ah, the production of a multitude of products, both essential and non essential, requires a substantial amount of resources, including water, energy, and other raw materials. unfortunately, many of these resources are finite to internal sustainability and promote environmental responsibility. it's crucial to seek alternatives. how do we go about achieving this? that's what we talk about today. hello, welcome to eco india. i'm son that i'm now centuries ago, people sought to protect their feet from the elements and rough to read with the rudimentary footwear made from plant material and eventually led up. despite

numerous advances in short designs and materials, affordability has remained a persistent issue. a relatively new concern, however, is how sustainable our shoes are. with st side, cobblers at long been a fixture of city life in india, their small shops, stock, residential neighborhoods and markets. but of a traditional repair and reuse economy that extends the shelf life of shoes. it's a sustainable approach, but it's on the decline. india's economic growth has opened up new opportunities for the marginalized communities that long brazil this profession. it's also given consumers greater footwear choices and money to spend on them. today the massive foot bed industry turns out products made predominantly of synthetic materials.

they're hard to do to bed and recycle and often end their life dumped in the environment if they don't want to in part of the footway. mostly, if i'm talking about not that, but the soul soul is basically made from the different types of, you know, different types of plastic materials, you know, you know, have a, b, b, c, and all those things. so basically that is one of the things which doesn't get. ringback absorbed by the environmental by degrees and also that is one more very important aspect of these threats are the micro hybrid which is wing in jewish numbers within. but it's not just this waste. the production process itself places a huge burden on the environment. india is the 2nd largest global producer of foot bear after china, manufacturing $2000000000.00 pairs a year involving hundreds of production stages that consume energy, mostly derived from burning coal. i'm talking about greenhouse gases,

or hadn't put in. we're talking about a greenhouse, an tribute around 1.4 percent of total emission ah, which is connected to a foot by industry. growing awareness about the foot bed industries environmental impact is driving the search for more sustainable production models. this is a home to farmer ad leads from delhi, began looking for away forward and started a social and a brace that uses bite of its profits to provide jewels to people who can't afford them. being done over the already closed go shows that are ne, renewal their doodle every t for monday of gene decimals. so that's where we thought or let's go deeper into it. i already saw it and found that there are $250000000.00 jewels which will do langford this year. and at the same time there people who are walking barefoot. so this was a clear connect whether if he started bearing the schools, if you start up cycling the schools begin are but when them from going to landfills and give it to some one or requires it green sol has set up

a large network of collection centers across india, where people can donate unwanted footwear thousands of all or damaged shoes. slippers and sandals are then processed basically, amaral soldier tissues that be collect, let he separate all the parts like the leases and salt, mo, then solo, and are part of tissue normally are in. so you know who all these and categorized whatever and can be used. so can't take any after sorting the body, really, b up cyclic, whatever we can act and use on the other brides to recycle taken to raw material, cycling fun, usuals your a 2nd now or the 2nd of us is valery. that though, the entire process is done by hand transforming the separated bugs into functional footwear proceeds from sales have helped provide more than $500000.00 bears to school children into real areas.

another company is dining to foot bare production to get the volume of junk in the environment. mom baby start up by dogs. make shoes from discarded diet yields. org and fabric this as you're seeing right now is that directly from the dial from the guided diagram that usually ends up in dogs. langford, this is the upgraded version which also ensures the finesse. this is a mixture of or die, or with some other elements that i recyclable and sustainable. by definition, a truly sustainable shoe needs to be durable, made from non polluting, or recyclable material. and it should be manufactured, but renewable energy sources about it that's i gotta admit that the bar is high. normally i don't, in my, in the dining is 100 percent sustainable. because if it is equal playing, i'd go to berlin, it's not sustainable. even so consumers,

especially among india's urban youth, a warming up to the idea of climate cooling shoes. you know, you need to, we feel good about what you're adding in the end of it. so i think when i bad things which are sustainable, i feel good myself. so yeah, that's, that's a win win for me. that mindset is good news for me because of green, no shoes. but experts see the best way to minimize foot. where's ecological footprint is for consumers to buy less and prolong the lives of the shoes? the already owned law, the average person who menstruate will use $17000.00 sun to the products throughout their life time, assuming they have access to them in the 1st place. a recent survey suggested these products use whilst quantities of resources like wood fibers, gotten plastic and chemicals to be produced on a global scale. most of these are not biodegradable, leading to

a significant environmental impact. this was the driving force behind a revolutionary invention in thumb in lag. this is no ordinary sanitary napkin. it's completely biodegradable and disappears quickly. all you need to do as buddied, and so once you've used it, leave it done disturbed. and it's gone in just 15 days. it was invented by previewed on with us a polymer, the faintest and entrepreneur bathed in chimney india, when they use the napkins they don't think of was the after knife off your napkin is just one napkin i through just one not going. this is what all the one thing conversations about menstruation itself a becoming less of a taboo in india. but safe disposal of minstrel hygiene products is still a huge environmental issue. there's just so much misinformation out there that i feel is the main problem and this is not something we can just shun, say, turn noise in gum group out

a router problem. it's something that's be seen open areas. it says at the center of the search, please, the parent based not just the environment, but also the women who use it. all of us would have had those bacteria, genesis the bacteria infections that we come across during fini. and that psalms because of such napkins, which does not have any anti bacterial properties in it. so i want to create some need to which is onto eco friendly and also very friendly to the skin or fall moment things use energy bad predominantly in the belinda market. i made from up to 90 percent h plastic. they contain super observant volume was in the middle layer and designed to hold large quantities of liquid. they're made of synthetic materials that take up to 800 years to degrade in india, or 12300000000 single use energy beds are disposed every year. many of them end up being bunton incinerators, the leasing toxic chemicals in the air was end up in land foods. so there are so

many competence and mios to it, and landfills and dump are not conducive to having o sandrine napkin breakdown. please, he said, the goal is to create disease, always mediate. this meant she had to make every layer from scratch. the drop on the bottom layer are predominantly made made of the same polymer that is used. the da plan is illusion calling because it has saw antibacterial hubs, which is dead many quickly read any helps in preventing bacteria infections and also eliminates back order. and the me, the nan is made all far biodegradable so but absorb and polymer is all to lose base and mixed at all with the sugar again, fibers. so these are the 3 names that goes into this napkin. when the blood comes in contact with the napkin, the microbes present and it help it to degrade foster in the science. it will begin and it'll be bacteria present in the side,

along with few species of fungus breakdown the napkin and daily. so when you will, you will sit immediately bodied in the, sorry, i'm just close it off and leave it for 2 weeks and you'll be good again in the same place. you will not find the not going to adult. the sorry has been tested before the napkin was bodied and after the napkin has completely negated, i was phoned that it increases the size nitrogen by 20 percent. so it makes the thought more for them after liquidation. pete is johnny with this invention started in 2015, 5 years later she received her beaten and today she is looking to make it into the market. she sees that this napkin can absorb fluid up to $1700.00 times the rate and has a shelf life of up to 6 months. currently, it takes please be about 3 days to meet each sanitary napkins, since i'm making it in the laboratory and i acknowledge the time it takes for

making napkins. it's like a little longer that i was also an industry falling in place. the time will be reducing, picking the spot from a prototype to a full fledged female hygiene product that is, of any foreseen the means one of these biggest challenges, the reason that i'm not a woman and stem as well as the reason that i'm working for the environment working on a product that is eco friendly. it makes it even more difficult for me because you know, people, we don't buy on more together. when you cross the 1st step, everything else will fall in place. i'm sure a board and i hope that will definitely happen to me as with the united nations estimates that are 800000000 women globally having the period on any given day talk to kings and environmental advocacy organization connect to the survey and founded more than half of the women were unaware of the harmful feet of disposable menstrual ways, products. but i'm believe that it's not just up to the consumers to inform

themselves about these changes getting together to change the product, ad source, giving information on others, alternatives that bed in the market, making it easily accessible, maybe providing subsidies to the companies and people who are working in this area is like it has to be a multi pronged approach to make a difference in this arena. and it has to be done as much as well as will let us do our best. think of something that can be even more eco friendly with 0 waste. combating means to waste and promoting to legal friendly materials liaison to the stakeholders, consumers, industries and policy makers who must push together to bring about and change. ah, the days of the legend of cleopatra relying on natural ingredients like which to below is milk and honey for every day, beauty is a tool,

a long gone in many parts of the world. today the cas medical industrial offers the vast, adding of shallow gels, creams, mascaras and perfumes to keep us king and feeling are best with the industry, generating over 4500000000 euros and seals in 2022 alone. it's a highly profitable business. however, it's also important to ask ourselves, is it really good for us? ah, maybe normally it was between 10 and 17 porcelain care products every day. here am i do it best when i wake up? so shampoo and conditioner in the shower can wash when i need a moisturizer, lip mama, vaseline mit of perfume and eyeliner, and a bit of lipstick. alpha mouthwash, ingredients for these can come from forming sources. fresh water. animals like

wheels, plants like in that sweet rose essence and yup. chemicals are actually in this mineral oil, petrochemical paraffin. oil is also petrochemical and other common ones listed on products. are putin all or any would beautiful anything with b, e, g, d, e a r m year, and hundreds of others are still derived from petrochemical sources. i was teaching a class to ph. d students, and they also didn't know. so this is not just like the general public is like people who are getting degrees and chemistry don't know that constance. bailey, at the university of tennessee knoxville, says the widespread use of federal chemicals was just not in public consciousness. yet literally, every chemical that we encounter in our life is made from petroleum for the most part. while there is evidence of skin irritation or reactions, in some cases,

the scientific community is strongly debates that toxicity and impacts on health when dosage guidelines are followed. so it's not really much of a health concern, but the big impact of using petrochemical has on the environment. fracking and drilling for oil can heavily pl you'd. the water, air and soil. and the petrochemical plans are so polluting themselves. communities have been actively opposing them around the world, including a region called cancer alley in louisiana. you could go past refinery because you'll smoke going out into the air, right. and that's, that's pollution. king's melbourne is an analyst at carbon tracker, who focuses on the petrochemical industry. it's much, much more elusive making pitch chemicals when making pretty fuel call. because it's also the question of what happens after use dentist. 17 products means up to $300.00 chemicals being washed on the drain bar parson body,

and it adds up micro plastics. probably the best known culprit have been found in over 70 percent of fish species studied. they can dramatically change behavior affect the larger marine environment and when people consume them, micro plastics could even cause damage to human dni. and it's getting worse. one for one bedroom, chemicals have an even bigger impact on the climate than even the most famous enemy oil. to produce one ton of oil to be combusted around $2.00 tons of carbon dioxide unreleased. to use one ton of better chemicals that number's closer to 5 tons, taking into account the energy use in production and disposal. so what is the alternative, the slathering petroleum? what is we have that called it in fact, who was believing that if something as natural it is automatically good. it is better for us. and yet with science we now know that is definitely not true. dr.

michel wong as cosmetic chemist who bust smith's about products on various platforms, including those spread by providence of natural organic beauty. so salad natural and there are lots of different definitions of national companies will say you have to use over a certain percentage of natural ingredients, which means the sources, nato, like fruits or plans. but these aren't necessarily safer enough free of petrochemical in the e u. they have been international standard definition and some places use that other places just don't really have any regulations around it. or genic is usually to do with how ingredients are produced in terms of how they were bombed. this generally also doesn't mean that every ingredient is from an organic source, all that it's better for the environment. and of course, these products can still have ingredients with links to petroleum. and using natural ingredients doesn't mean it's necessarily better for the environment either . take, for example, you want to smell like a morning rose. this friggin scan me synthesize in the lab,

but to squeeze out one gram of rose essence from nature, you would need up to 10000 grams of 10 kilograms of rose petals. and obviously growing the varies with harvesting, visualizing like creating the fertilizer, irrigating all of that, so distilling as well, that just takes, sorry, much energy important. don't come on hope yet. that is a bright spot is called green chemistry. the idea of synthesizing the compounds but from renewable materials. if we can make these from engineered micro organisms using cellulose feedstock rather than petroleum, then we're not reliant on digging oil out of the air. and it's already happening with groups using mainly agricultural waste, with a focus on sustainability. one company in the u. s. amorous has recently launched to personally carolines that you silicon that creams not from petroleum,

but from sugar cane residue as a feedstock and a swiss company, d carbonite. they lipstick line by using a compound called iso dudek in which helps waterproof cosmetics last longer. it was 1st invented as an alternative to jet fuel, and that's something it could eventually become once production happens at scale. so a d, carbonation cosmetics could have a huge knock on effect on other more polluting industries, cosmetics. no, they're not like as big of a market share is like plastic or something like that, but it's still matters right? because we still like, ah, it's just idea that everything that we need chemicals for, right? we are making out of petroleum right now. and if we were to magically say, like all of our combustion needs have been replaced by renewal balls to morrow. we don't need to drill another barrel of oil. we'd be pretty, you know,

we would be pretty screwed because we don't have other ways to make all these other molecules that we need in our own. so what can you do? the 1st solution is the most boring alpha, but an sd was less and 2 smarter. unity need the product that you're buying and doesn't make sense in your context. second, knowing what to avoid. it depends very much on your skin kenny's unemployed. it is . and finally, where you put in money does matter investing in big all small brands that have shown a commitment to using green chemistry is a good idea. in the long run, oil companies will have to figure out what to do with the by products and the federal chemicals that we no longer want. ah, oil spills, which are often the result of danco accidents, have severed and lasting consequences. the oil room slowly spreads,

causing harm to seaboard, marine animals, plants, reefs, beaches, bees and the entire course to legal system. to mitigate the damage various measures at all from different, including the use of barriers to prevent oil from spreading and the use of bonding skimming or suction methods to remove the oil. this last solution, let a british hairdresser to undertake a remarkable effort. and like, and shake my hand while claims you to get one like well do nice face frame like when you up a little bit, but also do less repair in treatment for you as a while ago. if a glowing hairdresser adel williams loves to pamper her client in her house and on and whales, a cutting hair has always been more than just a job for her. i've just got her hair means a lot people i think. and it's not even a vein thing really carrying about how your hair looks. it's just,

it is an essence of who you are and your personality. i think if your hair's not feeling great, then you kind of don't feel great either. it's a win win for a del williams and making her clients feel good while saving the environment with their hair cuttings. every one in the solemn support the cause. oh, lazy them away. you know, i've always tried to recycle and things, but i always felt like that was something more i can do. it's nice to be trying to start a business that is using a waste product to do some in us. so good for the world. safe, basically from time to day, this client's has going from blonde to pink. her hair cuttings will end up in the back room and with this felting device will be turned into an oil. matt, that absorbs oil spills in the see what i'm doing is i'm

spitting it up into final pieces so that it resembles a piece of netting. and a nist gets fed through the machine multiple times until it gets fick enough about an inch thick freebie. and then, and it's a hammer. adel williams grew up in the town of have a foot west on wales west coast. she loves the beach and to see her home town. in case of an oil spill here and future, her mats could be used that's because hair is a good natural absorbant of grease and oil. the hair maps can soak up to 9 times their own weight and oil. according to environmental organizations, they already being used in the usa as an eco friendly alternative to plastic maps.

there is cut by hundreds of thousands of salons in the united states about 900000 salons, that are licensed cat about a pound or 2 a week. i and we all know that we shampoo, because here colette soil, so we started working with a hair stylist who came up with the idea of making oil spill math to prepare taste an oil spill hits europe. adel williams was cooperating with the american angio. she is optimistic because even the oil industry is now showing interest. at the moment, i has a few companies trialing lots. hopefully they will soon order the mats and stop pushing out those polypropylene mat. so they're using at the moment. the makeover is almost ready and the customers pleased, not only because of her new hair color, getting my hair cut and be able to donate my hair to a good cause to mop up oil spills is really amazing. nice to see. last thing i love

to help in has as the young hairdresser, so much more than about looking good adel plans to continue proving just that as we've learned to be the us resources are finite, making sustainability and conservation essentially for a thriving future. if we take care of our environment to leave our future generations will, hank us on the planet we have inherited. i'll leave you with that and see, we'll get next week. good bye. and thanks for watching i

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