a tourism blue poses a threat to the livelihoods of many people in the region. next on d. w for what people have to say matters to us. i am. that's why we listen to their stories. reporter every weekend on d. w. 3 . why not surprising at all? everyone in my city is used to listening. there are heaps of waste on the road side and of goss plastic bottles like these that everywhere. and it's not just us even

because our annoyed the poor thing, the eat them short on them and then they die. okay, maybe that's a little do more to start visual. but like always we find a silver lining. hello and welcome. i'm saw that got the body and you all watching eco india. and today we will find out more about this plastic autoplanet always that it has generated speaking of people always coin plastic every with that out of fuel who see the trash. pick it up and decide to do something about it. recycle it up, cycle it or something even more exciting. so let's go meet these people. this youth group is coping the streets of tonight picking up any anybody these head kribble plastic that they can find that back of an initiative called walk for plastic,

it seems to raise awareness against lifting of plastics and they to get people on the harmful effects of plastic lucian. and then when he 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 the t and the warranty is collected with their bare hands. as an artist, he specializes in creating social artworks using these 20th. his main goal has been to spread messages on environment and sustainability through his act. a byproduct of one such art work is work for plastic. ah, i made an art will called killer, we're 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. and 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 happening today in what 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 needed end up in land, food on 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. take responsibility for this waste through the cycling reuse aren't of have disposal. little mandated 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, consumers and wanted to abilities have to bear that responsibility of handling plastic with. however, while anthea 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 looking to people for the why are you doing it? but people keep trying plugged every wheel. if i did it from a certain, please keep listening or what and all that. so no habit of listening has not changed. even if there is a dust, been 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 one to send medical mark ultimate is one of us decided not to depend on anyone. they walk the streets amy, to me, change one plastic, but lead to trying to do this efficiently. they don't to that head of operation just not and not back and let go a lot. i think get a follow patients in the back in like the design content and data management teams

. we also collect information on coming without being late information. number one, all right, everybody let bonnie jasmine frequently connects with the team to ensure everything stays on track with the data collection over. i mean, there were 8 walks with a total of $2499.00. joining franklin, but thought goldie and prayer, who maintain a database on every walk that has happened so far. others present in the call include problem to come out and organize from chimney and j cushion and police and posters. for anyone that day please choose the lot. so there is a crew behind work and we never force anybody to do the come for what, but the to do, i have the scale. i can contribute to walk across the, you know, whatever my moody, happy when to share my burden and travel along the sag bank. i can feel later when the coming or the course of 4 years

they fall, kills 2500 these and collected nearly 30 tons of plastic. but if at the end of every walk, one in the us, 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 let over that is a how you want and piston. they store large quantities like you see here, and send them in bulk dedicated the recycling unit for a 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 come to lindsey workers. nice because and my name is kevin, just sort of thing that wasn't going to change stocks from a single. i will do it for about the next, my friends, the me and my community changes and it's slowly grew and go pay to go to the garbage. sure. in dollars, once it people or whatever and everybody lucas,

right. then everybody should be down. citizen did any she does like well for plastic, encourage people to pay more attention to how much blasting they concealed and how safely they discarded. got them on his team. believe that the government needs to enforce existing laws for manufacturers and invest in better ways processing technologies to ensure pollution for the cities and what the bodies you don't watch is the biggest problem with waste management and execution. by the time the trash from our home reaches us, it's always dumbed into this one big down. as a child, i would 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 scrap dealer every other sunday. so much time would go into it and that would really annoy me. the only good 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 that is. a woman who has taken this with 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 journey. so let's go. i the management plagues cities globally with trash piling up in river landscape 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 competence. and part of the technology to

reuse them. somebody take me if you are not you to define good in all of this trash good to the support that's the least of land in low income countries is a shortage of speeds. and again, this is incinerated to kind of the 4 years of walking. the lances to develop our machine, it separates 200 times, are dry and red raised every day, meaning biodegradable food and the non biodegradable v libido article. now you talk 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 about him,

we got that statement and we'll help him in. and then i 1st knew whether dumpsite was i saw a woman who was operating the plastic waste with her hands 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 dollar machine to help these people on that, so they no longer have to use the hands when handling in a tenure nikki, the is the 1st customers local authorities. what press one that says the best thing about the prescott, liz. nothing was rest here. whatever the read, it becomes from a new order. one of the bravest comes. it is, it is a girl, and mary has different furniture's best 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 recycling into furniture, shelving chairs and tables. we are focusing on so didn't applications that focuses on its strength. so this is a waterproof monday, $200.00 plus in order to prove it, the star might goof and best buy can be recycled again. and again in the navy of eyes visiting the school. do ours outside. bangalore that's benefited from her project. i foundation by trash, bonds and recycle for nature and donates if 2 schools in rural areas by little, half way visited in a different on a there were no benches and tables and in the school. so the students used to sit on the floor and then we contacted them trashcan and

a foundation gave us 35 benches on table one might as quickly bent his disco probate career psi of us. and i used to sit on the floor in the classroom and always article, but now we have benches and i don't get sick even in bad rhetoric. but milon, edward galvan nearby, that project has also thought the children about these disposal. and they have learned that their funny door is made from plastic. that's been recycled. whatever is saw my, the end of the eob, you didn't have 1000 times more capacity. we will be stab issue, a new plan in fly stainless we have already exploded our machines to the philippines. mia trashcan felt its machines in bangladesh, naperville, and the middle east. the young indian entrepreneur is helping solve the world's these problem one landfill at a time. like well, we'll adena every one across the world knows these, bram, i mean that every where's this one was even at 1227 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 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, on the corner would, but how much of it is actually to, that's find out 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 had in this way. but many

of these companies also consistently rank among the world wars plastics. polluters because the solar, something new over the bay of the key drivers of our massive plastics. problem of the 350000000 tons of plastic waste the world produced in 2019 only an estimate of 9 percent actually called for cycle. much more gets released into the environment poisoning, ocean soil and even the air we breathe. so we wanted companies promised to cook their plastic waste, do they actually deliver to the french heat 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, my zone and indonesian, back in 2009, the non promised t is 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 water still used only 19.80 percent recycled p t and 20242025. they now have yet another new goal and committed by 2025 to 100 percent recycling beach. and for all the 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 nationally 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 release.