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and today on equal africa, we're going to be looking at a topic that he is a very close to my heart fashion. and to mine, to sandra as he can see. so 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 pretty lamps, as this is what else we've got for you to day of the show. ah, the rediscovery of the miracle plants hemp as a facet hour raw material and a surprising solution to the waste from to the shells olive oil harvest and the high tech ways in which south oper guys protecting hundreds of sha species. recycling clothes is big business as more people get used to change india. look 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 then reaches. almost half gets thrown away, which is clogging up land feeds, beaches and the ocean were met. some people who are finding ways to stop that happening. these fashions from the dna and capital, a young, urban and above all mega hit, you can look good and take responsibility exam. so that's the message from across young designers like elisha marshall and video behind the nonprofit label of the revival jahira papa. and quote, may not darzy voice or our design is just our tool,

our tool to m and ditch every individual. you know, every global citizen, to, to wake up and see and question everything about the close by the way, or things w consuming. 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, maturing including unknown biodegradable, most of them and then they have a very negative impact on the environment when is spain des, fullest. so we are trying to deconstruct the idea off what waste to really means when it goes to textile when it comes to fashion. and this is where the men from the revival source, their materials come until the biggest market for 2nd hand clothing in ghana and

across west africa. here some $30000.00 trade is by salt and re so around $40000.00 tons of clothing each year. i'm going 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 good. the alon bin was dead tired now while the curio was that gun it 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 and not only did you get rocks that's given rise to flourishing up cycling, business income, tomato, where many text i'll mention, still try to find, take his within the quantity ways some local initiatives, add a dash of color to faded fabrics to attempt to potential bias. job in

tennis 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 go honey hunt. so yeah, i guess, and r a is polluted apparently. so these are just things that we shoe stopping a lot more attention to and start consciously developing business modules that

actually puts pressure less pressure on them of our but she says, we really need to get to the root of the problem. donna's quality controls for 2nd hand clothing imports are in urgent need of improvement. not every one sees cancer, mental as m. m a half for the sourcing of raw material. so i few holding their brands, their 1st question, burns accountable in looking at it, looking at the bigger picture of how i mean their 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,

she's around dar and people are nearby. and so i took it upon myself to also buy them to create my pieces. i'm natalie for, for their beauty. i'm a so m greeting awareness for day and barrow ment course is i thought though m there martinez that you find the nearby in their beaches, us waste and the joke our got us too. so i muscle greeting awareness for people to be eco friendly. cheap clothes can even be transformed into art. it's one of the creative ways of dealing with the waste, from fast fashion and pulls up please biodegradable fabrics such as cotton and wool will eventually decompose. but these days, the most used fabric is polyester, which hangs around us waste on his heart to recycle. 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 as a growing demand for textiles. i'm. we are other a burgeoning a waste problem with those textiles when they reached 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. this clothing fiber

accounts for 60 percent of what we, where it's a fast trying, 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 in portsmouth are harnessing the power of enzymes. so we have a engineer enzymes either to be capable of tackling the polyester in 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. once frozen in liquid nitrogen, the material is ground into tiny bits.

next those particles are placed in a bio reactor with her mixed with the enzymes or play. we can think of an enzyme as like almost like a power, says cy, when we take up last, that is 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 lots of different parts of the plastic, which we can then sort of separate often. so different things. and then we can react sites to even 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 breakdown polyester development that will hopefully lead to more sustainability in the clothing industry. ah,

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. these a miracle plant is making a comeback, and that has also its benefits for the environment. this caused by many names and cannabis marijuana we ganja and just as diverse as his names are, it's uses. we made our take styles, paper, medicine, energy, oil, all the hump until we started demonizing and criminalizing, we've hammered it down into eyes. humanity's head. this is an illegal and massively

bad plan. hemp cultivation started $12000.00 tuesday, going china. and from there, humans submitted ever that sailors used highly durable, hemp for de ropes and sales. saw they took the seats with them everywhere because of the root. hemp was the 2nd most used material on the ships. it's flowers had been used as medicine for thousands of years, as well as in spiritual practices or just simply for pleasure. but then came to dark ages for cannabis. new technologies were invented for cuttin, which boosted supplies of fiber trees replaced hamp as the paper source. and later, sales enrolled were made with petroleum base synthetics. now the makeup plant is making a comeback. scientists as slowly discouraged that it's jesus can go valid beyond that, you'd have known so far and could help us clean up

a lot of industries. a big one is construction. the building and housing industry produces almost 40 percent off, all carbon dioxide emissions. but that might have changed at hemp. he's already in use as an installation metro, but now more, more sustainable construction companies use temp create to build walls and floors to like this 12 floor building made with him. great. in south africa, him crate is basically a mixture of hampshire and line line, petrified. the hemp sites, 7 be great or break. it is light, but strong. it is breathable. site regulate moisture and temperature better. that means no energy builds normal and basically man toxic environment. it is fire resistance and duties flexibility can withstand major it's information properties

and also the chat. it says 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 in fiber insulation stores on a 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 stickle is in most countries construction regulations are very strict, and introducing that new construction material can take years of testing and 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 dress of the u. s. declaration of independence were written on hemp. but to day paper is made from trees. and it is one of the biggest drivers of deforestation every year we'll forest the size of portugal. 15 percent of all trees we chopped down are used to make paper. global demand is expected at least doubled . and in some cases, almost triple violet, losing our forests. some companies are more willing to reintroduce hamp into their paper. production. textile industry is a little bit to holy grail to geminus league for her for any fiber. it's all said

champion paloton, because cutten needs a lot of toxic pesticides in water. hector of him can produce 2 and a half times more fibers than a hector of cut, and it can grow up to 5 meters within just 3 to 5 months. hemp fiber is not on the better for the environment, but it's strong fibers also make longer lusting textiles, less water, less fertilizer, less land and not 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 to him fiber to the 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 for the patience the textile industry has been facing. companies and researchers have been trying to find out tenants now using enzymes or mechanical processes. they have fun,

environmental lays 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 him. 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 controlled substance care of the investors. but against all odds, global 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 olive tree, it flourishes in tunisia and housemaid, the north african country, the largest producer only oil, 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 the earliest harvest 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 shooting, but even if there are hardly any forest. there are countless olive groups. tenicia is one of the biggest olive oil producers in the world. the extraction process creates a lot of left of a promise or, or live polled that gave yes seen can give me an idea why not use the pump for heat seems a little bit on that. i had an idea in my head office. i have kept since my childhood with because i visit the oil mills with my father flexion during the extraction,

loyal, you know, i, so there was to said the woman that was used for heat, central clip off and cookies it was on so on. while as you and then it clicked. oh, so sit there andy. brick. it's made from olive thomas. yes. sees a jew engineer who founded the start of violence 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 ward brick it on has lower carbon dioxide emissions. pizzeria is i using them in the ovens because of the good burning properties and hefty been amo, once a hum has nothing but good things to say. and so money feet are, they are magnificent on your order, the smell lovely and also provide very good. he dream on shadow can only freak the success story is affecting locations well beyond tonisha. in the south of france,

esteem, dream has been powered by a thing, can be fees or leave breakers. oh man, how about you? if you are also doing your best, tell us about visit our website in your bit. we share your stories somehow 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 roll in the ocean ecosystems down recognized as extremely important. so africa has been a trail blazer in shock conservation. so let's take a deeper dive into the innovative tools used to study and also protect these often

endangered migrating blue sharks. our frequent visitors to the coast of south africa puff and a shy sharks and gully shops, a native to it's called forest. these brown seaweeds are home to more than 200 shock species. shock expert ryan daily regularly monitors their activities to conserve shocks. we need to know where they go, where they spend time. so we are tagging the shock 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 a procedure. the shocks barely noticed once they've been tagged, the transmitter emit an ultrasonic pulse for 6 years

in the last couple years, have tagged over a 100 shocks, representing about 10 or 12 different species. many of the shocks are endangered, and we hope to find out more about the way they go, the civically, the multiple years, we have again defy critical areas for them. over $150.00 receivers are moved along the sea bed to detect the signals from the tact 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 doctor they have logged can be evaluated. we have to work with a big network of collaborators to share data on the receivers. so all of the day we

collect on the receiving it within a network and then we able to figure out the way the trucks have been where they've been in the town so that we can prioritize the conservation the program can only work so long as there's broad support for sharp 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 the mindset, i believe that i'm 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 shocks i important really making such a big deal than the media tends to report on sharks mainly when they have been

attacked on human. at the shock education center in cape town, children can learn about the valuable role they play in marine ecosystems and get up close with shock, eggs, and even teeth. so sexy came up with pick those on how they actually know and that they're not actually things that we actually endangered by polluting and by cashing. conservationists have also equipped and under war to camera with bait. so they can also observe smaller shy shocks that look in the camp forest, off the coastline it lose the amount 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.

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 in false day. so that we can use it for detecting the species in videos in the future. their research has already proved highly constructive. there's already more public acceptance or shock conservation and conservation areas. now make up 5 percent of south africa's ocean. environmentalists would like to see that area increase further in order to protect marine ecosystem. well, it's time to return to dry land. i hope you like, but she'll and held some key takeaways. my name is sandra. 3, nobody. st. goodbye from counselor here in uganda. and the bye bye also from me, chris alone in august state nigeria would love to hear from you on our social media

platform. if you have any concept or ideas to shit, take care and see you next week. oh, me ah. a too huh.

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