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tv   Close up  Deutsche Welle  October 3, 2023 11:30pm-12:01am CEST

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as we say, they're never giving up every weekend on d. w the every single minute of every day, about 2 truckloads. the plastic get dumped into streams, rivers and seeds around the world with only catch it, 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
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in our food in arctic sea ice. and the deep sea plastic us was 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 back now, the amount of plastic in our seas will have increased for full by 2050. the come rain or shine cheats you might on june a heads out onto the model peak or just like his forefathers. this small sea bass and connected to the mediterranean is his stamping ground. the.
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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 joining, sees the impact every day. you as you put the fault, always on the plastic on the see bit starves marine vegetation of oxygen and that'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 behave well, how do you get? she still loves them in bed. is that a symbol of fish, but she doesn't respect them as much as a kind one minute or 50 of these i'm all of it was all
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50 years of muscle breeding with plastic mats has turned the amount of people into a trash sheet every year. ghosts and that's 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 released. 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. i'm not going to talk to this, 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
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the little side of like it's more work than with normal plastic conformity beauty level that's thrown into plastic. the bio plastic is biodegradable and compose to bolt. it could prove a more eco friendly alternative to conventional plastic. they're testing whether the new material fulfills teaching them out on joanie's requirements. generally means he's the same is you're going to be pulled off, keep these net sit only lasted 6 rather than 18 months. and then i would have lost my entire muscle, the harvest start the 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 soon 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 see have 1st hand experience of that. that's wine,
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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 nets 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 $0.05 a pound together with kiana g o me and her colleagues sit in us, go to a 5 a. the muscle farmer wants to find out whether the bio plastic match will stand to the test of the time. most plastic gets washed into the sea
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by rivers. here in germany too. as shown costs will see the amazing what's floating in the run and run all of them. this one just to a nico lots of shy good was no longer prepared to sit back and watch the rising tide of 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 floats past. and those flush 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 the phone. what we have found has given me
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a really nasty shock. we're 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 light as far as everything that people have left behind on the river banks with finding it here crazy. they weren't expecting so much as of on sending this whole thing doesn't wanna just get us, not 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 collect a is about 3 made as wide by the river measures about 200 meters across at this
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point. so there's a lot of trash that just goes loading cost 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 about hom, on 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. what they did. 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 this stuff as long as it can always,
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you can even see what kind of micro cost to get his attendance 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. oh sax, 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 caustics. yep. it's 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 in 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,
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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. and helps us gauge what's in the river and what particular time is lost in flows beyond the hop on from the university of bone 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
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a lot smaller than they saw that, but we can't see them. 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 whether 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 fed, the dimes, and serves so fella. so i'm going to, we've set those feel very connected to the see on the it's our playground to set 40 . so at the same time, we also add to the pollution, not even if we're not always aware of it for me to is that as well. everything renews is petroleum based out surfboard,
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the lease that connects us to web 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. and up in 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 in the regions top serve spots together. under the ocean in southeast asia contains masses of austic critic said if they do, you can literally collect it while you were swimming or swap. that is a way of is wash all that into the sea. optis, stormy weather, pretty song, so about 80 percent of plastic trash gets washed into the seas and oceans
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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 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 you want to know with knowing that 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 sat april, bosky billy out. 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 best because that's what we said to us selves. if we're going
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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 they don't send all, most of the complex mix up 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 answer for new words, 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 its debility 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,
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costs money to process waste products such as 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 on it. we're already producing 500 certainly shows a day due to the, 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, like light leashes, for example. so 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,
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the surf entrepreneur sell the products via their own online store. their next goal is to supply big companies to the level. so a lot of bids get left over to saint 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 match, found stuff pads, the new material cheaper than i do stuff to didn't very much i the traction paths are produced via a secret process from a mixture of those wet suit scraps and adhesive plays on the on button on. you can always declare that as the prototype of a soft had made from recycled near, 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,
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it's crucial to stop micro product goes, getting shit into the sea and it's bundled with sound and you cool bought it and they are well on their way to being able to completely recycle old. went suits, now they have to sell the idea of their traction pads to a sports equipment company. to help protect our oceans. the cheats you a mother 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 thought of the bottom. as you can see, the muscles are bigger than the ones grown in plastic. met tonin calling about plastic are in particular item other way so, so that even that was also what we discovered now 1st to test runs. so i'm kind of in a mean way than previous sit about ceiling. now when we measure to some laser entity, the language, human, french, and weight of the shells and the flesh wireless disorder,
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these days are the live out of it physically. then we found that muscles bridge and my to be met, grow bigger and move quickly compared to those and totally properly through method to be in the experiment. so we have control groups growing and probably properly and at the same time in the same environment, in the studio, and then the next test. so i'm going to noticed this woman, the initial findings have also been positive in terms of bio diversity. more tiny organisms were discovered growing on the sol farmed in bio plastic nets. 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 to the marine. biologists are carrying out their 1st experiments with bio plastic bags in model pico no more.
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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 but we have the pump based materials have less of an impact on the marine environmental uh and then it allows the task the on the inside they might be broken down more quickly, the david asked the city, for example in fishes, stomachs. and she said to them to the they say she teach you a model and you only has been working with nets made for matter, be for about 2 years now. a lot my that'd be in most the day while he's pissed off in comparison to plastic rod matter b is very weak in coming just for got so 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 being cut off with plastic, that's not the case and throughout, but you can pull it apart, no matter how hard to try and elizabeth system help. and then what's the best for
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the class. the researchers experiments show that matter be does decompose in water more quickly than normal plastic. but fisher is that 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 left the zone and even sooner. what works here in these sheltered waters by town though it doesn't work everywhere, but it is being tested elsewhere. plastic should be stopped from getting into water in the 1st place, including via our drainage system. biologist, delay on to the home on is developing a field tracing system, inspired by c, squirts flamingoes and macro of the disclosement on looking at how they feel to water at the move from the g of the mounds, which all which enables them to remove the food from water,
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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 clothes, texted in on, on the left side, on the lookout and come the sports clothing and fleece is shed synthetic fibers when they're being washed about $500000.00 tons of micro plastics from clothing end up in the oceans each year. in germany, those particles are largely removed during the waste water treatment process. but up to 90 percent of them remain in the effluent sludge that's frequently used as fertilizer lay on the hot on wants to avoid micro plastics reaching the food chain as events. ok, so you put realtor from the washing machine up here and it passes through the
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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 by onyx filter. we can't show it yet because it might be the subject of a patient. but you couldn't principal 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 get shipped from tires hyphen interested, the 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 act swiftly to protect our rivers
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and sees lay under the hop on could provide the necessary information with her 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 send you and as long as it could be left to run for a certain time and then we could check what was trapped in the filter on 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,
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has expressed an interest in their serv pads the building, bought to the new shots, equipment. we are up cycling, something we are aware and some conflict lot that's going on. so whether it's going good, well you could collect them for us for itself and then sell the products we make from them and your stores because i really put the, uh, i know one of them. i guess i was on a quick me don't say, but we already collect flip flops. so okay. like we don't know what to do with them . there's no recycling process for them. so that's really important for us is account on this list. 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
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mentioned plastic and it's auction projection pads around the used by very few people say about, but we have other possible solutions and other projects we are doing. so in this only bullet portion, it doesn't use like something else from other industries are interested in the materials were developing. so i don't know to be cuz this with automakers, boat makers, and interior designers. they don't tell you 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 with stand those conditions. and then one method on if we fund to muscles in a net made of bio plastics,
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then the entire harvest going to be last up to 3 or 4 months spare? did they produce point $500.00? listen to my 100 on all right, 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, settle to just download on godaddy mall, onto solve the problem is so the muscle producers testing different kinds of nets, together with a research institute they're made of natural materials like jude sizes 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 plan that also grows here. you know, control arms over, i think the way mainly monitoring the materials for ability and robustness and my
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duty are even with 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 in the sea. so not the me, such as the hon case of course, i'm up to fix it because i know that there is a sustainable natural alternative to these only we'd just have to really put in the effort to find it. and i'm going to be very new dentist, inconceivable that humans can't find a viable alternative to plastic. and that's also the 2 and a valley that i love preventive, i can do my bit, i'm happy to be moved in. so creat, he's supposed to have all the stuff and the 1st impression is promising. altima a bit of trouble. excellent. 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
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alternatives. the last time protecting the environment. and at the same time exploding it to feed, my family is on your side. it's up to us to find methods in 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. there are few eco systems that are so much at risk from plastic as our seasoned oceans. any idea that helps us to avoid replace or recycle these products is for many species a matter of life and death. the, and the
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