the biggest issues get a human voice ceased to face with the news makers. four thirty am in moscow good to have you with us here on our t.v. see your headlines russia mourns the thirty five killed in monday's suicide bomb attack at domodedovo international airport state flags were flown at half staff and well wishers attended memorial services at the airport and across the capital one hundred sixteen people remain in the hospital many of them in critical condition here's a little suit a short visit with those who committed this terrible and targeting citizens of different countries expected their actions to bring russia to its knees but they filled the room. in his keynote address to the world's movers and shakers in davos president medvedev calls for greater global cooperation in the fight on international terrorism following monday's suicide bombing in moscow the russian

leader was forced to cut short his visit to the economic for. a new strategic arms did reduction deal between russia and the us set to be signed into law start the unanimous backing of the federation council the upper house of the russian parliament it's the final step before being signed by president medvedev they can see the nuclear arsenals of both major cut by a third. next waste choking the world's oceans tears of the mermaid coming up next. the thing that's most shocking to me is of all the samples we've taken whether they be at the surface ten meters thirty meters or down at one hundred meters every single sample has had plastic in it from the samples we found in one thousand nine hundred nine there was a ratio of six to one plastic plankton now in two thousand and eight we found a plastic plankton ratio of forty six to one so that's over eight times as much

plastic in the environment. project. from. the charts will shock you and i. quote plastic soup of the north pacific. there's the suit. scientists have shown that there is no one touches only left on this planet every square mile of ocean contains tens of thousands of bits of plastic the result of our consumption two hundred twenty pounds per inhabitant. we will not change the evolution of the society we are using less and less time to prepare the food for the luncheon for the dinner and as well there we.

move and we have the habits to eat outside of the house so more and more we will use products which are much more decades and ready to be consumed for the drinks or for the food then we were used to use in the past and in the first ten years of the current century since two thousand we produced as much plastic as we produced in this entire century that preceded way using at the moment in excess of two hundred sixty million tons of plastic every year worldwide now around about a third of that is used for single use items for items of packaging that are used once and then discarded so it's a material that last for a very long time in the marine environment and yet we use it and throw it away within a year. of these oceans of plastic there because of our carelessness or is it because the system doesn't work properly. what happens to plastic when we throw it away. this is one of the biggest garbage tubes in the united states. what else landfill

serves after los angeles county about seventy eight cities and five point two million people one has landfill takes and has permit at about thirty thousand two hundred tons per day what that accounts for is if you take a football field from post to post fill it up with waste about ten feet higher little over three meters that's how much waste is accepted here a death. in the united states in europe the glue is tough to plaster through where it is simply buried. thousands of bottles and bags end up in this type of tip every year. between them the two continents buried four to five million metric tons of plastic in two thousand and seven. in the face of this exponential consumption the infrastructures can't keep up. only five percent of the plastic used in the world is recycled and the west the

main consumer does not even have the means to deal with. this is the port of chinari in india part of our recycled waste ends up here by the container full. hidden from european eyes all rubbish is treated behind these doors which are usually kept closed. you see containers that then unloaded and then the material is in this yard in this yard as you can see that is different different quality from different origin some material from germany some from france some from america some from the middle east it's this at some who will let us in the future in just number one recycler of plastic bottles. is

a broker he buys the contents of on recycling bins and resell it here where it can be treated by cheaper labor. like. so newsline of business is doing well. in the export of use plastic has been increasing by thirty percent a year in two thousand and seven front sent seven hundred thousand metric tons of trucks to control. as you see the build up from france if you see from the label you may be able to identify the bottle that maybe you have you'll sent over. these have come here now and it will be teeth like gold and made again into valuable bottles more product which could be you of the again. the plastic recycled money future comes from western countries quite legally the recyclers hope that by showing us how we'll take our boat rubbish delinquent just

european consumers to send the. message to the utopian customers utopian whole homeowners are utopian men and women it's very straight and simple who took up all your stores is about to be associated in keeping the environment and please add wood for the human belief i have a week i liked those bottles which you throw in the dust bin at god what they did to those products that you use every day maybe it is a shark it is a t. shirt audit is a back bencher art it is the bottles we to use what blinky what audi drinks are any juices.

three. so we try to have zero waste if possible i try to have no plastic come into our homes and then end up in the garbage cans so moccasin and they're gone for radical solution for us we go to buy things at the grocery store but we buy bread. it sometimes comes up plastic bags you have to file you have to go to an actual bakery we are now making these out of old t. shirts so we've been collecting t. shirts from schools and from goes well when people are thrown away their shirts instead of using plastic bags and of course we never buy plastic water bottles anytime we want to get water we bring our own we fill up at a tap filtered water we bring these with us everywhere so you get these habits you develop them and then you don't think about them you just remember grab my bag of

the market. even organic waste doesn't go into plastic bags to get eaten it's show us the worms and you got to see a need. to care for them. and in the bottom look some shallots some garlic. so there's a recycling bin and we're trying to throw anything away if we buy something we try to make sure the packaging is recyclable the idea of waste is something completely invented by humans so there should be no waste if you're recycling if you're conscious about the things that you buy and you remember that everything you buy has to go somewhere. new plastic in the home eat whose new plastic in the tip going abroad plus no

plastic in the ocean. that's moccasin and it's a question of time. they're already off on another adventure pedaling two thousand miles between vancouver and t. one month to convince whoever they meet on the way. for them plastic is a problem full stop and it needs to be eradicated at the source. the benefits which are brought by the use of the plastic material also great for the society so great for the consumers in terms of security for food in terms of life news for transport etc that would be stupid just to cancel those. strong benefits in order to just. correct something which is just at the end of the life of the product and be goes that is a wrong be

a view of the people and of the society we hear that same line from the weapons manufacturers guns don't kill people keep people kill people we hear the same mind from the plastics industry that plastics aren't the problem it's people that are the problem it's people littering but there's no way to educate every single person on the planet to add dispose of their plastics properly so the industry and the manufacturers have a responsibility to design a product that if people littering if a plastic bag blows out of a garbage truck it won't have the sort of impact that we're seeing. can we do without plastic. the moment. but in europe a few minutes about it is a try at least in part. because to found it so faced with the problem of plastic pollution. it's beaches and the sea so ten years ago it made some changes.

with well there's bread there's vegetables a bit of everything. in the summer months there's a lot of stuff from their gardens and things like flowers grass from their lawns that sort of m p put whatever people happen to have a tome that's biodegradable. for the moment these banks are one of the few alternatives to plastic. organic waste is collected every week in banks made of stopped. they don't have to be salted the banks break down not tree along with the food waste. instead getting on that void to become biodegradable bags are mixed with the organic waste so they break down completely within three or four weeks with just simple small potato and corn starch that they're made of it reacts like any other organic matter it plays on and it just like potato peelings for example that it has. the resulting compost is used by the

region's fungus so two million or going to banks go back to the earth each year. and a bit more plastic has not ended up strewn around or in the sea. i . doubt it because we successfully sell to hawaii to get attention to the issue of plastic marine debris which was hundreds of school and college students attend marcus and his lectures all along that trip from canada to mexico. now you might think ok this animal it eats plastic it goes in the mouth of the rand and that's it no big deal the problem is other end is small so this past is past the particles that stay in their stomach for a long time the plastic is plastic particles they're not benign they don't just sit

there and do nothing bile and marcus raises another question the industry adds millions of tons of chemicals to plastics what kind of effects do they have. these freshwater snails are sensitive to the slightest variations in their environment they serve as sentinels one day the federal agency for the environment asked your goldman to study the effects on this gastropod of a chemical substance whose effects are still unknown this female. he was surprised but when to having. it was a complete new phenomenon for us we had and lost thousands of these new people and never find something comparable before and so we repeated the experiment once twice

and even a third time you'll discover that ten percent of the females presented significant sexual different nations and the direct production was four times normal. this uterus with the two glands is considerably larger in the female compared with a normal thena and this specific specimen. in addition exhibits this great rupture of the open docked you can imagine the power of the masses which have caused this rupture it's really like. an eruption of of working on. your ground where is the business a found. the answer is in our plastics this antioxidant is added to babies bottles bottles and and packaging but it also risky.

i was really shocked because you have to imagine these test concentrations which can be found in every supposed order and it is hard to believe i confess that at these very low environmentally relevant concentrations such harmful effects like the killing of kenyans isn't used. the scientists are really beginning to discover that the plastics in the oceans release chemical substances into the environment which have effects that are still you know. how much escapes once the products are in the water. how do these pollutants accumulate in the food chain. our marine animals affected. and to what extent. we. know. that's what the crew of the world one of the fun and the been trying to find

out by studying the mediterranean fin with the world's second largest whale. download out there so we get plenty of the film. to do of these animals are contaminated. the scientist needed to study fat samples. for. your situation. the results of the biopsies are clear just like polar bears and atlantic whale and salt the fin whales fat contains fire retardants which are additives to plastic. yes.

put. my. but no one yet knows what effect these products have on the species. and they call them. mayor we are in the middle of nowhere miles from any continent and we find substances and pollutants that have no business being here are going to feel that. they were purchased hundreds of miles away and are being carried by the current market dog bothers me most is that we are contaminating the whole planet from the clothing the remotest and wildest place that's. shocked by his own discovery. wondered if the food wrapped in plastic that we eat every day were contaminated by certain substances. he puts more snails in bottles of water for forty eight weeks.

those near us which were kept in the bottles produced much more embryos compared to those nails in the glass bottles there are compounds in the plastic material in these p. t. bottles that leach into a culture medium all the snails we don't know which compounds we haven't identified them yet but they are clearly estrogenic. new wood all they must realize when we want to put a material or substance on the market it undergoes laboratory testing which enables us to show that it is harmless the results are passed on to scientific and public organizations we will decide whether or not we're allowed to commercialize it to produce the ortiz or constantly checking all of the products that we sell to it to people.

this man who are affected by these chemical products. and over a couple who use plastic like everyone else have agreed to have blood tests. showed us one is an epidemiologist for years she has been carrying out tests some fatality in two thousand and five she started studying the effects of fights another chemical additive for plastics she selected women with a high level of science in their urine instead of the effect on their infant male children. no one had done this before. these ballots

particularly the ones of most concern are called anti and richer as they lower testosterone they do it actually to adults as well and but it's more important what happens in the womb because the changes that occur in the lower than per minute for life and so because it's handy and or janick lower testosterone at the critical time will alter the path of development of the male genitalia so normally it starts in a feminine default if you will and then becomes masculinized under the influence of testosterone and that process is interfered with by certain sally it's when they get to a certain level. fairly so used in food packaging and towards for example to soften the plastic. but in rodents to feminize the species. the testicles disappear when

the penis becomes shorter. the distance between the testicles and the anus which is normally double in males shrinks and becomes more like that of females. shalhoub the idea and the courage to try taking the same missions with human babies and you got the same results. when levels of d h p the most considered the most toxic vallet were higher in the mother's year and then the boys were more likely to have testicles that were not completely descended into this crow and tended to have a significantly smaller p.s. so i wouldn't even as an eco toxicologist and not a specialist for human toxicology i wouldn't expect negative impacts on dives so if it does i using the neuro waterfall from plenty bottles there's absolutely no

danger but i'm not so convinced when we're talking about pregnant women or very young children. because in these very sensitive phases of life cycle care should be taken to avoid any estrogen it can because. they put the plastic you see plastics contain the substances that can eventually migrate over but only an infinitesimal quantities which are well below the norms. certain scientists use operating procedures that are unjustified. motions which are then regrettably picked up by the media and it creates an unfounded scare among the public at large. but this is a democracy so everyone has the right to express themselves. is it a case of scaremongering scientists. simply asking you questions. here

the results of. the chemical compound plastic. and large those two people are just like you or me it's like background noise but that background noise however means that we all have spent all day in our bodies now you know this is a product that didn't exist before our grandparents didn't have any chemical products created by industry and now we're all impregnated with this. study of this time has been carried out in front of everyone tested in the united states had not only between eighty but also found in that bone. in spite of the ocean pollution and the effect on our animals in spite of the contamination of. man has not yet decided to do without plastic on the contrary production has been increasing by ten percent a year. in india plastics use is twenty times

less than in europe and the united states but with a billion inhabitants it will soon be one of the planet's three biggest consumers. how can this country stop polluting its rivers and coasts with its plastics how can it go on absorbing all waste plastic indispensable ally of off everyday life. we thought it was a net substance over a century we have poured at least a hundred million tons of it into the oceans. but now a boomerang effect is taking place. the situation is hopeless. it is getting worse at a near exponential rate and shows no sign of decreasing. no one

seems to be able to envision a future without plastic and no one seems to be willing to admit that change needed to get rid of the plastic pollution problem is drastic incremental change small changes will not make a difference. marcus and i refuse to give up you are coming here today to bring awareness i just got a river the go to keep up the struggle to change those in mentalities and finally put an end to plastic age. and it's only way to change people's attitudes. maybe we should scare them this way some things as their. music in.

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