$322000000.00 tons of plastic is produced and consumed every year of this $12000000.00 is in germany and steven whorf is trying to bring people together. he's getting closer to his goal stephanie halasz has been passed. in for 4 weeks now from the western german city of cortland from the rhine to the capital berlin in the northeast of the country. the. greatest thing on 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 this is not my stuff but. germany's rivers look so clean but 7 years ago stefan started collecting garbage on his kayaking towards. 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 he'd make an arrangement of the garbage from the rivers photograph it and put it on display it's the photo desig