thank you so much forjoining us from papua i so much forjoining us from papua new guinea.mount of that waste comes from plastic bags. the world has been marking international plastic bag free day, a global initiative set up to try to reduce how much plastic we use because, campaigners say, other solutions just aren't working. stephanie hegarty finds out how effective it really is. despite all the noise being made about plastic waste, we are producing more plastic than ever. can we really recycle our way out of this mess? only 9% of the plastic the world has ever produced has been recycled. so why is it so little? we have huge issues with collection, a lot of countries don't have a sufficient collection infrastructure. so a lot of these plastics do not get recycled. but let's take germany, which is really good at collecting plastic waste. they pick up about 99% of it. after sorting, less than half of what is collected will get recycled. the rest is either too dirty or it's just too hard to separate. and most of this is incinerated. of the chunk selected for recycling, a thi

so in in the triangle between papua new guinea, can i get up? is that between papa new guinea indonesia? oh, no, i won't be able to reach it. okay well over over and there between papua new guinea indonesia and the philippines. it's called the coral triangle. it's not quite a triangle. that's triangle-ish. the number of species in that part of the world is 600 so 10-fold more than in the caribbean. that's where things are really doing well some of the worst of the bleaching hasn't hit that part yet. there's just a lot more diversity to work with and that's where the mars company was working as well, you know, so they set themself up for success by working in the coral triangle. so yeah. oh. hi, thank you. i'm enjoying your remarks. i have two questions. we'll keep you to one because i know you have a question. my question is actually messed up back a second. i read a couple of months ago that coral were detected like i think 200 feet below the surface and the south pacific. yeah, which was so exciting right? because obviously not a lot of sun can

very disturbed across a good part of at east and sort of in did indonesia pushing ever towards papua new guinea. as we go on through sunday penny a showers up towards the philippines as well. nasty little disturbance, just bring up in the south china sea. we'll fade some more wet weather i, which was in the china turning increasingly wet across central and southern parts of vietnam over the next few days. and the monsoon showers continued to feed some very heavy, right. and it was a good part of thailand, sunshine, shasta, malaysia, and indonesia want a 2 showers there towards java and also into southern parts of sumatra. charge of one or 2 showers towards sidney over the next day. as i said, that's not good. use, much of australia is fine and dry. having said that last class, guys, high pressure in charge nasty to layer of low pressure pressure making its way towards new zealand. over the next couple of days, temperatures here very much on the low side. the central air is but the heat does continue for the north on it 18 celsius. here comes out west a weather for western parts of australia ove

this is not papua new guinea which can be threatened by an aircraft carrier us military without globaltrue. i'm short about china about this conversation is a conflict. there may be two exits. that this conversation will stop the action? american congressmen it will be a clear victory for china what they did. and this will not be an adequate reaction of the whale. if there is an adequate reaction, then everything i then taiwan will be chinese. not only theoretically, not only in principle, but also in fact, if the americans do what they do, and after that whale. taiwan will not be chinese, so the chinese are not strong enough today to do it. because they are not strong enough today, this will not stop their development in the future. that is, americans can notice it. yes, today china has not yet reached this goal, but it will be in 5 years in 10 years. the chinese are not in a hurry. but this will impose something completely different. uh, there will be a completely different influence on the development of events. if the americans did not do it the victory of china it obliges russia e

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