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as well as ways to manage the assets on which all our lives depend. hello, welcome. i'm fun of that. some raw materials could be exhausted within decades if we continue extracting them at the current rate that will drive up prices. for construction, for instance, the industrial relies on sample materials to build a booming city. but sand mining has a dramatic environmental consequences, as we've discovered on my soul. ah, it's just before mid day when a small fishing boat approaches the shore near mon by but the men on board, on making a living from fishing as their fathers and grandfathers did. mr. devon pulling sand out of the sea bucket full after bucketful. among them was jerome channel. he can

dive up to depths of 12 meters. when he started 20 years ago, he was just the person who hold the buckets on board. but then he started diving the spending of the firewall was in the water doing dive after done good mil, protective equipment, and no oxygen tank. it's dangerous work. oh, the gun on the go. i go into the water with the pipe in one hand and the bucket in the other. we hold the pipe with our legs and used a bucket to dig outside. i thought of ivy i have and then the people on the board pull up the bucket. i come up by holding the pipe, the empty the bucket into the boat. i give it back to me and then i dive again. you still owe them money, but it is the up north madison. if the levine, this coastal region has a decades long, prudish, not pulling sand out of the seat, but use them construction. the problem now is the scale. several 1000 people on

a living by mining the see for son says activist samira of da lolly. she's been campaigning against legal sand mining on in years. goals for more than 10 years has a lot of adverse effects on environment. but of course, it also has effects on the community because although they don't realize it, this sun mining is destroying their fields and their livelihoods, and making their fishing livelihood loss was by actually reducing the amount of fish gach. it's also because it's taking away the medium which holds the river, the creek on the beach together. it's also making land more vulnerable to lang loss . meanwhile, the demand for sound is growing as a raw material for the construction industry. since 1991 wise population has more than double to almost 21000000 people in 10 years. that number is expected to grow by another 5 me. and remind growth need stand in the waters all around one by

st. mining is prohibited but illegal st. money is trying business. what 1000000000 that's what makes samira up the lollies work so dangerous. she's been brutally attacked twice, was speaking out publicly against illegal send money. but she hasn't let that stop her. i was in hospital for a little bit. and her, of course, the idea was to frighten me and make me stop complaining. but for me it was the other way. i felt that if somebody is taking it seriously enough that they actually willing to do physical harm to somebody. and particularly a woman in full side of the village who all pretended to be asleep while this was happening. then surely, there is more to it. together with her, a vase foundation of the lolly done to the united nations to raise

a renters of legal and mining. and the you and, and violent agency has declared sander with the world. second most exploited resource after water was up to $50000000000.00 tons used each year. in other words or result in need of governance river's gul doesn't cost lines are being destroyed in the search of sand and with them the habitats of plants and animals as well as natural flag barriers. at the indian institute of technology bumper researches are looking for alternatives materials for the construction industrial she arm also. liquor has been looking for a sand substitute for years he and had the students have found that you found one in decade old garbage. the good outcome of that they said was that media lays after eating what remains is nearly all useful. and then if we really go and mine those aids landfills, which we call in india, legacy landfills,

that legacy solid waste can easily brought the processed at that location and been vaccinated into video essays, vaccines, and the fractions of hardness. dr. that'll be separate, just like sound loss. the solid waste can be used in a multitude of different ways on building sites can move in to very quickly. i would estimation is that between 5 and 10 percent, my deal only needs to go through the landfill. among the entire salad with that he generated in a given location and, and, and, and anywhere between 90 and 95 percent material can be put into several recycle and then converted and refurbished into various other construction material and substitute which can go again back into the construction industry, it will take time until raced, can replace sign as of all material and pursuing them by son divers to give up their jobs will be no easy toss. a direst, we had a 1000 groupies around 12 euros

a day, a bucket bullock and on 400 rupees, much needed income for several 1000 families. nits impossible to go and stop at all the night. there will be a many problems with something like that, you know, you would, you would have a problem in meeting the needs of the country in group, in growth. you would have a problem in providing alternate livelihoods. if it was done overnight, over the next 25 years, if you want to invest $1.00 trillion dollars in infrastructure projects for its growing population in its growing city, that means no shortage of work for the sand. divers of mom buy and even more damage to in the us marine ecosystems the catalina, and the community that is spearheading a drive to conserve the wetlands that it relies on. and that thousands of species call home. it's located on one of the most will newton leafs in the world to

a series of initiatives. locals now have their site set on becoming a model wetland village. ah, only half an hour to go before school ends or in another. but at this government school in bahama, in the southern indian state of carola students are still hard at work. ah, you know what we're going to do? we're going to make a back and use it when we go to buy rice. tell your mother not to buy any plastic bass. tell her to make such bags losing old clothes. we should save our environment right a little time. it's not just another lesson in math or history, nor is with their understood had their teacher. she is here as part of

a new program to train students on how to up cycle old clothes and make them into clots backs in the there has been stitching clothes for years now, but it's only in 2016 when she was approached and given training by her bad child and nonprofit, a shock addressed an ecology and environment, or atria that she decided to switch to making bags, pillowcases, and sanitary pads from old clothes, collected from homes, schools and colleges. since then, she, along with this small crew of women, have made close to 6000 cloth bags from around 2600 cages of used close. for the women, the benefits have been multi fold. but if i de la dental and at a lanka, there had been so many changes in our lives. and even though it's small scale, we get an income from this. we also get to meet more people and get to know more

things, but it gives us a lot of happiness and mental peace. i've said under then i let us under shot when a super father video has made a village. ma hammer in oliver, our district lies along them. bernard lake, the longest lake in india. and for years, she has witnessed pollution in the late getting progressively worse being part of an initiative that reduces the number of fluids dumped into the leak while also helping me alternatives for plastic bags seemed meaningful to her said to her and her. but though, now i lebanon, my husband breaks in the lake, he collects clamps for a living, but then when he comes back with clam seeking, we see a lot of plastic in it. every time he comes back, man eat, he will have 2 or 3 plastic items in the lona, there are always bottles and plastic boxes. there is no control on how people are dumping plastic and garbage into the lake, florida lake and i live local allen. it's also

a lancer site, meaning it has been designated a wet land for international importance by unesco. but the leak with serves as a lifeline for one point. 6000000 people is also one of the most polluted water bodies in the world. a recent study found high levels of plastics and micro plastics in the league. dex dias, and glass are also media sources of pollution. pesticides used in nearby paddy fields, also trickle down into the water. joking the rich biodiversity that exists in and around it for in more. hm. math. a small village with a population of $25000.00. the impact has been said. yeah, i oh, lord, up on the net. got that old one. i'm going into my, the production of glands is decreased. the production of fish has decreased over

the production of the bronze has been hit badly, guy alive. but all of this had affected the people who depend on the lake for the livelihood. and this had become an issue of the survival ever did. i don't know that the law he thought of another it under the situation was dire when the algebra branch of bangalore based non profit. ha. approached the paget in 2016 with an idea. make me huh. a model wetland village under the project, a wide range of initiatives including the up cycling enterprise, were launched, the all on work, those involved with maximum community participation, we believe in an inclusive form of management. so actually for this project also we made sure that the local pungent, these partnered with us along with the health department and b r a other community based organizations in video. so i think that maybe that that should be one reason or that partnership made it happen. ah, the, the of us won't be,

god was tremendous. that response was the highest for another initiative which made mahatma in this 1st synthetic sanitary bag, free village plastic beast pads that end up in the lake were found to be a major source of pollution in the village. with a survey finding that $7000.00 menstruating women and will hammer use up to one lack sanitary pads a month ever since they were distributed unsubsidized traits been the switch to using cloth pads and menstrual cups. dad and younger body ada. neither got by the gun. we saw the cups for the 1st time. we were scared to me, but now that we have started using it, we can't do without it. i'll go on. um, it was very helpful for us during flood sap, but then after using the carpet, we can dry them inside the way jam crossed paths have to be dried outside and unloaded upper layer with the cops. and we didn't have to worry about anything when it rings and flood. see i know a good i like and it i'm, i'm gone naughty and belly don't. despite the funding received by ici,

ending in 2020, the project continues to live on with the and your support and the punch i've leadership for the residents here. continuing to set a model in wet land, conservation is as important a task as protecting and consulting the league that nourishes and 15 staff are hungerford raw materials has scarred landscapes around the wood from storm quarries in india's. already shall steve the food into hillsides to the gaping hole left by germany's open feet like mice. so what can be done with these regions once extracted practices in a former industrial hub near berlin, off was hope of a total transformation. the east german village of course, caution is puzzling with summer visitors. it's just 150 kilometer south of berlin and not far from the polish border. the bikes offered at

a cat hoist rental are in high demand, with visitors came to explore the region. what is that side of? the st center is finally going for a spin. it's been idle. old i wikker started his business here 20 years ago. back then. no one believed that this region of lou, sasha, or louse, it's as it's known and german could attract any tourist at all. the area was solely associated with a bronco industry. it was a moon landscape like this. the locals thought echoed jolla was crazy. down the road to get fog was must then sites the noise you reach out. people kept asking, what do you do? shows people the whole. so the mood was different. back then the wall. hi. i was still a lot of the pitts from the ivan cast minds, which i thought some ball. today locals are proud of what's happened here with you . i'm sure it's. once you receive the vast open pits are gradually being

transformed into europe's largest lake landscape. once complete, the lu zation lake district will cover 350 square kilometers. it's helping louse, it's transformed into a green holiday region, with broad cycling lanes. hotels and landmarks like the rusty nails, which serves as a reminder of the regions industrial passed from the top of a tower. visitors can observe another new lake in the making. the former open cast mine is slowly being flooded by ground. water is showing vast biz, unless we are, it's really something special there. got, i mean my, how many people can, shall you, come at? likely, new landscape hog was a from july, if everything goes as planned, this will be finished by 2025. god willingly assures been developed and stabilized over there still some work left to do over there and all that should take another

year or 2 though on in its prime the coal industry and allows its employed 80000 people. but in the late 19 nineties, the energy sector in germany was restructured dozens of unprofitable minds were closed. 90 percent of the work has lost their jobs. one in 5 people left the region . only for open cas, mine's remain active in laws it's to day. but that days unknown but to germany has pledged to face out coal completely by 2000, said he 8, transforming this mining landscape. cost german state upwards of 250000000 euros last year alone. between 199-220-1610 point 2000000000 euros was spent. lime needs to be added to the lakes to ensure they are not to acid, a, quote, wildlife, and full swim us. last year, more than 30000 tons were required to balance p h levels. then there is

maintenance and risk assessment work carried out by g. u. engineers like phillips auto, is his job to ensure that there are no land slides. after decades of digging, the soil is more loose and can be moved more easily by groundwater if it rises quickly on a cruise which oscar luther, which is huge, wave was triggered artificially so that land areas could be moved in a very effective way. if there's a landslide happening underneath moving further and further back them up and it's these forces that create the sudden wave on his india at the bottom here, we see trees are knocked over light match decks. there are very powerful forces that work of ism goodbye to good customer officials only one to these kind of land slides to happen in control circumstances in 2010 this area. so a natural landslide, which is why entries now unauthorized back then several trucks were drowned in the zoo. nami like wave that drive us only just rescued in time.

yeah, um, i'm gonna this work will take generations. we still have to make 30000 hector's of land safe. as part of the basic reconstruction work. we need to develop certain technologies like non invasive blast, induce compaction to strengthen the soil upon the transformation from what the landscape once was to what it is now is radical. and there's no blueprint on how to do this work in a 30 minute drive away in an area known as coon house of a 3000 animal. and plant species have found a new home. it's become a hot spot for biodiversity. it's a yonder, stella come here, we can see how nature is re conquering the land on its own that without human hellboy it ornamental issue. this location is developed particularly well. it's better on standard thoughts as i nodded up the at the and one species has grown up

here that is common in germany. it's bush grass land tide class. steph analia shide is one of the several ecologists who proposed to not intervene here in this patch. but to just let nature to its own green naturalization, under try conditions on soil that is still acidic and low and nutrients. many flowers anal thriving here. when you come on the shirley song, there's the processes definitely taken around $1015.00 or 20 years of g o one at yahoo port. so it requires a lot of patience lash. i'd seized the project as a success this to 1000 tact a patch of land and louse. it's one of many former mines is now a wild natural habitat. i don't natalia and when i me his casino briefly, it's an enormous gift to have been able to observe its change over the past 20 years to log out the same site. and i was old fussed and asked him, london,

i've been here from the start and picked on boston. and i've seen that what we envisioned as cone true and stuck with your involved. and yet suzanne the us or above i did system all. another vision that has come true is the transformation of louse. it's into a tourist destination that combines green spaces for leisure and an industrial past that visitors want to learn about. be it on this old convey a bridge now surrounded by parks of renewable energy's. doesn't like see or honest guided tour with people who are born here like a cat hika. he observed the rise and fall of the brown coal industry for himself. and he's still shocked by the devastating impact that the last few mines left and now's it's a still having on the land in gordon, the good norm zia, if i see it myself at the landscape, was being destroyed. thus,

i hope that someone will develop better storage capacities for renewables to increase their uses. was this over exploitation was not the future than the mountains between 40 and 45 percent of germany's energy comes from renewables. fossil fuels like brown coals, still play an important role, but the country is now paving the way for life after the cold. gemini has created a blueprint that could be of useful other countries like india that still half that path ahead nor bad as the environmental damage caused by a growing material use more obvious than in the case of plastic pollution. as we seek more efficient ways to manage our resources, finding alternatives to plastic is key. we met an engineer and thumb allowed who's developed substitute products made from agriculture to lift. india generates approximately 3 and

a half 1000000 tons of plastic waste per year. what's more, researchers say that the per capita figure has doubled in the past 5 years. tackling this growing problem requires the development of environmentally friendly substitute materials kaleon kumar and his company came up with a very useful idea. they built the machine that uses 15 different types of biodegradable agricultural ways to make food containers their mission. and within that on the symbol barbara from durcan, we gave the machine a simple design. i meaning that there is a very little training is required to operate in that owner. all of our material companies buying a machinery just need to choose the raw materials on monday. and we will help them mix the raw material based on what, which hardly takes a minute. no, no, on one or once the machinery isn't made long. it takes 40 minutes to heat up very on. i think raw materials are added, but i a, the dia cavity, they go deal loading and unloading are controlled by the lever. only one control. when we unload after 3 minutes,

the cups and containers are finished. up on the fall might look the burning of agricultural ways leads to series environmental pollution. and that in turn leads to worsening health issues among the population. but farmers could make more efficient use of the waste coconut fibers straw, tamarind nuts and tea and coffee. i used to make biodegradable and products. oh bono say the la la meaning it did, la la, the agricultural waste leg rice and paddy's draw. it can be managed more efficiently. allow me to think currently it's either burned or crushed down and reused as fertilizer ended with an over the learners can be highly profitable when done right. when he bought other, what are my, most of the farmers do not know what to do with the extra adjusted i then want to know a go learning everything. we certainly need to create awareness about this whole process and all that i'm well known, lego thing was on the alone i can invent machines, the but the real challenge lies and driving a whole process to make sure equipment is available to the farm. and you had an

uncle again, quote, bailable seattle, obama combo on the machine to santa from co, inventor strongly believes that the real push must come from consumers. they must be the change makers. a blasting cabin broadly alone in spite of the government's ban on plastics. and now we can see what's commonly used on a day to day basis. or we can blame people for that. they're going to buy the things that are commercially available. i am arguing that we have to provide substitutes so that plastic usage law can be gradually halted and other our navy. so have we really come across alternative tea cups at any near by stall? i've got, the reality is that we are not efficiently managing ways, but above and there are raw materials available for producing sustainable and eco friendly products. on the 30 longer buffalo, these biodegradable cups, or at least one step in the right direction. now as callian command just pointed out using raw materials which are sustainable. if the need of

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