one thirty pm in moscow the zero g. headlines the top leader of the arab league heads to syria to demand an end to the government's violent crackdown on protesters this follows the e.u.'s now seeing new sanctions against the regime but critics say the ban on oil imports serves the interests of european companies rather than those of the syrian people. spain prepares for a fresh wave of protests ahead of a crucial senate vote on capping the budget deficit a move many fear will lead to social cuts meanwhile the european central bank calls for greater financial integration within the eurozone as the only way to solve the crisis. and pioneers of rallies against social injustice in israel forty years ago

join the recent protests against the same issue members of the black panthers movement say they're frustrated that the problems in israel have only gotten worse up next watch how the global seas have turned into plastic soup as we follow an investigation of a team of environmentalists stay with us that's coming your way 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 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 plankton and now in two thousand and eight we found the plankton ratio of forty six to one so that's over eight times as much. plastic and the environment. we project. from

farrell. will shock you not. quite plastic the soup of the north as a regular there's the soup. 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 dinner and as well where 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 wreckage 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 us and tie a century the proceed it we're 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 a marine environment and yet we use it and throw it away within a year. of these oceans of plastic that because of this 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 strips in the united states. has landfill servers out of los angeles county about seventy eight cities and five point two million people

landfill and it's permit at about thirty thousand two hundred tons per day i would account for is if you take a football field from post to post followed up with waste about ten feet higher than over three meters pellets how much waste is excepted here a day. in the united states in europe at least half the plastic we threw away his simply buried. thousands of bottles and bags end up in this type of tip every year. between them the two continents varied 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 our 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 there is a different different quality from different origin some material from germany some from france some from america some from the middle east it's this man at some level who let us in the future in just number one recycle of plastic bottles. is a broker he buys the contents of all recycling bins and resold it here where it can

be treated by cheaper labor. like it would be. so newsline of business is doing well. the export of use plastic has been increasing by thirty percent a year in two thousand and seven from some seven hundred thousand metric tons of plastic a roll as you see the build up from france if you see from the label you may be able to identify a debacle that maybe you would think of a in the garbage bin me that come here now and it will be the i called and made again into valuable bottle more product which could be used again. the plastic recycle going to future comes through western countries quite legally the recyclers hope now showing us how we'll take our rubbish dealing come in just european consumers to send the movie.

seats to the utopian customers utopian whole mourners are utopian men and women it's very straight and simple to put out all your stars is how to be associated in keeping them but aren't complete and good for the human to me for you have a weak lect north bottoms if you're throwing a just big head and work them into those products that you use every day maybe it is a t. shirt how does that package are it is the bottles which are used but blinking water already brings out any juices. for.

so we try to have zero waste if possible by 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 years but when we go to buy things at the grocery store but we buy bread and sometimes comes the plastic bags get the file used 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 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 a towel filtered 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 bad luck with the market. even organic which doesn't go into plastic bags paste

to get eaten. show us the worms they're going to see underneath. carefully. and in the come on a 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 and recyclable idea of braced 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 equals no plastic in the tip or going abroad plus no plastic in the ocean. that's marcus and is

a question that timeless they're already off on another adventure pedaling two thousand miles between vancouver and to run to convince whoever they meet on the way. to them plastic is a problem full stop and it needs to be eradicated that the source. the benefits which are brought by the usual because stick with you also great for the society so great for the consumers in terms of security for food in terms of lightness will transport etc that 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 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 act 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. for the moment or is never. was in europe a few minutes and it is a trying at least in part. because two ton of love you don't find 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 well there's bread there's vegetables a bit of everything if we put a little bit in the summer months there's

a lot of stuff from their gardens you know for 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 that 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 banks made of start. living have to be sorted the banks breakdown not treat all the food waste. he said getting i that point to me 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 has on it and it's like material peelings for example that if i see. the resulting compost is used by the regions fungus 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. like this we successfully sell to hawaii to get attention to the issue of plastic marine debris with water 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 and it's small so this past is past the particles that stay their stomach for a long time the plastic is plastic particles they're not going on they don't just sit there and do nothing while 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 a sentinel's one day the federal agents have learned from past york to study the effects on this gastro part of the chemical substance whose effects are still unknown this female day. he was surprised but we're 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 missions and their egg production was four times normal this uterus where they pulled lance is considerably larger in super female compared with a normal flu and this specific specimen. in addition exhibits this great rupture of the open field you can imagine the power of the masses which have caused this rock so it's it's really like. an eruption of a volcano on your grassed where is the stream to let a phone. the answer is in our plastics this antioxidant is added to babies bottles bottles and junk and packaging will it also risky. i was really shocked because it imagine these are just concentrations which can be

counted in every supposed orca and it is hard to believe i confess that at these very low environment you're in and concentrations such conflict that's like a killing of females as and last. and the scientists are really beginning to discover that the plastics in the oceans released chemical substances in julian run which have effects that are still or know. how much escapes once the products are in the water. how do these plumes of humility in the food chain. our marine animals affect it. and to what extent. was. that's what the crew of the world one of the fun and i mean trying to find out by studying the mediterranean fin with the world's second largest way.

there's a good clue. to give these animals a contender to the scientists needed to study fat samples. and. you're here you see. the results of the biopsies ikea just like polar bears in atlantic whale and so the fin whales fact contains fire retardants which are additives to plastic. yes. no one yet knows what if it does products have on the stage.

and they call them will be you lemay here 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 now what bothers me most is that we are contaminating the whole planet polluting the remotest and wildest place that's. shot by his own discomfort you wondered if the food wrapped in plastic that we eat every day we're contaminated by certain substances. he puts more snails and bottles of water for forty eight weeks.

those which were kept and. produced not for more and are yours compared to those new in the glass bottles there are compounds in the plastic material in these p.t. boats that leach into a culture medium well the snails we don't know which compounds we haven't identified yet but they are clearly asking drink. called new wood only must realize when we want to put a material or substance on the market it undergoes laboratory testing was enables us to show that it is harmless is not good the results are passed on to scientific and public organizations and we will decide whether or not we're allowed to commercialize it an apology gordie's or constantly checking all of the products that we sell to the people. this man who are affected by these chemical products. and all of

a couple who use plastic like everyone else have agreed to have blood tests. sure this one is an epidemiologist for years she has been carrying out tests some fatalities in two thousand and five she started studying the effects and found. another chemical additive for plastics she selected with the high level of silence 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 andersen's they lower testosterone it would actually to adults as well and but it's more important what happens in the womb because the changes that occur are then permanent for life and so because it's empty 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 cell it's when they get to a certain level. well it's so used in food packaging and tools for example to soften the plastic. rodents defending ones the species. the testicles disappear and the penis becomes shortened. the distance between the testicles of the anus which

is normally doubling moons shrinks and becomes more like that of females. having an idea and the courage to try taking the same missions with human babies and you got the same results. when the levels of d.h. be the most considered the most toxic value were higher in the mother's here and then the boys were more likely to have testicles that were not completely descended into this photo and tended to have a significantly smaller piers so i wouldn't even as in the complex ecologist and not a specialist for human toxicology i wouldn't expect negative impacts on dives so if the guys are using mineral water for the bottoms there's absolutely no danger but i am i'm not so convinced when we talking about pregnant women very young children.

because in these very sensitive phases of life cycle i'm careful i think and to avoid any estrogen it can because. they probably plastic you see plastics contain substances that can eventually migrate over it only an infant has small quantities which are well below the norman siegel did leak is stopped. certain scientists use operating procedures that are unjustified and you key the polls in these arouse emotions which are then regrettably picked up by the media and it creates an unfounded scare among the public at large. 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 my blood test from history to

a chemical compound 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 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 anything it's a chemical products created by industry and now we're all impregnated with it no epidemiological study of this time has been carried out in front but every one tested in the united states had not only this female eighty but also found in the bone. in spite of the ocean pollution and the effect on our mammals in spite of the contamination or unbowed it is 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 that with

a billion inhabitants it will soon be one of the planet's three biggest consumers. how can this country still polluting its rivers and coasts with its plastics. how can it go on absorbing all waste basket 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. moccasin and i refuse to give up your today it is a great awareness. wherever they go they keep up the struggle to change those in mentalities and finally put an end to plastic age. pressure. change people's attitude. maybe we should secure them because of this way something's a. visit to. the

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