the rages people are trying to stem the turkish governments, all sorts of gibs. but only if the climb is addressed in the path of trying to take responsibility for his actions. the guardians of trees starts october 28th on d. w. the every 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 and the result is plastic is part of our daily lives. but we have to do something to change this point. we can't just didn't fade

a natural environment with plastic. plastic micro plastics can now be found everywhere 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 on when organisms are affected by it. then we have to do something about it. if we don't act now, the amount of plastic in our seas will have increased for full by 2050. the come rain or shine cheats you'll model and you only heads out onto the amount of peak or just like his forefathers. this small sea bass and 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 the see chico model and jerone 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 it's suffocates up to anybody. know the effect on the environment is severe. how long be in it? mati cool men see is like a momma when i'm on mano it's brimming with love, news, east on copy that the way that even on. but when a child doesn't behave well, how do you get? she still loves them. is that a symbol of fish? but she doesn't respect them as much as a kind one. go met or feeling you know,

these i'm all of it was all 50 years of muscle breeding with plastic met has turned the motor vehicle into a trash heap 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. break down the 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 in a scientific experiment since 2021. and only uses an estimate from matter be a bio plastic based on may starch. i'm not going to talk to this included. let me be with most muscle readers are suspicious of this new material elm for oh no. you have to be

a very good muscle operator to work with matter being that said, what else do you want me to? little sort of like it's more work than with normal plastic form for the purity level that's thrown into the 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 teach you might on june. these requirements generally means you're not gonna say means 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'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 see have 1st hand experience of that. that's wine, that's made of new materials are being tested in europe and asia. marine biologist keiana, 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 my to ali can, can be going to come and say process the somebody packed together with kiana g o me and her colleagues sit in a scope of 5 uh the muscle farmer wants to find out whether the bio plastic match will

stand to the test of time. most plastic gets washed into the sea by rivers. here in germany to has sunk costs. we'll see that's amazing. what's floating in the run this on one of them. this one just to a nico lots of shy goods 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 flowed capacitance. and those flush all the associations members, designs the litter collector together with an engineering company and had it assembled in a ship yard for 2 years. they fall in 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 nasty shock waves saying 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. as you can see that here, everything from shoes buffalo 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. i this is alonzo name is jose. let me 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 trash collect a is about 3 made is 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 in 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 be seen with a naked eye. yeah, come on, the plastic granules, every way 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 he did. yeah, this is just a normal piece of wood and a feather. what else comes to that? there's a lot of microcosmic on them. how about that?

because these things connect on the surface and micro caustics also float to the stuff as long as you can always, you can even see what kind of micro cost to get his attendance. and that's pretty wrapped in a piece of plastic pallets for the 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, or during production, when the factories are cleaned, they go down the drain and you put a phone to be honest. i want is expected there to be so much micro casting is something just get off that's associated me called las vegas. 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 fed spine, i've tried to get

a u. s. created about 200 categories, one, see the many elliptic collecting associations, so the trash according to those categories. this, 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 it does, 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 home i'm from the university of phone is evaluating the findings in a long term study. she's 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 the that but we can't see them. i'd say that once micro caustics 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, that are up to now the micro particles have ended up in the litter collector more or less by chance we under hom, on is worth thing on a system intended to filter out micro plastics. this group of friends loved to see, but are themselves part of the plastic problem to mazda if that's the dives and serves as a fellow. so i'm going to, we set those feel very connected to the see on the playground who said 40. so at the same time we also add to the pollution on that even if we're not always aware

of it for me to exist as well. everything we use is petroleum based, or do you need how 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 often produced on the other side of the planet and nothing in the manufacturing surfing equipment is an eco friendly. and the products are rarely recycled, that has long worry to mazda, and that he and his friends by the usual, and 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 under the ocean inside the contains meshes of caustic critic said, if they do, you can literally collect it while you were swimming or swap. it is a live is wash all the into the sea, optis, stormy weather, 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 want to help slash the use of plastic, also in the production of surfboards and surf equipment the financial k. but we were really shocked by the ship madness of this pollution since it was why i ended up doing the project that i'm doing well, not something like, no man. so we wanted to create an alternative to the conventional assess industry. so you'd 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 aesthetic of the bill. yeah, we knew we were starting from nothing. i think they didn't have the necessary

expertise styles. they'll succeed was obvious. it would be hard to best 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 simple cycle. so i'll send all, most of the complex mix of materials and synthetic fibers which are frequently contained toxic substances. make it very complicated to recycle water and outdoor sports equipment. when summer is over, a lot of inflatable mattresses, body boards, and swim aids. and up on the track sheet, along with wet suits the entrepreneur see them as a potential raw material. they put out a box for old wetsuits in a branch of a major sports chain. when wet suit fabric gets recycled, they can lose its door ability and become porous. new technologies are needed. but nikolai cheapo knows from working for big companies that they prefer to use fresh

materials. your cheese, initiate negative side costs money to process waste products and you see it takes a very long time to change an industrial process when they get but we can do that a lot more quickly. if we're on his own. we're already producing 500 surfaces a day. our advantage is that we're very agile and contrast to the industry giants 20 image on the understand. 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 single sketch uh, cutting out rectangular areas, lights it on it, which we use to produce new stuff, equipment. so like light leashes for example, self, 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 illegally dumped.

the nomads want to use up every last little bit of the discarded what suits the surf entrepreneur sell the products via their own online store. their next goal is to supply big companies to level chemo. so a lot of bids get left over to 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 match, found stuff pads on the bone. you material cheaper that's about do stuff to do very much of the traction pads are produced by a secret process from a mixture of those wet suit, scraps and adhesive plays on time. by the way, sickly, that is, the prototype of a soft had 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,

c and the problem is ensuring that your ability for us it's crucial to stop. micro product goes getting shit into the seat in a bundle of sounding you cool, bought it, and they are well on their way to being able to completely recycle old. what suits and 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 evolved as you can see, the muscles are bigger than the ones grown in plastic that shown it calling about plastic are in particular item other places. so that even that was also what we discovered now fast to test runs some can 0 in a mean way than previous set of oxy on it. now we've been gamma,

we measure the some laser entity, the length of human, french and weight of the shells. and the flesh charlotte disorder, the phase or the live out of it physically. then we found that muscles, bridge and my to be next grow bigger and move quickly compared to those and poly properly through method to be in the experiment. so we have control group growing and probably populating at the same time in the same environment in the studio, and then the next to so i'm going to notice 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 met. 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 you and 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 based materials have less of an impact on the marine environmental the nail. and it allowed the task, the quantity inside, they might be broken down more quickly. the david asked see city for example in fishes, stomachs. and she said to them to the fish, teach you a mother. 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 of the day while he's pissed off in comparison to plastic rod matter b is very weak in coming just started. 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 it unless bates just stop and then what's the best for the class? the researchers experiments show that matter. b 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 and the open sea. they've got that zone and even sooner. what works here in these sheltered waters by town though, 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 flamingos and macro of the customer on looking at how they failed to water. at the most ology of

the mounds, which are, which enables them to remove the food from water. and i am striking 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 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 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 water 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. does this, it's a filter that was inspired by fish orthodontics 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 caustics problem. for example, in sections of road where a lot of micro plastics gets shipped from tires, hyphen 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 the estimates

in the future. real figures should show how important it is to add swiftly to protect our rivers and sees they 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, i'm 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 brand oxbow, has expressed an interest in their serv pads. the the building bought you the, the initial equipment. we are up cycling something we oh we're in some conflict lot that's going on. so political good. well, you could collect them for us so they don't and then sell the products we make from them and your stores because i really put you. yeah. i know one of them, i guess i'm only only correct 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 class and election projection pads around the used by very few people say about what we have all the possible solutions and other projects we are doing. so we just solely blood push. it doesn't you switch? something else from other industries are interested in the materials were developing. so i don't know to be assessed 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. once you create this partnership is a big step forwards and nomad 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. but i did it for the point 500. listen to my heart. you know, i bear responsibility for 10 families, you need to put food on the table to get you from me like a they have to pay their taxes and bills. i don't know if i got any thoughts. they'd be able to find that, but we're trying to come up with a good compromise. so just download on godaddy mall onto so going put on this. 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 plan that also grows here. you know, control arms over on the way,

mainly monitoring the materials or ability and robustness and my daddy are, you 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 start, you have to have different of course i'm optimistic because i know that there is a sustainable natural alternative to this one. we 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 due to an invalid. uh huh. and if i can do my bit, i'm happy to remove it, so it will create exposure to bolster and the 1st impression is promising. ultima, but our trouble, excellent. it's not coming upon web doctor didn't do. it holds the muscles altogether really well. see oper 19 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 for the, for the last time, 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. 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 in the

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