good to have you with this is your moscow top stories now the syrian forces launched their biggest sweep against pertussis in the northwest with reports of several killed meanwhile russia's urging the u.n. to get the warring sides into films to avoid a repeat of libya's chaotic to send. israel authorizes its special forces to shoot of palestinian protesters as they prepare to march in support of a un bid for independence some of it has already jewish settlers in the west bank but claims the sole purpose is to prevent. a gas impasse ukraine backpedals over its threats of taking russia to court to force prices down says it

will stand its ground on the already signed deal can't continue to insist on a prize reduction but it's so far refusing to make any concessions. about withdrawing their stories more developments in less than thirty minutes from now in the meantime you can watch how global seas turn to plastic soup as we follow the investigation of a team of environmentalists. 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 and one hundred meters every single sample has had plastic and from the samples we brought in one thousand nine hundred nine there was a ratio of six to one plankton now in two thousand and eight we now know langton ratio of forty six to one so that's over eight times as much. plastic in the environment. we project always. come.

charging so sharply here in our. class like the super bowl the northerners the regular there's the super. 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 a year per inhabitant. we will not change the evolution of the society we are using less and less time to prepare the foods 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 on 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 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 it 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 though 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. hell's lateral thirds of all los angeles county about seventy eight cities and five point two million people plenty of landfill takes then as per minute about thirty

thousand two hundred thousand per day. accounts for as if you take a football field from post to post fill it up with waste about ten feet higher the water three meters that's how much waste there is except in here a day. in the united states in europe the blues tough to plaster through where he is simply bearing. thousands of bottles and bags end up in this type of tip every year. between them the two continents bury 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. hidden from european eyes all rubbish is treated behind these doors which are usually kept closed. you see containers are then unloaded and then the material is stopped in this yard in this yard as you can see there is a different different quality from different origin some material from germany some from france some from america some from the middle east and this man absolutely polluters in the future in his number one recycling of plastic bottles. is a broker he believes that comes in several recycling grams and resells it here where it can be treated by cheap labor. like the.

line of business is doing well. and the export of used plastic has been increasing by thirty percent a year in two thousand and seven front sent seven hundred thousand metric tons of plastic abroad as you see the build up from france you can see from the labels you may be able to identify the bottle that maybe you would you'll end of a in the garbage bin because of come here now and it will be the thigh pulled and made again into valuable bottle more product which could be used again. the plastic recycled my future comes from western countries quite legally in recent years hope now showing us how we'll take our rubbish really encourage us european consumers to send the.

message to the utopia customers utopian homeowners. utopian men and women it's very straight and simple to put up honest hers is how to be associated in keeping the clearly out good for the human belief i have a week i looked north bottoms but you're throwing that must mean that god would pay heed to those products that you use every day maybe. because of how hard it is that backbencher are it is the bottles which are used for bringing what are already things out any juice. for.

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 can so. i am going for a radical solution for this we go to buy things in the grocery store but we buy bread. it sometimes comes the plastic bags if the 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 friends as 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 a tap cultured water we bring these with us everywhere and so that you get these habits you develop and then you don't think about them and just remember that my bad luck with the market. even organic waste doesn't go into the most advanced spirits fiefdoms show us the worms yet going to see and to me.

carefully. and in the bottom look some shallots some garlic. so there's a recycling bin 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. new plastic you know who you can use new plastic in the tip going abroad plus no plastic in the ocean. that's marcus and m is a question of time. they're already on from another adventure pedaling two thousand

miles between vancouver and key one to convince whoever they meet on the way. to them plastic is a problem from the start and it needs to be irradicated at the symbols. 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 lightness for transport etc that would be stupid just to cancel those thirty strong benefits in order to just. correct something which is just at the end of the life of the product and because 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 line

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 literally 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 with plastic. for the moment you know answer is no. but in europe a few minutes a planet is a trying at least in part. because two ton of love you don't found it so faced with a problem of plastic pollution early on. pollution of its beaches and the sea so ten years ago it made some changes. with well there's bread there's vegetables a bit of everything if we. know that in the summer months there's

a lot of stuff from their gardens. for things like flowers grass from their lawns that sort of thing and people whatever people happen to have a tome that's biodegradable for give you the other. for the moment these banks are one of the few alternatives to plastic. organic waste is collected every week and banks made a start. but don't have to be salted the banks break down naturally and all the food waste. he said getting i have white and they don't think the biodegradable bags are mixed with the organic waste so they break down completely within three or four weeks with just simple saw the potato and corn starch that they're made of it reacts like any other organic matter if i thought it was like material peelings for example and if i thought. the resulting compost is used by the regions funds so two million organic banks go back to the earth each year. and

a bit more plastic has not ended up strewn around or in the sea. down as we successfully sell to hawaii to get attention to the issue of plastic marine debris with washing hundreds of school and college students attending marcus and his lectures all along that trip from canada to mexico. now you might think ok this and more it eats plastic it goes in and out i'll get around it and that's it no big deal the problem is other and it's small so this past is past the particles that stay in their stomach for a long time the plastic these plastic particles they're not benign they don't just sit there and do nothing bile and marcus raises another question the industry has 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 a sentence under the federal agents if they asked you to study the effects on this gastropod the chemical substance use of drugs are still unknown this pheno. he was surprised the red herring. was a complete new phenomenon for us we had and lost thousands of these new people and never find something comparable before and so you repeated thanksgiving and once twice and even a third time you'll discover that ten percent of the females presented significant

sexual differ missions to their reproduction is four times normal this uterus where the two glands is considerably larger in the female compared with the moment and this specific specimen. in addition exhibits this great rapture of the overbuilt you can imagine the power of the masses which have caused this rock said it's really like. an eruption of a volcano. your grassed where is to be a found. the answer is in our plastics this antioxidant is added to babies bottles bottles and and packaging billett also risking. i was really shocked because you have to imagine the test concentrations which can be found in every supposed order and it is hard to believe i confess that at these

very low environment irrelevant concentrations such harmful effects like a killing or clean hands is introduced. the scientists are really beginning to discover that the plastics in the oceans released chemical substances into the in of them which have effects that are still or know. how much escapes once the products are in the water. how do these pollutants accumulate in the food chain. our marine animals affect it. and to what extent. can we. know. that's what the crew of the world one left phone and i mean trying to find out by studying the mediterranean fenway the world's second largest whale.

but there's always that little bit. to give these animals are contaminated the scientists needed to study fat samples. of. your situation. and the results of the biopsies are clear just like polar bears and atlantic whales all the fin whales fat contains pharma toxins which are additives to plastics. yes. no one yet knows what effect because products have on speech. 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. they were purchased hundreds of miles away i love being carried by the current. thought bothers me most is that we are contaminating the whole planet from there killing the remotest and wildest places. shocked by his own discomfort you wondered if the food wrapped in plastic that we eat every day were contaminated by certain substances. he put some more snails and bottles of water for forty eight weeks.

those near us which were kept and those produced much more embryos compared to those nails in the glass bottles there are compounds in the plastic material in these keyboards that leach into a culture medium or as nails we do not know which compounds we haven't identified them yet but they are only estrogen. called new woman must realize when we want to put a material or substance on the market it undergoes authority testing which enables us to show that it is harmless is the results are passed on to scientific and public organizations we will decide whether or not we're allowed to commercialize it seemed quite unique and already is are constantly checking all of the products that we sell it would. 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. so this one is enough to give me all interest for years she has been trying to you know test some fertility in two thousand and five she started studying the effects and finds another chemical additive for plastics. she selected really made a high level of finance in the urine and still had the effect on their infant children and no one had done this before. is that why it's particularly the ones of most concern are called anti and versions 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 war than permanent for life and so because it's and she and her panic 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 masculinized under the influence of testosterone and that process is interfered with by certain salads when they get to a certain level. firmly so used in food packaging tools for example to soften the plastic. rodents the feminized the specious. the testicles disappear and the penis becomes shorter. the distance between the testicles of the anus which is normally doubling moons shrinks and becomes more like that of females. have the

idea and the courage to try taking the same missions with human babies so he got the same results. when levels of g.h. be the most considered the most toxic though it were higher in the mother's year and then the boys were more likely to have testicles that were not completely descended into the sparrow and canada have a significantly smaller piers so i wouldn't even as an equal toxicologist and not a specialist for human clocks ecology i wouldn't expect negative impacts on adults so if i dies i use him in your water for you bottles there's absolutely no danger. i'm not so convinced when we're talking about pregnant women very young children.

because in these very sensitive phases of the life cycle casualty taken to avoid any estrogen it can make us. plastic busy plastics contain substances that can eventually migrate but only an infinitesimal quantity switchover well below the norms. certain scientists use operating procedures that are on justified uki the force in these arouse emotions which are then regrettably picked up by the media and creates an unfounded scare among the public at large the key for it but after all this is a democracy that was so everyone has the right to express themselves and for that will cost me. is it a case of scaremongering scientists all of this simply asking you questions. over here the results of the test focus for you know a chemical component caustic. 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 they spend all day in our bodies now if only because 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 the stream but also found in the bone. in spite of the ocean pollution and the effect on our minerals and storage of the contamination of. man is not yet the sun had 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 pilots 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 the indispensable ally of off everyday life we thought it was an inert substance over a century we've poured at least a hundred million tons of it into the oceans but now a boomerang effect is taking place. really 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 and the refuse to give up here today to bring awareness to the stock market wherever they go they keep up the struggle to change those in mentalities and finally put an end to plastic age. this means we change people's attitudes. this way some things as a. physical.

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