense because it can recycle stuff that we couldn't otherwise and had better for the environment, but only compared to simply burning plastic. and that's a pretty low bar. i mean anything is basically better than incineration chemically . recycling is not a silver bullet. we still need to think about how we can avoid plastic waste in the 1st place. well, how we can a white plastic waste is a lesser children can begin learning in school. like india, connor, his integrated in one mental education into official school programs. teachers

there are being trained to awaken an interest among pupils in caring for the environment. lou class is in session at the t i off medea senior high school in kumasi. gonna 2nd biggest city. the theme of today's lesson is vital to the future of these students, climate change and how to tackle it. losses in environmental protection have been taught here for about a year now. sustainable business ideas are also on the curriculum. the ads are become warm, so it is true, he wanted to reduce that i'd live to damage restoration. so yet, today's would them much want to know would. what's the algola walk them? that was all that was used in mount. so i did do the deviates from day a bad i to reduce that i'll 20 would lead to the global warming for most of these

students. it's the 1st time they've heard of the climate crisis and the subject has really caught their attention. i think it's would really change the attitude so as the environment all supports and the protection of the environments from the teachers are being taught to raise awareness about environmental protection over 600 have been trained so far over half of gone as schools are already integrating the subject into their curriculum with more to follow gone as education, ministry sees environmental education as high priority. it's a will training the, the kids or the lenders to own the environment. there varman belongs to that. the other future leaders. a level we need to incorporated them and bitterness, dunden, and appreciation of the task ahead of them. so the curriculum have that aspect in their own. the teaching models focus heavily on the climate

crisis. the students learn that the emission of greenhouse gases leads to heat, wakes and drowns. in addition, sea levels arising, which is why some villages on the coast will have to be abandoned. some lessons also deal with a plastic waist that clogs many sewers and drainage canals in ghana and makes flooding more likely. the students also learn how burning trash impacts the environment and how many people in gonna are already feeling the consequences of environmental destruction. first hand, the climate changes in there, environment is causing so many problems in our society. you know, they sort through to food and you know, at times there's flood in and all this is in order to raise awareness of these problems. more and more schools also organizing so called green collapse outside of

class. the children go on excursions, collect rubbish, and plant trees. the green clubs often led by environmental protection activists, is much easier to groom. the younger ones who become people were more responsible instead of possibly focusing on the adults. we for the younger ones are there was no glory. now you freak on ship the future. he's such a way that they are more suited to was good. his wishes. it is better for the climate and also for the future. environmental education in schools is the stars. the coming years will show whether the seat that was planted hair has terminated thanks to educational progress, children understand early the they are the ones who stand to suffer the consequences of inaction on climate change and pollution school children in europe are tackling the problem of plastic waste by assisting scientists on the ground

and a dylan location on the raw river in western germany. but take a closer look and it's not as beautiful kevin knoll and their classmates have come to do some fishing, but not the usual kind. it's trash. they're looking for and here it doesn't take long. there is litter everywhere. they look and lots of different types of it. the students attend to local high school and are taking part in initiative called plastic pirates. it's a research project where young students get to do their work of real scientists. they take water samples and measure count and record the pieces of trash. they recover from the rivers and river banks. scientists and keel used the data to generate a garbage map for german rivers and calculate how much trash ends up in the sea.

since 2016, more than 15000 plastic pirates from 700 schools have collected samples from all over germany. the project is now being launched and other european countries to for the past 2 years, the school has included the topic of recycling under curriculum. and the teachers are happy to do their part to inspire the butting scientists. now listen, miss. oh, it's something i care about myself. it's always follows me when i see people leaving rubbish behind. especially when they have small children with them and are supposed to be setting an example. of the work of the plastic pirates shows that on average, one piece of trash can be found for every 2 square meters of riverbank and germany . france also has a project aimed at tracking down the trash. it's called plastic origins and goes a step further using artificial intelligence and an app. we want to mobilize as

much as volunteers and citizens, as we turn to go on the rebel. so you can create a products will get in all what tenure angelito banks are using those data using but the video footage that's i bring to think of the reader banks. we would be able to analyze those video detect liter items am and use as data to my pre book nested pollution. the aim of plastic origins is sticking stricter legislation introduced on plastic waste and regulatory limits for the amount of plastic in european rivers. their garbage map pains to identify especially polluted areas. but the app can't track micro plastics in germany alone for kilos of micro plastics per person. per year end up in the environment. the main sources particles from vehicle tires, industrial waste,

and household garbage. it's difficult for waste water treatment plants to filter out the tiny particles. but a munich start out called echo far you is showing how it can be done using a simple but effective method. the waste water is pumped in on the top left. a powerful war texas created in the pipe, pushing water containing a large amount of micro plastics to the top. the company says 95 percent of micro plastics from municipalities and industry could be filtered out this way. the young plastic pirates agreed that more needs to be done to combat plastic pollution after just 2 hours. and as it did like location, they found more trash than they can even carry. like we just saw when you empowered and enlightened children, the future of the human race is secured for children, exposed to ideas of sustainable alternatives. this becomes the starting point. unlike many in the previous generations, for example,

will find it difficult to make do without plastics. think about that and i'll see you again next week. good bye. and thanks for watching. ah i ah, ah, with

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