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combating shady dealings. starts. april 29th on d. w. ah mm i've always been drawn to the far north, pristine nature, and escape from civilization. ah. almost like being on another planet. at least that's what i thought you come and help me out here just a 2nd there. ah. this is horrible. you
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see you're becoming a plastic akila says her, the whole earth is just so blue. is these layers? what has that different generation? if you would just figure out how much vesting there is just along this little coastline, is hot breaking everywhere. this looks thick. and now i'm here helping in in you it pick up garbage on a deserted island in the arctic ocean. and not just a little a lot of rock this across the high island kind of helps soothe so it is you look at how the color of this and i want to touch this looks like it's from you. okay. miss bruckner.
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this is a boy baby. and that's not a very, very good expression. it looks like it's been in the ocean for very long side to had with her. oh, okay, it's running slow, man, i'm a 7 corner. my name is stephanie cornel. i'm a filmmaker from dresden. most of my work has been in advertising. these jobs have taken me around the globe, including to low fulton in arctic, norway,
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which is where i gotta know chris lewis jensen. he's a local and we worked together on a film. we seated off right away. one day he took me kayaking, we paddled to an island in the middle of the arctic ocean. it's inaccessible by foot. i think we've all seen pictures of polluted beaches before, but so much plastic waste in the arctic. i had no idea. yeah, mm hm. ah. this is louis with ida standing in timothy, familiar, and there was even a german b a bullshit with that in the middle of the arctic clifton in active
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life. and now when i walk through the streets in germany again, i see garbage everywhere. it's like something changed. i didn't notice it before, and it makes me crazy because i don't want the garbage to end up in the arctic. but how likely is it to end up in the arctic? the garbage would have to drift down stream about 600 kilometers to hamburg and from there to the north sea. then the atlantic, in the end, a piece of plastic would have to have traveled over 2500 kilometers to end up in the increase in the arctic. so i, so i started doing research associa. i will me up north in here. then out there from down here,
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of course it would be really wild if it did come from the east and current home. if i release a bottle in the in the german river, alba, across the coastline, could it end up in the arctic? if you release a bottle on the german coastline and it stays afloat, the chances that it ends up in the arctic i think would be 95 percent. i am eric pennsville and i'm a climate physicist, an oceanographer here at utrecht university. now what happens to a piece of plastic or something that you throw in the ocean is slightly more complicated, a piece of plastic and also sing to the sea floor. it can also end up and beach to ambo opportunity for a piece of plastic to not end up in the arctic, but get stuck. and unfortunately, we don't know, we don't have food enough. simulations, models and theory yet to exactly calculate what the probability is. in reality, something to go from germany all the way into into the arctics. because what we
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found out a few years ago is that the amount of plastic that is currently drifting at the surface of the ocean is probably less than one percent of all the plastic that has ever gone into the ocean. so 20 times more plastic enters the ocean in a single year than we can now account for at the surface of the ocean. 99 percent of all the plastic is probably missing. so domain name now is to figure out where the plastic is or so many of the dear com. and so i came up with the idea of simply taking a bottle, feeding it with a gps transmitter and watching what happened to him, what i needed help
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me. i law. finish up my husband's order from i asked my neighbor, i knew he was studying technical design at the dresden university of technology. paula, his name is paul vice. i thought, hey, he's a tinkerer and a real tech head or i'll ask him, taken to his simplest idea was to build a 3 d models which i would then have printed, i think, whatever. you can then just put the gps tracker inside a seal. and thompson on also saudi. i idea that's the planned and now it's just a matter of trying it to her. correct
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yeah. here we are. following her down there. at the loveseat i think i'll walk for his oscar. thanks. wow. i'm excited. okay. ready? okay. ready? ah as alright. k o and one hines. sky 2 on 3 die.
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o m, i didn't want to hear the bottle story, terence. oh, i see flashes, i'm sorry. yeah. no idea what the bottle supposed to be. i'm still getting a gps signal. i was right there at the spot that the bottles just not there. the flashes, i'm not mr. dixon does not have i think so. i think maybe it filled up and it's now on the water. i well, i got a lot of rocks that we have moved, piles of garbage instead, right where my bottle supposed to be more garbage, more of a full trash cans with but do you know what i found? but he is another message in a bottle. what i'll have to break it open. do you have
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a double thing with because he did a broken trash. can i pay you? glad you found my message in a bottle. i drew this picture for you. my name is carlos. i'm 5 years old and i live in dresden. i would be very happy to get a letter from you. sonny greetings, carla carlo did a nice job with 36 kilometers later i realized that this is all more complicated than i thought. our 1st drifter was a flop, but hey, at least i've got a new pen pal. i so hoffman on, so we needed
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a new boil. miss the one that wouldn't sink on. we also needed more battery powered solar. maybe by through the law. does. i'm a contract, i'm almost forever. that would be cool. circ were yes, the p 68, it's unthinkable is info all . ah. i see the water space that's bad.
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stop him. i think we have to redo it all. think if i am to explain myself, i would say my name is christian. 32 year old. i am have greenland, my mother site and a half danish, the weekend for my father said and am so i've always been very fascinated with the that's the element that i feel at home. my clean and the past and thing that i me visited when i was with 1st time i remember there was baptism, but i only have fragments of memory. oh,
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you know in greenland if you walk just a 100 meters, you're far from civilization. i never had that idea of moving to the local and had an idea of traveling all of knowing. after that month i told my friends, but i'm sorry, i'm going to stay here. and i had the toughest to into my, my my car broke down. and i had no money, the only job i could get it was at the fish factory here. i was living 10 kilometers from it. started at $530.00 in the middle of the polar winter. the horrible weather for 3 months. and i being with been bicycling and have had to borrow equipment from people
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that this is like chris and now you have to stuff to borrow your title. just take it. that's the thing about some people say they have a great experience happening. but for me, the 1st formative years and placement, this is what i'm going to do. this is who i am, and this is what i want to do. expand excited shawn gazelle, adlene bizarre has gotten, it's changed a bit. as he dawkins and associates, it's different now are hung
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a young. where do i start calling? oh, my friend unit is a study with himself meter. he works at the plastic smithy, heine, the recycle plastic. it's a group that recycles plastic here. and are they sort of shred to plastic waste taking them moscow cuffed, you can then be melted down again and recast, and i don't know a form, things will garbage maneuvering. and that's where i came up with these rings in against form home. the rings are supposed to support the whole structure of plastic, and we only use a very small amount of plastic. and we use recycle to plastic. so it's basically plastic neutral, just ignored her, which is nice and both small, much as you can find it right here. nature should nice. now we have all this garbage residence hall. them you have it all a told in english, and between the rings, you see these disks. so banashali is corked, but they're super sustainable with super buoyancy. it is, however,
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a bit hard to say how much weight it can carry, and for how long. let's go to because even cork absorbs water at some point that offer maybe it float steeper now or something. or he is the boy with the bulk of land, it was completely under water, a total of 80 kilometers within 3 months, from time warner. and on top of that, our tracker, it's definitely waterproof and lasts about a year and say $300.00 days. something like that far with us with we eventually learned that the river can carry both our boy and trash a long way, especially when running high pools, new boy allowed us to continually adjust the prototype and fix problems depending on the river levels. our prototypes took around 3 months to cover 80 kilometers with several brakes along the way. it leaked of it from the switch. it's definitely
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because of the low water levels, the way it's positioned you can tell it'll probably be carried away again when the levels rise. said series. kudos that looks pretty good. we decided to build several boys and then set them out along the l by every 100 kilometers so that there parts could overlap. the i could of, i love it. let's get started. it's now 1230 and we have to finish today edition i sang, i'll start. okay, whoa. whoa. wow. hello. works right.
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the laser rings to spend the keys will be the covers with information. like a contact details and the names of the boys sponsors with ah
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pop up even with it's a little after 7 and we really need to get this done today. what a hell ah to mm hm. no, i can't, i kept here's the captain on and the guest of honor by the to the fin.
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hello ma'am. hello. hello, carlos farmer. i found his already tested the boat and i've got the right. i'm ready. yep. so that was the captain. you have to tell stuff on what to do. it's clerk and sir calla. calla. we're ready. this is the drop, the boy was it and i'll yes. then floating the love, or if we did well, basin one of those,
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then we go downstream and put one out every 80 to 100 kilometers, so that their roots overlap it against the embassy. and then we wait on them shamela was, possess, ah, who was ex 90, when
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i have a quick bite of what the project started with the growing scientific interest in the environmental problem. if marine letter at some point, you just can't ignore it any more. it's been well then i will then i shouldn't have been mailed. i'm there is an issue and i shall just i'm a marine biologist. no, i don't have my doctorate quite yet. but i think when the film is finished, i well that did it. of the one bedroom, the homeless in may is also one of them. you know, of course we found out a lot for us is always the case in science. i know for every question, answered 3 new questions and we're always the main findings. all that garbage does indeed travel along the north seas main current board. but what we also found out is that gonna be just very susceptible to wind ins. kazama hung down that i'm up
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where we released him. the boy is the total of 3 times a year on those $63400.00 timber boys were released in the north sea in the tributaries law and offshore. ringback of of you look measure the response rate, the literally for 40 percent life it's actually 43 percent finished. we're in the direction of the current. we know that waste is basically driven into the gym and bang and then more or less along the coast deflates we call shine and denmark to the north and then along the norwegian coastline out in the arctic. but the, the current, but this line is not so heavily populated by and that means although these small islands that i think there will be a lot left us focus is on my new one or business. if your boys really make it not just to denmark, but it may be that they land some way here along the swedish co. steven, well, that they then go out again with a tight and then drift out along the coast of no way to water the out. take your doctor's we still have an hour right
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either. yeah, another hour status does with the corner closet $90.00 to $1.00 is now we're taking china in total ass, lation 100 hall another ambulance the one to talk to you about like to know way what we want to do, whether we want to re book it move it forward. i'm a listen to the new. do we have dates? we're just love to go on the streets every necessary thing. she's like getting groceries. you know you go out the door,
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you take your interest to still be a good home. i 2 years of work and one last minute film shoot with chris before he moved south to study. and suddenly the world comes to a standstill. down thing is you'd have to climb to, to 14 days if you wanted to do a lag, i've been trying and looking into the government, it is difficult to get over it right now. no country is kind of locked in. and the only thing moving between orders, plastic in these are drifting. mm hm. so what does it start to notice? you man. his name is wyatt, so he's a must've got so he rescued it from the water kids now it's going to help bob. all right. nice to meet you. look,
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i think it's funny. right. wired. miss wyatt. oh, hauls up dinner on board. okay. bye truth. so we found this fine from chase bank. throwing it back. mm. oh. yeah. well, hello. hello. hi stefan. hi stefan. i just didn't read the name. okay. okay. i'm hannah, and this is my sister marie old. we're from hamburg campbell and we found a duke came together with an assistant, lena oakley and gwinnett. it's a non profit company again, be ha, yeah, we started doing that to clean up. so the friends and family last year, the film for stopping and it grew really quickly and
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a lot of people joined till and now we do it regularly with us. leg amazes. yeah, as it of, of the one that was right at the beginning of the knocked down. we got to cool that we should throw the boy back in the water and cook oven half of it. and that was super exciting, but it was a bush bund with yeah, yes, and we went there and then we watched the current little bit 1st. we got some advice said that i knew exactly where to throw it in audit bestbuy left out. i'm alpha. when i go for it. yeah. very good. good of if you meet is most banker. all right, thanks. bye.
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i found this in the atlantic ocean 5 or 6 years ago, but you can't even tell what it was. it's actually the process of micro plastic formation. all these little crumbs that we see here, they used to be pieces of these larger yellow pieces. this was actually just sitting around in my house. i've only moved it a few times and it's still decomposing. and that's basically what happens in the environment that these larger objects continue to decompose until they become micro plastic. my name is dr. laws good to me. i'm a marine biologist at the alpha vega institute in brenda. and basically i study the reactions of marine animals and ecosystem changing environment. and these changes can be natural, but they can also be caused by humans, such as climate change or the pollution. a plastic object is more or less unique and there is this variety of animals that are sensitive and react in
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many different ways to the plastic. the effects are basically as diverse as the animal world itself. but is there high fish? what we often observe in many animals is that micro plastics in the tissues. trigger oxidative stress, does this kind of damage the genetic material and can also damage the facts that are necessary. for example, to build cell membranes. proteins can also be attack. i'm creating a sort of inflammation. a research vessel from the alfred vega institute for coal and marine research. i will now launch the boys
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ever got it? yeah, yeah. it's been a couple the thing. yeah. i'm actually pretty optimistic that they'll start moving again when conditions change him. i'm and then the tides, the wind, i don't know that and then they'll start floating and from, even though it was the same there, but i can also, there was a lot of garbage around it there with it. i think it'll stay there forever. sylvia. it's heading, norton norton. now kerry garbage was move . oh boy.
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us home to stigma before breakfast will go up with crazy. when you listen, when they get, you find a lot of fresh everywhere. bottles everywhere. crackling even. yeah. they are almost like a finder. they're like garbage. yeah. they were shooting the breeze b a plus they got a bigger than what, what they actually do in the reverse re interesting. usually they avenue journey around like maybe 10 hours, but it's interesting on some point they stop there for like a couple of days and then out of nowhere, they start moving down here. we threw it in
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and then actually when we through the trip to it, it just went a raw along the curve and then it gets stuck there for a couple of days. maybe even even 3 or 4. then it went further to this point that it got stuck again. and then i think yesterday, but the day before, it moved again and it went all the way up here with a a. but you don't bring in until you're in hawkish from what i understood. it was war stuck in a pile of mud covered all over. it's really a dumb pm. lot of it
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wins this from the earth on 2009 crazy. ah. so you could tell her it might stay there for like even 10 years or whatever. but as soon as there is a lot of water, it just gets taken away because what, what's 10 years of plastic lifetime, that's just like waiting one month in human lifetime or whatever. right? there's other doesn't grady. my mamma's melanie back ma'am, is my name is melanie burg managed over? i'm a deep sea research on marine litter and climate change in the arctic. then key miranda enact that i've had magnet and it would betide sides of the alfred vagueness
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institute is had the house gotten deep sea observatory since 1999, specifically to track the effect of climate change. this includes towed in camera systems which are drive one and a half meters above the sea bed, along the same route every year, give us yard blank as them striking on data. and we've noticed that we're seeing more and more rubbish on the sea bed. and we took a detailed look at various stations and thousands of images and found that the amount of trash increases sevenfold between 242-017-5000 fiona photography. since we still got funding out of what we see is just the tip of the iceberg ones, i'm off and we'll find nickel plastic soc funding fits. we have also started to quantify micro plastics and found enormous amounts by saint paul at one station. there was a $19000.00 particles per kilogram of sediment. other than that exceeded anything we had previously imagined taurus they had had with
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streaming piano. amazing. they come out to do this. all. i got some interesting news one has landed in no way. my friend yes. yes, if i remember right, you told me that you are studying close to also or in also, right. you cause i mean it's, it's not in the optic yet, but it's pretty close to where you live, man. this is amazing. this is amazing. you guys know it's really cold, remiss. see what the reasons. right. this is
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a testament the golden, ari i yeah. so right at the spot in love deal with malaysia. i got there that that's a show that it was about right shortly. there's a lot of different material is really good
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. ah oh crazy. look at the guy from 30 to visa plus get bought. it. it is wrecked, man. it is just destroyed on the other side. so right now writing, i'm investing their ability to host invasive species. you know that whenever interest in the ocean you can get your micro on it. this is exactly the problem, like how it travels and some of the plastic with you along the coast. and no, not even if some boys were still moving,
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it was clear that german garbage was drifting over way to norway. it just took much longer than expected. so for this is the animation that forgot. so i look forward to, oh, this one or the almost made it. i had some of their friends, the moving race here. says i feel like those, those 2. now here it stops for you. but in reality, probably what happened is that tiny bits broke off and they could have voice, but they can slowly step by step by step. every time we finish smaller, smaller, that's how we could michael plastic in new york. that damn, i'd say we found over $10000.00 particles of micro plastic alita with z. i just typed of this show that able micro pastor goes everywhere on on. i was on plan nathan, him called and we scientists are relatively united in our opinion that we will
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no longer be able to get it out. and remember that most of the plastic that is now in the oceans will remain there. much of the large amount of ways will break down into micro plastics. but we won't really get it out. especially not if it is the size of micro plastics from garnishment and course michael nickel, plastic. yeah. exception. as long as all i understood you for. yes. yeah. i am worried say a study lansky showed, for example, that micro plastics even passed from the mother to not yet born fetuses via the placenta to body plot center. and if in the show not born wouldn't offend, disturbing the children are exposed to it before they are even better than before. the mahogany surveys, and i wonder if they somehow impact their development and fickle changes to some way by and i think m. yeah, finance. the note and i form move because didn't come
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back yet. every one, regardless of gender, political affiliation, age, you know, every body produces garbage in. i'm just because you took out the garbage bag or the garbage on. it is not gone. what happens afterwards? well, what are the consequences for nature for society? if you don't think about having been with the same kind of dr. ahmad amanda, if you think about it, then it becomes clear very quickly that it is not only an environmental problem, but a social problem. we live in an economic system that is based on continuous growth by a constant increase in production. at some point we have so much that we can no longer control it at the house and we're starting to see those effect. it's something that same does infinite as the ocean where we thought everything we threw in will never see again, is bringing all that material back to us now. yeah, i think is gone so much i thought it was. and that i think is the most important thing. the plastic is on top of all the other pressures that we put on the ocean is
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on top of the ocean warming. the ocean is to the vacation, neosha, overfishing, the noise pollution, all of the other things that we're doing to the ecosystems in the ocean. it could very well be that the plastic is just a drop that tips your bucket. i haven't used theory it. okay. so this a new giant made, it's a very serious one. you know, we have 5 plastic just around the world as fast as accumulating and won't really realize before and 510 years is called baron c, j. oh,
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