doctor ah ah, it's easy to feel powerless against the human induce threats to our air, water, and earth. but doing nothing isn't an option from fighting pollution to curbing global warming even seemingly small steps going back a bunch. hello, welcome to eco india. i'm son of that. i hope cigarettes was a big risk to human hope that impact on the environment is less well known. so consider this trillions of toxic sigrid butts are tossed out every year and most don't land in the trash initiatives her them india into tackle the problem at its

source and converting these tiny stubs into sustainable practical products. with this glee is no ordinary lee. it has been mixed with treated, raised from cigarette butts, garage prison has been a part of all his life. but this material is something new for him. this maria wilson, i talked to him about his own joby product. this might be then mixed with play in please of the portal sticky. so when we saw something in this plan, does it get a good amount of it with big a daughter, a voicemail. bizarre though, part of the the idea to meet products like landers, ash, trees and lanterns come from a small group of students from delhi universities. she ram college of commerce. their initiative project la head tackled the problem of cigarette,

but least we came across the shocking fact that a single cigarette can potentially point you at 500 meters afforded integral. and that's when we realized that something that to consider to be very, very negligible can out there 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 bats get dumbed in india's landfills every year. in 2021 environment and activist needed that thus started and india white campaign called buttress multi waiting, while in tears to collect drawn of a cigarette. the richard foundation responded to the call. the aim of the deli beast, not for profit, n g o is to make india's capital cleaner and healthier. so this will be our $479.00 drive. we are, we are collecting basically, but when you are people law that what is the most performance for learning informal

plastic, generally people on sort of plastic straw or a plastic bottle. but but daughter is far behind this. the therapist figured words are the most common pollutant in form of plastic movie each cigarette that is meat off satellite acid eat a non biodegradable plastic filter that takes almost 10 years to completely decompose. when the rest disintegrates into micro, it is consumed by marine animals. tobacco products, at least, also contains over $7000.00 toxic chemicals. a study conducted by the san diego state university devine that once more signature, but in one least out of water is enough to kill both marine and freshwater fish and the bus, but also dangerous for life on land. when someone is throwing that when someone throws dot cigarette but directly into the park or into the boat or anywhere, what happens? it mixes with the land and causes the problem. the soil is affected and seats don't

germinate properly. it takes more time and blonde growth is affected, lot of job the, the more than 1000 walden deers, half 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 all these disposal company, hardly anything, but i recycle hallway and really the most out of it is only one to 2 percent. so about 98 percent of a sport gets decomposed or affecting the ladelly. i think the composite of that 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 affected by waste. their food is still small till they receive cigarettes raised from the different bodies involved in the bi trash project. they're also working with about 15. jack vickers, being them about half

a euro cent for every kilogram of connected but waste at the sheet on institute of industrial research and delhi, it gets the cycle professionally. eco activists meet scientists in a common cause of dealing properly with secret waste that marks are being analyzed or toxins. and then they are crushed. our facility of gamma radiation detoxify the raised and neutralizes the smell. a process that is also used for the satellite vision of medical devices. the processed waste then finds its way back into the economy to the waters colony. this still didn't lead project la has gotten engages when deep waters who use the treated to get back there and about $150.00 a month around $12000.00 will be by selling for me from this lee. we have to ensure

that the part that we make the progress from have i was certain income as well. so we ensure that they get on the phone with the percent of the income and we have a view supply chain and value trends in which we sell our products. good josh, beside has been working with the project for the last 7 months. was a family disposable that the plan that i am making for them is our health and the environment. he will buy this talk to me and i have joined hands with them. project cabinet claim mixed with a clean new material made of cigarette, but get charged aside, displeased that through the traditional art of watery making, he's helping for the plastic race problem. bunning 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,

weak to put them to use to this is a well rehearsed cleanup operation for unsure for tanya together with other women. she combs through the forest of homie for find me a job that takes months to complete from the drive even in march to, to july. when the monsoons start to defend every day, they collect almost 2 tons of fine needle. me just okay, but they are, we don't take the dream bad. we only collect the dried funds on the ticket. least drive time leaders that are flaming but damage level, which can have devastating consequences. sustain dry periods and intense heat can easily fall. forest fires in 2018 alone the region. lawson area equivalent 235000 football pitches. there are 40 cards on petrol, and while they can alert local residents to impeding danger, they are powerless against the flames themselves. for ya, bay,

i mean log me mostly in the humming blog and i know the jungles of trees and lots of finally managers. so this area has a number of fire. the frequent files destroy the local ecosystem, while also causing huge damage to local farmers. surgical mom 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 gotta get destroy altima vance in a done the got to learn, able to produce milk, was my household then struggle because we own money by selling the landlord of it, we need to purchase grass from outside or to the friends are to learn to be a simple villagers and no port after. and we can't afford to lie younger you. angela dale 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 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 innovative idea 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 pin compared to call it latest part of that little j. different by bigger size. so the job, the mentally actually be higher, local religious labors and reject the job them of video sizes, half, half, half up video faces. once you talk them to word isn't over level and we put them in machine with 100 percent buying. we had a very nice lead your duplicate. 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 glass door, a 1000 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 it as ne stomach, he's been in the brick and 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 agreed to mourn, especially in the tribe beauty. that is the, there are no plans and do a search in the past, more of the trees, but got to go to the need of the food in those hideous farmers on 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 aren't him around one lack or $1100.00 euros. made of a radical paddle to my my benefits from selling brick. i was just really like other families. i found a source of all the companies, michel miter legalize the pine needles from the forest law and make them in public at day and used the money on to cover our household expend. rochelle, mom, when i would rather catch up in the project, has already created around $200.00 jobs until about hannah has been gathering needles for over a year. now in the process, improving her personal situation. chill out at a target miss. how the founder of collecting pine needles,

which has allowed us to be independent women used to have to travel long distances for a job. but it's good that we've now found work near our home. something instead of taking up the whole day. we can just come up at work for some time which day and then finish our household chores, it up and had got on to me. for residents of the homie food area and for the, for the gods. the project has had a range of benefits on gasoline and other animals, although now have more grasslands to graze on that and that you have to burn down. i fired nicky because it would yoga other eyes as they are the chances of fire have mean did you like to robert? did your i properties are safe every year i actually make was a little gram regular in this program. we'll be able to have greater control over the fire. reduce air gathers is other guy both got a 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 forest fires.

me pin is a destructive greenhouse gas let in the short term is far more powerful at warming the planet than carbon dioxide. methane i machine is often escaped from fossil fuel facilities. it's a danger that invisible to the naked eye. but as i reported discovered, there's a simple way to avoid it. looking at the biggest climate catastrophe that nobody's talking about filling all of this here. now, all of this years met. meet a powerful gash, silently baking the planet. it's responsible for more than a quarter of global warming since the industrial revolution and it's pouring out of fossil fuel facility. and no good reason. we're talking about public to literally. that's right. cutting methane emissions is one of the cheapest fastest. and it's way to slow 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 retire from the cleaner task force and 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 search for methane, where it shouldn't be to retail 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 thing, 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

if cattle can have 4 stomachs that digest fruit and way that filled the buts 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 pixels of the methane emissions from agriculture together with the sheep and some other food sources like this make up 40 percent of human cause me thank emissions then with landfills responsible for about 20 percent of the problem. when bacteria breakdown organic waste without oxygen, they also produce me thing. but the, so 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 is 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 pays 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 aren't too 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, yes. so what you're seeing is gas coming out of the vents, that this is at the core of what methane hunters do, making being visible visible. so i literally can't see anything on my phone. and here we can see a gigantic leak of a gasp pouring out of the top of that part. yeah,

exactly. that the reason my camera can't pick up the emissions my think up to few 100 years. whereas theresa is camera cars, 100000, yes. 100000 years. the price tank is so high because the camera picks up infrared radiation, and the wavelength needed to see hydrocarbons like me thing. and although it can't measure how much of leaking out the camera does show when the problems that it 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 kind of why this whole industry is getting away with all the meta missions, 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 tightened or a piece of equipment to the rusty. then the venting meeting is intentionally let out. this might be done to reduce pressure on a pipe during maintenance work, for instance. the 3rd, if larry, let me think coming out of the vent, burned betting me pain, turns it from a super harmful gas to well, just a regular harmful one. but often it's done so poorly that rome ethan is still escaping into the atmosphere. in 2021. the clean air task force visited $250.00 oil and gas sites across europe. it documented methane emissions from a variety of sources at $180.00 of them. maybe these aren't just isolated incidents. many pieces of equipment were leaking, meta, inventory, to visit, and 8 months previous middle, the, when the, some seem to have stopped for others and even pumping out more gas and last time.

so some of these sources can certainly be fix pretty easily. you know, we were looking at a valve for just looking at about that looks like it really could just be tightened . yeah. other stuff my, you know, fixing repair that might be a little more complex to understand where the missions are coming from. we have the facility operator nam about the leaks we saw, but they didn't respond to her request for comment. but sight operated on the only ones responsible meeting is leaking. christina, hi, a supply chain. before it gets to european storage tanks, it needs to be extracted from the ground and ship the pipes past distances. ah, the infrared senses in satellite 100 kilometers above our heads. helping scientists meet a week out from under on it. 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 should 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 satellites on puffing. they struggled see me, thin at night through clouds or above water. but on land they're picking up a mission that are on a whole of the level. lavoy study found about 10 percent of the industries, methane emissions come from these gigantic releases. they happen rarely. but the happening all over the world. ultra emitting events come from equipment failing or companies clearing methane to pipe to do maintenance work on them. so that john burst of methane is worse, a 1000 leaks. and they've come that a heavy price lost revenue from waste and gas. last light from air pollution and last time in the fight against climate change. the study found that 4 countries took menaced on russia. the u. ethan iran could save billions of dollars by fixing just these ultra emitting events. and here's the big last night,

learn sofa fixing the industry. methane problem is ludicrously cheap. fossil fuel companies could cut methane emissions by staggering 75 percent using technologies that already exist well over before either title or closing a val. some leaks are still bound to happen when equipment went 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 have been lit, no need to be more regulations and closer inspection of what facilities are intentionally venting it's pretty, 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 me sane. visit me. they slash many landmark agreement to reduce a me dana emissions at 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 meet the innovation as well as spotting unplugging leaks if 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 an areas that are hot to reach. hovering above the

forests of india is seed comforter. its mission to plant trees from the skylight. 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 video with a baby geography and pattern like desert in boston. the ice in that are gone are among rules in which bengal. so there are many regions of people are unable to reach for there are not many activities that are going on at present. he's got that can be serious, unbeatable adf with is my root 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 him key loads of people, each containing $4.00 to $5000.00 seeds and cover more than 10 hector's. each day.

seedlings are monitored from the sky and results are collected in a database. for one thing, miseries they can be done from specific algorithms which can process these emerged it 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 comforter 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 emission for the year, like it has grown exponentially or the last last ticket,

and i think it will grow the same way in the near future. for they need to be a technology which can like which, which 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 str infant biodiversity. in all our stories to meet, we saw how every day objects can be re imagined before 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. with

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