with these issues and share ideas, ah, you know, or this channel, we are not afraid to happen. delicate topic africans population is growing fast. and young people clearly have the finishes, the future belongs to the 77 percent every weekend on d. w, with the production of a multitude of products, both essential and non essential requires a substantial amount of resources, including water, energy, and other roll materials. unfortunately,

many of these resources are finite to ensure 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 century visible. people sought to protect their feet from the elements and rough to read with the rudimentary for player made from plant material and eventually leather. 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 and india. their small shops,

dodge 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 in the us. economic growth has opened up new opportunities for the marginalized communities that long brazil does profession. it's also given consumers greater football choices and money to spend on them. today the massive foot bed industry turns out products made predominantly of synthetic materials. they're harder to, to bed and recycle and often end their life dumped in the environment if they talk to in part of this. so what we're mostly from 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 the b, b, c, and all those things. so basically that is one of the things which doesn't get. ringback absorbed by the environment or by degrees. and also that is will one more

very important aspect of these threads on the micro fibers which is going 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 bears involving hundreds of production stages that consume energy, mostly derived from burning coal. if i'm talking about being has got a hadn't put in, we're talking about a greenhouse data around tribute around 1.4 percent of total emission ah, which is candidate to a foot by industry growing awareness about the foot bed industries. environmental impact is driving the search for more sustainable production models. to farmer at lead from delhi began looking for away forward and started a social enterprise that uses byte of its profit to provide jewels to people who

can't afford them. being gonna feel very close to shoes running renewal that, you know, every t for monday of gender so, so that's where we thought or let's go deeper into it. i researched and found that there are $250000000.00 choose which will to landfill each year. and at the same time, there are people who are walking barefoot. so this was ugly of connect with her if they start with bearing this whose if you start up cycling the food beacon of random from going to landfills and give it to someone who 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, our mother saw the tissues dead. we collect the ladies separate on the parts, like the leases in full mouth and soil. and the upper part of the shoe are in. so you know, all these and categorized whatever can be used for getting it after sorting the

party will be up cycle whatever we can act and use on the other parts to recycle. take into raw material, cycling for new shows, your a 2nd now or the 2nd one is valerie, that will 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 rural areas. another company is dining to foot bare production to get the volume of junk in the environment. mom buy based data bud oaks make shoes from discarded. dia, dupes. org and fabric this as you're seeing right now is that directly from the dial from the guided diet that usually lands up in dogs, landfill. this is the upgraded version, which also ensures the finance. this is a mixture of or die or with the other element 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, in the dining is 100 percent sustainable. because if, if this equal playing, i'd go to bill then it's not to stand a me. even so consumers, especially among india's urban youth, a warming up to the idea of climate cooling shoes. you know, you need of, you 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 greener shoes. but experts see the best way to minimize what, where's ecological footprint is for consumers to buy less and prolong the lives of

the shows the already own? now the average person who menstruate will use 17 paulson sundry 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 our 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 us a polymer faintest and entrepreneur based and generate india. when they use the

napkins, they don't think of all the after life of your napkin is just one napkin. i threw just one napkin. this is what all the women sing. conversations about menstruation itself a becoming less of a double 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 nancy. turn what income group out a rural problem. it's something that you'd be seeing open areas. it says at the center of the search, please the paradise, not just the environment, but also the women who use it. all of us would have had those bacterial genesis, the bacteria infections that we come across during feeney. and that comes because of such napkins, which does not have any anti bacterial properties in it. so i want to create some need to, which is also eco friendly and also very friendly to the skin or fall moment. since

you sanitary pat predominantly available in the market, i made from up to 90 percent h plastic. they contain super absolving polymers 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. and because in the air was end up in land. so there are so many competence and mios to it and landfills and dump out there 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 color because it has saw bacteria hubs,

which is stud money quickly read any helps in preventing bacteria infections and also eliminates that order. and the me, the nan is made all, far biodegradable so, but absorb and volume. when it is altos and those based on a mixed at all with should again fibers. so these are the 3 layers that goes into this napkin when the blood comes in contact with the napkin, the my groups present in it, help it to degrade foster in the science. 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 and read everybody in this and just close it off and leave it for 2 weeks. and you'll be good again. in the same message, not find the not going to adult the sorry has been tested before. the napkin was buddied and after the napkin has completely graded, i was found that it increases the size nitrogen by 20 percent. so it makes a thought more for that 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 the fluid of 2700 times. it's sweet and has a shelf life of up to 6 months. currently, it basically 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 brussels as 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 any foreseen the means one of these biggest challenges. reason that i'm not on one 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 don't bite on more together. when you cross the 1st step, everything else will fall into this. i'm sure board and i hope that will definitely happen to me. as with the united nations, estimates that the 800000000 women globally having the period on any given day toxic kings and environmental advocacy organization conducted a survey and found that more than half of the women were unaware of the harmful feet of disposable menstrual waste products. but unbelief that it's not just up to the consumers to inform themselves about these changes getting together to change the product, add source, giving information on those alternatives that are dead 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 that

doesn't do though to east think of something that can be even more eco friendly with 0 waste combat being 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 rich to below is milk and honey. for every day, beauty is a tool, a long gone in many parts of the world. today, the cosmetic industry of the boss, stabbing of shower gels, cream mascaras and perfume to keep us king and feeling our 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, people normally it was between 10 and 17 boston care products every day. here am i do with best when i wake up? so shampoo and conditioner in the shower can wash when i need a moisturizer, la mama, vaseline mit of perfume from iona and a bit of lipstick. answer, mouth wash. 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 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 in 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 skinner additional reactions, in some cases, the scientific community is strongly de beds, 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 community as have been actively opposing them around the world, including a region called cancer alley in louisiana. good pasta refinery. you can see all the

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 eluted making chemicals than 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 per person body. and it adds up my crew plastics. probably the best known culprit had 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

on released to reduce 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 to 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. dogs, michelle, long 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 better 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. again,

it 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 out. 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 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 of 10 kilograms of rose petals. and obviously, growing the varies with harvesting, socializing, 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. 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 silicon that creams not from petroleum, but from sugarcane residue as a feedstock. yeah. and a swiss company de carbonized the 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 still matters, right? because we still like, ah, it's just idea that every thing 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 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 on your properties

and finally wave with him. 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 are 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 letter, british head dresser to undertake a remarkable effort. and i'd like,

and 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 a wild room. 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 just got her hair means a lot of 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 salon support the cause. oh, lazy them away 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. the same basically from time to day, this client 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 sea. what i'm doing is i'm spitting it up into fine metal pieces so that it resembles a piece of netting. and then this gets fed for the machine multiple times. and till it gets thick enough about an inch thick greedy and then and a hammer. adel williams grew up in the town of have a food west on 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 the 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 hair 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 n g o. she is optimistic because even the oil industry is now showing interest. at

the moment, i have a few companies, trialing mats, hopefully they will soon order the mats and stop pushing out those polypropylene months. are they using at the moment? the may cova is almost ready and the customers pleased not only because of her new hair color game, my home cut and being able to donate my hair to a good cause to mop up oil spills is really amazing. see latino, i as, as the young hairdresser, is so much more than about looking good. adel plans to continue proving just that as we've learned today, the arts resources are finite, making sustainability and conservation essential for a thriving future. if you take care of our environment to leave our future

generations will, hank us from the planet we have inherited. i'll leave you with that and see, we'll get next week. good bye. and thanks for watching with with

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