genesis went toward the people shaping public opinion. the key word share is the word fate. where are the right to the battle lines being drawn, to the propaganda war for ukraine? russia's warring crane one year since the invasion began. to take a look back and into the future in slow rain in february on d, w. ah 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 some of 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 them. 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. st side cobblers had long been a fixture of city life in india, their small shops,

dod, residential neighborhoods and markets. but of a traditional repaired 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 does profession. it's also given consumers to greater football choices and money to spend on them. today the massive foot bed industry, jones out products made predominantly of synthetic materials. they're hard to do to bed and re cycle and often end their life dumped in the environment. if they were the us to in part of the foot where mostly from talking about knocked up at the old school is basically made from different types of different types of classic you know, you have the 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. the microfiber switch is going and huge numbers within, but it's not just this waste the production process. it said it places a huge burden on the environment. india is the 2nd largest global producer, a footboard after china, manufacturing 2000000000 pairs a year involving hundreds of production stages that consume energy, mostly derived from burning coal. i'm talking about bin has got when they're talking about the computer on one pen. total emission which is going to get to pay industry. growing awareness about the footboard industries, environmental impact is driving the search for more sustainable production models. to farmers, at least from delhi, began looking for a way forward and started a social enterprise that uses part of its profits to provide shoes to people who

can't afford them. being very close to who is it? i mean, we knew that, you know, every people might be able to change. so that's where we part of that would be put in good research and found that there are $250000000.00 jews that you would like for the 2. and at the same time, the people who are walking barefoot, so this was actually of connect with her if the start of the bearing this was if you start up cycling, this will begin our brenda from going to landfills and give it to someone all 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 with the clear mother saw the tissues that we collect, the ladies separate on the parts like the leases in salt mode and so on. and the upper part or tissue normally are in. so you know, all these and categorize whatever can be used for getting it after sorting the

bodies melody up cycle, whatever we can act and use on the other bites to recycle. take into raw material, cycling fun, usuals your a 2nd now or the 2nd was as valerie 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 bears to school children into real areas. another company is turning to football production to put the volume of junk in the environment. mom babies start up by dogs, make shoes from discarded, dia, dupes, cork, and fabric. this, as you're seeing right now is got directly from the dial from the guided dial than that usually ends up in the landfills. this is the upgraded version, which also ensures the finance. 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. it doesn't go tra admit that the bar is high . normally i don't in my understanding, is 100 percent sustainable. because if, if this equal playing are double, then it's not the stain of me. even so consumers, especially among india's urban youth, a warming up to the idea of climate cooling shows. 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 what, where's ecological footprint is for consumers to buy less and to long the lives of

the shows the already own law. the average person who menstruate will use 17000 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 log. 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 faintest and entrepreneur bathed in chimney india,

when they use the napkins, they don't think about the after life of your napkin is just one napkin i through just one not going. this is what all the one thing conversations about menstruation itself are becoming less of a double in india. but safe disposal of minstrel hygiene products is still using my mental issue. there's just so much in misinformation out there that i feel is the main problem and this is not something we can just shun nancy, nor in gum group or the router problem. it's something that you'd be seeing open areas. it says at the center of the search, please, the prioritized not just the environment, but also the women who use it. all of us would have had this bacteria by genesis, the bacteria infections that we come across during feeney and doc films because of such napkins, which does not have any but i'm back the the property, isn't it? so i wanted to create some alternate to which is also equal friendly and also very

friendly to the skin of fall woman. think you sanity bad predominantly of in the belinda market i made from up to 90 percentage plastic. they contain super absolve and fallen was in the middle layer and are designed to hold large quantities of liquid. they're made of synthetic materials that take up to 800 years to be great. in india or 12300000000, single use energy beds are disposed every year. many of them end up being bonding incinerators. the leasing toxic incomes in the air was end up in lanterns. so there are so many competence and mios to it, and landfills and dump are not conducive to having o sundry 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 column because it has saw antibacterial hubs,

which is stud many quickly read and mean i tabs in preventing bacteria infections and also eliminates bad order. and the me, the nan is made all far biodegradable so, but absorb and volume when it is altos in those based on a mixed at all with the sugar gain fibers. so these are the 3 layers that goes into this napkin. when the blood comes in contact with the napkin, the microbes present and it help it to degrade faster in the soil. it will begin and it'll be bacteria present in the soil along with few species of fungus breakdown the napkin and daily. so i knew you will sit immediately bodied in this i, i 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 buried and after the napkin has completely graded, i was found that it increases the science nitrogen by 20 percent. so it made the

thought more for then after liquidation please johnny with this invention started in 2015, 5 years later she received her beaten. and today she's looking to make it into the market. she sees that this napkin can absorb fluid up $2700.00 times its rate and has a shelf life of up to 6 months. currently, it takes please the about 3 days to meet each sanitary napkins, since i'm making it in the laboratory and i know 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 flow female hygiene product. that is it any foreseen the means? one of the biggest challenges, reason that i'm not a woman and them, 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 bite on more together when you cross the 1st step, everything else will fall in place. i'm sure 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 faith, of disposable menstrual ways. products, but and 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 adena and it has to be done as much as well as will does they

do though to east think of something that can be even more eco for any 0 waste combating means to will 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 the the days of the legend of cleopatra relying on natural ingredients like which to boys milk and honey, for every day, beauty is a tool, a long gone in many parts of the world. today the cosmic industrial offer, the vast abbey of shallow gels, cream 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 yourself, is it really good for us?

ah, people normally it was between 10 and 17 person care products every day. here am i'm do with best when i wake up. so shampoo and conditioner in the shower handwash when i need a moisturizer, la mama, vaseline mit of perfume and eyeliner, and a bit of lipstick. answer, 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 butin all or any word with beautiful? anything would be e, g, d, e a r m year, and hundreds of others are still derived from petrochemical sources. i was

teaching a class, did 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 plants or so polluting themselves. community is have been actively opposing them around the world, including a region called cancer alley in louisiana. good, pos,

refinery castles smoke going up into the air right now that's, that's pollution. kings mill boring is an analyst at carbon tracker who focuses on the petrochemical industry. it's much, much more diluted, making chemicals then making pretty fuel call. because there's also the question of what happens after use dentist. 17 products means up to $300.00 chemicals being washed on the drain, burn parson body and it adds up micro plastics. probably the best known culprit had been found in all the 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 is getting was 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 metro chemicals that number's closer to 5 tons. taking into account the energy use in production and disposal. so what is the alternative to slathered petroleum? what is we have that called it a 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. let's start with 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 appliance, but these aren't necessarily safer enough re of metro chemicals 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 organic 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 morning rules. 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 or 10 kilograms of rose petals. and obviously, growing the varies with harvesting, naturalizing, like creating the fertilizer, irrigating all of that. so distilling as well move that just takes, sorry, much energy important don't from all 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 feed stock rather than petroleum, then we're not reliant on digging oil out of the. 6 and it's already happening with groups using mainly agricultural waste, with a focus on sustainability. one company, the u. s. amorous has recently launched to personally carolines that you silica that creams not from petroleum, but from sugarcane residue as a feedstock. and a swiss company d carbonized 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 world. so what can you do? the 1st solution is the most boring answer, but it is to use less and do 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 on your plate 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 petro 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 deacon, 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 i'm quite

a bit she and my hair as well crazy to get one like well do nice face frame like when you are a little bit, we'll also do less repair in treatment for you as long as the glowing hairdresser adel williams loves to pamper her client in her house and on in wales. a cutting hair has always been more than just a job for her. and 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 climbs. feel good while saving the environment with their hair cuttings. every one in the salon supports the cause. oh, loaded on the way here. 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 the us. so good for the world. safe. basically, from time to day this klein'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 match that absorbs oil spills in the see. what i'm doing is i'm spitting it up into fine metal pieces so that resembles a piece of netting. and in this gets fed through the machine multiple times and till it gets fick enough about an inch thick freebie and then, and it's a hammer. adele williams grew up in the town of have a food west and wales west coast. she loves the beach and to see her home town in

case of an oil spill here in the 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 collects oil. so we started working with a hair stylist who came up with the idea of making oil spill math. to prepare, encased 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 matter 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 laughing. i a has, as the young hairdresser is 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 the thriving future. if you take care of our environment to do our future generations will,

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