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twenty fifty despicable right. that's more than six billion people. will go up not to have.rs cities every. trip. more people means more traffic. will buildings more waste will position. many of those major cities a whirlpool. they join the one point six billion people living without adequate shelter. it's five to define sustainable ways to deal with is rap at a nice ation. i'm julie i shot the columbia where plastic waste is consuctingew homesor the po and t vulnerable. and m not stupid in singapore where one metropolis is striving for environmental sustainability in the face of rapid urbanization. yes yes yes. because maybe and over three hundred million tons of plastic
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is produced each year with only a fraction of it being recycled much of it and up in landfills. are polluting urban living environment waterways in ocn. in colombia turns thelastic wastes being verted into t building blos of a new environmental housing solution. colombia's capital city of bogota is home to eight million people and it is estimated that six hundred and fifty tons of plastic is thrown away every single day. i've come to meet us commandos architect and founder of the new enterprise environmental change called. this plastic. is brought me to an informal housing settlement on the outskirts of town to show me first hand the problems faced here and across latin america. will get one will be a key gives at all okay hello good ways where this plastic tool. jada cop but those into thinking in those onions 75% of plastic in packaging is single use. when you see all of this plastic on the ground you see potential
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yes a lot of attention? weekend plans farm all these plastic. in order for oscars enterprise to succeed though he's going to need a lot of plastic. small scale informal recycling than a long standing trade in colombia with forty thousand trucks on the street. letting conventional reusable based. rap metal and plastic bottles. so we're in a bull they got right now where the recyclers come to bring their plastics another recyclable products and they weigh them here so that they can then be paid. right now we're looking for probably know he's the lead recycler he's organized all of the the recycle is in this area and over recent years. government support has allowed people like paulino the opportunity to upscale and legitimize the industry. reading recycling centers like this one all over the city. andrea the emotional sink one is with us these finally got his house keeping his eyes he was glad the burlesque id's. being kind of a p. does isold roses finalizing.
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on going talents for paulino in his team is getting the word ou. now with the one with the most because going on was it the ninety day and we number to speak. did you give because you know they want them to the the mind of the vehicle. one but it will be easier. which is the way of knowing people and so they can't get
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anything. done. it's been almost. a year for the mustang ccs. missing was close. kim was are you out on me again welcome to our five day because of the specifics thank you. this is where we take all the plastic from pauline all -- and made a submission over the past few years oscar and his team have been refining this waste to make durable building blocks different types of plastic or first ground separately household plastic waste battery packaging and electrical ways such as old computers and tv's. so you can feel like straight from the the fact that these have even been use. it's like a giant wonder. what would happen to this packaging if you weren't recycling it all the packaging
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for the consumer? for sure it's going to land. now we've got all the ingredients now the chef will go to work and put it together. he's the chair all his all star. it is in the shop. they won't tell us exactly the proportion for this is the correct. plastics are mixed together heated and then compressed into brick shaped mall. tell me a little bit about the temperature what how hot are these plastic the job. get them at the point depends on the knees depends on that not the longer and longer more either. important that the temperature is kept the melting point. was not to burn the plastic and the least toxic gases. it looks like. i wonder what that was. for that
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or that. telephone numbers. we have a another five one or so now that we have all of these bricks what kind of uses do you have for them. imagine what you can make the same thing with this kind of up there. and where are these going. his rates are going to cali. yeah you always see what they're going to deal with. locally as the world capital salsa dancing the city of cali four hundred kilometers west of one of great social. 56% of the land area occupied by one thousand forty thousand people [inaudible] and neighborhood. one of the most deprived areas.
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okay yes that's a custom. made them. open you leave this up stairs to catch up with oscar n. as brick. wow my goodness. the bricks we just saw in the factory. they're actually constructing into an house for someone here in the community. i thought i might buy you remove the fat and the plan we're moving these things now we're here and building it's amazing tell me a little bit about what stage you're at right now we are in the kitchen. i highway many meals will be correct i'sure. th is the bottom. this house cost five thousand dollars and has been micro financed by the community for over them mia whose son lives in the apartment below. where's me on market then you know not be is up with us -- so- and we're not gonna be shown is a ha. seek a teleconference young because it's fussy. ways. they will stop signal no yes if
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i cd. away no. it's literally like life size lego. oscars hope is that this project will generate interest in the community and encourage future collaboration. media is that most. close to you in the know. it's a lot of this i just can't get over the holes for the electrical outlets in the plumbing where the cable down in the electricity. so check it out actually a room now. at the kitchen. he's telling me this is where the clause is going to be here. with the television on top if you can imagine at all we've got left is the roof. and some doors so we're pretty close. how much plastic is in this house? this house we use it five pounds teen compact is a classical
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where is the us and was eminem's if someone you want to know that went into this. i need. to get there is. let people know that. in just under two days the house is almost complete. the plan is that a family of four will be able to put together their own home in less than five days. hi mark up wasn't a kindness to ibm to ms imposes is the working with animals on animal conceptos plastic because already helped to house forty two families displaced by conflict in the town of what the recycling one hundred and twenty tons of plastic in the process. tell me a little bit about. the magnitude of impact that this project can have. if we use. just 2% the west blasting the war. we can change the life of me in a weekend. finish their housing charges you look in america and in just ten years. that's an enormous number and a huge impact.
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we have to start we have to start the last time. alternatives to staple building materials are being developed globally. and is being treated and used for construction inountries including. indonesia and here in the poem. stronger thanains ten recycling forty five games mon dieu is one of the most eco friendly building materials on the planet. in the middle easto engineering graduates in gaza have created an environmentally friendly break cold cream cake. this uses coal and wood ashes affiliate instead of signs making use of waste that would otherwise be buried in the ground. and in gua to resources and rubbish that would normally pinand land fl. the organizations make the system out of all time. capable of holding thousands of
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gallons of rain water. she was like these and also any paving the way for green up in school. the redefining the spaces we'd have it. singapore is a low lying island in city state 80% of its population living high rise public housing resulting in one of the highest population density in the world. challenges from rapid urbanization sea level rise and an increasingly chaotic climate is forcing planners and architects and posi make is to respond. to questions about how the cities of the future will cope with growing demand. despite the growing pressure on space singapore has been dubbed ages greenest city so i've come here to meet some of the people who are helping it and title my first stop is the park royal hotel which boasts fifteen thousand square meters of greenery. and was completed in twenty thirteen by award winning architect richard hassle. the earth now in almost every why is being formed by human
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activity so if -- **** architects we feel like it's something within our control to suggest why is that. building projects can also. play a much stronger role in this. june ship of the when you look at like google -- full images from space cities are really does that you know you see a very. bright white shiny area surrounded by doctrines of tyson if people do things like thi you would no longer say tt you would see t t vegetation lag covering the city as well. singaporean goverent avoided talking while its coveted. green mar the nation's highest vironmental certification is part of a white is keen to promote environmentally friendly buildings and investment into green city solutions. to understand more about why the cities the greenest in asia i want to see what's haening at the grass roots. i've heard about a nonprofit. providing financial education and supporting a growing. community of company founder
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michael welcome and i came here trying to get people to go back to basics. and i thought as a result of that we've. have a nice asian globalization and digitize ation. you come this connect. so i was trying to create using a space to connect back pipa and to bring back the spirit of the community and it's very strange for country lessing. this was a top down. and that's why my name is called ground out initiated. a ground up initiative started in two thousand and nine and secured a piece of land to provide environmental education for people of all ages. no one several workshops and seminars building a community of financing gate citizen. i gave it. for a moment forgot that we're in the middle of singapore. it is no king than his daughter. if anyone to build on this land that. too and i told the government to give me a chance to prove that.
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i think singapore needs a different kind ofpace 50% of the world population now leave. in cities. i weighed 70% will leave. out of nine point three billion on my point five billion. thirty years time we'll. what do you think will become? wasteful coming from who wants to work on the land. who will clean the rubbish for you? all these i implementation. in the ground up initiative gardens a meat choice fan and c. volunteers have come along to get their hands dirty. why do you come? doing farming in a way -- give me more connected with -- what yeah actually doing every day because that would eat food we know what exactly where they come from anything up i realize- also people don't appreciate food because maybe to the kids they have never seen this. how different is grown maybe they thought is just from a supermarket places like this is very good because it makes us? go back to the basics what keeps us surviving what makes us strive. and it's not really about having money it's not really about having all the tech stuff that
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really being able. to to understand that you are just be what a part of this legal ecosystem seeing how things are. grown for example it makes me start to ask a lot of other questions like how when things come from so if i use the paper i start to thk. so is itrom -- and if i try it way way is it going. have we is committed to reducing a waste to almost. zero we go back to a flat to see if she's getting started this journey barely a year ago so a lot of things that to me -- experiments you are here on your new experiment with all this how do you are you kind of creating a network kids because you can't be the only person singapore. yeah i owned when i was not a groups on facebook it was sometimes frustrating because i seem to be the only person who keep posting. but no i think it's at least.
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five three thousand five hundred and it's quite surprising i think when we see individual taking just a small actions to me is very encouraging because they start to take. ownership. have we in the journey to zero waste community still have a long way to go. last year singapore's five point five million population ditched over seven point five million tons of waste. that's one half tons per person. but momentum is building and similar dress which protects the spreading of threat the city [inaudible] a fan. roundup initiative and she's invited us to come across town and have a look at her own community got. how are yeah? so this is your projects yeah. my neighbors who come and spend time here in the god then it should be doing that. the ad directors yeah -- ceos -- lawyers. is that is that the money is not solely -- never seen soybeans group before.
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i feel that a lot of the us open spaces in singapore should not be. put the cultural landscape it should be. for and how can we make sure the meat sing up all maybe a a city in the foot god why does it need to just be a small one you know that when he says a few people in the community why not. the larger community. over 80% of the food consumed in singapore is imported from the ministry of national development is investing heavily in boosting food production on the island. i've arranged to meet jack in an engineer turned food producer who's taking commercial scale urban farming to the next level. well i can say i've never seen a phone like this before -- yes they are personal first in the world is. for for someone that's never heard of a vertical fun. how do you describe something so
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land fill of what use of ezquerra thinkable ends we stay in the has the fact? is is that the gaudy so look at why invest favor because i can - go but the thirty currently our system is using the had already using whatever we get these powerful. so fun can go out and get a enough fun i cannot get a new trends and what that. so and what the is the sim what though you get locating as a symbol to also give a data plan and what that will be the one at least like a usa. so far we not to change all of that at all so far i have changed so west. that's quite something given that this phone's been operating for three years these rotating shows effectively increase the land surface area by a factor of ten meeting this vertical fun can produce two tons of vegetablesn a single. night play king of the veggies.
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it's a beautiful. all the the weed as the first we'd have seen in the in the entire place. this is. to attract the pet is that yeah and then they they're stoned on these flaws and then but there's none in the i mean. mr is. a pest management is good and even a pass up though it catch i'm. we have people are fish. so we're actually this is floating. this is from this is yes complete with a completely full in that way the create a blue and green as in upon. weeed pond okay what the fob as they were so i do if you bill bob on it's a less area of our system. so i do can we build upon. a sim time we had a plan. so a concert is a is a sim it it we have to put our sense one harvest of fish for every six harvest. vegetables collide. the fish of feeding the vegetables yes and the
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vegetables are innocent speed racer villain. yeah so that that the trimmings from the best was originally going to feed the fish. and using is the same size on the line at the border. well. being located within the city these high density aqua clinic set ups are alsoaving energy or transportation and storage. so it's little wonder this guy greens have gone and widespread interest wrote asia as well as with the singaporean government. continue to support i'll have eleven times aside area as green area. so why go to all this extra effort to to swall y buildings in plants a huge one and on aot climate like singapore is the plants. he's out.falls on a data and the there see take that energy and use it for the chemical processes of booting carbohydrates and things. so the calculation for singapore for instance is that before the city was built singapore's five cooler andll thate ends up being converted into -- fossil
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fuel use as people use a conditions. tooool spice and throw even more heat out into the city if substantial plant cover even reducing a poll by -- two or three degrees csius the energy saving for the entire country would be you know in the billions of dollars of a movie is a lot of the arguments you have the also much of the city's build you know it doesn't matte. one of two buildings what difference can i might. but if one building can. compensate for ten other sites not having any grain you can see that just by doing selective -- injection of these kind of buildings for the city you can already created a statistically significant amount. of green in the city can you see a potentially in the future where you could. actually see some of this area providing. a food supplement because we know the singer. for is it onlinon food imports ah. we'v sort done generation one which is providing a lot of planting and achieving these
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plot ratios. i think generation to is that i can now we have this. what can we do with it and that's why i think there is anything you do on? land on the ground you can start thinking doesn't make sense to do that upon a building so if. you know the food all we also very interested in ecosystems now can we make it not just decorative but can we make it ry. biologically produive. we can i like in a loss on how many buildingsan we build this is something that needs lots of people doing it. d it need rethinking out the en finding level and that whole city visioning. so we come up to the sky bill at dawson which is one rich it's public housing projects and it does feel great i mean the the planting design in this shady canopy of solar panels. she was lovely but i mean looking out at the view. it's pretty terrifying. it's not just the density but is the number of housing in and
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building development projects and is this kind of a model of oil tankers. and shipping containers that stretches to the horizon in almost every direction. but when you start to look at that horizon through rich's eyes and you see the potential. for a rooftop a coupon except -- of vertical forest you know you start to have hope. but for us to make that future a reality and it means getting the grass roots and gays it means the choice fanning cavalry and all those guys get things going from the ground up. and it means the meeting the plan is on the policy makers half way. if we're gonna see seized are truly sustainable. as a metropolises continue to expand we are being pushed to explore more radical solutions to the environment to call. the living. anti one a french architecture firm is constructing a garden tower which will absorb a hundred thirty tons of carbon dioxide each year. while local government in washington dc is utilizing high
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foothold in the city center to generate energy connecticut for lighting. using a technology called paycheck. i decide to read some dough has been dubbed the small to city on the planet. developers to build the world's largest market waste collection system. city wide recycling is projected to reach 76% by. twenty twenty innovations of that. if it was supposedo funding to adopt them widely as a chance the wod's mitchell process could become stainable. i was so many of us living in cities the environmental impact could be hugeñ!ñ!ñ!■x■xqññññ
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