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single minute of every day, about 2 truckloads, a plastic get dumped into streams, rivers and seeds around the world. here within the caps in a fraction of what's really in the river is plastic is part of our daily lives. but we have to do something to change this point. we can't just invade a natural environment with plastic. plastic micro plastics can now be found everywhere in our food in arctic sea ice, in the deep sea. plastic as well as on stick is incredibly long. last thing, i find that point is threatening when organisms are affected by it, then we have to do something about it. if we don't, ex, now the amount of plastic in our seas will have increased for full by 2050, the or

the come rain or shine cheats you might and you only heads out onto the model peak or just like it's for fathers. this small c basin connected to the mediterranean is his stamping ground. the muscles have been grown here for centuries in the shallow waters of the little c in the past 10 for cotton. that's where used by muscle farmers switched to polypropylene in the late 19 sixties. and all too often, nets end up floating free and let's see, teach you a lot on johnny sees the impact every day. you as you put the fault, always on the plastic on the see bit starved some marine vegetation of oxygen, and it's suffocates up to anybody. know the effect on the environment is severe.

i'm getting it marked. cool men. see is like a mama when i'm on, mano it's brimming with. love, news, east on copy that the way i even when a child doesn't they have well, how do you get? she still loves them in bed. is that a symbol? of says that she doesn't respect them as much as a kind one, minute or fee are these, i'm all off. it was all 50 years of muscle breeding with plastic mats has turned the amount of people into a trash sheet every year goes to nets, measuring an area of 78000 square kilometers the same size as the czech republic. end up floating in our seas. muscles grow in tubular polypropylene, that's over time, salt water, sun and friction breakdown plastic, but it can take 450 years to completely decompose. and toxic substances get really

in the 49 year old is no longer prepared to be a part of that. he's been taking part and assigned to the experiments since 2021 and only uses an estimate from matter be a bio plastic based on made starch, the jump up to this included. let me be with most muscle readers are suspicious of this new material. and so now you have to be a very good muscle reader to work with matter being that it will not do you want me to little sound like it's more work than with normal plastic from 40 piece level that's showing that i've lost the bio plastic is biodegradable and can postables, it could prove a more eco friendly alternative to conventional plastic. they're testing whether the new material fulfills teaching them out on june. these requirements generally means you're not gonna say means you're going to be pulled off, keep these notes that only lasted 6 rather than 18 months. and then i would have

lost my entire muscle harvest started. a couple of i took a big risk, i've invested my time and energy in this endeavor for the sake of the environment. the last payment, that's your ghost, and that's made from plastic, often enough as death traps, killing creatures impacting entire submarine habitats destroying bio diversity. the people who live from and with the sea have 1st hand experience of that. that's wine, that's made of new materials are being tested in europe and asia. marine biologist kiana. jo, me is testing bio plastic and it's environmental impact. after all, many of us eat the sea food and then you have to learn who does it that i'm really interested in finding out whether the nets make a difference to the quantity of muscle or is harvested form. and also whether the material of the net it could lead to an increase or decrease in the number of tiny

organisms living on in the muscles moving from san and then methodology can, can be danny say 5 cents to somebody. okay, together with kiana g o me and her colleagues sit in us, go to a 5, a muscle farmer wants to find out whether the bio plastic match will stand with a test of time. most plastic gets washed into the sea by rivers here in germany to has shown costs. we'll see you. it's amazing what's floating in the run and run all of them. this one just to a nico lots of shy god was no longer prepared to sit back and watch the rising tide plastic. he set up an association called kaka, which is also the name of its floating literate collector. it's made of

a basket attached to 2 pontoons, the open side faces into the current and captures the trash as it flow to positive . and those plus all the associations members, designs the litter collector together with an engineering company, and had it assembled in a shipyard for 2 years. they followed with the authorities to get germany's 1st ever river born literate collector approved. let's say here before, what we have found has given me a really nice to show, expect the place seeing the results of the 1st rain and a long time. there's tons of water levels have risen by about 50 centimeters. so everything left lined by the river over the past few months has been swept up. you can see that here, everything from shoes bought on supply works from last year. and there a lie that everything that people have left behind on the river banks with finding it here. crazy. right? expecting so much as long as the name is okay, let me just give that slot the

as well as a lot of hard work and conviction. a 160000 bureaus of donations have been invested in the litter collector, which has to be emptied every 2 weeks by the volunteers. the fact that our trash collected is about 3 made as wide. but the river measures about 200 meters across at this point. so there's a lot of trash that just goes floating past on this. and i think that we should be worried that we don't have any kind of control of what's floating past every day. and the ryan was how much trash there is the biggest one. whatever the environmental activists don't retreat from the river ends up in the sea. it's estimated that the rhine wash is about a metric ton of plastic into the north sea every day. some of it can hardly seen with the naked eye. yeah. come on, the plastic granules,

everywhere. biologist, leon, the bahamas is conducting research in this field. but she wanted to do more. she decided to get involved with the rhine. literate collector in her spare time. but the, the, yeah, this is just a normal piece of wood and a feather. what else comes, but there's a lot of micro caustic on them about that because these things connect on the surface and micro caustics also float to the surface line with you can always, you can even see what kind of micro cost to get his tenants. and that's pretty wrapped in a piece of plastic pallets from stuff that they used to produce plastic products. and sometimes they get lost by accident from ships, containers on o sacks that split during transport. and the pallets get lost and done. ordering production when the factories are cleaned, they go down the drain, you put a phone to be honest. i wouldn't have expected that to be so much micro casting is

helping us get off the ssl fee and he called us that goes illiterate collector has been given a one year permit. the members want to use this time to collect information about the quantity and type of trash and the rhine. there is no data of this kind at present. the volunteers sort the trash according to specific criteria, the defense, why not try to get a u. s. created about 200 categories, one, see the many elliptic collecting associations, so the trash according to those categories. this apply, it allows different regions to be compared unless we enter the data into an app and it's fed directly into a large database. so does the ultimately, it allows us to link it with water levels, weather conditions, etc, across the board, and helps us gauge what's in the river. and what particular time is lost and flows beyond the hop on from the university of bon is evaluating the findings in a long term study. she is especially interested in the micro plastics washed into

the rhine, litter collector, and estimated $330000.00 tons of micro plastics escape into the environment in germany each year. that's about 4 kilograms per capita. reliable data about the quantity and type of micro plastic found in rivers is a valuable political instrument. pollution can only be curved if limits are introduced from micro plastics. micro plastics are a lot smaller than they saw that, but we can't see them on the i'd say that once micro plastics get into the environment. it's too late. so it's really important that we stopped at source and look where that being created and how they getting into the environment and then take measures to reduce that up to now the micro particles have ended up in the litter collector more or less by chance. we under a hop on is working on a system intended to filter out in micro plastics

this group of friends loved to see, but are themselves part of the plastic problem. the mazda fit the dives and serves so fella. so we set those feel very connected to the see on the itself, playground to set 40. so at the same time, we also add to the pollution on that even if we're not always aware of it's made to is up to as well. everything we use is petroleum based, or do you need now, surfboard, the lease that connects us to our boards. now, what's the deductible? the wax we saw and all the other assessors jeep important. and then also produced on the other side of the planet dependence. the manufacturing surfing equipment isn't eco friendly, and the products are rarely recycled. that has long worried, so, mazda, of etc,

and as friends. but as you don't see, a need for a lot of people. in 2015, they got to know each other in malaysia and tested out the regions top surface spots together. the ocean in southeast asia contains matches of austic, critic day to day do. you can literally collect it while you were swimming or swap . that is a live is wash all that into the sea. optis stormy weather said pretty song, so about 80 percent of plastic trash gets washed into the seas and oceans via rivers or from the coast. the other 20 percent is made up of fishing nets, ropes, and the band and fishing boats. the 3 water sports enthusiasts wanna help slash the use of plastic, also in the production of surf boards and surf equipment no financial cape, but we were really shocked by the ship madness of this pollution system. it was why i ended up doing the projects that i'm doing well, that's something like and then with nomads we wanted to create an alternative to

the conventional assessed industry. could yourself know mad surfing makes accessories and boards from sustainable and recycled materials. the surfers want to be a source of inspiration to the industries major players. they even quit their wellpaid jobs to embark on this adventure static. we must have built around. we knew we were starting from nothing. i think they didn't have the necessary expertise styles. the whole succeed was obvious, it would be hard to this because that's what we said to us selves. if we're going to do this, then it should be for a sport that we share, a passion for god. and so we decided on the stuff industry. so it looks like most else at all, most of the complex mix of materials and synthetic fibers which frequently contain toxic substances. make it very complicated to recycle water and outdoor sports equipment. when summer is over, a lot of inflatable mattresses, bonnie boards and swim aids and up on the trash sheet along with wet suits

the on for newer see them as a potential raw material. they put out a box for old wet suits in a branch of a major sports chain. when wet suit fabric gets recycled, they can lose at store ability and become porous. new technologies are needed. but nichol i t boned knows from working for big companies that they prefer to use fresh materials your cheese, initiate it, costs money to process waste products such as yet it takes a very long time to change an industrial process when they get. but we can do that a lot more quickly. if one is only, we're already producing $500.00 surfaces a day. our advantage is that we are very agile and contrast to the industry giants . what are the major, all the undersea? the pioneers are proving that it is possible to recycle wetsuit fabric and showing the big names how it's done. i'm going to show shingles. got a weight cutting at rectangular areas like this,

which we use to produce new set of equipment. so like light leashes, for example, itself, but the more that's the item that keeps the board and the so if it connected or so . so good recycling ideas are vital, only 9 percent of plastic worldwide gets recycled. 19 percent is incinerated, 50 percent ends up on the trash heap. 22 percent. is it legally dumped? the nomads want to use up every last little bit of the discarded wet suits, the surf entrepreneur a cell the products via their own online store? their next goal is to supply big companies to up level. so a lot of bits get left over. on st. lou we cut them into pieces and then shred them into near brain, scrat on the streets, which we turn into new products like yoga mats and stuff pads. the new material cheaper to do stuff to didn't very much. i of the traction pads

are produced by a secret process from a mixture of those wet suit scraps and adhesive plays on the on button on. you can always typically that is the prototype of a soft pad made from recycled native print. the a political message, we have to refine this model before we can market and how may i assist you? we're also developing stuff pads made from recycled, flip flops. so yeah, and the problem is ensuring that your ability for us, it's crucial to start micro product goes, getting shit into the c panel, a sound in you. cool. but they are well on their way to being able to completely recycle old went suits. and now they have to sell the idea of their traction pads to a sports equipment company to help protect our oceans. the teach you a model and you only cannot live from idealism alone either the muscle farmer can

only afford to use the bio plastic nets. if the yield is acceptable, west side or the a, this net is made from matter be, you know, thought the ball. as you can see, the muscles are bigger than the ones grown in plastic. met tonin calling about plastic are in particular that them other places. so that even that was also what we discovered now fast to test runs some can o n a the me do a video said about sealing noise when gamma we measured this, somebody's entity, the length human, french and weight of the shells and the flesh wireless disorder. the space of the live audio visual, then we found that muscles, bridge and my to be next grow bigger and move quickly compared to those and probably properly through method to be in the experiment. so we have control group growing and probably properly and at the same time in the same environment in the studio. and then the so i'm dancing unless this woman to initial findings have also been positive in terms of bio diversity. more tiny

organisms were discovered growing on the muscles farmed in bio plastic mats. but there are disadvantages to if food plants like mays are instead used to produce shopping bags or nets, then valuable crop land is being lost. and research is still being conducted to find out how biodegradable matter. b is in water. in the marine biologists are carrying out their 1st experiments with bio plastic bags and model pico no more. but quite a csc methodology can every type of material that doesn't belong to the natural environment, has some kind of impact to these individuals that we have that pump face materials have less of an impact on the marine environmental a nail. and it allowed the thought, the quantity, in fact, they might be broken down more quickly. the david asked see city, for example in fish has stomach illness. she said isn't too they, they fish teach you

a model and you only has been working with nets made for matter. be for about 2 years now. a lot. i didn't be in most of them. well, this is based off in comparison to plastic rod matter. b is very weak in coming, just fall, darcy, it begins to break down after being in water for 18 months, and then we'll choose from fish. that means the fish can free themselves from the net. i mean, cut off with plastic, that's not the case and throughout, but you can pull it apart no matter how hard to try and unless bit system help. and then what's the best for the class? the research has experiments show that matter. b does decompose in water. more quickly than normal plastic, but fishers and muscle farmers will need a material that is both strong enough and biodegradable quest. so the, what did it, the, it was the type of net can only be used here at the moment for you. comment on the material will have to be developed and made more robust for farming in the open sea . they looked at zone and the but the sooner what works here in these sheltered waters by telemundo doesn't work everywhere,

but it is being tested elsewhere. plastics should be stopped from getting into water in the 1st place, including via our drainage system. biologist, later on to the hop on, is developing a field tracing system inspired by seas, courts, flamingoes, and macro of the customer on looking at how they failed to water at the move for the g of the mounds, which are, which enables them to remove the food from water, and i'm as directing those ideas technologically so that hopefully at some point a washing machine filter will exist that can retain the micro plastics shed from all close. texted in on, on the left side, on the lookout and kind of the sports clothing and fleece is shed. synthetic fibers when they're being washed about 500000 tons of micro plastics from clothing end up in the oceans. each year

in germany, those particles are largely removed during the wastewater treatment process, but up to 90 percent of them remain in the effluent sludge that's frequently used as fertilizer lay on. the bahama wants to avoid micro plastics reaching the food chain as events. ok. so you put me on to from the washing machine up here and it passes through the filter. you can see the clean water coming out the other end in tests up to 98 percent of the micro plastic fibers were trapped by the filter. it's a filter that was inspired by fish orthodontic filter. we called show it yet because it might be the subject of a patient. but you could, in principle, replicate this fish filter mechanism and consider whether it could be used more broadly to tackle the micro plastics. problem, for example,

in sections of road where a lot of micro plastics gets shipped from tires and interested. particles from tire where represents the single largest source of environmental micro plastics, pollution in germany. nearly a kilogram per person per year. in comparison, plastic pellets account for 182 grams per person per year. well, 19 grams comes from cosmetics. but these statistics are all based on estimates. in the future, real figures should show how important it is to add swiftly to protect our rivers and sees lay under the hop on could provide the necessary information with our filtration technique. then say that the sounds that we've developed could also be used to filter micro caustics here, probably just some monitoring purposes to see the volume of micro caustics present in the rhine room. and i think it would be relatively simple to install here. it's not that big factor, obviously it and then yeah, that's the only thing could be left to run for

a certain time. and then we could check what was trapped in the filter. the name of the cock, illiterate collector, is to ensure that measures and laws are adopted to stem the plastic time. in the meantime, it's helping to make the rhine that little bit cleaner. the inboard though, the 3 young entrepreneurs are looking for companies willing to sell their surface accessories, made from recycled materials. the french serve friend oxbow, has expressed an interest in their serv pads or the building bought to the national single. not we up cycling something we oh we're in some conflict a lot. that's going so political good would collect them for us, so they don't and then sell the products we make from them and your stores because i really put the, i know one of them. i guess i was on a quick me, but we already collect flip flops, so like we don't know what to do with them. there's no recycling process for them.

so that's really important for us as you complement this issue. since 2022 companies selling goods and friends have been obliged to take back and recycle, use sports and leisure items. brands like hawks bo benefit from the start up recycling. it's flip flops and wet suits, and nomad surfing has gained an important partner and somewhere to retail its products. and that's just the beginning. i mentioned plastic and it's auction projection pads around the used by very few people. so we have other possible solutions and other projects may i do it? so we just solely blood push it. it doesn't just take something else from other industries are interested in the materials were developing. so i don't know 2 of you cuz this with auto makers, boat makers and interior designers, they've done, should already be offering their customers high tech, up cycled or recycled materials. uptake. he was, he kicked this partnership is a big step forward and no man surfing is already holding talks with other companies

who want to ride the recycling wave with them. the muscle producer and wholesalers don't go down to the also wants to switch away from plastic. but he farms on the open sea and he knows and that's made of normal plastic, can withstand those conditions. and then we'll make that on. but the, if we fun to muscles in a net made of bio plastics, then the entire hava is going to be lost up to 3 or 4 months spread the point $500.00. listen to my heart. you know, i bear responsibility for 10 families. you need to put food on the table in order to get you from me like a they have to pay the taxes and bills. i don't know if i got any thought said even if i got, but we're trying to come up with a good compromise. settled down when i went on godaddy anymore on your cellphone, put on there. so the muscle producer is testing different kinds of nets,

together with a research institute. they're made of natural materials like jude size, all and have and therefore fully biodegradable circular. how did you make that? yes, the long one to this net is made from science old, a fiber from an a. got a plant that also grows here. and the rest of the way, mainly monitoring the material for ability and robustness and the my duty already know. james franco done that. he is putting it to the test the size on that has to be able to withstand the 18 month long production cycle. embassy. so on, on the me such as the home care, of course i'm up to fix it because i know that there is a sustainable natural alternative che nissan. we just have to really put in the effort to find it. and i'm going to be very new. vantage inconceivable that humans can't find a viable alternative to plastic,

and that's also the 2 in the body to the end. if i can do my bit, i'm happy to remove it. so it'll create, he's supposed to have all the stuff. and the 1st impression is promising altima. but our trouble, excellent. uh, it's not coming upon what dr. do into it holds the muscles altogether really well. the opera, mundane and being what the to muscle farmers from southern italy are trying is just the beginning. but it shows that natural materials or bio plastics could be real alternatives. okay, but i'm not. i don't wanna spend protecting the environment and at the same time exploring it to feed. my family is on your side. it's up to us to find methods and technologies to ensure that our muscles become more value to them. most of all the new nets are helping to make muscles from each other onto a stand out from those that come from elsewhere in the world. on jobs. there are few eco systems that are so much at risk from plastic as our seasoned oceans. any

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