welcome back your weather t. here is a reminder of the top stories levy and rebels are prepared to tap one of colonel qadhafi as a last desert strongholds the town of bani walid that's half are efforts to negotiate a surrender of the ousted leaders remaining supporters breakdown. russia says the u.n. must immediately call for all sides in the syrian conflict to stop violence and start talking became after mosque it can damage ease sanctions which it says threaten to hurt the people not the regime. and overcrowded u.k. prisons are breaking point working at almost maximal operational capacity this as

a government hands out top jail sentences in a hardline approach to street criers can looters. and next we look out of tams to curb the ever growing pollution that is plaguing the world's oceans. 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 a hundred meters every single sample has had taken from the samples we found in one thousand nine hundred nine there was a ratio of six to one stick the plane can now in two thousand and eight we found a plastic lantern ratio of forty six to one so that's over eight times as much plastic in the environment. we project. come. charging so sharply in our. core plastic soup of

the north pacific. there's this new. scientists have shown that there is no untouched zone 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 a year 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 head it's to eat outside of the house so more and more we will use products which are much more packaged and ready to be consumed for the drinks or for the food then we were used to use in the past and that in the first ten

years of the current century since two thousand we produced as much plastic as we produced in this anti a century that preceded it we're using at the moment an 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 lasts for a very long time in the marine environment and yet we use it and throw it away within a year. all 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 trips in the united states. but hells levels are is half of los angeles county about seventy eight cities and five point two million people landfill takes a turn and is permit at about thirty thousand two hundred tons per day bad 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 except in here a day. in the united states in europe at least half the plastic we threw away is simply better and. thousands of bottles and bags end up in this type of tip every year. between the two continents are 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 china in india part of our recycled waste ends up here by the container.

hidden from european eyes already she is treated behind loose doors which are usually kept closed. the siegel dinner then unloaded and then the material 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 and this man at some new religious in the future in just number one recycle of plastic bottles. is a broker he does the contents of the recycling bins and resells it here where it can be treated buying cheap labor. like the. line of business is doing well. the export of used plastic has been increasing

going thirty percent a year in two thousand and seven france and seven hundred thousand metric tons of trucks to control as you see the build up from france if you see from the labels you may be able to identify the bottles that need to you have you sent away in the garbage bin these have come here now and it will be retitled and made again into valuable bottle more product which could be used again. the plastic recycled my future comes from western countries quite legally the recyclers hope it does show us how it will take care of the rubbish dealing coinsurance european consumers to send the more. message to the european customers utopian how homeowners are futile

when it will but it's very straight and simple who took up all your stars is about to be associated in keeping the environment and plead that were for the human to leave for you have a week i looked north bottoms because you're throwing the best big act that word into those products that you use every day maybe it is a piece of art is it back into art it is the bottles that you use what inking what are already doing started it uses. for. so we try to have zero waste of possible i try to have no plastic come into our

homes and then end up in the garbage can so marcus and i have gone for a radical solution for this we go to buy things at the grocery store but we buy bread that sometimes comes the plastic bags at the fall you 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 good 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 town called hard water we bring these with us everywhere and so you get these habits you develop them and then you don't think about them you just remember i had my back to the market. even organic waste doesn't go into plastic dentists it gets eaten. so you know it's the worms yeah you got to see underneath.

carefully. in the on the bottom look some shallots some garlic. so there's a recycling bin and we try 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. oh. no plastic in the home equals no plastic in the tip or going abroad plus no plastic in the ocean. that's marcus and ann is a question of the times they're already off on another adventure pedaling two thousand knots between vancouver ninety one third to convince whoever they meet on

the way. with 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 the statement are you are so grateful to society so grateful consumers in terms of security for food in terms of life news for transport etc there would be stupid just to cancel those very strong benefits in order to just. correct something which is just at the end of the life of the product and the goes that is a wrong behavior 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 litter it 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 you know answer is no. but in europe a few minutes a planet is a try at least in part. because two ton of love you don't found it so faced with the problem of plastic pollution early on. it's beaches and the sea so ten years ago it made some changes. with age but well there's bread there's vegetables a bit of everything if we put the world in the summer months there's a lot of stuff from their gardens you know the way things like flowers grass from their lawns that sort of thing and you put they do whatever people happen to have

a tome that's biodegradable really give you the other. for the moment these banks are one of the few alternatives to plastic. organic waste is collected every week in bags made of stock. alone have to be sorted the bank's breakdown not trained on the food waste. said beautify their voice and they don't because biodegradable bags are mixed with the organic waste so they break down completely within three or four weeks yes of course all the potato and corn starch that they're made of it reacts like any other organic matter it plays on it and it's like material peelings for example that it has. the resulting compost is used by the region's fumbles so to me organic banks go back to the earth each year. and a bit more plastic has not ended up strewn around or in the sea.

as we successfully sell to hawaii to get attention to the issue of plastic marine debris with water hundreds of school and college students attend because an amazon actions 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 and it's small so this past is past a particle was i think stay in your 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 counts millions of tons of chemicals to plastics what kind of effects do they have.

these freshwater snooze the sensitive to the slightest variations in their environment to serve a sentence under the federal agency for the environment asked you to study the effects from this cluster apart from a chemical substance whose effects are still unknown as female say. he was surprised but when the having. was a complete new phenomenon for us we had and lost thousands of these and its people and never find something comparable to fill and so we repeated experiment once or twice and even a third time you'll discover that ten percent of the females presented significant sexual different missions and that their own production was four times normal this

uterus with the police is considerably larger in superhuman compared with an army and this specific specimen. in addition exhibits this great rupture of the of the govt you can imagine the power of the masses which have caused this rock so since then it's really like. an eruption of a volcano. your grassed where is this feeling a foam. your answer is in our plastics this antioxidant is added to baby's bottles bottles and packaging little also risk age. i was really shocked because you have to imagine these are test concentrations which can be found in every supposed orca and it is hard to believe i confess that at these very low environmentally relevant concentrations such harmful effects like

the killing of kenyans as interest. the scientists are really beginning to discover that the plastics in the oceans released chemical substances into the environment which have effects that are still or know. how much escapes once the products are in the water. how do these booms of humility and the food chain. our marine animals affect it. and to what extent. do we. know that that's what the crew of the world one left on and i mean trying to find out by studying the mediterranean fin with the world's second largest way.

to know these animals are contaminated the scientists needed to study fact samples . of. your humiliation. the results of the biopsies are clear just like polar bears and atlantic whales all the fin whales fat contains fire retardants which are additives to plastics. put. my. no one yet knows what effect these products have on the species. will be you lemay we are in the middle of nowhere miles from any continent and we

find substances and pollutants that have no business being here thank you or did they were purchased hundreds of miles away and are being carried by the current market bothers me most is that we are contaminating the whole planet on their clothing the remotest and wildest place that's. on his own discover you wondered if the food wrapped in plastic that we eat every day were contaminated by certain substances. he puts most meals and bottles of water for forty eight weeks. those neither of which were kept and clean he bought us produced natural more embryos compared to go through the earth and the glass bottles there are compounds

in the plastic material in these p. t. bottles that leach into a culture medium as snails we do not know which compounds we haven't identified them. but they are with us from denmark. called new one they must realize when we want to put a material or substance on the market it undergoes the poetry testing which enables us to show that it is harmless is the results are passed on to scientific and public organizations we decide whether or not we're allowed to commercialize it will produce a good doherty's or constantly checking all the products that we sell toyed with you. this man who are affected by these chemical products. and all of the couple who use plastic like everyone else have agreed to have blood tests.

sureness one is an epidemiologist for years she has been carrying out test some fatality in two thousand and five she started studying the effects and finds another chemical additive for plastics. she selected with the high level of violence in their urine and still have the effect on their infant male children and no one had done this before. these ballots particularly the ones of most concern are called anti andersen's 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 and are then permanent for life and so because it's handy and or janick lower testosterone at a 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 masculine i was under the influence of testosterone and that process is interfered with by certain sally it's when they get to a certain level. so using food packaging and tools for example to soften the plastic. doesn't rodents the feminized the species. the testicles disappear in the penis becomes shorter. the distance between the testicles and the anus which is normally doubling moans shrinks and becomes more like that of females. shanahan the idea and the courage to try taking the same missions with human babies so he got

the same results. when levels of d.h. be the most considered the most toxic valuable higher in the mother's year and then the boys were more likely to have testicles that were not completely descended into the struggle and tended to have her significantly smaller piers. so i wouldn't even as an eco toxicologist and not a specialist for human toxicology i wouldn't expect negative impacts on dogs so if it does i using mineral water for completely bogus yes 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 the life cycle casual taken

to avoid any estrogen it can cause. you see plastics contain substances that can eventually migrate but only an infinitesimal concious which are well below the norms. certain scientists use operating procedures that are unjustified you can see the person in these roles emotions which are then regrettably picked up by the media and it creates an unfounded scare among the public at large the key for it but after all this is a democracy so everyone has the right to express themselves. is it a case of scaremongering scientists all of this simply asking you questions. over here the results of that grotesque purposeful you know the chemical component of plastic by 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 we thought it was you know this is a product that didn't exist before our grandparents didn't have any it's a chemical products created by industry and now we're all impregnated with this new epidemiological study of this time has been carried out in front of everyone tested in the united states and not only does feel a little sort of france in the bone. in spite of the ocean pollution of the effect on our animals in spite of the contamination of. man has not yet decided to do with 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 bridges 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 tonnes 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. moccasin am i refuse to give up or you are coming here today to bring awareness to. wherever they go they keep up the struggle to change laws and mentalities and finally put an end to the plastic age. change people's attitude. maybe we should scare them because this way some things as a. business can. get out. of her.

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question is that so much of a taxpayer is coming to heights is never a real mystery and is so for the rich during the great financial contraction for millions lost their jobs and all but the rich of only gotten richer should the rich paid. in indonesia all of these available in the ground shirts and media who tell the ritz carlton hotel and the town the film the millennium hotel in china you can see all t.v. and censored cell mccown's rocks hotel mccombs grand hotel macau diminish marco was also told the salt of the salty on.