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pollution to call being global warming even seemingly small steps going back a bunch. hello, welcome to eco india. i'm son of that. cigarettes was a big risk to human hope that impact on the environment is less well known. so considered this trillions of dog $600.00 a tossed out every year and most don't land in the trash initiatives. heard an india into tackle the problem at had source and converting these tiny stubs into sustainable practical products. with this glee is no ordinary glee. it has been mixed with treated, raised from cigarette butts. garage broussard has been a part of all his life, but this model is something new for him. this is maria wilson. i talked to him

about his own joby product. this might be bill then mixed with play, increases the poodle sticky. so when we saw something in this plant, it gets a good amount of it with bigger dora voicemail. bizarre though part of the the idea to me, 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 back least. we came across the shocking fact that a single cigarette can potentially put you at 500 liters 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 bags get dumbed in india's landfills every year. in

2021 environment and activist needed that thus started an india white campaign called but multi rating, wollen dears, to collect drawing of a cigarette. the pictures 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 our $479.00 drive. we are, we are collecting basic goldberg 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 that throat is far behind this. that brokers figured words are the most common pollutant informal blasting each cigarette bat is meat off satellite acetate, anon biodegradable plastic printer that takes almost 10 years to completely decompose when the rest disintegrates into micro thanks, it is consumed by marine animals. tobacco product wheezed also contains over 7000

toxic chemicals. a study conducted by the san diego state university devine back once more secret, but in one little 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, i mean what happens, it mixes with the land and causes. the problem with the soil is affected them 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 ali annually than i thought of is only one to 2 percent. so

about 98 percent of a sport gets decomposed or affecting the lenae lee. i think the comfortable about back to deli university students and project ahead. it is one of the few organizations that have been trying to formalize the process of collection and recycling affected by squeezed. their food is still small till they receive cigarette grease from the different bodies involved in the buy fresh 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 cigarette waste. that parts are being analyzed or doc since and then they are crushed. a facility of gamma radiation

detoxify the raised and neutralizes the smell. a process that is also used for the vision of medical devices. the process 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 water will use the treated to get back there and about $150.00 a month, 12000 feet by selling port made 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 the good, i don't really fight with the percent of the income, and we have a view supply chain and value trends in which we sell our products. josh facade 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 party 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 solve 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 forest against the frequent threat of wildfires by collecting highly flammable by needles and be found in, in a way to and environmentally friendly way to put them to use to this is a well rehearsed clean of operation for unsure for tanya together with other women . she combs through the forest of homie pine needles, a job that takes months to complete from the dry season and march through july. when the monsoons start to defend every day, they collect almost 2 tons of fine needle. just so key,

but they aren't. we don't take the dream. then we only collect the dried funds on the ticket, least drive time leaders that are flaming image, which can have devastating consequences, sustain dry peters an intense heat can easily spark forest fires in 2018 alone the region lost and area equivalent to $35000.00 football pitches. there are forest gods 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 binding. so this area has a 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,

who lives at the if the fathers will get his fire grazing lands for the gotten get destroyed orders from advantage 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 learn to be a simple villagers and no port. and we can't afford to lay out, will you either down as likely the guinea last of 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 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 or 2 and me pain compared to call it latest part of that little j . different by the gases for the job, the mentally actually be higher. local religious labors. i reach out a job, them of video sizes, half, half, half up video phases one through chalk them to word isn't over level. and we put them in machine with 100 percent buying. we had a very nice lead. you'll definitely get 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 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 mark, especially in the tribe beauty. that is it, 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. and jekyll, mom was one of the 1st to start collecting an converting pine needles in the fuel fell it. and he is 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 benefits from selling bricker and really like other families,

i found a source of other countries. mcmichael. we collect 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 on i would rather cut left and the project has already created around $200.00 jobs. until katana has been gathering needles for over a year now, in the process, improving her personal situation. chill out of the target missile, 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 work for some time which day and then finish our household. chores . it up like had got on sunday 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, degrees on the other,

that you have to burn down. i fi is nikki because it would yelled at other eyes as they are, the chances of fire have mean did you lie to? nobody i properties are safe is very actually 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 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 to 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 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 than 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 couse have for stomachs that digest food in a 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 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 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 here to see 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 with happening. fossil fuel companies generally onto 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 the invisible 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 of a few 100 years. whereas theresa a camera costs 100000. yes. 100000 years. the price tank is so high because the camera picks up infrared radiation, and the wavelength needed to see hydro carbons like me thing and older. it can't measure how much of leaking out the camera does show when the problems it can see

invisible gas and they 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 mission. right? people do not have any idea just how, how much of leaking out and 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 when meeting 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 bound binding me thin, 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 $250.00 oil and gas sites across europe. it documented methane emissions from a variety of sources at $180.00 of them come 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 play. some seemed have stopped for others, and even pumping out more gas and last time. so some of these sources can certainly be fixed and pretty easily. and, you know, we were looking at a valve for 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. i look at where the missions are coming from. we off the facility operate a snap about the leaks we saw, but they didn't respond to request for comment. but site operators aren't the only

ones responsible. methane is leaking across be entire supply chain. before it gets to european storage tanks, it needs to be extracted from the ground and shipped or piped bosky distances. the infrared senses in satellite 100 the kilometer above our heads, a helping scientists spot 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 you don't see the key players. this is tom i. lo for a scientist to use a satellite to identify so called out trend mentors of meetings, 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

company clearing, meeting to place to do maintenance light on them. so that shine course of methane is worth a 1000 leagues. and this comes at a heavy price. last revenue from wasting gas last lives from air pollution. and last time in the fight against climate change, the study found that 4 countries took medicine, rush of us in iran, could save billions of dollars by fixing just these are trimming events. and here's the big last nightline sofa. fixing the industries meeting problem is ludicrously cheap. fossil fuel companies could cut me paint emissions by staggering 75 percent using technology that already exist. on some paper report, tightening or clothing about. some leaks are still down to happen when equipment went down or work as make mistakes, but what companies can choose to do is find and collect them quickly. how do you

deal with the kind of thing coming out events and flags and stuff that have been let, there need to be more regulation and closer inspection of what we are intentionally advancing. it's pretty, pretty simple solutions, in many cases. more than 40 percent of the eye yates suggested emissions cuts literally wouldn't cost anything. things are changing. miss hain message, we say flash from a 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 methane emissions, as well as spotting and plugging 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 temperature was 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. its 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 in there is a very, very, very geography and that in like deserve sandra's austin, that that ice in oregon are among roles in west bengal. so there are many regions

fair people are unable to reach for their have not many activities that are going on at present. safe copter can reach 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 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 the miseries they can be done from specific algorithms, which can process this image to create that optimum. and unlike understand optimum environmental parameters, but a 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 emission for 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 data that 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 strengthen biodiversity. in all our stories to meet, we saw how every the object can be re imagined. the solve the environment that we

live in. every small action takes us towards the 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 ah ah, ah, ah ah,

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