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ah. busy ah, environment is essential for healthy. contaminated environment is adverse effect on people and plants. and even on animals, i love clean environment because it makes me happy some night in everything that i keep is free. we will no good for sequin. our environment is clean. we should have a clean environment because once the place to look good, we launch a country to good people who care more about this kind of environment cuz it's good for how can environment means host food for me in me being co says with having a clean environment help with the cool community that is the only funded us the floor plan. and does it really fun if we have people should care about having

a clean environment? because when you take care of nature and lead to it to take care of you. hello. and welcome to africa. i am sandra to interview coming to from compiler, here in uganda. no. first, those are keeping everything clean and organized is good for us. so why not apply? is that principle to the environment? good question, sandra and in dissertation were meeting all sorts of people who do just that. they're working to improve the environment and protect the natural world. i am chris alone in lagos, nigeria, and here's what we've got coming up. an island in the indian ocean plan into phase of energy produced from fossil fuels to young german entrepreneurs providing green alternatives to chemical cleaning agents and artists in ghana or combining

creativity and environmental activism, africa's mighty rivers, the lifeline in many parts of the continents. their waters are used for both domestic and agricultural purposes, making a lot of people reliant on the rivers for their livelihoods, but increased by grecian to urban areas is taking its toll. in johnny's burg, the end of the river is chronically polluted with devastating consequences for its biodiversity and communities living along its bank. now, local volunteers are working to limit the damage. ah, everyone is getting indirectly reacting or self us one. i don't think itself is over ground. now in k pals of rubbish wash, top heavy rains, it's a common site in densely populated areas along the head of smith. this is just

a few meters from them. bees of township home to more than half a 1000000 people our children play around here and buy food that is so just likes to vary and then that food is contaminated, everyone is getting sick, which is not good uses environment for us now it's not safe. representatives from the south african angel fresh take stock of the devastation. their mission is to restore the hen ups river and its surrounding wetlands. with the help of volunteers, just a few kilometers below the source of the 3rd or the theatre for fountain water to be crystal clear. but i think her to be to lucas. if we don't pick up the threat, no one's going to pick it up with effectively, no waste collection system here in south africa's 2nd largest township. local

simply dumped their garbage on the already existing piles. residency. the river has become a communal rubbish. been that the place does it is not cool is not good at all. no 3, you know. so yeah, i think we need does. few people is gonna community they would like to know and eggs. no. yeah. when you change it out to day, the team from fresh wants to inspect one of the little traps for have been installed on the rivers oper. course the n g o has invented its own traps. they are constructed from thick wire cables woven through nets and filled with recycle polystyrene. the contraption is anchored on either side of the river, mostly curtis styrofoam in the floods, and also works in sediment trip to am, to slow the water down. so sediments out

a lot of sandia and that sand also serves as a home for beneficial organisms. it prevents further erosion to the source of the hen ups river, a situated east of janice bird. after leaving the urban areas behind, it meanders through fields and valleys until it eventually joins the limpopo river system. it later ends up in the indian ocean. this intricate system of waterways supports millions of people in both south africa and 3 neighboring countries. this river is an important source of drinking water is also vital for agricultural crops . farmers like your hand, steen berg are very concerned, sometimes the rover and with totally black because of the shortage is very bright forrest me worried about the phosphor in the water. we're going to the ground to go into the crotch,

and i don't think it's healthy for the ground. it's also not the healthy for people . and that's not all large amounts of raw sewage, just spilling into the helps water samples. are tested for equal lay bacteria to assess fecal contamination. near the river sauce equal i concentration has been measured at a 100000 times above the accepted limit. the root cause is down, so an absence of proper wastewater treatment. according to environmental scientist . a ye shall lee her while we find determinants associated with waste were to affluent our chemicals such as ammonia, which should result in the death of all aquatic organisms including insects in fish . we also find phosphorus which can lead to blue green blooms, algo blooms in rivers, and we find a very high levels of eco life, which will make you sick upon contact, attempts to get the government to address the results of layers. tests have been

discouraging, so far, so fresh is now pushing to get the river landscape officially declared and nature conservation area, as protected by diversity corridor meandering through the most urbanized areas on the continent. it will help to revitalize south africa's industrial heartland. and then us got quite a complicated geography flows through 3 different basic philosophies. it really needs the crease of vision of a provincial authority. but their main concern is that the rivers so polluted on earth d this year, a group from fresh set out to demonstrate to the authorities, the potential of a cleaner river system. the returns the little trap on a mission to remove 60 tons of wastes from this spot. in one day, 15 volunteers from the local community were paid 20 euros inch cloth lunch for

their efforts. bit by bit, the waste was carried off to a collection point to be transported to a nearby landfill. it's beautiful. the river's grieving. i think the hallway plant is looking much better. i think we can, we can restore this place if i went plant area. so if it gets polluted and i knew indirectly we are killing or cellphones work because we, this water won't be able to sustain life and sustains. so we dependable to this war transistor reunion is a small island in the middle of the indian ocean lane for 19 seventies. most of its energy maids were met by dro pop by the population has doubled since then as have their energy needs. the island is become increasingly dependent on diesel and cold . that is very right piece, but re union values, either written by diversity and the status as an eco tourism destination. so now

the island wants to clean up its act and switch its entire energy production to renewables. before the dickhead is up. now we went out to find out what progress has been made so far. for union island is faint foot beautiful beaches and large green mountains. but it comes to carbon emissions. the islands record is less attractive. around 2 thirds of with energy needs are covered by fossil fuel. this heavy oil fit in the city of flu pool is run by french utility e d f. in future it's you to switch to lashley. couple neutral operation running on calls are in soil. just one step towards achieving an ambitious goal. switching to renewables completely by 2020 it. this power plant owned by albumin runs partly on coal from south africa in partly on domestic bio mass. it will need to switch completely to bio mass in future. the sugar refinery next door it his provides

a convenient source of the quinn fuel. this had gone away utilized as much of the sugar cane as possible. we pressed the liquid out of it in descent and f court in the kent gets distributed on the surrounding fields as fit laser, the more losses. go to the ram distilleries. the albumen paused. teaching uses the plant fibers to produce image that flows into the public. greed from which we then draw our electricity is all in all, all right, that him on the bottom of the, of your much power plant accounts for around 11 percent of the islands overall in output. the conversion to all bye, almost production is costing the company to 100000000 euros. and that's just for this one plant. and i see her on for a while. it doesn't did study is that i want to new storage dorms. they have a capacity of 9500 cubic meters each. you have,

these are the kind of units remain you use. like we plan to his sustainable bio mass that meets european union standards. more will initially use would pellets from the united states. but to a later switch to suppliers closer to home as like in mozambique and south africa. oh, poor for far reported, i knew on issue oil as it was on either. i think you should only 10 percent of the would pallets will be sourced from the island. that means $900000.00 tons a year will need to be imported. the company sees it will still cut the plants over carbon footprint by over 80 percent. that environmental activities, jean claude food, vasa says, importing ward is not a sustainable solution, is supposedly more of cause this factor is need to be converted. but we also need to build up our domestic production of bio mass that will be better for the environment in creates more jobs. food tarza build this house

a few years ago. it's creeped with solar panels in the solar boiler doc leisure. so i'm just making t, i'm hitting the water with solar power in the haves. are for my garden though. it, it, it blocked on the co garage, andrea, their house, his built in ventilation. so he doesn't need air conditioning. it uses only if 3rd of the energy that his old house required. so he has surplus electricity that he sells to the public greed. he says many more homes could be converted to solar power without great expense, nor collage of the matter for wildlife. it's your modem is all, i could show you plenty of houses ga, still do new solar power, all see if they all had solar panels into solar boilers that would already cover half of the islands in need. you needs to, we are the counselor poorer such as her with a couple honey live was one dish and seemed a little so for the government is more interested in large scale solar farms like

lesser doors in 9 megawatt project in the south of the island here fruits and vegetables are grown under the solar panels which provide the plants protection from the hot sun and some to renew this is a small island. we have to make good use of space when you're building for farmland in power plant, sol. so here we are combining a solar power plant with it or gaining from we also have a battery system that's towards the electricity produced during the day to feed it into the greed, it peak times, the distorted in elgin panola lawfully more. the company plans to expand this model and multiply it solar output 6 fold. that would be another important tip towards achieving unions. goal of covering all its imaging needs with cupboard neutral renewables by 2028. here's a quick question for you. do you feel better when everything around you ease

a clean, untidy, but so someone's thought have found as you going to meet next? certainly do. but they don't want it to be on the course of the environment. so find out how they sold the dilemma in these weeks, doing everything, blah, if we realised how many home full chemicals are in our cleaning products, we would use a lot less of them or not at all. at least that's what jeanette schmidt decided towards the end of her design studies. she focused on sustainability in everyday life. i believe in quotes, but i realized that many conventional cleaners in detergents contain lots of harmful substances but not good for me and not good for the environment. and all that packed in plastic, i parked. she remembered how her grandmother cleaned. so with her friend henrietta

cleveland, she developed a business concept with 6 symbol substances. you can make 10 different household cleaners. besides baking soda and vinegar essence, you need citric acid code. so soda and certain other essences the boxes are assembled in the workshops of 2 german charity organizations in lifecycle. the startup cells everything online, either the individual product or the whole set. by vin, if we set out 4 years ago, our customer base his grind now includes many retailers. we have many bring your own packaging stores for park laden for the future. they plan on developing even more sustainable products. and above all, they want to make their company itself completely sustainable. ah, and how about you? if you are also doing your bit, tell us about it. visit our website, or send us

a tweet. pastor doing your bit. we share your stories. throws history. people have attempted to put human, you're in to good use the british researchers at once and developed a process or what is into lexical energy. what does your household applications have also been explored? sanchez using it to kill watts or cones on people as hans on the feet. but more recently, we saw t as in sweden and at france have been conducting experiments on using the human by products in agriculture. could o own urine helps of the planet. instead of being flushed down the toilet, let's take a look at a large tank of what some are calling the new liquid gold. this abundant supply is destined for a wheat farm in a leading agriculture region of france. will come on to look after filling up the

tank will use the spread of machine to spray the urine onto the field and that urine is of human origin. lucy, bye home is in charge of a project that aims to revolutionize frances fertilizer market using nitrogen rich urine as a natural alternative to chemical options. it's already being deployed on these fields and sa clay just outside paris. emmanuel low hole was among the 1st local farmers to sign up for the trial, initially skeptical. he was concerned that the urine might contain pharmaceutical residues, but once those fears were allayed, he was very keen to get involved i guess you'll be all glass, it'd be great to replace other fertilizers with urine, which likewise contain nitrogen and hooked to otherwise, it just ends up in a storage system much already evaporates and is lost to the atmosphere. we may as

well re, user to nourish our crops museum shown you should look into. the preliminary results have been very encouraging. researches estimate that human urine could replace around one quarter of nitrogen and phosphorus based fertilizers worldwide. it does require collection and some processing buck. a supply of the raw material is infinite. in contrast, while synthetic fertilizers do increase crop yields, they're also a major pollutant and costly if without good as long as i, it's important to bear in mind that price is for chemical fertilizers have tripled in the space of 18 months law. so course, so this new kind of fertilizer of all sorts from urban areas is a huge interest. except that in practice it's still a very short supply while polka. most of the urine supplied so far has come from mobile toilets at public festivals, which are notorious for being unsanitary and smelly. but there are alternatives.

one restaurant in paris is using a model that is a world away from the original urine diverting dry toilets from young candle. c says the new mechanized units are just as hygienic as toilets that use water heater, everything we've been getting some very positive feedback. young people are initially a bit surprised, but i think that in daily use they'll see little difference compared to a traditional system. and there's even a bonus factor with one. okay. can we save 22000 liters of water and just 3 weeks or more? what's my good news in the face of increasing water shortages and of all toilets were liberated from the dependence on a water supply system. they could be put just about anywhere, collecting and using urine as fertilizer is not truly revolutionary. about the

practices currently gaining momentum with studies being conducted in countries all over the globe, from sweden to south africa. how can african artists respond to the climate crisis endangering the planets? it ease an interesting question that you think. luckily it is one we have an answer to here on acre africa. right, chris does ride sondra created wides ramos pros, obrigone, exploring the devastating consequences of the climate prices for their art. whether the appliances shop those damsel decisions, the message of the a word has the ability to read, to read, to people, would lead to office. will also wants is why the bread again ends to do the bids for the environment. this i'm okay with for 10 years now. musician

david hubbard. see, walter goes by the name took, the ghana has been trying to mobilize people to clean up a crowd, get bitten, kid with global will listen to music that in and as tough in a day. a low voice would take a loaf own advice nor saw his permission from music basically. and also i see it as so, so appealing to actually use for creating awareness for david come word c. environmental activism is more than sitting in his small studio and sing. every sunday he heads to one of the beaches in the capital, a cra he works with a group of volunteers collecting the trash, cleaning up a single beach, takes hours. the volunteers sort the trash into different kinds of waste.

then they sell it to recycling companies actually speak louder than words, i believe. as a leader, i suppose to set the piece for others to follow. i say okay, i'm willing to do this and make sure my fonts and my really use and as in their community actually to also see the example. i'm trying to put us at my effort that the counsel john asked mika, jamika, susceptible. as sophie banton is another artist who collects trash here at the beach. in the midst of all the plastic bottles to davy came across a brookins lateesha device from a fishing net, which he'll be able to put to good use. well, love this. i collect, crush from the environment, the streets and beaches aware of i find i collect trash and then i convert it into

the visual he lives in this if even prior soup, about 100 kilometers macro. he designs installations and collages the works pick up on scenes from daily life in the country. this one includes part of the flotation device. my message also talks about how we have this things are so from the environments quote from a find a stance. you see my work as a paint in the wake of flats wake, have very beautiful athletic, but when you get close to with mrs. when you realize that you see a whole lot of trash bantam also teaches at a high school. gonna has recently incorporated environmental education into its regular curriculum is or not to be in his classes. or banton teaches kids painting and talks about environmental topics. they future generation is the people who are

willing to take good care of us and we are owned and then the other people who are going to really care what environment in the near future. so if we are not able to inculcate this type of idea in them, no group of not to really understand and loved environment. absolutely, bunton sometimes takes the students on field trips to day. they're paying a visit to his gallery, where he presents his own works. some of them have suit very well now. yes, david chromarty and contrast can't make a living just from his music, but he has made a difference. thanks to him and other volunteers across beaches are a little bit cleaner. now. got you got none, and none, but didn't do it. i mean on now, there was no good with if was those individuals do isn't inspiring, then i don't know what is i am. chris alums, frog lagos, nigeria,

thanks for joining us. it's well, well for now, what we hope you to the next time for another episode of echo africa as thanks of course, to sandra. it's all is a pleasure hosting the show with you. thank chris, it is a pleasure for me to fantastic. tim was an incredible sure and also attentive audience . so that's it for equal africa this week. good. buy from me here in com. paula. uganda. see you next week a ah, ah, with

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