human health that impact on the environment is less willing. so consider this trillions of toxic sacred bucks a tossed up every year. and most don't land in the trash initiatives her them india into tackle the problem at had source and converting these tiny stubs into sustainable practical products. this clay is no ordinary glee. it has been mixed with treated waste from cigarette butts. garage prison has been a part of all his life, but this model is something new for him. this is matt wilson. i talked to him about his role joby product. this might be been mixed with play in pleases be portals to eat. so when we saw something in this plan, does it good? so good amount of material, dora. the voicemail was all part of the idea to me.

products like landers, ash, trees and lanterns come from a small group of students from dhl, universities sheet on college of commerce, their initiative project la head tackles the problem of cigarette back least. we came across the shock in fact that a single cigarette can potentially, for you at 500 leaders afforded integral. and that's when we realized that something that to consider to be very, very negligible can out bad rec, such how on the environment. according to the united nations environment program, secret box are the most common form of plastic pollution about 100000000000. sigrid bags get dumbed in india's landfills. every year. in 2021 environment and activist admitted that that started and india white campaign called buttress motivating. wollen dears, to collect drawing of

a cigarette. the richard foundation responded to the call. the aim of the daily beast, not for profit, n g o is to make india's capital cleaner and healthier. so this will be out for $79.00, dr. we are, we are collecting basic goldberg when you are people are that what is the most common for lieutenant informal plastic gender? people answered it's plastic straw or plastic bottle, but that throat is far behind this. that rotors figured words are the most common pollutant in form. of blasting each cigarette back is made of satellite acetate. anon biodegradable plastic filter that takes almost 10 years to completely decompose. when the rest disintegrates into micro, it is consumed by marine animals. tobacco product waste also contains over 7000 toxic chemicals. a study conducted by the san diego state university. they leaned back once more secret, but in one little water is enough to kill both marine and freshwater fish and the

but that also dangerous for life on land. when someone is throwing that when someone throws dot cigarette but directly into the park or into the port or anywhere, what happens, it mixes with the land and causes a problem and the soil is affected, m seats don't germinate property. it takes more time and blonde growth is affected, lot of job the, the more than 1000 walden dears have collected velo, what half a 1000000 sigurd, but sometimes they send a garbage back to tobacco industry with the north. your but your responsibility. the majority, however, are sent to obvious disposal company, hardly any figured, but i recycle. how many annually than i thought of it's only one to 2 percent. so about 98 percent of ways gets decomposed tonight affecting the lenae lee. i think a couple of other back to daily university students and chronic la head. it is one

of the few organizations that have been trying to formalize the process of collection and recycling off the grid, but raised their food is still small till they receive cigarette raised from the different bodies involved in the blood pressure project. they're also working with about 15. jack vickers being them about half a euro cent, but every kilogram of elected by waste act, the she rom, institute of industrial research in delhi, it gets the cycle professionally eco activists. meet scientists in a common cause of dealing properly with secret waste. the barks are being analyzed or dog sins, and then they are crushed. a facility of gamma radiation detoxify raised neutralizes the smell of process that is also used for the state and i vision of medical devices the processed ways to then find this to be back into the economy, to the waters colony. this to didn't lead project. la currency engages 20 quarters

who use the treated by the earned about $150.00 a month. and 12000 will be by selling port made from this fleet. we have to ensure that the order that that we make the progress from have i was certain income as well. so we ensure that the good, i don't going to fight with 30 percent of the income and we have a supply chain and value trends in which we sell our products. josh, beside has been working with the project for the last month. was i found out that the plan that i am making for them is best but our health and the environment. he will buy this car and i have joined hands with them. claim mixed with a clean new material made of the bad guys beside is pleased that through the traditional art of water making, he's helping so all the plastic race problem binding secret. but of course,

also a major fire hazard in the mountains of northeastern india will just help protect their forests against the frequent threat of wildfires by collecting highly flammable pine needles and be found in, in a way to and environmentally friendly way to put them to use me, this is a well rehearsed cleanup operation for unsure for tanya together with other women, she goes through the forest of homie or find, need of a job that takes months to complete from the dry season and march through to july. when the monsoons start to defend every day, they collect almost 2 tons of fine needle. just to keep up with the dream, then we only collect the dried ones on the ticket strike time or flammable. but the image which can have devastating consequences sustain dry peters and intense heat can easily spark forest fires. in 2018 alone the region lost and area

equivalent to 35000 football pitches. there are phone cards on petrol and vile. they can alert local residents to impeding danger. they are powerless against the flames themselves. for ya, bay, i me to log me mostly in the hum, blogging and i know the jungles of trees and lots of binding. so this area has a maximum number of fire. the frequent files destroy the local ecosystem by long so causing huge damage to local farmers. san diego man and his family have already suffered substantial losses over the years. there's a van other, marla young lamar, who lives at the if the fathers will get his fire grazing lands for the gotten get destroy altima value done the got to learn, able to produce milk, was my household then struggle because beyond money by selling the landlord of it we need to purchase grass from outside to the dispense are to la real simple

villagers, unknown data. and we can't afford to, my younger you either of them has actually the guinea laugh at this, this sub tropical area of the himalayas didn't used to have these many pine tree lever blandon by the british colonial authorities in order to provide fresh timber for building dairy levies the species has since come to dominate the local landscape to do the wood is used for heating and in construction. as part aspires became a growing problem. artie gushy up and her fellow scientists from the indian institute of technology monday wanted to find a solution for the masses of highly flammable needles in the pine forest. became up with an inner weight of id up once collected. the needles are processed and mixed with sawdust and wood chips to create equal pellets for heating. in addition to bonding longer, the image less c o 2 and me pain compared to call it latest part of they've left they different by the gases for which job the mentally actually be higher. local

religious labors. i reached out a job, them of video sizes, half, half, half up video phases one through chalk them to word is never level. and we put them in machine with 100 percent buying. we had a very nice lead. your definitely give the scientist has beat into the method, but local companies are free to make their own brigades and ballots. and 4 years ago, the government began providing subsidies for new production facilities. they don't come cheap together with the machinery costing 7, lack of lost or $8000.00 euros. that can be a daunting investment here. despite the subsidy offer only $25.00, local entrepreneurs have so far joined the scheme. among them is roneesh thomas. he's been in the brick of business for almost 2 years now. on the basis of 300, the booking this bill can produce 3000 to music done of the breakers. the boy

was a breaker to we are manufacturing has the grid to mark, especially in the tribe beauty that is a, there are no plans and do a search in the past, more of the trees, but got to go to the need of the fuel in those hideous farmers, and jekyll mom was one of the 1st to start collecting an converting, find needles in the fuel fillets. and he's never regretted investing and has little processing plant in a good month. the winter ons, him around one lack or $1100.00 euros. made if a radical paddle to my family benefit from selling brick out and get really like other families. i found the source of all the countries michael my to legalize the pine needles from the forest law and make them into brick at day and use the money on to cover our household expense. it'll show up when i was younger, casual after the project has already created around $200.00 jobs until

but tanya has been gathering needles for over a year now in the process improving her personal situation. chill out or tug missing, be found, were collecting fine needle, which has allowed us to be independent. women used to have to travel long distances for a job, but it's good that you've now found work nearer home instead of it taking up the whole day. we can just come work for some time and then finish our household chores . up. got com, summit for evidence of the homie area i'm for the, for the project. have had a range of benefits. i don't get under the animals all, i don't know how more graph to raise on that you have to burn down by fire. you can make it. but as it would just john to the fire have to do with the properties of safety. we make a little gram regular in the future. this program will be able to have greater

control over the fire august. dallas is going to buying the idea now is for the project to be adopted elsewhere in the region to a simple but effective concept for creating fuel while preventing fondest high me pain is a destructive greenhouse gas let. in the shop term is far more powerful at warming the planet, the carbon dioxide. we take emissions often escape from fossil fuel facilities. it's a danger that's invisible to the naked eye. but as a reporter discovered, there's a simple way to avert it. looking at the biggest climate catastrophe, nobody's talking about filling all of this here. now, all of this year is let me think a powerful gas silently baking the planet. it's responsible for more than a quarter of global warming since the industrial revolution. and it's pouring out

to fossil fuel facilities and no good reason. we're talking about plumbing to literally, that's right. cutting methane emissions is one of the cheapest, fastest, and easiest way to fly climate change. but the companies responsible on doing it. and with a few exceptions, nobody's even holding them accountable. let's meet james to return from the cleaner task force. an environmental group pushing the tech and policy solutions to keep the planet from heating. it lobbies, governments to capture carbon, cut pollution, and build nuclear power plant. when meeting to return berlin and taking the train down to northern italy to such a method where it shouldn't be treated job is to cross the continent, tracking down fugitive methane emissions escaping fossil fuel facilities. methane is a gas that absolutely wrecks the climate. unlike theater, it doesn't last long in the atmosphere before breaking down, but it's way stronger in the short term. it's so strong, in fact,

that over 20 year period meet that heats the planet more than 80 times more than c o 2, methane concentrations are rising. fast across the world, enormous quantities are pouring out to farms, landfills and fossil fuel infrastructure. the so she might already be familiar with this cattle. couse have for stomachs that digest food in a way that fills the butts with me thing. quick side it. it's a myth that cow thought for the problem here. only small amount comes out. the back rice patties are another big source of the methane emissions from agriculture together with the sheep and some other food sources like this make up 40 percent of human cause methane emissions. then las landfills, responsible for about 20 percent of the problem. when bacteria breakdown organic waste without oxygen, they also produce me thing. but the cells we're interested in is the easiest effect fossil fuels. they're responsible for one 3rd of humanities, methane emissions,

the gas we been for cooking and heating. it's almost entirely made up for me thing, but it's leaking everywhere, offshore rigs, oil wealth, gas pipelines, and also the facilities were about to visit with driving to an industrial park on the outskirts of milan, where fossil gases stood. facilities like this are a vital part of the energy supply chain that nobody really pay attention to. we've come had the pollution that you can't see with the naked eye. you can be living right next to a methane leak and have absolutely no idea what's happening. fossil fuel companies generally on to thrilled about people calling them out for polluting. so went to rita, turns up at a site like this. he stays outside the security fence and scanned the area with a special camera to search for me thing. and here comes the big question. will we spot fugitive methane emissions escaping from the facility? okay, yeah, so what you're seeing is gas coming out of the vents,

that this is at the core of what methane hunters do, making the invisible visible. i literally can't say anything on my phone. and here we can see a gigantic leak of a gas pouring out of the top of that pipe. yeah, exactly. that's the reason my camera can't pick up these emissions. my think of a few 100 years where as teresa is calmer, co, 100000 year, 100000 years, the price tag is so high because a camera picks up infrared radiation at the wavelength needed to see hydra carbons like me thing. and all the continental, how much of leaking out the camera does show where the problems i can see invisible gas and it can detect things that i as a normal person, i'm not able to detect that is mind blowing. but it does kind of explain why this is such a kind of why this whole industry is getting away with all the media emissions.

right? people do not have any idea just how, how much of leaking out where it's coming from. the international energy agency estimates world meet the emissions from the power sector are about 70 percent higher than countries are reporting in their official data. there are basically 3 ways meeting gets released. there are simple leaks which could be because the screw hasn't been tight and or a piece of equipment to the rusty. then the venting when the thing is intentionally let out. this might be done to reduce pressure in a pipe during maintenance work, for instance, the 3rd, if larry, when me think coming out of the vent of bud. letting me think turns it from a super harmful gas to, well, just a regular harmful one. but often it's done so poorly that ro, me thing, is still escaping into the atmosphere. in 2021, the cleaner task force visited 250 oil and gas sites across europe. it document and methane emissions from a variety of sources at $180.00 of them can. a bit of these aren't just

isolated incidents. many pieces of equipment were leaking, methane when teresa visited 8 months previous, middle to windows, place some seemed have stopped for others and even pumping out more gas and last time, yet irrelevant. so some of the sources can certainly be fixed pretty easily. you know, we were looking at a valve, we're just looking at a valve that looked like it really could just be tightened. yeah. i'm other stuff like, you know, fixing or repairing that might be a little more complex dollars at where the emissions are coming from. we offer the facility, operate a snap about the leaks we saw, but they didn't respond to request for comment. but site operators on the only ones responsible method is leaking across the entire supply chain. before it gets to european storage tanks, it needs to be extracted from the ground and ship it or piped bosco distances. the

infrared senses and satellite 100 the kilometer above our heads, a helping sign to spot methane leaking out from under our nose. and that terrified by what they're finding in the field, we can see all these like leaky defective little materials or a tank leaking more than it showed or things like that. but you don't see the key players. this is tom. i love a scientist who use a satellite to identify so called out trim. it has a meeting satellite and they struggled to see me then at night through clouds or above water. but on land they're picking up a mission that are on a whole other level level study found about 10 percent of the industries meet, the emissions come from these gigantic releases. they happened rarely, but the happening all over the world. ultra meeting events come from equipment failing or companies clearing, meeting to place to do maintenance on them. so that shine, 1st of methane, is worth a 1000 leagues. and this comes at a heavy price. last revenue from wasting gas last lives from pollution. and last

time in the fight against climate change, the study found that 4 countries took menaced on russia the us in iran could save billions of dollars by fixing just these ultra emitting events. and here's the big last nightline sofa. fixing the industries meeting problem is ludicrously cheap. fossil fuel companies could cut me faint emissions by staggering 75 percent using technology that already exist on some capable, tightening ball or clothing about. some leaks are still bound to happen when equipment was down or workers make mistakes. but what companies can choose to do is find and plug them quickly to how to deal with the kind of me thing coming out events and flows and stuff that haven't been lit, no need to be more regulation and closer inspection of what facilities are intentionally venting it from pretty simple solutions, in many cases. more than 40 percent of the i. e a's suggested emissions cuts

literally wouldn't cost anything. things are changing. miss hain, message, we say flash from a landmark agreement to reduce a methane emissions of the cop 26 climate summit. leaders for more than $100.00 countries pledged to slash global methane emissions by 30 percent by the end of the decade. the european union plans to introduce new requirements for measuring and reporting methane emissions, as well as spotting unplugging leaks as even proposed ban on venting and flare. what it hasn't yet considered though, is setting a standard for the oil and gas it binds elsewhere. and forcing input standard that cover the whole supply chain could drive changes in countries with leaky facilities . that could spread the changes needed to cut methane emissions globally. and by the extra time needed to stock temperatures, rising tree planting is also doubted as a way to help stop temperatures rising. because trees have the potential to suck

excess carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. an indian company uses drones to beef up battery woodlands and create brand new forests, planting seeds of pool, even in areas that are hot to reach. hovering above the forests of india is seed comforter. it's mission to plant trees from the skype, the u. a v. an unmanned aerial vehicle or drone selectively spread c balls over surfaces to plant new forests or strengthen weak ones. is a very, very varied geography and baron like desert him rather than the eyes and all that are gone out among rules in which bengal for there are many regions of people are unable to reach for. there are not many activities that are going on at present. sealed copy can please be serious, unreachable ladies with ease my route drones. the company behind seed counter aims

to plant 1000000000 trees by 2030. the drone has already spread seats and regions like telling gonna and rochester on one drone can hold 10 kilos of people each containing 4 to 5000 seeds and cover more than 10 hector's each day. seedlings are monitored from the sky and results are collected in a database for want them as it is they can be done from specific algorithms which can process this image to create that optimum. and with, unlike understand optimum environmental parameters for the maximum plan, growth, planting trees is key in the fight against climate change. but getting from seed to tree that can sequester carbon dioxide can take up to 40 years. some experts feel that projects like seed copter are not always helpful need can sometimes be end up being the unintended impact of being a distraction from much more important conversations about the carbon ation. mode.

drones is working with state governments in india, despite criticism they believe in the project. if you look at the carbon emissions over the years, like it has grown exponentially or the last last ticket, and i think it will grow the same way in the near future. for that it needs to be a technology which can happen like we can handle it at the scale. so i think you will be heading your way to make it happen for now, seat comforter will keep planting trees. supporters hope it will help save existing forests and stay infant bio diversity in all our stories to be we saw how every, the objects can be re imagined. the so the environment that we live in, every small action takes us towards the planet where we can continue to thrive for generations. i'll leave you with that and see you again next week. good bye. and thanks for watching

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