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starts december 25th on d, w. ah ah mm. i've always been drawn to the far north, pristine nature and escape from civilization. ah. almost like being on another planet. at least that's what i thought. can you come and help me out here in just a 2nd there? ah, this is horrible. you see you're becoming

a plastic acura. 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 little coastline, is hot breaking 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 at a high island kind of helps soothe so it is you look at how the color of this and i want to touch this looks like it's from u. k. miss bruckner. this is

a boy. maybe that's not a very new region expression. it looks like it's been in the ocean for very long side to had with her. oh, okay, it's running slow, man, i'm a 7 corner. 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 low fulton in arctic, norway, which is where i gotta know chris lewis jensen. he's

a local and we worked 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. yeah, mm hm. ah, this is louis pretty honest, adding a timothy smell and there was even a german be a bunch of reflection in the middle of the arctic clifton in october i 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. but how likely is it to end up in the arctic? the garbage would have to drift down stream 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 session. oh wow. good. 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, elbow across the coastline, could it end up in the arctic? if you release a bottle on the german coast line 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, an oceanographer here at utrecht university. now what happens to a piece of 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 all 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, repeating it with a gps transmitter, and watching what happened, the input i needed help

me. i law finish up my not binds over again. 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 taking his simplest idea, was to build a 3 d model, which i would then have printed them, whatever. you can then just put the gps tracker inside a seal. and thompson on all snap saudi. i idea that's the planned and now it's just a matter of trying to get her correctable.

yeah. here we are. following up down there of the loveseat. i think i'll walk for video. wow. i'm excited. ok. ready? okay. ready? all right. ok. oh and one eyes. fly on 3 by oh,

i didn't really want to hear the battle story terrance: oh, i see the 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. the fascist anita, under your sunk? does mine if i think so think about 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 do you know what i found? but here's another message in a bottle. let's what i'll have to break it open a. do you have a double?

i have 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. and the 36 kilometers later, i realized that this is all more complicated than i thought. i'll 1st drifter was a flop, but hey, at least i've got a new pen pal. i so call me like the so we needed

a new boy miss the one that wouldn't sink on. we also needed more battery powered solar. maybe by through the law. does. i'm a contract, i'm almost forever. that would be cool. so we're nasty. p 68, it's unthinkable is info all . ah, i see the water list 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 have greenland, my mother site and a half danish, the weekend for my father's foot. and so i've always been very fascinated with yours. that's the limit that i feel at home. my clean and the other thing that i need visited when i was with 1st time i remember there was 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 i had an idea of traveling all of knowing. after that month i told my friends, but i'm sorry, i'm going to stay here. 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 at the fis factory. here. i was living 10 kilometers from it. started at $530.00 in 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 like chris and now you have to stuff to borrow your title. just take it,

that's the thing about some people say they have a great experience happening for 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 gazelle. adlene visit has gotten, it's changed a bit. the dawkins and associates,

it's different now as far as young. where do i start calling on my friend yona dish. yesterday with himself meter, he works at the plastic smithy. hein di recycle plastic. it's a group that recycles plastic here to the scanner they sort and shred to plastic waste, taking them moscow cuffed, you can then be melted down again and recast. and i don't know a form things on garbage menus. and that's where i came up with these rings in against form 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, just ignored her, which is nice and both so much as you can find it right here. nature. sure nice. now we have all this garbage for, for them to hold them. you have it all a told in english, and between the rings, you sees these disks. so gonna use cork, but they're super sustainable with super buoyancy. it is, however, a bit hard to say how much weight it can carry and for how long. let's go to it

because even cork absorbs water at some point buffer. maybe it float steeper now or something. or he is the boy in the back 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 fly pulls new boy allowed us to continually adjust the prototype and fix problems depending on the river levels. our prototype took around 3 months to cover 80 kilometers with several brakes along the way. it early to probably switch. it's definitely because of the low water

levels, the way it's positioned, you can tell 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 l by every 100 kilometers so that their pods could overlap. the echoed beloved, let's get started. it's now 1230 and we have to finish today. edison they say all start okay. gotta oh wow. this works right.

the laser rings to spend the keys 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 outside 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. what a hell? ah too.

mm no, i can't, i can't. here's the captain. on and the guest of honor by that is the fin. hello. oh, hello. carlos farmer. i found his already tested the boat and i've got the right ready. yep. so 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 in yes.

floating love, or if we did well, bosun, what 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 went on the channel i was possessed. ah was ex 90, with

a quick upside of what the project started with the growing scientific interest in the environmental problem. if maureen letter at some point, you just can't ignore it any more. it's been awful. the national academy, it's been middle. i'm was on the sion i shall. i'm a marine biologist coverage. no, i don't have my doctorate quite yet, but i think when the film is finished, if i well that, that other one back on the homeless in may is also important. i mean, of course we found out and looked for is always the case in science. i know for every question on said 3 new questions. there were always the main findings. all

that garbage doesn't div travel along the north seas main current board. but what we also found out is that gonna be just very susceptible to wind ins. kazama hungered on that. i'm up where we released him. the boy is the 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, of you hook measure to response rate. the literally for 40 percent life it's actually 43 percent finished or in the direction of the current. we know that waste is basically driven into the gym and bang on and then more or less along the coast deflates because shine and denmark to the north and then along the norwegian coastline out in the arctic. but the lucas me but this coastline is not. they were heavily populated by and that means although the small islands there, i think there will be a lot left us focus is on my new one or business. if your boys really make it not

just to denmark, but it may be that they land some way here along the swedish coast, even that they then go out again with a tight and then drift out along the coast of no way towards the i take it to act as well. we still have an hour right there. yeah. another hour. so this is all stuff 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 hall. another ambulance the one to talk to you about like to know way what we want to do, whether we want to re book it, move it forward with tommy, listen to them. do we have dates?

we're just love to go on the streets and the very necessary things. she's like been getting groceries. we had to go out the door to take your interest to still be a good o 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 stand still. it down thing is you'd have to climb to to 14 days if you wanted to do that. i got it. yeah, select i've been trying, i'm looking into the government, but it's difficult to get over it right now. no country is kind of locked in and the only thing moving into 3 quarters plastic in these all address. mm. so what does it, does it not as you man, his name is wyatt. so he's

a must've got he rescued it from the water kids now it's going to help bob. all right. nice to meet you. look, i think it's funny. right. wired. miss wyatt. oh hauls up dinner on board. okay. bye truth. so we found this fine from chase bank. throwing it back. mm. oh. yeah. well, hello. hello. hi stefan. hi stefan. i just didn't read the name. okay. okay, i'm hannah and this is my sister marie. all the way up from hamburg campbell,

and we found a deep clean together with our sister, lena oakley, in the corner. it's a non profit company again, be ha, yeah, we started doing i to clean up some friends and family last year. i'm a film for stopping and it grew really quickly and a lot of people joined till and now we do it regularly for who else layer mrs. yeah, as of right, yes, that's 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 half of it. and that was super exciting. funny with the bush bund. yeah, yes. and then we went there and then we watched the current little bit. first. we got some advice said that i knew exactly where to throw it in audit bethel list. i'm alpha. when i go for it. yeah. very good. good of if you meet is most 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 vega institute in brand and basically i study the reactions of marine animals and ecosystem ultimate changing environment. and these changes can be natural, but they can also be caused by humans,

such as climate change or the pollution. a 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 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. trigger oxidative stress does this kind of damage the genetic material and can also damage the facts that are necessary. for example, to build cell membranes, proteins can also be attack. 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 will encrypt the thing. i am actually pretty optimistic that they'll start moving again when conditions change in the tides, the wind, i don't know. and then they'll start floating that from even though it was the same there. but i can also, there was a lot of garbage around it there with it. i think it'll stay there forever. severe. it's heading, norton norton knocker garbage was moved

. oh that. yeah. us home to stigma and before breakfast oh god end up with crazy. when you listen, when they get you find a lot of trash everywhere. bottles everywhere, crackling even. yeah. they are almost like a finder. they're like garbage. yeah. they were shooting the hot spots with water. plus they got it. well, what they actually do in the river is 3 interesting. usually they have

a little journey around like maybe 10 hours, but it's interesting on some point, they stop there for like a couple of days then out of nowhere, they start moving, you know, and here we threw it in and then actually when we, through the trip to it, it just went a raw 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. interesting are going to tell you this,

but you don't renew learning until you're in hawkish from what i understood. it was war stuck in a pile of mud covered all over. it's really a dumb pm. legacy. when's this from the is on 2009. crazy. ah. so you can tell her it might stay there for like even 10 years or whatever. but as soon as there is a lot of water, it just gets taken away because what, what, 10 years of a plastic lifetime, that's just like waiting one month in human lifetime or whatever, right? there's other doesn't grady.

my number's melanie back ma'am, is my name, is melanie bergman over? i'm a deep sea research on marine litter and climate change in the arctic. then kima vander enact that i've had magnet, and st would. 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 will drive one and a half meters above the sea bed, along the same route every year with yarn, blank as ever striking on 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. fear owns 5000 fixes is still ga, fancied out of what we see is just the tip of the iceberg ones of undefined nickel, plastic soc funding fixed. we have also started to quantify micro plastics and

found enormous amount sites in power at one station there with that teen 1000 particles per kilogram of sediment. other than that exceeded anything we had previously imagined, talk a sped hut with extreme air. 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 also or in also, right. you cause 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. see all of reasons. right. this is a testament the golden, ari i yeah. so right at the spot in love kill with malaysia. yes. got it. that's the place a show that it was about

you know, like shortly. great with ah, oh, crazy. look at that guy. all the way from chris to lisa. just give it it is wrecked, man. it is just destroyed on the other side. so it also cuz i'm right now writing on continent printing fasting and their ability to host endangered species. you

know that whenever chris in the ocean you can get your micro salad. this is exactly the problem, like how it travels and some of the plastic with you along the coast line. no, not even if some boys were still moving, it was clear that german garbage was drifting all the way to norway. it just took much longer than expected. so for this is the animation that forgot. so i look forward to, oh, this one almost made it. i had some of their friends, they're moving red here. says emily thought 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 go smaller, smaller. that's how we could michael plastic in the arctic. damn what we found over

$10000.00 particles of micro class, like the liter mounted z. i just typed of this show that able micro plastic goes everywhere on all of them plan. nathan, in called and we scientists are relatively united in our opinion, that we will no longer be able to get it out to them that most of the plastic that is now in the oceans will remain that much of the large amount of waste will break down into micro plastics. but we won't really get it out. especially not if it is the size of micro plastics from garnishment in person by phone. call plastic this one. yeah. exception. as long as all i understood you for yes. yeah. i had the i am worried say a study lansky showed for example, that micro plastics even pass from the mother to not yet born fetuses via the placenta to body plot center. one defender, shauna born wouldn't offend, stabbing the children are exposed to it before they are even before the mahogany

surveys. and i wonder if they somehow impact their development and fickle changes to some way by and i think to em, gaffa and that's the note. and i form move of good god, thank you. thanks everyone. regardless of gender, political affiliation, age, you know, every body produces garbage in and just because you took out the garbage bag or the garbage on, it is not gone. what happens afterwards? well, what are the consequences for nature for society? if you don't think about adding bengal the same kind of that dilemma? if amanda, 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 it at the house. and we're starting to see those effects. it's something that seemed as infinite as the ocean where we thought everything we

through when will never see again, is bringing all that material back to us now. yeah, link is gone so much i thought what 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 is to the vacation, neosha, overfishing, the noise pollution, all of the other things that we're doing to the ecosystems in the ocean. it could very well be that the plastic is just a drop that tips your bucket. i haven't used theory yet. okay. so this a new giant made. it's

a very serious one. you know, we have 5 testing just around the world is asked as accumulating and won't really realize before in 10 years it is called a guarantee j. so, no, sir, do you know me? walters, be a big question joe. most of the gulf stream will end up eventually the mountains back in and we answer their call. we take your trip to a winter sports paradise seat belt to sophisticated st. more it

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