this channel, we are not afraid to touch on delicate topic because population is growing fast. and young people clearly have the solution. that future belongs to you. is 77 percent every weekend on d w. ah ah. a child's surroundings should be clean and safe, but both inside and outside their homes. children are exposed to pollution that poses a danger to their health and environment. only going the other day we me to youngsters taking action to protect their peers and the future of the planet alone. welcome.

i'm sorry that it's natural for parents to want to shower their kids with gifts more often than not endorsed. presidents are made plastic research, a see 90 percent of the toys manufactured worldwide, a made of plastic materials that contain toxins, urine 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 destroy call to the young eagle voice is from the little white glove . not because it's broken. but because explore stick. 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 tires are bad because the contain heavy metals, lake lead and other chemical substances which are a harmful for the nature. and when you burn the plastic, they prep, they release a 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 close of plastic doors to be picked up by our recycling company. the ultimate mission, to rid the world of plastic doors. it was the idea of 10 years old. so you know, rickard from bangalore. she has her 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 raised this petition to notify the indian

government. hey, these plastic toys are destroying our. * health that has tried everything, we have the stop it. so we're waiting for 500 signatures because we have 7300. now we're waiting for $500.00, then it'll, i will petition will be more winnable right now. oh i yeah. i there are no over a 100 eager warriors involved in schools or supporting the company g duck. a dollar 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, industrial, toys and games industry. and it's a $90000000000.00 industry. and doug, no wonder 90 percent of the toys right now. across the wide are made of plastic plastic is made from crude oil, around $1800000.00 tons of carbon dioxide emitted every year during plastic

reduction. the non governmental organization, toxic sling has long warned about the dangerous effective plastic when children and adolescents, children are specially more prone to the impacts of toxicity and foster for their growing ah, their bodies are increasing rapidly. bad metabolism is much faster. they consume much better. so when it in does the body, it stays in the body, it grows. if bye, bye bye. and many of these chemicals have things like just to sizes. soft nose, flame retardant. stabilizers tolerance. and for instance, we try to use 10 toys. they all are chemicals, and many of these chemicals that we'd know today. i'd known to be extremely sick and hazardous, but there are alternatives. wouldn't die making as

a traditional craft in india. 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 have produced colorful toy creations here for 3 centuries, the cities known as the toil of cannot accosting the small and large craft companies such as autism friday 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 eden. martin. the people are thinking of edna under equal the limits of thought at this increasing domestic market. the slightly improved, uglier, like, you know, we had almost like 7030 at age like 70 percent export market and 30 percent us

domestic market. we had to now with this gun to 64 b, the company has focused on and one mentally friendly production. it says it takes 6 times less energy to produce stores than it would the equivalent in plastic. and it only uses organic bains that it made from 6 blonde be as big, such as indigo for blue to mary, for you, and for 1000000 for read. autism pride develop the pings with a design company. it comes from nature, get degree to very fast for daughter is enters eco friendly. what was important or difference and uniqueness in general, but not i use the coloring is done using lack what in hindi cult luck. ah. that is it natural? is it, in fact based it is in the company says it only uses vote from large branches,

eliminating the need to cut down trees with an i 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 it. also 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 warned the government to ban plastic toys once. and for all those equal barrios in been going to be a part of a global movement of children and youth fighting to protect their environment. enabling, focused on we met another young activist whose alarmed about the effects of plastic toys and is making a difference with her own sustainable alternatives. ah,

meet figure. she the courteous centimeter told dawn from pakistan. she is the brainchild of a mont danesh. they live and he had an environmental activist lived in karachi. the daughter dressed in traditional bach gift on the dia, 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 dogs would be better than plastic. so i called her facade because for the i in are though means inviolate. ah, bizarre, it's now just one of several dogs that a mom has to find. she makes the prototype with her grandmother.

over here we are making up just for the dog. the dogs are then produced by them from poor neighbourhood of good archie, providing them with an additional source of income. the cotton, if locally thoughts from pakistan the man felt for dollars for the equivalent of 7 years on her website. she uses the proceeds to run an educational back from children and get both up to 15 years of age. can log onto the site and learn about climate change and its impact on pakistan. animated short videos and fence, give young view of a deeper understanding of the topic and at the end they can and for de forgets by competing with a man's dog. half turned into a small social enterprise buck a thought national incubation, fidel, which hope the young companies in this data fear has also given a man,

it's backing to the wall 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. it gives information for children, an animated video format to deal give 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, if close to 4 back in dollars annually. holy card activists. i'm glad that a younger generation is picking up the fight for the future. and they've actually inspired their, you know, have to accountability those 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 with this younger generation that because you see it is their work

which is going to be spoiled if nothing is done for them. in mind is continuing her drive to raise awareness. she recently published climate story book. it includes contributions from $25.00 children. do she hopes will move heart and mind because it takes hundreds of years for plastic to break down. it's conceivable, but 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 reporter 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 touches these tiles that will otherwise just the bond or end of the 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? 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 their heating value at params 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. re exit that cooks everything at a really high temperature. the rubber granules are 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 resulting gas is discharged and supplies the process with electricity. and the n 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. again, is, 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 to thermal plants or thought on. these are actually power generator. asagwa doesn't by layer too big 12 cylinders and they produced electricity for the whole plant to linda when they put a soon informed post gun select or the whole plant. 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 advantage here 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. anyways, 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 products 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 so called carbon black. but there is more apart from the gas and the carbon black. you also get base, which is a relative all, 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 that's better for the environment, but only compared to simply burning plastic. and that's a pretty low bar. i mean anything, it's basically better than insulation. chemically, recycling is not a silver bullet. we still need to think about how we can avoid plastic ways in the 1st place. well, how we can avoid fluffing. this is alyssa children can begin learning in school, like india gonna, his integrated and wad mental education into official school programs. teach us there are being trained to awaken an interest among pupils in caring for the

environment. class is in session at the t i off medea senior high school in kumasi, gone as 2nd biggest city. the theme of today's lesson is vital to the future of these students, climate change and how to tackle it. lower classes in environmental protection have been taught here for about a year now. sustainable business ideas are also on the curriculum. the earth are become warm. so it is true, he wanted to reduce that, i'd live to damage versus reason. so yet, today's would them much want to you would. what's the elderly walk them the little yet? it's used in mouth. so i did, it's formed it a bad i to reduce that i'll 20 would there to do 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 our attitude towards the environment. it would all support and the protection of their learnings 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 kids or the learners to own the environment. their varman belongs to the the other future leaders, a level we need to incorporated them, a better understanding and appreciation of the task ahead of them. so the curriculum have that aspect in their, 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 are rising, 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 planning trash impacts the environment and health. many people in ghana are already feeling the consequences of environmental destruction. first hand. the climate changes in their environment is causing so many problems in our society. you know, they sort of food and you know, at times there's flood in and all these days in order to raise awareness of these problems. more and more schools are also organizing so called green clubs, outside of class. the children go on excursions, collect rubbish, and plant trees. the green clubs often lead by environmental protection activists,

is much easier to groom the younger ones who become people work more responsible instead of possibly focusing on the adult. we for the younger ones, are, there was no glory. now you freak on ship. the future you such a way that we are more suited to was good, is furnishes. it is better for the climate and also for the future. environmental education in schools is a stars. the coming years will show whether the seat that was planted here has terminated thanks to educational progress, children understand early the be 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 dylan, location on the raw river and western germany. but take

a closer look and it's not as beautiful kevin nole 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 at 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 a supposed to be setting an example. 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 just as much as

branches and citizens, as we turn to go on the rebel. so you can create a products, will get in all wilton younger little banks. and using those data using but the video of the page that's are going to take of that reader banks. we will be able to analyze those video, detect nita items am and use as data to my pre the plastic pollution. the aim of plastic origins is stick instructor 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 and 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 agreeing that more needs to be done to combat plastic pollution after just 2 hours. and this is dylan location. they found more trash than they can even carry. like we just saw when you are 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, who 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.

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