i've come to the university of plastic in holland where dr pasta has agreed to talk me through how they make cultured meat . morning hillary i remark who reads here mark in his colleagues are one of a number of teams around the world who are searching for a way to scale up production of lab grown meat if they succeed the environmental impact could be enormous cause the ruminants they have to use for the multi. things where they are basically big here in their stomach from it and in that from intuition process methane gets released that's affecting global warming and climate methane is actually very powerful the house to see it's twenty times more powerful than c o two. so yeah and livestock is accountable for forty percent of wall methane emissions. the impact of farming cattle on climate change is so significant that some experts believe giving up beef reduces our carbon footprint more than giving up cars. but how do you get a hamburger from a test. so this is a small. piece of muscle taken from with a biopsy with a needle biopsy this is taken. half an hour ago from what's the next ste

berlin's home bought university and the politics institute of luzon on the fossil and fossil tracks to create a robot simulation. called our robots it's made out of motors with flexible plastic and steel. with the help of the robots the scientists were able to prove how the ancient animal moved and come to conclusions about its evolutionary history. tend to think of fish as something well fishy. that we should identify more with them after all our ancestors came from the primordial seas. have plenty of surprises hidden in effect scales. in the storerooms of the german oceanographic museum inch trials and it's a treasure trove of fish from the depths of the oceans as well as the mediterranean and the baltic biologist t.-mo morehead has been doing research here for more than fifteen years studying fish from all over the world. using a method known as clearing he looks inside the specimens to examine their skeletons . just think of every possible vertebrate on land from the back to the elephant to the penguin well there are just as many species of fish and as a fish scientist i'd say they're just as diverse to. first the bones and cartilage are stained with red and blue dyes re

ground plastic turns out to be very versatile this skateboard was also made out of it left now has a lot of ideas for new products buttons garbage cans building materials and. the technical university of braunschweig is also conducting research on new roma tiriel on a grand scale. one focus of investigation is the mineral oil free factory institute director christoph hermann is trying to find alternatives that can replace oils in large industrial machines and that's really not our that's we're looking for alternatives of course fossil based raw materials including mineral oil are a finite resource mineral extraction also results in a series of environmental impacts that extend across the entire cycle from extraction to processing into mineral oil. it would be a major step forward if we could find substitutes that have a significantly lower environmental impact because the rest of. this machine is being used to test for cooling literature and for a million machines it looks like water but is designed to lubricate remove metal particles and serve as a coolant lubricants like this a usually faced unconventional crude oil in twenty sixteen sixty eight thousand tons of oil we used to ma

plastics all the smaller type covered by this new scheme. thank you. -- or the smaller type. its week two of our sustainability challenge. we have a house of six students at loughborough university to live more sustainably — and so use fewer of the earth's natural resources. last week, it was fashion, this week we re looking at plastics. in a moment, we ll go live to the student house in loughborough, but first, michael cowan looks at the plastic polluting our planet. plastic. we use it in just about everything, from ourfood packaging, to the tv you're watching, right now. it started mass production in the 19505. and, since then, we've created 8.3 billion tonnes of it. that's 822,000 eiffel towers. because it can take between 50 and 600 years to biodegrade, almost 80% of it is still with us, languishing in landfills, rubbish dumps and our oceans. it's in our natural world that plastic pollution is the most pronounced. there's 150 million tonnes of plastic in our seas, a figure that's set to treble over the next decade. most of it comes from just ten rivers, eight in asia and two in africa, where it's carried downstream and into the ocean. every year, 1 million birds and 100,000

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