panoramic in site we show what it could look like. will return to normal. and we visit those who are finding it difficult. exceeds his successes and in a weekly coven 19 special. every thursday con d w. nico is in germany to learn german lloyd pinnacle. why not learn with him? t w's e learning course? picos vague. what's the link between old school music records and state of the art research and micro plastics? plugins enough, most old records are made from polyvinyl chloride, which in slaying people called vinyl off. once when,

when i lower the stylus on to the record in gwinnett county, there's evidently friction there. one of which creates a tiny particles is available to the implanted tie and those tiny particles can turn into a big problem being done. our resident d j is christian f, osh, his daytime job professor of ecology called the edelman. if i did a lot of deejaying while i was at college and beforehand starting with the vinyl than cds and finally, digital, i spent 20 years deejaying and immunity club audit of cooper mentor teacher. but now he's playing a different to hoping to rid the world of micro plastics. ah, by right famous for its crecia, wagner oper,

house and annual festival. but while the town looks immaculately clean on the surface, there is a less visible problem lurking on the streets that christian la force has his sites on wherever he and his colleagues go. they find the immediate culprit plastic waste up here in bama underneath on one day back when i started looking at the issue of plastic pollution, my uncle, i decided to count the number of plastic fragments between my home and the supermarket. it does me, but if you are going to offend over those 2 or 300 meters, i spotted $52.00 fragments of plastic with the naked eye while walking. haven't been able to protect those of you. and if i had bent down like this, i would have found a lot more that there simply everywhere as this in victory, i get the want. you can see how abrasion is creating more and more micro plastic physical bowl. the white bits, science did mostly by a mass of tiny particles decomposing into micro plastics and speak with. so does this pose a danger to us moment on getting rid of all right. now we believe it's the small fragments that present the greatest danger for dinner with the smaller particles in

there's a bigger risk, but that instead of just staying in the digestive tract and being excrete it, they could pass into body tissue. so them a mouth done and that could lead to inflammatory reactions. and once a stock price visited with soon and few in front of visible plastic waste is unsightly but relatively easy to dispose of once it reaches the microscopic scale, however, it contaminates rivers, soil, and the air all vital for our survival. and this is precisely the issue. the 2 men are investigating what effect do micro plastics have on the environment and on us it's a problem affecting the entire planet. micro plastics have now even been found in snow on a small bard archipelago in the arctic circle. a disturbing discovery hand

sewage treatment plants at least filter out micro plastics from our water. professor christina far from the university of bye white is on a field trip. behind the municipal sewage works where the filtered waste water is discharged into the local river. his team has devised their own manta drawl, a net for picking up the plastic particles. good. okay. time to launch manta, with little data available until recently, it's a pioneering field of research that requires innovation on the part of the scientists ramos. if you are like other research groups, new to the issue, we thought it would be pretty straightforward. it's just a matter of going out. taking samples and performing an experiment is a party. but these particles behave differently when they're a completely new class of substance and incredibly complex. people talk about micro plastic in the environment on black, but it comes in

a range of different shapes and sizes, different compositions and different basic plastics. it's a really complex subject for freshly wound, coon stuffing them with metallic soon as i vine vans and complexes tim a challenge for the young research assistant, but also for a renowned professor who's not shy of pitching in on the physical side of research to these the particulars and globe if these particles are incredibly hard to capture. because when you need different analytical methods and different forms of experiments and completely different sampling scenarios, it's a lot more difficult to detect them and to do risk assessment. so it's really exciting that we from the 1st step in each survey is a distinctly low tech affair. collecting and rinsing samples by hand. but actually finding the minute particles can be easier said than done

for it all in london. there you go there called papa. think of lyrica with a few particles you can see with your own eyes that they're plastic. plastic condra thought on the decline. look. that little blue on here tomorrow. and we'll see what all the white stuff is in the lab for jim shown. but there's quite a lot in there to show them. ah, germans tend to think of their country as a clean one. but take a closer look and you'll find this. and that's just one part of the problem. the researchers believe that micro plastics enter rivers via an untold array of roots. they want to know what impact they have once they get there. to assist their investigation of conditions on the bottom of the river bed, they brought along a special pump. another instrument they developed themselves

now carefully place it on top. the palm presses the water from down below through special aluminum filters. their perforations are a fraction of a millimeter wide, enabling the researchers to fish out particles that are invisible to the human eye . they're hoping to gain new insights, almost like on a mission to mars. back in the university lab, it's a question of rinse and repeat. the aim is to reduce the filtrate so that it only contains the microscopically small plastic articles. ah, the sample is now put under the microscope. doctoral student, julia mila, uses the pat to distribute the substance in small portions onto specimen slides.

now that they're visible, she can read out the plastic articles by hand, one at a time, an extremely laborious task. but if the only option she has for a precise examination of the isolated fibers in does it run days. but you can tell from the peaks that its polyethylene global research into micro plastics is still a fairly new field. but one where the by what university team is leading the way it boasts scientists from all manner of disciplines. among them is sima. are galvan, a professor of chemistry. hello there, sima. hi christian. how are you? good. how are you? oh, are gov all is interested in the global perspective. she's familiar with the problem of plastic waste from her native india,

which has given her an added incentive wisconsin if it's not solely about pure research. so we also want to develop new solution solutions on that to and begin. sema archival has been looking at where the plastic pollution chain begins and hopes to find alternative materials to prevent micro plastics being created in the 1st place. she regularly consults, colleagues from various scientific disciplines. this is very interesting to work with other people because sometimes the same mid, tedious seem program you, you see from different angles. and it really makes then, boss. but there's no sparse or fun for the professor when it comes to the root of this growing global issue at american our garbage. and what we do with it? yes. could it? yes, plastic mueller's of a long problem in the problem is when the dorm manage of, of lusty vase properly,

it is like cleaning my own yard and towing this blast these into neighbor's yard. so i don't see my problem myself, but the problem is still via and this was happening. so it's a very long problem because the plastic vase was not disposed properly, but it was torn some via or same to some other country and they were disposing not to properly. so this is the problem to me. is it possible to combat plastic waste with chemical formulas? sima aga vall says yes, they enable the development of new substances with superior properties, a challenge she sees for all her fellow chemists. it is the chemistry that makes plastics and that's why does chemistry should solve dogs are in the chemistry console radon. so this b e d, for example, be used for what a lot does a lodge him hours. and this is a big problem. it is, if it goes by chance, it leaks in that environment, it stays an environment for a long time. so chemistry can provide a, a nice meteor that works like b, e,

d. but by chance, if it leaks in that environment, it does not state you know, that might have environment for long time. but how dangerous or micro plastics for the environment? and for us, professor la portia search for answers also features. algy and daphne are commonly known as water fleece dollars, even where there are the algae, p r, which the daphne of feed augers kicked off roonan hibbon from london own you can see the haze of algae warmth. and the 1st daphne to notice it are the lucky ones because they're able to swim into this big cloud of food and get their fill. but why water flees for francine long with fossil from. i've been working with water police for quite some time, but we're looking for and they're one of the model organisms and ecology and has been especially in aquatic ecology, rental because they're the link between uni cellular algae and higher trophic

levels off again decides to submit ticket one, so lot of like beating on water fleece wants to making them a stock component of the oceans, nutritional network then august. the 2nd is 5. the 2nd factor behind using water, believe softening is that these are all females in the interest. besides, daphne i reproduce, parthenon, genetically or a sexually the she dentist did. this provides us with genetically identical individuals for experiments by the for, which means you can rule out genetic variability, austin's, it's a fantastic model organism, because you can work with naturally produced clones get the clue order, houghton with him and all that become that work involves a series of constantly repeated experiments using a variety of instruments. the researchers are still at a very early stage of their mission, but they're convinced that they'll be able to find answers and solutions. and also that we all have to change our habits. vicki in light of what disputes of our treatment of the environmental needs to be a lot more sustainable. and that is that it's up to us and the next generation to

ensure that we're able to maintain our modern lifestyle. of course, we also want to have comfortable lives, but we need to take a more sustainable and mindful approach to all the resources available on a small it's on. the professor and diving enthusiast asks whether at some point in the near future, what we see in an aquarium will seem like a dream world with nature destroyed by toxic substances created by human kind. i. i am anyway. sima argo, val shows her students how to analyze the level of toxins contained in plastics, a vital step in assessing the dangers, posed by micro plastics to find out and it is for them. but in michael blessed day, this machine can smell pollutants, especially the additives in synthetic materials. a primary focus in the work of the

chemist and her team. and you can see the samples rather be because with one with if you talk of our thoughts, is it like a plastic? so it's not only the plastic lativia, so the pristine plastic materials generally the are not toxic because the as long molecules. so it's the abductive, which we put in plastic for in using is tell, musty ability, you receive ability, giving the color to it, or blast his eyes or to it, they might be dancing. mm. professor christian laugh osh and his team are on the road to the next hotspot. after taking those water samples, they now head out to a patch of farm land, again on the lookout for micro plastics. taking samples here is far more straightforward than time consuming lab tests and working outdoors makes for a refreshing change of environment. you,

william mila, is doing her doctoral thesis on micro plastics in soil. what impact do micro plastics have on soil? where did they come from? and where do they end up? do they eventually just disintegrate? and are they really dangerous for us? my name is natalia mercer, we can't even say how much plastic is actually out there, which is why we're doing this research and good luck for sure. and we're not the only consumers here, we're not releasing miss, nor via look at all the soil organisms living in our fields that are mostly beneficial. hayden, leave, we need to know how much of this plastic is in the soil and what damage it does to those tiny creatures child this on the climb you him, he and border the field samples are sent straight to the lab at by white university. you are young villa then transfers them to a sick system in order to sort out the larger particles. the procedure that's not

as sim as it might sound. the steps are placed in a vibrator device which shakes up the contents over a period of several hours in order to ensure a strict separation of the composite elements. it's only the tiniest particles that the researcher is interested in. over in the adjacent lab sema are gov all and her fellow chemists are developing a new biodegradable synthetic material. assuming they're successful. the aim as for it to one day be tested in a composting facility. both a lot of the facilities in this region only come paused for 2 or 3 months, so it should be possible to completely decompose or biodegradable polymer. in precisely that time frame quotes finish up. the bulk of the team is constantly working on new methodologies in the process of discovering new insights, elect with cutting edge. and tim devise a plastic not breakdown to minuscule,

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