tonnes of plastic is produced and consumed every year of this $12000000.00 is in germany alone stephen whorfis trying to bring people together to reverse this. getting closer to his goals stephanie halasz has been paddling for 4 weeks now from the western german city of corpulence on the rhine to the capital berlin in the northeast of the country. farmers even or even the greatest thing and this was a trip of 750 kilometers it was to come up against your limits when you think you'll never make it then you get a 2nd wind and then you do it because this is not my. geminis rivers look so clean but 7 years ago stefan started collecting garbage on his kayaking toes. going over to mist as that's precisely the problem. in rivers in asia you see it immediately because there's so much of. the fault here it's not so visible because you've got some over here and some over there so we have to hunt it down. but after 6 kilometers we've typically collected 500 kilograms. he started out doing the collecting on his own it make an arrangement of the garbage from the rivers photograph it and put it on display