of the $34000.00 plastic bottles go into its waters every minute and it's only fishermen like gianni kohli are taking action to clean up the sea that sustains their livelihoods under a new initiative italian fishermen are now permitted to take waste on board for recycling our reporter took to the seas with the fisherman who moonlight as garbage men. it's the daily morning shift at 4 o'clock janica allele and his boys go out to see. the congolese have been fisherman for generations but for how much longer nobody knows. a lot and also that's obviously what i have a fish tank has somewhat recovered but i'm fortunately there is a lot of plastic because many people go pleasure boating near the back of the journey that you more recent years we fished a lot of plastic out of the sea feel it was going to look to me and. johnny has recently become a part time garbage man. if he catches plastic in his net he doesn't toss it back into the sea as is usually done in italy due to accusations of illegal waste transport and a new law he now collects it and brings ashore 6 killers a plastic instead of fish