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even seemingly small steps going back a bunch. hello, welcome to eco india. i'm some of that. i hope cigarettes was a big risk to human health. that impact on the environment is less well known. so considered this trillions of toxic cigarette butts are tossed out every year. and most don't land in the trash. initiatives heard an india into tackle the problem at its source and converting these tiny stubs into sustainable practical products. with this clay is no ordinary glee. it has been mixed with treated, raised from cigarette butts. garage prison has been a part of all his life. but this model is something new for him. susan smith, wilson, i talked to him about his own w product. this might be

a been mixed with play, increases the poodle sticky. so when we saw something in this plan does, it gets a good amount of material. dora the voicemail was all part of the the idea to meet products like landers, ash, trees and lanterns come from a small group of students from dell university's sheet on 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 partner with 500 leaders of fort hood 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 secret bags get dumbed in india's landfills. every year. in

2021 environment and activist admitted that that started and india white campaign calling buttress moody, waiting while in tears to collect drawing of a cigarette. burn the rec shit foundation responded to the call. the aim of the delhi beast, not for profit n g o is to make india capital cleaner and healthier. so this will be our $479.00 drive. we are, we are collecting the signature, but when you are people are that what is the most common for lieutenant informal plastic gender, people on sort of plastic straw or plastic bottle. but but through this fall, behind this, the troopers figured words are the most common pollutant informal blasting each cigarette that is made of satellite acetate. a non biodegradable plastic printer that takes almost 10 years to completely decompose. when the rest disintegrates into micro, it is consumed by marine animals. tobacco product least also contains over 7000

toxic chemicals. i study conducted by the san diego state university devine that one small signal, 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 growing that when someone throws dark cigarette but directly into the park or into the port or anywhere, what happens, it mixes with the land and causes the problem. the soil is affected and seats don't germinate property because it takes more time and blonde growth is affected. northrop got the, the more than 1000 walden deers, half collected velo, what? half a 1000000 cigna. but sometimes they send the 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 army and one of the most out of is only one to 2 percent. so

about 98 percent of a sport gets decomposed tonight affecting the lenae lee. i think the composer that back to daily university students and project ahead, it is one of the few organizations that have been trying to formalize the process of collection and recycling off the grid, but waste their food is still small till they receive cigarettes raised from the different bodies involved in the by fresh project. they're also working with about 15. jack vickers, being them about half a euro cent, but every kilogram of connected but waste at the sheet. i'm institute of industrial research in delhi. it gets the cycle professionally. ego 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 detoxified the raised

neutralizes the smell. a process that is also used for the state and i vision of medical devices the processed ways to then find that to be back into the economy, to the waters colony. this to didn't lead project lar guaranteeing gauges 20 quarters who use the treated to get there and about $150.00 a month, around $12000.00 rubies by selling fort meade from this claim. we have to ensure that the order that that we make the progress from have i was origin income as well . so we ensure that they get, i don't qualify for 30 percent of the income and we have the supply chain and value trends in which we sell our products. josh facade has been working with the project for the last several months with the family, but it is possible that the plan that i am making for them is our health and the environment. he will buy this car and i have joined hands with them. jack avenue

claim mixed with a clean, new material made of good but good right beside is pleased that through the traditional art of 40 making, he's helping solve 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. we to put them to use who this is a very rehearse cleanup operation for unsure for tanya. together with other women, she combs through the forest of homie for find needed a job that takes months to complete from the dry season and march to july. when the monsoons start to defend every day, they collect almost 2 tons of fine needle. just to keep up the dream,

we only collect the dried funds on the ticket least drive time that are flame 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 while the can alert local residents to impeding danger, they are powerless against the flames themselves. gonna be, i mean, log me mostly in the block, gina, mostly jungles of trees and lots of finally managers. so this area has a maximum number of fire. the frequent files destroy the local ecosystem, while also causing huge damage to local farmers. son, jake, lamar, and his family have already suffered substantial losses over the years. there's a van other, marla young lamar gloves 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 we own money by selling the landlord of it we need to purchase grass from outside or to dispense are to love your simple villagers and no port. and we can't afford to lie al good. you are to look down as likely the guinea last of this, this sub tropical area, 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 inner wheat 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 pin compared to call it biggest part of their little they different by bigger size. so we job them mentally, actually be hired local villages labors and we get the job them of various sizes half off top of the sizes once we talked them to it is never level and we put them in machine with 100 percent fine. we had a very nice lead, good design to have bait into the method, but local companies are free to make their own crickets 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 close to $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 it as nice stomach,

he's been in the brigand business for almost 2 years now on the basis of 300. but king these big produce 3000 to be checked on of the tickets. the bio was the breakers. we're manufacturing has the clear demand, especially in the tribe beard, that there are no blocks, and as such, in the past, more of the trees, but it got to go to the need of the fuel. in those areas. pharma, surgical, my was one of the falls to start collecting and converting fine needles into fuel failure. and he's never regretted investing in his little processing plant. in a good month, the venture onto him around one lack or $1100.00 euro's made . if a radical paddle to my benefits from selling breakers yet really like other families,

i found a source of other companies, michel, mitre, we collect the pine needles from the photos of the law and make them into brick at day and use the money on to cover our household expulsion? well when i, when i got to latin the project has already created around $200.00 john until tanya has been gathering needles for over a year now in the process, improving her personal situation. chill out of a target missile be found worth 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. certainly, instead of taking up the whole day, we can just come up it work for some time which day and then finish our household. chores. it up like had gone to me that far as a dance of the hm. you would area. and for the, for the gods, the project has had a range of benefits. i don't gatlin and other animals, although now have more grasslands, degrees on the other that used to burn down. i fired nicky,

but as it would yelled out the other eyes as they are the chances of fire have mean did you like to robert the i properties are safe every year i only make was a little gram regular in the future. his program will be able to have greater control over the fire radio air gathers is other gob will go 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 forest fires. methane is a destructive greenhouse gas that in the short term is far more powerful at warming the planet than carbon dioxide. methane emissions often escape from fossil fuel facilities. it's a danger that's 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. no, all of this year is met. meter,

a powerful cash, 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 yes, wait, 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 return from the cleaning 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 search for meet in where it shouldn't be treated, the 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 the heat, the planet more than 80 times more than c o 2, methane concentrations are rising. fast across the weld, enormous quantity, the pouring out to farms, landfills and fossil fuel infrastructure. the so she might already be familiar with if cattle, couse have for stomachs that digest fruit and way that filled the buts with methane . quick side it, it's a met that cal fought for the problem here. only small amount comes out. the back rice paddies 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 goals. methane emissions then live 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 to fix fossil fuels. they're responsible for one 3rd of humanity's 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 wells, 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 will come hit the pollution that you can't see with the naked eye. you can be living right next to him if a 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 when to retire turns up at a site like this. he stays outside the security fence and scanned the area with

a special camera to search for method. 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 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 reason my camera can't pick up these emissions. my think of the few 100 years. where as theresa is camera costs, 100000, yes. 100000 years. the price tank is so high because the camera picks up infrared radiation at the wavelengths needed to see hydrocarbons like me thing. andel there it can't measure how much is leaking out. the camera does show where the problems are. it can see invisible gases,

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 meet the 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 in 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 when meeting is intentionally let out. this might be done to reduce pressure in a pipe during maintenance work, for instance. the 3rd, if larry, let me think coming out of the vent if burned burning meat then turns it from a super harmful gas to well, just a regular harmful one. but often it's done so poorly. that roomy thing is still

escaping into the atmosphere. and 2021. the clean air task force visited $250.00 oil and gas sites across europe. it document and methane emissions from a variety of sources, $180.00 of them. these aren't just isolated incidents. many pieces of equipment will leaking meta inventory to visit an 8 months previous middle, the windows play, some seem to have stopped for others and even putting 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, we were just looking at about that looks like it really could just be tightened. yeah. other stuff my, you know, fixing the repair that might be a little more complex to understand where the missions are coming from. we have the facility operate to snap about the leaks we saw, but they didn't respond to her 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, the bob a heads, a helping scientists spoke methane reaching out from under our notice. 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 we don't see the key players. this is tom oliver, a scientist to you, the satellites to identify so called out trim. it is of me think satellite, not puffing. they struggled see me then 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 all

companies, clearing methane after pipes to do maintenance work on them as well. that john course of methane is worse as south leaks and they've come that a heavy price lost revenue from wasting gas last lives from air pollution. and last time in the fight against climate change, the study found that full countries took menaced on russia. the you, ethan iran could save billions of dollars by fixing just these ultra emitting events. and here's the big lesson i learned, 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. in some cases it says use tightening ball or clothing about some leaks on still don't happen when equipment went down or work of make mistakes. but what companies can choose to do is find and collect them quickly

. how do you deal with the kind of anything coming out event from flags and stuff that have been let, there need to be more regulation and closer inspection of what we are intentionally fencing. it's pretty, pretty simple solutions in many cases. more than 40 percent of the i yates suggested emissions cuts literally wouldn't cost anything. things are changing methane versus replace lashley landmark agreement to reduce a me, dana emissions of the cop 26 climate summit leaders for more than 100 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 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 an areas that are hot to reach. hovering above the forests of india is seed comforter. its mission to plant trees from the skyline. the u. a v. an unmanned aerial vehicle or drone selectively spread c balls over surfaces to plant new forests or strengthen weak ones in there is a very where they varied geography and barren like deserves. and rather than that, that ice in oregon are among roles in west bengal. so there are many regions where

people are unable to reach for they are not many activities that are going on at present. so you've got that can these, these areas under to belated us with is my route drones. the company behind seed character 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, misery is 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 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 strengthen biodiversity. in all our stories to meet, we saw how every the object can be re imagined. the saw the environment that we

live in. every small action takes us towards a planet where we can continue to thrive for generation. i'll leave you with that and see you again next week, goodbye. and thanks for watching. ah, [000:00:00;00] a ah ah,

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