but what happens when the power of taxation is undermined? a tax on top of the tax on top of the tax. that's the straw that broke the camel's back. i've been renting forever thinking to myself here. when's it all going to come crashing down you pay? won't pay taxation and politics starts october 21st on d w ah ah ah, ah, it's true that protecting the environment is off next pensive, but the damage caused by droughts, floods, and tropical storms is costly to not only is there a monetary toll, but

a human one to a natural disaster can destroy lives and livelihoods in minutes, yet green industries can be a money spin of the economy. here in germany, they're worth over 70000000000 euros a year and employ more than 300000 people greening the economy. that's our topic today on mate. one of the advantages of living in a city with lots of parks, there's always a calm oasis to get away from it all. but there's more to greenery in cities and meets the eye. plants and trees help to filter harmful gases out of the air and help cool down the city on a hot summer day. it's also become a lucrative business as our reporter, julia hine, which one shows there's room for green spaces pretty much anywhere. ah many cities in the world suffer from smoke. deli is regularly hard hit, breathing in such polluted air as

a real health hazard. tuna is among the places looking for new solutions. it's one of india's most important industrial hubs. and yet home to many of the countries showcase green projects. the one earth campus, for example, was built by seuss lawn earth, one of india's biggest renewable energy companies, to how is its headquarters in get a big trend of making what? because last boxes. and that was rug off opportunities for them, but then the management and the chairman of the company decided to my wife, we should be into such a non efficient buildings. being a renewable company, diesel said in global example. right. and that's where the whole study stocks the campus is self sufficient in energy with rainwater harvesting and gray water recycling. there are many green spaces unusual, 20 years ago when the site was built. let switch location german cities like berlin

also suffer from air pollution despite having many parks and comparatively strict pollution limits. some german cities have even imposed diesel driving bands in the past. this project could be part of the solution handling called cells. tiny forests to companies. simple and people and shaquilla in principle, it's a piece of primeval forest, brought into the city. in this system was developed in the 1960 by japanese botanist r. kiera, milwaukee. or he tries to imitate nature. forrest side is primeval forest light. so that means this is a community of trees rather than isolated urban trees, as is often the case in the city line 16 and boy. and that rings huge benefits. yes . building, please give me enough. for example, here in cologne. a real estate company has decided to plant a tiny forest on this empty lot, which was actually just again she, she croz image is important. it's also important to our tenants. she know if

a place looks good, it's also more pleasant to live in shockley in hong shouldn't. before she's, i can imagine that many companies will follow our lead by this. a lot of real estate development has those little decorative gardens and the paved over surfaces here. and those are a mistake they're not healthy, which does include back to india. ponies authorities enjoy their green image though they know that the city suffert's badly from air pollution. that's one reason why puna has massively expanded. it's like pants in recent years. but the city also wants to be a trailblazer in india for sustainable architecture. commercial buildings will really help in audit your thing though. climate footprint annoyed was really about of climate action. and that is weird though it and use the light thing of more efficient cooling, reducing the need for cooling and heating in the 1st place,

are natural ventilation natural lighting. one example is the forest school created by architect no rou, kareem, which is due to open in 2022. it's an unusual design featuring a green facade, a blank circuit on the roof, and green a tramps. the design basically explores the relation between nature and better got you in dennis of in several lives. so the foundations of the school doctrine of horace, based on the idea of grow our lawn reuse lot to play tona is blooming with new construction. a story housing has one of the biggest builders, it's director says green architecture is also profitable and less energy consumption means lower emissions and less smog by nature. we are not sustainable. you know, because the other end of the day we are treating large monoliths of concrete and steel. and you know, in norway as the mining of steel or the manufacturing of concrete or most of them

are, deals are viewed as sustainable. but in the way be design these buildings, we can make these buildings last longer. a few examples of how we can do that is maximize the model light that comes in. right? so we give floor to ceiling windows lodge openings for windows. so there's a lot of wind and natural light coming in. so you reduce the need for air conditioning and for artificial lighting. and back in cologne, germany, a dozen companies have already placed orders for a tiny forest. but the price tag is anything but tiny, $40000.00 heroes per $760.00 trees and shrubs and 20 square meters. the density and variety of plants means they will grow quickly. good for the tenants and investors says the founder double look. kima green and climate friendly will be a big selling point. comes with data to the companies that can boast. green, surroundings, and real sustainability will be more attractive to customers and the community.

often. no one knows exactly what green cities will look like in the future. but tiny forests and sustainable design will all do their bit to improve herb and air quality. b, as in india or germany and staying in cities has something we don't think about often until it goes wrong. managing water and what happens when there's too much of it? europe had its fair share of floods this past, causing 30000000000 euros worth of damage and germany alone and around the world. some cities may even be totally under water and a few decades due to rising sea levels caused by climate change. city planners and the building industry will have to adapt. we take a look at 2 cities, bangkok and berlin to water came slowly like a monster and start getting weaker, weaker and weaker, and everywhere. from bangkok to berlin flood waters,

no no borders. my mind and my balance, i feel always think of belin is being flat tongue, but when the city experiences heavy rainfall, if the ground that gets lightest, a meter can fill up with 50 or 60 centimeters of water underground spaces got flooded. hello, i'm old thailand's capital city, bangkok has been hit especially hard by climate change. the city is only one meter above sea level, which keeps rising at a rate of 5 millimeters per year. scientists predict that the city could be under water by the year 2050 alex face is a graffiti artist and parent who's worried about the future of his home. and building my house right now. i spent a lot of money to building my house. i'm always thinking in ha, okay, one day i wasn't gonna be under the see anyway. and somebody was saying in a happen in very soon in it next 10 years. some stretches of land have already

started sinking. for example, around the sandwich in temple only 20 kilometer south of bangkok. the ocean moved to the land, the last 50 years. so the local people need to move to house. drainage systems are also hitting their limits like here in berlin. heavy rainfall overwhelmed the infrastructure, leaving it unable to handle the massive volumes of water. this causes basements, low lying building entrances, and subway tunnels to flood engineer caught and zika from berlin, city, water management design, so called decentralized rainwater management. like most cities, berlin has a sewer system, but it can't always cope. event is expand looking agnes of because heavy rainfall has increased. the waste water systems can no longer drain that volume of water from i. factory map like wonders, compton and quincy. and that's when you get over a flyer on a lease that's own aba,

off and large volumes of surface run of water the collect and lower lying areas in banking, dash baptism in to help tackle the problem. berlin aims to become a sponged city. the idea is to capture rainwater like a sponge system in board, and then it can be drawn into the soil buffer house that's good for the water supply and has all the benefits like urban greenery and climate that came up and yet house to prevent flooding. oodles tamma. since 2017, every new housing development in berlin has been built according to the sponge concept. a pioneering example is this residential area in se berlin. since 2018 berlin has been advised by a special agency on new constructions and rainwater management. hun krueger explains how in this development, not a single drop of rainwater ends up in the sewer. yes, the fatigue woods. i can ma'am. he, you can see the vast, green ri, on the rooftops. that's one way that rainwater is captured. and from there, it evaporates with the hired movie duff. i don't study as much as 90 percent of

rainwater can be captured in this way. run off water flows through pipes into special drainage basins. there are also low lying flower beds paid areas that are not sealed, and gaps in the curves that allow water to pass. but the rainwater agency says only about 4 percent of berlin's rooftops have plants like this. the sponge city is still in its early phases. back in bangkok, the city also wants to tackle flooding with green rooftops, like in berlin. it helps to use them for temporary water storage. so the rainwater can be put to good use. that's just one of many ways to give nature a chance in concrete jungles. more importantly, it's an attempt to prevent catastrophic flooding in the future. i think we can do that. but we need to, when everyone, les, hey, wake up and see what can happen. and we need to fix it together. plastic

bottles can either help or hinder our efforts to be better to our environment when rubbish is dumped in the ocean, plastic waste can hang around for decades causing harm to marine life. but when recycled bottles can get a new lease on life becoming fresh new bottles or making their way into everything from packaging to park benches. but how does a mere bottle become something new? and how is industry innovation transforming that process? christian presidio us has the answer around the world. mountains of rubbish, a piling up plastic waste is especially bad for the environment because it doesn't decompose. $1000000.00 plastic bottles are sold around the world every single minute to produce just one of those bottles. it takes a quarter of a liter of mineral oil, but there's one type of plastic that's cleaner and green up once used. p e t bottles can be crushed and processed into granules, which can then be almost

a 100 percent recycled to manufacture new bottles. but how does it work? oh, a recycling company in germany, 400 bales of bottles are delivered here every day. one, bail weighs about 250 kilos and consists of approximately 10000 bottles. it might look like waste, but these bales have that price. dicey, whom i'm hoping this is valuable raw material. so we have to pay for the bail ship design because they cost roughly $300.00 to $500.00 euros per ton. we'll put on the 1st step is to release the bottles from the bundle and separate them on a conveyor belts. all of this waste is p e t polyethylene, to rest the late for an obvious reason. as endorse lunch. if i have been germany, the consumer pays a deposit when they buy bottles, $0.12 for a single use bottle and then if they return the bottle,

they get the deposit back. i'll do it up. we'll soon as i bought given. got so here in germany with our deposit and return system has clearly defined standards law because the quality reversed vending machines can be found. in most supermarkets, you insert your bottle and get a 25 cent voucher. in return, germans are reputed to be world champions in recycling, 97 percent of bottles and now recycled here. other countries don't have anything like the same number of river vending machines. so the recycling rate is far lower . the bottles assorted not only by color but also by material. the system recognizes any material that isn't p t. that also gets recycled, for example, labels and garbage bags. in the next step, the bottles a shredded and washed at a temperature of 80 degrees celsius. then

the fragments is stripped of any remaining residue, leaving pure p e t fragments known as p e t flakes. this machine has to scan vast quantities of bottle fragments. a laser scans the pallets a 1000000 times per 2nd, identifying parts that still need to be separated. this is where the machine was developed. machine manufacture out when he's then saw in south germany . the prototype was designed by stephanie cliques, father, a physicist with its own. com, the flakes are in this section, the flakes are sent down the channels of the at, at this level they reach the laser, eva. the laser focuses on the flake of the flank, absorbs the energy, and then re releases it in the form of res, which re enter the machine and are analyzed by a spectrometer, oscar vent script. the company has already sold over

a 100 of these sorting machines. and sales a likely to jump the e you wants to increase the share of recycled p t in plastic products. not just in bottles, but products such as yoga pops to your country armed mercy. um they will um, fix right on the you as aiming for a recycling quarter of 25 percent by 2025. ive gonzalez, y 1000 prizes from 5. he puts and, and they're aiming for 30 st by 2030 is was on the whistles outside 1000 since 2019 . we've been seeing a growing demand for recycling machinery enough, harder not. my daughter, christina. the p e t. recycler uses high pressure to melt down the pre sorted flakes at a temperature of 280 degrees celsius. the process results in these granules. they can then be sold and used to make new bottles,

which in turn can be recycled, a number of times 5 could the same process be used to recycle other products we could use of the are the main thing is to have reverse vending machines which allow us to extract your plastics. so yes, this process could be used to recycle other types of packaging ego. the granules are delivered to bottle manufacturers in big bags. it's more expensive than standard plastic, but environmental regulations obliged industry to use recycled material. the recycling company is already planning to construct a new plans. bottle. recycling is a well functioning system, but if we want to reduce more of the world's waste mountains, a lot more p e t packaging will have to be recycled. recycling petty bottles works well, but not all types of plastic lend themselves to reduce that's why the likes of

germany in the u. k. of camp. bound on single use plastics like straws and cutlery . these often just end up being burnt or buried to get rid of the waste. neither very good options when there are alternatives out there. i'll next report, take a look at some up and coming, packaging alternatives made from some rather unusual materials. we all know plastic is convenient, durable, and everywhere. and at the same time, plastic kills marine, life contributes to global warming and poses health risks. but what if we could use all natural materials like mushrooms seaweed, or would to cure ourselves of our addiction to plastic? what are the alternatives out there, and why aren't they everywhere? we start working with sewage as an untouched material. i'm to try to,

oh yeah. basically did look a range of new solutions that are completely by the gridable natural and sometimes even edible. peer parsley is the co founder of not la a start up that uses see we'd to replace plastic packaging. seaweed was always a good candidate for us because it grows very fast. some of the sued, the reuse, can grow up to one meter per day. and in terms of and the flight, it's been around for 100000000 years, so nature has no problem dealing with it's anywhere it ends up in the environment. and that happens a lot with plastic. 40 percent of plastic produced is for packaging. in 2018, just 13.6 percent of plastic containers and packaging were recycled. to counter this, no plot have developed little sashes for sauces or drinks made from algae. so you can eat them along with a contents even if they're not consumed and are thrown away. not la claims,

they will bite a grade in 4 to 6 weeks. to make these vanishing sashes, not quite dry and grinds up brown seaweed, a special machine, and then turns the powder into a membrane that can be filled and finally sealed. oh, ah gdc with no, we really target cases of instant consumption out of home or things that are used near quickly where to be consuming is going to be able to have the functional properties to deliver to packaging homes that is required. but that has also the best sense of being reintegrated in nature. if we fail to collect a thought on the right, the firm also makes a special coding for take away containers. usually they're coded with plastic to

grease proof them, but that makes them hard to recycle and also makes them non biodegradable. not for solution, however, is made from you guessed it, see we'd, which means the boxes should palm post and $29.00 days plus solution to a growing problem. seeing that a recent study found food containers to be among the 10 most common items polluting the c sounds huge. we can make plastic, so sashi waste simply unsustainably disappear. but to be precise, the trial is only running in 11 restaurants for now. and speaking of production, the custom made machine that makes the seaweed south chaise is still being trialed . so it's not turning out big volumes just yet. but seaweed is not the only

promising material out there. another rapidly growing substance and a favorite of a little italian plumber, the mushroom or to be exact. my celia, my ceiling, am or the roots of mushrooms that form an underground network called high. if treated right, they can be turned into a form that is a sustainable alternative to polystyrene all natural and completely by degradable. how on earth you turned mushrooms into packaging material you asked? well, you put organic waste products like straw into a mold and mix them with mushroom spores. in the space of a week the my seal young will feed on the waist and grow into the empty space. the resulting my sylium foam is then removed and tried to prevent the spores from growing further. it's water and flame resistance, lightweight and actually stronger than traditional polystyrene.

there's things going to happen. don't. we can't even dream of today. diane birby is the c e o of grown bio, a dutch company that produces my ceiling, am packaging 35 years ago, roughly 2 elder small and medium companies, reduce the environmental footprint of their packaging. and i, somewhere i found the term mushroom packaging, which brought me to, we created young's company is a licensee of eco vate, of design, the inventor of the material, one of the 1st companies to adopt my ceiling packaging was hardware manufacturer, a dell for selected shipments. others looking to foster a green image like lush, have since jumped on the bandwagon using it for a limited edition gift pack. the 1st drawback, though, is that it's way more expensive than polystyrene grow and bio didn't disclose any prices. but one study estimated the cost of my seal young could be around $3.00 per

pound compared to $0.04 for styrofoam. the 2nd problem, it's hard to scale up production. the packaging grows in these containers for 5 days and takes up a lot of space while doing so. ikea announced its use of my ceiling packaging and 2020 only to abandon it a year later because of the lack of scalability on an industrial level. it's certainly not yet at the level of styrofoam, and even if it would be possible to make it at the same cost, then you still need to scale up enormously, which just takes time to build all those factories. but also because even though we say this is our alternative, it's not one on one alternative. even though our product extremely light, styrofoam still is a factor to lighter than ours. there really are quite some brands will say. i don't mind being more. this is just what we should use iq of aid of recently received

a $60000000.00 investment so they can scale up their production and potentially lower costs. the big question is whether it'll become cheap enough to truly compete with polystyrene on a large scale. there are alternatives to plastic out there, and yes, big brands are dipping their toe into the market, but prices are still high. and despite all the big brands cooperating, the scale is extremely small. raising the question whether they're going into the market for the right reasons. because if big brands don't adopt more sustainable alternatives, this will continue to be a nice market, only to reduce or plastic use as much as possible. we need to create all natural scalable alternatives for specific use cases. and that's a rap from us, of course, climate and environmental protection are far more than an economic factor there is

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