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our design is just our, to our tool to engage every into 12. that's the message from the younger ne, in design eco africa. next on d w. what our sports, all about in scoring. we say they were about giving up sports like every weekend on d w a . we all know that it is important to make a good impression and the clothes you choose say
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a lot about what sort of passing you are. i am sandra, twin of you, and today on equal africa, we're going to be looking at a topic that he's a very close to my heart fashion. and to mine, to sandra, as he can see that we've been looking into what happens to all the youth clothes, especially the thousands of thousands of ship fashion that are thrown away each week. i am crystal m, as this is what else we've got for you to day of the show. ah, the rediscovery of the miracle plant hemp as a facet, al raw material and a surprising solution to the waste from the shells olive oil harvest and the high tech ways in which south africa is protected. hundreds of sha species, recycling clothes is big business as more people get used to change in the luc.
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often. one problem with these cheap fast fashion is that it is often so poorly made that it cannot be re used for text or traders and garner, but millions of old clothes imported from mentally western countries are often more rocks than reaches. almost half gets thrown away, which is clogging up land feeds, beaches and the ocean were met. some people were finding ways to stop that happening. these fashions from the dna and castle, a young, urban, and above all mega hit. you can look good and take responsibility in time. so that's the message from across. young designers like in the shop awful and video behind the non profit label of the revival. your article far and quote, may not darzy voice and or our design is just our tool,
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our tool to m and ditch every individual. you know, every global citizen to, to wake up and see and question everything about the cost everywhere or things w course, you mean, ah, at this studio in a crop, the 2 men mix different materials and pre left governments to create something need, use clothes that arrived and gone by the ton from the u. s. europe and asia are a source of inspiration. as we all know, ah, i'm much years years including on, on biodegradable most of them. and then they have a very negative impact on the environment when it's being des pulled. so we are trying to deconstruct the idea off what waste really means when it goes to textile when it comes to fashion. and this is where the men from the revival source,
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the materials come from until the biggest market for 2nd hand clothing in ghana and across west africa. here's some $30000.00 trade is by salt and re so around $40000.00 tons of clothing each year. i'm glad there's more than 15000000 items change hands each week, though due to their poor quality. roughly half of them end up in the trash. i know we get the loan been was day time now while the cool, real while that gonna there was and we get a grease, we get a we give me a is not all that good. hey, so you open, it's an o d u garak. that's given rise to flourishing up cycling business income tomato, where many textile mitch in, still try to find, take his with another quantity ways some local initiatives, add a dash of color to faded fabrics to attempt to potential buyers,
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job in taylor's workshops, old clothes, i used to make new ones as cheap clothing becomes more available around the globe. the mountains of 2nd hand textiles keep growing in ghana. what starts as fast fashion soon winds up here, often strewn on the beaches and in the sea. and because more synthetic 5 is being used in garments the materials with their chemical residues may linger here for centuries. it's a threat that worries fashion activist and environmental research, a harriet and a jumping i am concerned about the environment. i'm concerned about. everybody within their 2nd hand business supply chain because fasfa sion and 2nd language honey hunt. so yeah, i guess and r a is polluted apparently. so these are just things that we shoe
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stopping a lot more attention to and start consciously developing business modules that actually puts pressure less pressure on them about that. she says we really need to get to the root of the problem. donna's quality controls for 2nd hand clothing impulse or in urgent need of improvement. not every one sees cancer. mantle as m. m a half for the sourcing of raw material. so i feel holding the bronze. the 1st question, burns accountable in looking at it, looking at the bigger picture of how i mean the regulations could actually contribute to national so sure, economic development to date in gonna it's been mainly activists or artists like michael guy who's given much thought to how to use the clothing waste that's already in the country. i thought is a b,
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she's around dar and people know by him. so i took it upon myself to also buy them to create my pieces. i'm natalie for, for their beauty, amazon. so i'm creating awareness for day and barrow maint course is our salvo m martinez that you find the nearby in their beaches, us waste, and the joke our got us too. so i muscle and greeting awareness for people to be eco friendly. sheep clothes can even be transformed into art. it's one of the creative ways of dealing with the waste, from fast fashion and calls up please biodegradable fabrics such as cotton and wool will eventually decompose. but these days, the most used fabric is polyester,
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which hangs around us waste ali's hearts to reside. go, you can burn it, which is not good. or scientists in england are hoping you can find natural chemical compounds that can eat up the plaster clothing and turn it into something reusable again. in this laboratory in the british coastal city of portsmouth, researchers are deep freezing articles of clothing. the experiments with liquid nitrogen and polyester shirts are being conducted to deal with an ever worsening problem. obviously, with growing population, there's a growing demand for textiles. i'm. we are either a burgeoning, a waste problem with those textiles when they reach their end of life. so we do, we very rapidly need a solutions to, to deal with the recycling issues. world wide consumers are turning to fast fashion clothes, manufactured at low cost, and with high turnover. a cherished material polyester,
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this clothing fiber accounts for 60 percent of what we, where it's a fast drying, durable, and above all cheap fabric. making it very popular in the fast moving clothing industry. but fast fashion clothes are discarded by the tongue in landfills like this one in kenya. and polyester, a synthetic fiber is practically impossible to recycle. but the scientists and portsmouth are harnessing the power of enzymes. so we have a engineered enzymes are to be capable of tackling the polyester in a single use plastic bottles such as this one here. and what we want to do is to see whether the enzymes that can break down these plastic bottles are also able to break down the polyester in fabrics such as this one's frozen in liquid nitrogen. the material is ground into
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a tiny bit. next those particles are placed in a bio reactor with are mixed with the enzymes play. we can think of an enzyme as like almost like piracy says. so when we take our plastics, that just like a very long string of different molecules, and then we use our enzymes to cut that string and specific places. so when we do that at the end of the reaction, we have like the soup of different parts of the plastic, which we can then swasap right often. so different things. and then we can react size to either make a new plastic, or they can be used in other chemical industries. the researchers in portsmouth have already identified more than 70 enzymes that can break down polyester. a development that will hopefully lead to more sustainability in the clothing industry.
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let's move now to a real material that is used in many different ways and goes by many names, hemp and come. a bees are the best noon we are talking about a plant which has been used in its innocent form for hundreds of years. for textiles. pepper may be seen energy and oil, but the rise of the drug trade caused tempt to be demonized and criminalized, but deuced at you'd. these a miracle plant is making a comeback, and that has also its benefits for the environment. goes by my name. kind of is mighty one we ganja and just as diverse it is named or it's uses. we made our textiles, paper, medicine, energy, oil, all the temp. until we started demonizing and criminalizing,
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we hammered it down into humanities, head. this is an illegal and massively bad plan temp cultivation started 12000 tuesday, going china and from their humans to play the error that sailors used highly durable, hemp for de ropes and sale. so they took the seats with them everywhere because of the root of the 2nd most used material on the ships. it flowers have been used as medicine for thousands of years as valid and spiritual practices are just simply for pleasure. but then came to dark ages for cannabis. new technologies were invented for cotton, which boosted supplies of fiber trees, replaced hamp as the paper source. and later, sales and drove were made with petroleum based synthetics. now the makeup plant is making a comeback. scientists as slowly discovering that its uses can go
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val beyond let you to have known so far and could help us clean up a lot of industries. a big one is construction. that building and housing industry produces almost 40 percent off, all carbon dioxide emissions. but that might have changed at hemp is already in use as an installation metric. but now more, more sustainable construction companies use temp create to build walls and floors to like the 12th floor building made the template in south africa. him crate is basically a mixture of hemp shives and line line, petrified the hemp sites that be great or break? it is light, but strong. it is. breathable. site regulates moisture and temperature better. that means lower energy builds normal and basically and man toxic environment. it is fire resistance and duties. flexibility can withstand major it's information
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properties and also the checks it works, its heat sound and humidity insulation and after its lifetime hem creek can be reused as fertilizer as it is totally organic. ah, attempted most not on to produce less carbon then concrete lungs. they're actually carbon negative. that means hem could stores more c o 2 than it requires to make and transport. that is the, the him carbon storage capacity. fiber insulation stores on the net base more than 50 kilograms of carbon dioxide per cubic meter of insulation. for your reference to production of glass will or rockwall, the insulation emits over 250 kilograms of carbon dioxide. but build stickle is in most countries construction regulations are very strict and introducing that new construction material can take years of testing and
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bureaucracy. hemp did at the beginning of central in many countries. we need to give it a new chance and stop putting all these regulations on him. we need to free this up entirely for the industries to really move forward. can also help reduce deforestation until the late 900 century, most paper was made of hemp, early bibles, and even the drafts of the u. s. declaration of independence were written on hemp. but to day paper is made from traits. and it is one of the biggest drivers of deforestation every year. we lose forests, the size of portugal. 15 percent of all trees be chopped down, are used to make paper. global demand is expected at least doubled. and in some cases, almost triple. while we are losing our florists, some companies are more willing to reintroduce hamp into their paper production. textile industry is a little bit to hold a grill that jenkins leak her for her for any fiber. it's all say champion polluted
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because cotton needs a lot of toxic pesticides and motor a heck there of him can produce 2 and a half times more fiber than a hector of cut. and it can grow up to 5 meters within just 3 to 5 months. hem fiber is not only better for the environment, but it's strong fibers also make longer lusting textiles, less water, less fertilizer, less lend, and no pesticides, but stronger and lusting fibers. but there is a catch. if you want to be successful implementing m fiber into the textile industry, we have to modify him fiber to existing text field machinery to go all the way around is not going to happen because the investments to do so. i used to hi, thanks to the patients. the textile industry has been facing companies and researchers have been trying to find out the tentative now using enzymes or
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mechanical processes. they have found environmental leis to customize and integrate hemp fibers into their existing products. but this is still in the early stages and it will take some time until the industry agrees on the best way to get to know the hamp. this is the 1st problem. hemp is facing in other industries to lack of standard matters because of missing research and development for decades. regulations are still confusing and they change from country to country. these differences plus the fact that my wife steal a controlled substance, care of the investors. but against all odds, globally, industrial, hemp demand was calculated for $1000000000.00 market value to any to anyone. and he's expected to reach almost $17000000000.00 by to any 30 that's something to look out for. indeed. now to another interesting plant, the only tree it flourishes in tunisia and housemaid, the north african country,
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the largest producer only oil all said the rope in union, but the bountiful harvest produces a lot of organic list that has not proven very useful. and to now find out in this weeks doing give it the la the only service takes place during the cold season. winter's in northern tenicia can be brutal. temperatures can drop down to freezing the country needs fuel for heating, what even if there are hardly any forest. there are countless olive groups. tunisia is one of the biggest olive oil producers in the world. the extraction process creates a lot of left over palmers, or olive polk that gave you a scene, can give me an idea why not use the promise for heating? i've eaten, did all at that. i had an idea in my head, and i have kept since my childhood revisited because i visited the oil mills with
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my father flexion during the extraction of william oil thinking. yeah, i saw there also said the bowman's talk was used for heat central clip of cookies. it was and so on while as you and then it clicked. so sit there and dick brick, it's made from olive thomas. yes, it is a jew engineer who founded the start of buying in 2020. it now produces $150.00 tons of brick. it's every year. the good news is that the eliminate the need for logging because the heating value is 3 times higher than conventional water, brick it and has lower carbon dioxide emissions. pizzeria is i using them in the album because of the boot burning property and hefty been amo, once a hammer has nothing but good things to say. and so money feet are, they are magnificent upon your order. they smell lovely and also provide very good . he 3 won. china can only freak the success story is affecting locations well
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beyond tenicia. in the south of france is steam train has been powered by a thin can the fees olive brick. ah man, how about you? if you are also doing your best, tell us about visit our website, send the hash tag doing your bit with we share your stories. hers will help because coastline stretches far more than 3000 kilometers and the waters around it a home to an abundance of marine life, including hundreds of shock species. now, these predators are often vilified and feared, but they have rolled in the ocean ecosystems. don't recognise us extremely important. south africa has been a trail blazer in shock conservation. so let's take
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a deeper dive into the innovative tools used to study and also protect b as often endangered species. migrating blue sharks are frequent visitors to the coast of south africa. puff shy shops and gully shops, a native to it's called forest. these bronze seaweeds are home to more than 200 a shock species. ah, shock expert ryan daily regularly monitored their activity to conserve shocks. we need to know where they go, where they spend time. so we are tagging the shop to figure out where they go and identify critical habitat for them so that we can improve protection for these critical areas. he and his team fit the shots with acoustic transmitters, so they can track them
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a procedure. the shocks barely noticed once they've been tagged. the transmitter image an ultrasonic pulse for 6 years in the last couple years of tags over a 100 chalks, representing about 10 or 12 different species. many of the shocks aw, endangered. and we hope to find out more about the way they go differently. i've been multiple years. we have identified critical areas for them. over $150.00 receivers are moved along the sea bed to detect the signals from the tag shocks. whenever one of them swims by the receiver records, the id number, the signal ranges up to one kilometer. the acoustic receivers are regularly brought on to dry land, so the data they have logged can be evaluated.
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we have to work with a big network of collaborators to share data on the receiver. so all of the day we collect on the receiving, it said within a network, and then we able to figure out the way the trucks have been where they've been in the town. so we can prioritize the conservation the program can only work so long as there's broad support for shock conservation effort. from an early age, humans are afraid of these ocean printers. shock populations can only survive if public attitudes to them change and that requires raising awareness by changing them. i say, i believe that i am changing the world one step at a time, one kid at a time for me, if i have a group of 40 learners and i'm changing the mind of one child, even if it's going to the families and teaching them why sharks i important really
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making such a big deal in the media tends to report on sharks mainly when they have been attacks on human at the shock education center in cape town at children can learn about the valuable role they play in marine ecosystems and get up close with shock, eggs and even teeth. so secretary must the pick those on how they're actually those. and that they're not actually things that we actually do the polluting and by caching conservationists have also equipped an underwater camera with bait. so they can also observe smaller, shy, a sharks that look in the camp forest, off the coastline it lose them out of hiding, allowing the researches to gain useful insights into ocean biodiversity. the collected data is analyzed using a program the team developed to help them assess their finding.
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we've taken some open source machine learning software and trained it on hundreds of images and sharks and fish and all the species that we come across here and false, de and so that we can use it for detecting these species in videos in the future. their research has already proved highly constructive. there is already more public acceptance of shock, conservation and conservation areas. now make up 5 percent of south africa's oceans . environmentalists would like to see that area increase further in order to protect marine ecosystems. well, it's time to return to dry land. i hope you liked the show and held some key takeaways . my name is sandra to innovative. thank you. bye. from counselor here in uganda.
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