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meant it would be contaminated environment is adverse effect on people and plants and even on animals i love clean environment because it makes me have a sound made in everything that i keep is free. we look good for see when our environment is clean. we should have a clean environment because we once the place to look good, we launch a country to look good. people who'd care more about this kind of environment cuz it's good law. how can environment means both the food for me in me being killed with having a clean environment help with the cool community? the ed is the only fun enough the floor plan and does it really fun? if you have people should care about having a clean environment,

because when you take care of nature and it to it to take care of you. hello and welcome to africa. i am sandra. nobody coming to you from compiler. here . uganda. no. first, those are keeping everything cleaned on. all denali is, is good for on the why not apply? is that principle to the environment? good question, sandra. and in dissertation we're 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 produce 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, the 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 john has 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 we are killing ourself as one. i don't think itself is over ground. now, in k pals of rubbish washed up heavy rains. it's a common sight in densely populated areas along the hen up. so if this spot is just

a few meters from them, bees of township home to more than half a 1000000 people now or to jointly around here and we buy food that is so just next to the really and then that food is coordinated. everyone is getting sick, which is not conducive environment for us now. it's not safe. representatives from the south african n g will 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 girls with the theatre for tramping water to be crystal clear. but i think her to be the loop. 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. second 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 clean people is gonna clean it. 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. upper course. the angel 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 catch historic firm in the floods, and also works as 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. it's also vital for agricultural crops. farmers like your hands, steinberg, a very concerned, sometimes the roving with totally black because of the storage is very bad for really worried about the phosphor in the water. we're going to the ground though, you could crotch and i don't think it's

a healthy forward ground. it's also not at all for people. and that's not all large amounts of raw sewage, just spilling into the helps water samples. are tested for eco lie bacteria to assess fecal contamination. near the river source equal i, concentration has been measured at a $100000.00 times above the accepted limit the root cause is down, so an absence of proper wastewater treatment. according to environmental scientist, a ye shall lay 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 phosphates which can lead to blue green bloom's algo blooms in reverse and we find very high levels of eco lie, which will make you sick upon contact, attempts to get the government to address the results of li has tests have been

discouraging, so far. so fresh is now pushing to get the river landscape officially declared our 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 also got quite a complicated geography flows through 3 different music philosophies. it really needs the grease of vision of a provincial therapy. 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 waste from this spot. in one d, 15 volunteers from the local community were paid 20 euros each. clos lunch for their efforts bits by bits. the waste was carried off to

a collection point to be transported to a nearby landfill. it's beautiful, the river's leaving. i think the hallway plant is looking much better. i have to think we can, we can restore this place. it's a went lent area. so if it gets polluted and a new indirectly recycling or cellphones work because we this water won't be able to sustain life and sustains. so we dependable to this water system reunion is a small island in the middle of the indian ocean lane for 19 seventies. most of its energy needs were met by dro power, by the population has doubled since then as have their energy needs. the islanders become increasingly dependent on diesel and cold. that is very right. chris bought reunion values, ease of rita byte, a varsity, and the status as an equal 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'll went out to find out what progress has been made so far. reunion island is famed for it's beautiful beaches and large green mountains. but it comes to carbon emissions. the islands record is less attractive. around 2 thirds of its energy needs are covered by fossil fuel. this heavy oil factory in the city of flu pool is run by french utility e d f. in future it's you to switch to largely couple neutral operation running on calls are in soil. just one step towards achieving an ambitious goal. switching to renewables, completely by 2020 at this power plant owned by albumen, runs partly on coal from south africa, and partly on domestic by on us. 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 gun were utilized as much of the sugar cane as possible. we pressed the liquid out of it in descent and airport in the kens, gets distributed on the surrounding fields as fit laser demona sues. go to the ram distilleries. the albumen pas teaching uses the plant fibers to produce image that flows into the public. greed from which we then draw our electricity is oh, by that him on the bottom of the albumen power plant accounts for around 11 percent of the islands, overall image output. the conversion to all bye, almost production is costing the company 200000000 euros. and that's just for this one plant. and i see her and i don't play well it doesn't, did this. i went to new storage toms, they have the capacity of 9500 cubic meters each. you have,

these are the kind of units remain. you use like we plant you sustainable by almost that miss european union standard, more we'll initially use would pellets from the united states, but we'll later switch to suppliers closer to home, like in mozambique in south africa. oh, or firm. we parted, i known 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 tons a you need to be imported. the company says it will still cut the plants overall carbon footprint by over 80 percent. but environmental activities, john claude food vasa says, importing ward is not a sustainable solution. is for victim 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 and creates more jobs food tarza build this house if few

years ago, it's creeped with solar panels in the solar boiler la, cluttered. so i'm just making tea. i'm hitting the water with solar power in the haves. are for my garden dick. a deep, it blocked on decor, garage, and korea. there. how's his build in ventilation? so he doesn't need air conditioning. it uses only if he had of the energy that his old house required. so he has surplus electricity that he sells to the public grid . 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, the still do new solar power. if they all had solar panels into solar boilers that would already cover half of the islands in need, you needs to. we are mostly poorer such as her with a couple honey labels. one dish and seemed a little so for the government is more interested in large scale solar farms. like

less cedars 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 an organic from. we also have a battery system, got strows, militaristic to produce during the day, to feed it into the greed, to pick times the distorted in elgin bonner 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 energy needs with cupboard neutral renewables by 2028. here's a quick question for you. do you feel better when everything around you ease clean,

untidy, that so must not have found as you going to meet next? certainly do, but they don't want it to be on the cost of the environment. so find out how they sold it, dilemma in these weeks, doing everything, blah. if we realized 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 and 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 simple substances. you can make 10 different household cleaners. besides baking soda and vinegar essence, you need citric acid, could so soda and certain other essences the boxes are assembled in the workshops of 2 german charity organizations. in lifecycle, the startup sells everything online, either the individual product or the whole set. but since we set out 4 years ago, our customer base his grind now includes many retailers. we have many bring your own packaging stores on for park laden for the future. they plan on developing even more sustainable products. and above all, they want to make the 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 electrical energy. what does your household application have also been explored? sanchez, using it to kill once or cones on people's hands on the feet. but more recently, we thought of in sweden and france have been conducting experiments on using the human by products in agriculture. could own urine helps of the planet. instead of being flushed down the toilet, let's take a look with a large tank of what summer, calling the new liquid gold. this abundant supply is destined for a wheat farm in a leading agriculture region of france. will come on here like after filling up the

tank, will use the spread a 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 law 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. a fake was your will hopeless. it'd be great to replace other fertilizers with urine, which likewise contain nitrogen hooked to otherwise, it just ends up in a sewage system, much already evaporates and is lost to the atmosphere. we may as well re,

user to nourish our crops all which museum show new children. do 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 bank of supply of the raw material is infinite. in contrast, while synthetic fertilizers do increase crop yields, there also a major pollutant and costly if was what 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, this new kind of fertilizer also is from urban areas, is a huge interest. except that in practice, it's still a very short supply. woke up, most of the urine supplied so far has come from mo bile, 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. fabiani gondo see says the new mechanized units are just as hygienic as toilets. that use water heater went up there. we've been getting some very positive feedback and 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 is one. okay. and we save 22000 liters of water and just 3 weeks or more plus 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. bought 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 asa 2 here on acre africa. right? chris does ride sandra creative minds from across africa. i exploring the devastating consequences of the climate crisis. there are whether they are benches, shops, those dancers, organizations, the message of the a word has the ability to rick. many people will make to authors will also wants, is why the federal game ends to do the bids for the environment typically with for 10 years now. musician

david hubbard, c will. so goose by the name took piano, has been trying to mobilize people to clean up a cra, kicking kid with global will listen to music. that when and as tough in a day, a low voice will take a loaf um and price canal. so his permission from music basically and also i see it i so so appealing to actually use for creating awareness for david qu, mercy 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 crop 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 an outage in their community. actually it also see the example i'm trying to put us at my effort at the council join us to begin. jamaica said school 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. wherever i find i collect trash and then i convert it into uh visual.

he lives in the city even prior soup, about 100 kilometers macro. he designs installations and collages the works pick up on themes from the light in the country. this one includes parts of the flotation device. my message also talks about how we have distance our so from the environments go from a far distance. you see my way across a painting wake of flats. lake 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 . it's all done 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 when we are old and, and out of who are going to really care what environments in the near future. so if we are not able to inculcate this type of idea in them, no grew up not to really understand and loved environment. as susie bunsen sometimes takes a 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. new thanks to him and other volunteers across beaches are a little bit cleaner now. god, god, god, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, not a not now where was know, give me a good if for those in the videos do isn't inspiring, then i don't know what is i am chris alarms from 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 sondra, it's always a pleasure hosting the show with you. thank you, chris. it is a pleasure for me to fantastic teamwork. an incredible sure. and also our attentive audience. so that's it for equal africa this week. good bye for me here in counselor, uganda. see you next week. ah ah, ah ah ah, ah ah ah

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