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major players with to see something that looked like james bond, it has to do with the military part starts december 23rd on d, w 2. mm . i've always been drawn to the far north, pristine nature and escaped from civilization. ah. almost like being on another planet. at least that's what i

thought you come and help me out here in just a 2nd there. ah, this is horrible. you see here becoming a plastic archaeologist. sorry. the whole earth is just so this, these layers. what has that different generation? if you would just figure out how much vesting there is just along this city coastline is hot breaking that everywhere. this looks thick. and now i'm here helping in in you it pick up garbage on a deserted island in the arctic ocean. and not just a little a lot, the rack this across that are high. i live in a health soon as soon as you look at how the color of it and i want to touch this looks like it's from

u. k. miss bruckner. this is a boy maybe, and that's not a very new region expression. it looks like it's been in the ocean for very long side to have a love. ah oh, okay, it's running slow us, man, i'm a chef corn us. my name is stephanie cornel. i'm a filmmaker from dresden. most of my work has been in advertising. these

jobs have taken me around the globe, including to lo, fulton, in arctic norway, which is where i gotta know chris lewis, the ensign. he's a local and we work together on a film. we hit it off right away. one day he took me kayaking. we paddled to an island in the middle of the arctic ocean. it's inaccessible by foot. i think we've all seen pictures of polluted beaches before, but so much plastic waste in the arctic. i had no idea who yet? ah, this is elizabeth. i know standing in miss matthews, and there was even a german

b a bullshit with russia in the middle of the arctic clifton in october line. and now when i walked through the streets in germany again, i see garbage everywhere. it's like something changed. i didn't notice it before, and it makes me crazy because i don't want the garbage to end up in the arctic music. but how likely is it to end up in the arctic? the garbage would have to drift downstream about 600 kilometers to hamburg and from there to the north sea. then the atlantic, in the end, a piece of plastic would have to have traveled over 2500 kilometers to end up near chris in the arctic. so i, so i started doing research associate the

northern up north in here. then out there from down here, of course it would be really wild if it did come from the east and current home. if i release a bottle in the in the german river, alba, across the coastline, could it end up in the arctic? if you release a bottle on the german coastline and it stays afloat, the chances that it ends up in the arctic i think would be 95 percent. i am eric pennsville and i'm a climate physicist and oceanographer here at utrecht university. now what happens to these are plastic or something that you throw in the ocean is slightly more complicated, a piece of plastic and also sing to the sea floor. it can also end up and beach. so there's ample opportunity for a piece of plastic to not end up in the arctic, but gets done. and unfortunately, we don't know, we don't have food enough simulations or models and theory yet to exactly calculate

what the probability is in reality, something to go from germany all the way into the arctic. because what we found out a few years ago is that the amount of plastic that is currently drifting at the surface of the ocean is probably less than one percent of all the plastic that has ever gone into the ocean. so 20 times more plastic enters the ocean in a single year than we can now account for at the surface of the ocean. 99 percent of the plastic is probably missing. so domain name now is to figure out where the plastic is or so many of the dear com. and so i came up with the idea of simply taking a bottle,

feeding it with the gps transmitter and watching what happened to them. but i needed help me. i law bennett, my not brunswick. and when i asked my neighbor, i knew he was studying technical design at the dresden university of technology. paula, his name is paul vice. i thought, hey, he's a tinkerer and a real tech head or i'll ask him and i'm taking his simplest idea, was to build a 3 d models which i would then have printed them, whatever. you can then just put the gps tracker inside a seal. and thompson on also saudi. i idea that's the planned and now it's just a matter of trying it to

her. correct yeah. here we are. following up down math. loveseat. i think i'll walk for the off. can i? well i'm excited. ok. ready? okay, ready? all right. ok. oh and one eyes. fly on 3,

right. oh, i didn't really want to hear the bottle story, terrence oh, i see flashes, i'm sorry. yeah. no idea what the bottles supposed to be. i'm still getting a gps signal. i was right there at the spot, but the bottles just not there. you fascist anita. until you sunk? does mind if i think so thing, but maybe it filled up and it's now on the water. i well, i got a lot of rocks that we have moved, piles of garbage instead, right where my bottle supposed to be more garbage. moreover, full trash cans was, but you know what? i found what he is another message in

a bottle. what? so what? i'll have to break it open a. do you have a double eye? because he did a broken trash. can i pay you? glad you found my message in a bottle. i drew this picture for you. my name's carlo. i'm 5 years old and i live in dresden. i would be very happy to get a letter from you. sonny greetings, carlo carlo did a nice job with 36 kilometers later i realized that this is all more complicated than i thought. our 1st drifter was a flop, but hey, at least i've got

a new pen pal i. so for me like the so we needed a new boy miss the one that wouldn't sink on. we also needed more battery powered of solar. maybe somebody who's the law does. i'm a contract. i'm almost forever. that would be cool. circ, we're nasty . p 68, it's unthinkable is info all ah

ah, you see the water displaced? that's bad. stop him and i think we have to redo it all. i think if i am to explain myself, i would say my name is christian. 32 year old i am half dreamland, my mother site and a half danish the weekend for my father said. and so i've always been very fascinated with yours. that's the element that i feel at home . my clean and the past and thing that i need visited

when i was with 1st time i remember there with baptism, but i only have fragments of memory. oh, you know in greenland, if you walked just a 100 meters, you're far from civilization. i never had that idea of moving to the local and had an idea of traveling all of knowing. after that month, i told my friends, but i'm sorry i'm going to stay. and i had the toughest to into my my my car broke down and i had no money. the only job i could get it was his factory here. i was living technical ominous from it started at 5 30 in the morning. the middle of the polar winter, the horrible weather for 3 months. and i used to

being with been bicycling and have you had to borrow equipment from people that this is like chris and now you have to stuff to borrow your title. just take it. that's the thing about some people say that have a great experience happening for me. the 1st formative years and placement. this is what i'm going to do. this is who i am and this is what i want to do. expand. excited shawn was out of the invisible catan. it's changed

a bit. dawkins and associates. it's different now i figured young. where do i start calling on my friend jonas dish? yesterday with him soft meter, he works at the plastic smithy. hein di recycle plastic. it's a group that recycles plastic, cleared his head out a sort and shred to plastic waste. hang them moscow cuffed it can then be melted down again and recast. and i know form things when garbage knew. that's where i came up with these rings in against farm home. the rings are supposed to support the whole structure of plastic. and we only use a very small amount of plastic. and we use recycle to plastic. so it's basically plastic neutral, classic not her, which is nice and both format as you can find it right here. nature. sure nice. now we have all this garbage residence hall, them. you have it all a told in english and between the rings. you see these disc,

savannah holly's court, their super sustainable with super buoyancy. it is however, a bit hard to say how much weight it can carry and for how long. because even cork absorbs water at some point with buffer. maybe it float steeper now or something. or he is the boy with the bulk of land. it was completely under water, a total of 80 kilometers within 3 months. from time warner. and on top of that are tracker, it's definitely waterproof and lasts about a year and say $300.00 days, something like that. sorry with us with we eventually learned that the river can carry both our boy and trash a long way. especially when running high pools, new boy allowed us to continually adjust the prototype and fix problems depending on the river levels. our prototypes took around 3 months to cover 80 kilometers,

with several brakes along the way. it looked of improvisation. it's definitely because of the low water levels, the way it's positioned you can tail, it'll probably be carried away again when the levels rise said series. kudos that looks pretty good. we decided to build several boys and then set them out along the elbow every 100 kilometers so that their parts could overlap. the echoed beloved, let's get started. it's now 1230 and we have to finish today. edison a fact. i'll start, okay, gotta oh, wow. this

works right. the laser into the spin. these will be the covers with information like a contact details and the names of the boys sponsors line. unfortunately, the weather is a bit but put into a bit of short on time. come up, i'm sorry for 15 minutes later, for the ortho. with

ah couple of people with it's a little after 7 and we really need to get this done today when a healthy ah

to mm hm. that i contact cap. here's the captain on and the guest of honor by the to the fin. hello. oh, hello, carlos farmer. i found his already tested the boat and i've got the rug ready. yep. that was the captain. you have to tell stuff on what to do. it's clerk and

sir calla. calla. we're ready. this is the drop, the boy was it and was yes. floating love or if we did well, basin one of those. then we go downstream and put one out every 80 to 100 kilometers so that their roots overlap. it against the embassy, and then we wait on them shamela was possessed. ah, was ex 9. 0,

with the quick of what the project started with the growing scientific interest in the environmental problem. if marine letter at some point, you just can't ignore it any more. it's been well then i will then i shouldn't have been middle. i'm was on the sion i shall just i'm a marine biologist. i don't have my doctorate quite yet, but i think when the film is finished, if i well that did it other one back home homeless. mm hm. is also important. of course we found out

a lot for just is always the case in science. i know for every question, answered 3 new questions and we're always of the main findings. all that garbage does indeed travel along the north, these main current board. but what we also found out is that gonna be just very susceptible to wind in for them to 100 on that i'm up where we released him. the boy is a total of 3 times a year. under those $63400.00 timber boys were released in the north sea in the tributaries law and offshore. of a few hook mode of the response ran to the literally for 40 percent life. it's actually 43 percent furnished in the direction of the current. we know that waste is basically driven into the gym and bang and then more or less along the coast deflates we call shine and denmark to the north. and then along the norwegian coastline out in the arctic. what do you think of but this coastline is not so heavily populated by that means, although these small islands there, i think there will be a lot left us. okay,

is that my new one or if your voice really make it not just to denmark, but it may be that they land somewhere here along the swedish coast even see that they then go out again with a tight and then drift out along the coast of no way towards the out take if doctor we still have an hour right out of that. yeah. another hour. status. them awesome. that's all we're not crazy. who did $90.00 to $1.00 is now we're taking china in total of $800.00 whole another ambulance the one that talk to you about like no way what we want to do,

whether we want to re book it, move it forward. i mean, listen to me, new, do we have dates? we are just allowed to go on the streets and the very necessary things just like getting groceries and it just you know, you go out the door, you take your interest to still get a hold of me ah, 2 years of work and one last minute film shoot with chris before he moved south to study. and suddenly the world comes to a standstill. down thing is you'd have to climb $10.00 to $14.00 days if you wanted to do that. yeah, so like i've been trying and looking into the government it, it's difficult to get over it right now. no country is kind of locked in and the only thing moving between orders,

plastic in the solid christian. mm hm. so what does it, does it not as you man. his name is wyatt. so he's a must've i thought he rescued it from the water kids. now it's going to help bob. all right. nice to meet you. what? i think it's funny. right. wyatt. ms. wyatt. oh, the halls, up dinner on board. okay. bye truth. so then we found this fine from she's been throwing it back. mm. oh. well, hello. hello. hi stefan. hi stefan. i just didn't read the

name quick. okay. okay. and i'm hannah, and this is my sister marie, and we are from hamburg humble, and we found a docking together with an assistant, lena o clinical nurse. it's a non profit company again, be ha, yeah, we started doing her to clean up some friends and family last year on the phone for stopping. and it grew really quickly and a lot of people joined till and now we do it regularly for who else? lager mrs. yeah, as of the one that was right at the beginning of the knocked down, we got a call that we should throw the boy back in the water and cook oven. and that was super exciting fun with the bush bund. with yeah, yes, and we went there and then we watched the current little bit 1st. we got some advice so that i knew exactly where to throw it in audit bestbuy left out. i'm alpha. when i go for it. yeah.

very good. good of if you meet is most banker. all right, thanks bye. i found this in the atlantic ocean 5 or 6 years ago, but you can't even tell what it was. it's actually the process of micro plastic formation. all these little crumbs that we see here, they used to be pieces of these larger yellow pieces. this was actually just sitting around in my house. i've only moved it a few times and it's still decomposing. and that's basically what happens in the environment that these larger objects continue to decompose until they become micro plastic. my name is dr. laws good to me. i'm a marine biologist at the alpha big institute in bremo hobbins as well. basically, i study the reactions of marine animals and ecosystem multiple changing environment

. and these changes can be natural, but they can also be caused by humans, such as climate change or the pollution a. every plastic object is more or less unique and there is this variety of animals that are sensitive and react in many different ways. the plastic, the effects are basically as diverse as the animal world itself. and what we often observe in many animals is that micro plastics in the tissues will trigger oxidative stress this kind of damages the genetic material and can also damage the facts that are necessary. for example, to build up cell membranes. proteins can also be attacked. i'm creating a sort of inflammation in

here on hika research vessel from the alpha vega institute for polar and marine research. i will now launch the boys ever got it? yeah, yeah. it's been, i guess the thing. yeah. i'm actually pretty optimistic that they'll start moving again when conditions change in height and then the tides, the wind. i don't know that on. and then they'll start floating from even though it was the same there. but i can also, there was a lot of garbage around it there with that. i think it'll stay there forever.

severe. it's heading norton norton. no carry garbage was lose. oh wow. that's home through stigma before breakfast. oh god end up with crazy. when you listen, when they get you find a lot of fresh everywhere. bottles everywhere. crackling even. yeah. they are almost like a finder. they're like garbage. yeah. they were shooting with

such a well what they actually do in the river. it's 3 interesting. usually they have a little journey around like maybe 10 hours, but it's interesting. sometimes they stop there for like a couple of days then lower. they start moving it down here. we threw it in and then actually when we through the trip to it, it just went along the curve and then it gets stuck there for a couple of days. maybe even even 3 or 4. then it went further to this point that it got stuck again. and then i think yesterday, but the day before it moved again. and it went all the way up here with

a until you wish, but you don't begin burning them till, you mean you'd like it hawkish from what i understood. it was war stuck in a pile of mud covered all over. it's really a dumb pm and a lot of see it wins this from the is on 2009. crazy we're so you can tell it might stay there for like even 10 years or whatever. but as soon as there's a lot of water, it just gets taken away because what, what's 10 years of a plastic lifetime? that's just like waiting one month in human lifetime or whatever, right? now,

it doesn't grady. my number's melanie back ma'am, is my name is melanie bergman. silva, i'm a deep sea research on marine litter and climate change in the arctic dinky miranda in the office that i've had with nancy. twould. besides, the alfred wagner institute has had the house gotten deep sea observatory since 1999, specifically to track the effect of climate change. this includes towed in camera systems which would drive one and a half meters above the sea bed, along the same route every year with young build them tracking and data. and we've noticed that we're seeing more and more rubbish on the sea bed. and we took a detailed look at various stations and thousands of images and found that the amount of trash increases sevenfold between 242-017-5000, fiona 5000 feet since it's still gufferson out of what we see is just the tip of

the iceberg owns of undefined nickel plastic soc funding fits. we have also started to quantify micro plastics and found enormous amounts. 5 samples at one station there with that teen 1000 particles per kilogram of sediment. other than that exceeded anything we had previously imagined? talk a spare time. amazing . they come out to do this. oh, i got some interesting news. one has landed in no way. my friend. yes. yes. if i remember right, you told me that you are studying close to or slow or in also, right? very honest. i

mean it's, it's not in the optic yet, but it's pretty close to where you live, man, this is amazing. this is amazing. you guys know it's really cold, remiss c or the breezes. right. this is a testament the golden ari i yeah. so 10, right at the spot. love kill with malaysia. yes, we got there

a show that was about like shortly. there's a lot of different material disagree with . ah, oh, crazy look at that guy. all the way from branch to lisa plus get it. it is wrecked. man, it is just destroyed on the other side. so it also cuz i'm right now writing on the continent, printing fasting,

and their ability to host invasive species. you know that whenever chris in the ocean you can get your microphone on it. this is exactly the problem, like how it travels and some of the plastic will them. can you along the coast line? no, not even if some boys were still moving, it was clear that german garbage was drifting over way to norway. it just took much longer than expected. so for this is the animation that forgot. so for her, i look forward to, oh this on. or the almost made it. i had some of their friends the moving read here . says that like those, those 2. now here it stops for you, but in reality, probably what happened is that tiny bits broke off and they could have voice, but they can slowly step by step by step. every time we finish smaller,

smaller. that's how we got michael plastic in the arctic dam. what we found over $10000.00 particles of micro plastic alita of mounted z. i just typed of this shirt that able micro pastor goes everywhere on or i was on plan nathan, him call it and then we, scientists are relatively united in our opinion that we will no longer be able to get it out. but most of the plastic that is now in the oceans will remain that much of the large amount of ways will break down into micro plastics. but we won't really get it out, especially not if it is the size of micro plastics. garnishment includes michael nickel, plastic this one. yeah. exception song as old. i understood you for yes. yeah. i am worried i a study last year showed for example, that micro plastics even palms from the mother to not yet born fetuses via the placenta. new to body plot center. and if in the show not born wouldn't offend,

it's disturbing the children are exposed to it before they are even before the rot surveys. and i wonder if this somehow impacts their development and fickle changes to some way by entitled to m gaffa. and that's a note and i form moody because i didn't god, thank you. thanks everyone. regardless of gender, political affiliation and age, you know, every body produces garbage in and just because you took out the garbage bag or the garbage tray on, it is not gone. what happens afterwards? what, what are the consequences for nature for society? if they don't think about adding benwa's same kind of back door, ma hm. my dog, if you think about it, then it becomes clear very quickly that it is not only an environmental problem, but a social problem. we live in an economic system that is based on continuous growth, a constant increase in production. at some point, we have so much that we can no longer control the house. and we're starting to see

those effects. something that seemed as infinite as the ocean where we thought everything we threw in, we'll never see again, is bringing all that material back to us now. yeah. i think it's gone so much, i guess. and that i think is the most important thing. the plastic is on top of all the other pressures that we put on the ocean is on top of the ocean, warming the ocean, city of cation, the ocean, over fishing, the noise, pollution, all the other things that we're doing to the ecosystems in the ocean. it could very well be that the plastic is, is to drop the tips your bucket avenue

theory, respiratory. okay. so this a new j p made. it's a very serious one. you know, we have 5 plastic just around the world as fast as accumulating and won't really realize. and before and 510 years, it is called a guarantee jaya nathan t no milk, water's p, a p testing or most of the coal street will end up eventually. ah, he fled putin's wool on this bike, a russian desert in georgia,

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