i am remembering benjamin sharon sh. our film on the d. w documentary youtube channel. he was the chief prosecutor at the nuremberg trials. thanks to him. nazi mass murderers were taken to court after the end of the 2nd world. a man tireless in his efforts to stand up for justice around the world, benjamin fare. now on dw documentary, with well, not surprising at all. every one in my city is used to lifting. there are heaps of

waste on the road side and of got plastic waters like these that everywhere. and it's not just us, even the cars are annoyed, the poor things, the eat them choke on them and then they die. okay, maybe that's a little do more work to start visual, but like always we find a silver lining. hello and welcome. i'm sorry, got the body and you all watching eco india. and today we will find out more about this plastic autoplanet or waste that it has generated. speaking of people who always swing plastic every read that out a few who see the trash. pick it up and decide to do something about it. the cycle it up cycle, it are something even more exciting. so let's go meet these people. this youth group is coating the streets of tonight, picking up any anybody these likable plastic that they can find. the

part of an initiative call was for plastic. it seems to these of in this again slipping of plastics and educate people on the harmful effects of plastic lucian. everybody talks about plastic, also say yes, we shouldn't goose plastic, but nobody is ready to take the responsibility, right? this is got them, and the blue pile behind him is 80 kilograms of plastic that he and the one in tears collected with their bare hands. as an artist, he specializes in creating social artwork using these 20th, his main goal has been to spread messages on environment and sustainability through his art. a byproduct of one such art work is walk for plastic. ah, it will be in the i made and i will call killer will using 44001 liter water bottle for this week and i needed to find as much plastic as i could. i took plastic waste

from channels, beaches and roads. that process was really interesting to an advocate littering and i'm sure people don't to, based on the street. we have to make sure that they also pick up his tone. that's the idea. and that's the walk for plastic started when the today was, the plastic has become a global network with over 10001 and deals from 12 different countries. most of the plastic base discarded on the street is plastic packaging materials. they either end up in lanfield or block the flow of water in doing that contributes to flooding of cities during mountains. on the other hand, smaller plastics make their way through the drains w dot oceans. in 2016, the indian government made producers, importers, and run donors. big responsibility for this waste through recycling reuse aren't have disposal. that old mandate did an action plan to be submitted by brown donors

by only 2017. but imposing agencies like the central pollution control board failed to hold manufacturers accountable. that has been no update on this ever since. as a result comes unless, unless abilities have to bear that responsibility of handling plastic with. however, while india said that many people simply don't care about it, you know, people are so you don't need to do the job. the government is located people for the why are you doing it? but people keep going plot to every bill. if i did last it from a certain fees that keep missing or what and all that, so not to the habit of the doing has not changed even if there's a dustbin in front of some people's ideal. but sustainability for everyone, right. what we do is good for everyone, but many people don't understand maxim on to spend money on old dominion. one of us decided not to depend on anyone. they walk the streets amy, to me, change one plastic, but let me know those efficiently. they don't to that head of operations just not and not back and let a good law. i did get

a follow patients in the back in like the design content and data management teams . we also collect information on upcoming formation number one. all right, everyone, let bernie jasmine frequently 10 extra distinct to ensure everything stays on track. so data collection over, i mean there were 8 walks with a total of $2499.00. joining franklin with the gaudy and prayer who maintain a database on every walk that has happened so far. are those present in the call include problem to come out and organize from chimney and j cushion and police and posters for anyone that they please who was so there is a crew behind work for the last thing and we never force anybody to do one to come forward with the to do i have the scale, i can contribute to walk you know, because i'm, i'm really happy when to share my burden and travel along the sag bank. i can,

if it's later on the meal or the course of 4 years, they've walk close to $1500.00 these and collected nearly 30 tons of particularly at the end of every walk. one induced big the plastic to and he said in collection center, the shopkeeper weighs the plastic that they've collected. and since the amount dedicated to work for plastics, bank account meadows, that is a higher one in p estron. they store large quantities like you see here. and send them in bulk directly to the recycling unit for the larger profit margin. so far, we've collected nearly $1.00 like a piece which is roughly $1800.00 euros and use that money towards being the school fees of children whose parents are conservancy workers. nice because and my name is kevin, just sort of thing and i'm going to change stock from a single. i will do it for the next my friends, the me and my community changes and it's slowly grew and go pay to go to the

garbage. you're in dollars, my one set of people, everybody looters, right? then everybody should be down. citizen, let me shade those like well for plastic, encourage people to pay more attention to how much blasting they can feel and how safely they discarded. goldman, his team believe that the government needs to enforce existing laws for manufacturers and enlist in better ways processing technologies to ensure pollution for the cities and water bodies you don't watch is the biggest problem with waste management and execution. by the time the trash from our homes reaches us, it's always dumb the into this one big down. as a child, i will get really and hide by how my mother dealt with all the way to the house. so all the way from the kitchen would go into the forest and everything is for me, you will save us 2 broken electronics and even plastic waters were sold off to a local, grab dealer every other sunday, so much time would go into it. and that would really annoy me. the only thing that

came out of this was the fuel box that the us, the slab dealer gave. my mother would directly come to me every other sunday as to what day it is a woman who has taken this waste aggregation game to a whole other level. and today we will meet her because she is benefiting a lot of people along with her on this. so let's go a least management plagues, cds globally with trash piling up in river, lances, and st. this is also a problem here in bangalore. nivia got him decided it was a problem. she could no longer ignore when she was still an engineering student. maybe that developed technology to segregate with into biodegradable and non biodegradable components and part of the technology to reuse them

to be taken. if you are not you to define all of this trash good to the last, yes, that's the least of land and low income countries is a short speech. is incinerated to come to 34 years of walking, the lances to develop our machine. it separates $200.00 tons of dry and red raised every day, meaning biodegradable food and the non biodegradable the title of dealer article. now you type bearing savings to found the business trash gone in bangalore. 2 years later, she employs 50 people, use founder, thought of jane, gave up his job as an economic advisor to go into business with the jim if anybody knew where we got that statement

and we'll help him in. and then i 1st knew whether dumpsite was if i saw a woman who was operating the plastic waste with the hands i had at the time this because used to manually separate the waste, there was no machine available in the country that's going to get you and so we decided to develop a machine to help these people a month or so they no longer have to use their hands when handling reason. linelle until you nicky. oh hey, thank you. it's like the fast customers, my local authorities, your what platform does that says the best thing about the brush girl is not been boss rest here. or there would have been read, it becomes from a new order. one of the bravest comes. it is. it is a girl and made us different funny jobs buzz renters. that the basic principle sorting plastic waste from organic waste. this gets recycled

into biofuel. that get sold to farmers in the region. the plastic is shredded sorted and recycled into far nature, shelving chairs and tables. we are focusing on certain applications that focuses on its strength. so this is a water proof would be 100 percent waterproof. if the star might goof and best buy can be recycled again and again and again near the eyes, visiting the school to ours outside. bangalore that's benefited from her project. a foundation buys trash haunts a recycle furniture and donate to schools in rural areas by letter hathaway visited in a depth on a, there were no benches and tables in the school. so the students used to sit on the

floor and then we contacted trashcan, and a foundation gave us on 35 benches, unable even i'm not going to live bent. his nessa probate career. sy of us at, by used to sit on the floor in the classroom and always at a cold. but now we have benches and i don't get sick, even in bad weather. but 1000000 adults covered. maybe that project has also toward the children about these disposal, and they have learned that their furniture is made from plastic. that's been recycled. whatever is saw my, the end of the eob, we didn't have 1000 times more capacity. we will be stablish in new england in 5 states and we have already exploded our machines to the philippines. mia trashcan felt its machines in bangladesh in the fall and the middle east, the young indian entrepreneur is helping solve the world this problem one landfill . at a time may i ask, why will i wanna? every one across the world knows these, bram,

i mean that every where's this one was even ashcroft 27 last year and when i say everywhere, i mean everywhere. remember that done that we would do a little while ago? if i sift through the waste, i will find you 10 of these bought isn't under minutes. this contribution heavy me to plastic waste across the globe along with several other brands. and all of these brands have also been talking was becoming equal friendly and recyclable. sustainable green, you know the corner would, but how much of it is actually to, let's find out me, you probably recognize at least some of these products they made by your biggest food manufacturers. and no matter where you live, the hard to avoid. these companies all seem really concerned about plastic waste. there's a lot of plastic, pollution environment. and the uncomfortable truth is some of it has got our name on it. $8000000.00 tons of plastic waste end up in the ocean each year. and we are

committed to enhancing the sustainability of our packaging and our business. we are in this way. but many of these companies also consistently rank among the world's worst plastics polluters. because something new over this place, they are the key drivers of our massive plastics. problem of the 350000000 pounds of plastic waste. the wall produced in 2019 only an estimate of 9 percent actually got recycled. much more it gets released into the environment poisoning, ocean soil and even the air we breathe. so we wondered when companies promised to cut that plastic waste? do they actually deliver? take the friendship giant unknown, for example. it's best known for dairy products, but it is also one of the world's biggest bottled water companies, with brands, including a on my zone and indonesian, back in 2009 non promised to use 20 to 30 percent recycled p t plastic and it's

water bottles by 2011, but they failed. you'd never know it though by 2014, that on our website said this, the goal is to achieve a rate of 25 percent recycled p t by 2020. so the company just delayed, as promised by almost a decade, no mention of the previous commitment, but globally done on waters still used only 19 point. 8 percent recycled p t and 20242025. they now have yet another new goal. and we committed by 2025 to a 100 percent recycle. and for all our grants in europe and 50 percent after dragging its promises out for over a decade, dunham has at least made some progress of the companies or even further away from their own commitments. nestle only used 5 percent recycle p t in 2020 coca cola european branch was a 9 percent and italian ferrero who promised to get to 50 percent by 2025,

only starter releasing any such bottles in 2021. so what about the promises that weren't shaped? some of them are genuinely positive steps, but others seem more like marketing ploys than long term improvements. like this campaign i belgium brewery. i'm a bush in this, a company behind beers like american budweiser corona, and beck's in 2017. they decided to tackle ocean plastic. they even got some famous actors on board. the collaboration with highlight, i think, is a very should have been invited in smart way to step toward cleaning operations on i believe one of the brands that is more connected to the ocean company proudly announced that it had over delivered on the commitment and had organized 214 beach, but they were all just one time cleanups, delivering no long term protection. it also sold some sunglasses, made from recycled ocean plastic and then declared the effort a success. plastic that have actually been my colleague. i made

a whole video about the challenges of recycling ocean plastic and loretta cappello policy campaign on the n g o 0 waste. europe has this to say, yes. so basically, you know, i have an issue with that because this companies are doing this beach pretending to do up includes that they are now actually they are the ones they're, are putting all of these packaging material, the waste at the beaches and said, 0 way says the priority should be to reduce plastic waste at the source. essentially, i need to close the pack, but when we looked at what companies actually promised, we found out of almost $100.00 stretches, only $1.00 and $5.00 even aim to reduce the amount of plastic used in packaging. and most of those pledges are still in the future. it was far more popular to promise packaging would be made recyclable. but even if packaging is recyclable, in theory, without infrastructure to collect and treated,

it will not be recycling practice leverage. capella says instead materials might end up being incinerated, put in landfills or even worse left to little, the environment, promising to use already recycled. plastics like that on with water bottles is a much better way, but companies take the easy road there. most of these are specifically about p e t t t is used for bottles, but also for other packaging and even in textiles. it's also by far the easiest type of plastic to recycle. over the past decade, more and more brands have launched bottles made sometimes entirely from recycle p t . but only 17 percent of all plastic packaging is made of p t. the remaining 83 percent are much harder to recycle plastics like polypropylene, l d p h d p, or a combination of many materials. especially cops and robbers from the beginning. those are notoriously hard to recycle even if they are collected mostly on the downside falls into low re products like cheap construction material. meaning that companies often highlight the easiest material to recycle,

instead of mentioning the mountains of absolutely not a little late they produce around the world. so where do we start the change? some initiatives are trying to work on transparency 1st. for example, the element out the foundation companies consign up to the global commitment program with their voluntary pledges around plastic packaging. foundation then collect 6 commitments and trucks that progress companies are hiding behind the commitments and not just doing the changes that they would need to do and sundays doesn't really have a stick. you know, they have their parents. what happens is companies lead, what happens is the company does not want to reveal the data, they don't keep them. so what needs to happen instead? good question. i would say that was really to change the behavior of the company in europe and legislation around the world. more and more countries are

imposing restrictions on plastic packaging. the number of regulations on single use plastics like bags or styrofoam has exploded in the past decade. the european union has now recently followed suit and passed some ambitious plastic legislation as well under the single use plastics directive, disposable items such as plastic, bag country and straws cannot be distributed within new markets anymore. and the directive also includes targets for recycled plastics. by 2025 p. t bottles need to have at least 25 percent of like of content. and by 2030, this target will be raised to 30 percent. and change needs to happen. and in each step and fast global plastics, production is still growing and is forecast almost triple in the next few decades. in order to even slowly increase the world needs much better recycling systems and strict regulations. the data shows that the voluntary commitments are not enough. companies only change the tactics when pressured through legislation,

public accountability, and consumer demand. and we'll check back in 2025 when companies have to deliver on the next said, plastics promises. some of them will even be mandatory, at least within the u. i. u, a beach watson autumn mountain bus. and well, i'm a mountain person and he has the proof in 3 pictures and i love what you know, what we're doing all my pictures even in these beautiful, picturesque mountain clash. yeah. even in high mountain peaks where i would go to make myself feel like an explorer in and explored mountains, i would still find trash. and a lot of my friends have the same story. but you know someone much like us went on a hike, saw all of this trash, but he didn't stop there. he decided to do something about it to give back to the mountain. something for all the com and piece that big give all of us belly body mer to them. lo garcia, i'm gay. the 1st time we were on a short trip to

a place called satan don't like after about 2 and a half hours of hiking restarted cleaning up the into. i mean, i had convinced 34 of my friends to craig with a different public. i leg angles hyperlink up, angle to man. every one has dates in the initial half an hour and, but eventually people get on board and start picking up the wasting. their develop, a sense of trying to bad looks also like allowable expense of buy dollar put up. but that's not necessarily true of the millions of dollars. so come to the him aaliyah's every year. they often set up cams, but ever they find keen water bodies near flat areas and dumped their beast directly into the rivers. these rivers, a crucial to local biodiversity, and they're equally important to local communities. these days, the diverse categories watching trash and pollution into the heart of these mountain villages. this is the problem that pradeep

sanguine is trying to address his organization, healing him aaliyah's, takes people on hikes in the region that also involves picking up trash. he was inspired by his interactions with the people who have lived here for decades . one of the biggest, or the most fascinating interactions with the shepherd community. i was when i asked them about their understanding of climate change their yeah, they had a very simple answer. then 15 years ago they could block wound from the sheep 3 times a year. now, it's just once a month and age of i'm own, got that a mighty veritable karaoke beard. this is because the nutritive value of the cross is degraded 8 d to let us know for you to know, because we have lots of big words for climate change. just because of snowfall come, olga, we have a lot, but for them or it's very simple to stay in, but it's directly related to their lively pradeep efforts are aimed at changing

long established behaviors among tourists and locals in the himalayas by the tourism industry remains largely unsustainable mm. he wants to go beyond cleanups and introduce locals to new ideas about the value of recycling waste, rather than simply moaning it mighty well. and we try our best to involve local residents and the work we do. if we want to move towards a secular economy, it cannot be done without including the local communities oldest across the trash we collect with a volunteers is brought to a material recovery facility where we employ local resident medical history. we try to ensure that the material we collect become the source of livelihood for those who live here. these are matters at the material recovery facility lucas, like children have helped multiply healing him aaliyah's efforts. initially he simply wanted to clean up his visit, but now he oversees the sorting and recycling of waste. it means

a lot of trash doesn't get sent to a landfill. pradeep regular outreach also involves schoolchildren from neighboring villages. miss has got their key. i'm now with the right to me that we saw your work and started doing the same on our own apology. and now our efforts have grown to such an extent that it makes me happy to see that they could sustain the movement without me. mix them up, but he gets a kia, how nickie. com go should be all to you social media to spread the word. we get many people writing to want seeking to voluntary will and dismissed. awkward thousands of people are now helping undo the damage to the himalayas. healing him ali as a spreading. the idea that being a tourist here in the mountains means leaving them in a better state than they found them. plastic in my trash can in my street, everywhere in my life, even in my vacation, spots luck to day stories left me truly inspired does look at the same problems

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