Situation under control by. Ultimately the goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up to very large sections of our country as we near the end of our historic battle with the invisible enemy to go on for a while but we when and when. I said earlier today that i hope we can do this by easter i think that would be a great thing for our country and were all working very hard to make that a reality but top u. S. Health official anthony found he downplayed the president s. Timeline. Thats really very flexible we we just had a conversation with the president in the oval office talking about you know you can look at a day but youve got to be very flexible and on the on it literally day by day require week basis you need to evaluate the feasibility of what youre trying to do you need to know more about what the penetrance is there so if we do the kind of testing we were doing and testing will always be associated by identifying cation isolation and contact racing and you find after a period of time that there are areas that are very different from other areas of the country you may not want to essentially treat it as it is just one force for the entire country but look at flexibility in different areas so i think people might get the misinterpretation it is going to lift everything up and even somebody is going like that i mean thats thats not going to happen and after 2 days of declining death rates the number of fatalities initially has risen again by more than 740 in spain as recorded its highest dany tally of deaths and confirmed cases indias 1300000000 people have been put on the lockdown for that lets 3 weeks but the government says essential supplies will be made available there is about her on them has more from new delhi. Since thursday evening is when he 1st addressed the nation and he asked everyone to observe this 14 hour voluntary curfew and since then that voluntary curfew was extended in 75 of of the countrys districts that was 110th that happened on monday halfway through the day yesterday on monday that was further extended by the end of the day 3 quarters of the country was under some kind of a lockdown and the Prime Minister came out this evening and unsurprisingly as more and more of the country is under some kind of lock lock down whether its complete or partial he announced that in fact it is the entire country that its for 21. 00 days and that that is the only way that india can fight fight cover in a virus saying that you know much more developed nations have have struggled against it and that these precautions have to be taken now if india has any chance of fighting it over tokyo 2020 limpets have been postponed for a year japans Prime Minister shinzo says is determined to hold the games in full by summer 2021 as a symbol of the worlds triumph over the virus residents in major cities across latin america will soon be awarded to say home to try to contain the virus cuba says all its nonresidents and norms citizens still on the island will be quarantined in hotels from cheese say while chile prevented a cruise ship from docking due to fears that dozens could be infected and in other news 92 soldiers have been killed in the worst attack by boko haram in the countrys military president idriss deby went to the sides of the attack in luck province the attack lasted at least 7 hours dreamful smoot said to help but also attacked. Drug today those are the latest headlines sound was is next. We bought the house about 2 years ago hoping that we would be able to retire here but from here you could see how much sand weve lost underneath the house. The world is running out of sand consumed by industry and construction stolen and transported by criminal mafias around the world red dot com to have them put it all got up at the foot of credit i like the map im not exactly. Washed away by rising sea levels we have been in the middle of the indian ocean for the last 5000 units become just. Lost to human greed and stupidity. When we use that sand that mean we loose. Our life. Weve never needed so much sand so badly with beaches and entire islands already disappearing cool when the sand worse. For most of us san makes us think of days at the beach sand castles and sunshine and once the holidays are over we slip back into our busy lives. But is feeling the sand between our toes or caught in our bathing suits the whole story. Does this so familiar substance play any other role in our daily lives. Standard is what i like to call the unsung hero. Its because there are just endlessly examples. Of the way in which sand intersects with daily lloyds which we really. Commonly aware of. Sand has quietly infiltrated every corner of our world melted and transformed into glass it sits on every shelf. Its also the source of silicone dioxide. A mineral found an hour winds cleaning products detergents paper dehydrated foods hairspray toothpaste cosmetics. And an astounding variety of other products we use every day. But its. Mended such as. You. Think about your computer. Chips can be manufactured if you do not have high quality said. The minerals extracted from sand are at the core of our Hyper Connected Society a form of basic material for microchips without which our computers Credit Cards Bank machines cell phones and many other devices would not exist. Sand even alps a supply in our airplanes the plastics lightweight alloys of the fuselage and jet engines even the paint and tires are all made with sand. Its almost become like a they dont think too much about it but you cant live without it. And the industry with the biggest appetite for sand. Construction. For the last 150 years sand mixed with cement to form concrete has shaped the contours of our increasingly urbanized world. Because of its low cost strength and ease of use this gray slurry has become the dominant Building Material around the globe. The quantities used are astronomical. To build an average house it takes 200. 00 tons of sand. For a larger building like a hospital around 3000 tons. Each kilometer of highway devours 30000 tons. And to build a Nuclear Plant the estimate is about 12000000. 00 tons. Of production of facts and exceeds 15000000000 tons. And that is a quantity that is so huge that its beyond imagination how much as 15000000000 you dont know because no one of the resource is used in such vast quantities as maybe with the exception of water. So where in the world does that much sand come from. Lets just say the 7 men who work in the aggregate business have not been affected by the economic downturn. Behind air and water sand is the most used commodity in the world. Business is booming but meeting this demand is not always an easy task sand is not something thats easily found like you might think it is used to be that youd have a sandy gravel deposit and youd simply go and dig it up out of the ground so youd have to make your roads bridges and buildings up but that type of material is all been taken away its gone abuse it already. With the positives of service and exhausted we started dredging rivers for sand but this is lead to flooding. Now weve turned to the oceans for sand. To satisfy our seemingly insatiable appetite for said weve been dust for allies extracting it from beneath the waves. And the workhorse of the industry is a dredger. A giant tanker equipped with a suction arm capable of pumping huge quantities of sand to the surface. The right best in the right location can pump up to 400000 cubic metres of sand to the surface every single day. Costs anywhere from 25000000. 00 to 200000000. 00. But the sand is free. So the thousands of tankers coming the worlds oceans have every incentive to suck up as much sand as possible for their increasingly hungry clients. Is an astonishing example of this appetite within a few decades this fishing village has morphed into a mecca of modern architecture its a sandbox for developers were no fantasies to grandiose. But projects. Of sand and huge volumes of sand and Construction Projects concrete and indeed just making more land as has been doing with the with the officially constructed island. Landfills are even bigger consumers of sand than concrete with a booming economy the emirate launched in Business Expansion project. The palm. After the year 2000 with the price of state soaring as a result of speculation Developers Bet that it would be cheaper to make land than to buy it. The selfproclaimed 8th wonder of the world cost over 12000000000. 00 and about more than 150000000. 00 tons of sand stretch from the coastline. With the giant palm still under construction flying high in the seemingly Endless Supply of money and sand embarked on an even more extravagant project. The world. The world is an island paradise would run president had opportunity can be found it is almost as resort official archipelago of 300. 00 islands designed as a map of the world absorbed 14000000000. 00 and 3. 00 times as much sand as the palm. The worlds. A place beyond imagination. Today the world is a mirage the work site has been abandoned since the onset of the financial crisis in 2008. Deserted island is now parked in the sun awaiting the uncertain day when millionaire buyers will again descend on to buy and restore its glory. To kill the Corporation Managing the palm in the world the crisis is more than financial overdevelopment is totally liquidated by his natural Sand Resources and you think well fine of course dubai is on the edge of that theres a theyve got older certainly neat like all the gulf states dubai has sand everywhere so why doesnt the emirates simply help itself to the desert desert sand is the wrong color end of sand for building a lot of fishel islands why because deserts and all the grains have been blown around by the wind and is typically very round and very smooth if you want to use it to build an island they dont stick together you need sand that that is more angular you know its rougher rougher age say that naturally sticks together. See sand is perfect for island building and construction but its in limited supply sand is not a sustainable resource. Although its own stocks are exhausted dubai is far from given up. The burj khalifa at the time of construction the worlds tallest building was built with sand from half a world away. We have a saying in english which is selling sand to the arabs. That thats actually come true in the case of the by. 3500. 00 Australian Companies exports and to the Arabian Peninsula their profits have tripled in 20 years accounting for a 5000000000. 00 jackpot. And australia is just one small part of a global trend that reliant on importing sand from other areas you see is this he. Trade around the world moving from one now its another for different purposes such construction land reclamation. Singapore is another city at the heart of the sand wars. And 30 years the country known as the switzerland of asia has become one of the richest in the region during this time the population has more than doubled and the 63 islands that make up the city state are bursting at the seams singapore its were lying on the import of sand for its very existence and the land masses literally increased 20 percent over the last 40 years and thats largely been reclamation so literally pouring sound into the sea to create new land. Singapore is already transformed 130 square kilometers of water into land and is planning to add another 100 square kilometers by 2030. Having devoured all its own reserves its ferocious appetite has targeted its neighbor supplies. One after another cambodia. Malaysia and indonesia have beach decided to ban trade with singapore but its addiction dissent is not easy to restrain. Singapore is being accused of expanding its coastline with illegally dredged satins from neighboring states. Suspicions of sand trafficking hang over singapore and the dozens of barges filled to the brim which imo daily and its important prove that the city state has found an alternative source but where does the saying come from. Tommy guns beer. Guns are. You going to hear very every day every week. This what is the visual so awkward. Know what. When. Youre in the leisure. Your 4th division or your. Thanks to local traffic and Networks Singapore and dealers with false identities working for fictional Companies Continue to find supplies of sand in neighboring countries. But the other companies. The thing is it just it was invisible. But this is the this place. If youre going to flaunt the law with the tacit support of the government theyre most loyal client. The sun trade in singapore is he usually have a political is a massive of ours were concerned its just a is bill the south as you know leader in the region in particular the last global sun thats but their companies will brain imports of that country and should be its Human Rights Violations environmental degradation and damage the livelihoods of local people. The effects of underwater dredging are far from benign. Much of the ocean floors rocky are covered with only a thin layer of sand. Built up over tens or even hundreds of thousands of years. As you dredge up a set. Of course all the the any walls and plans on the sea floor they will all be dredged up as well and therefore whatever they think they will just be at the. Sand is the primary link in the underwater food chain remove it and the survival of all species from the smallest to the largest just threatened. Like many archipelagos many of indonesias islands are literally made of sand and intense dredging has triggered a series of chain reactions. 92 percent in the nations fiscal challenges are down from the tension of the city because mining activities when this coral reef we lost fish. Livelihood. Everything loss of fish habitat directly endangers the survival of thousands of indonesian families but thats only the 1st of sand dredging to adverse effects. If you have an oil made of sand its only there because of conspiracy of natural processes wind waves water currents time of year and so if you start removing that and then youve upset the balance of the conspiracy and waves and currents will then start to move the rest of the sail. After the extraction of sand a combination of waves currents and gravity slowly fill in the back you. So the removal of underwater sand can have a very noticeable effect on nearby beaches and islands. And so by a combination of natural growth this is and human excavation. Be oil and literally disappear. One of the most stunning impacts of the sun trade was the disappearance of some of the islands off the coast of indonesia which have literally vanished when we lose that sand. That we lose. Once an island disappears the International Maritime boundary changes all is required to these become geopolitical issues as well as simply commercial and resource issues. 25 indonesian islands have already disappeared. Like coal and gas sand is now on the frontline of the worlds hunger for raw materials. Scarcity and dangers local communities and sets governments against each other. As demand builds the circle only becomes more vicious. Moroccos gentle climate has been welcoming tourists for years. But its famous beaches have also been attracting some strange 4 legged visitors a constant stream of men and doggies descend on the beaches 7 days a week. In search of. Sand. For men and the donkeys have taken so much sand that some beaches now look like the surface of the moon. Rock has been experiencing a construction boom spurred on by a competitive real estate market. The builders are happy but they need plenty of sand legal and otherwise. That. I wrote that i have i dont want to give you. Are you going to bend and addenda going to not c want to hire you have enough to know what kind of what do you know did not know much love my job and got nothing. But i mean i got them help oh yeah. Look i do one thing yes i did was really i do what you guys write with their day but they didnt come but you know youre not going out youre right not them have them come we dont want but im not going to get rid of it oh i like them i like them lap its estimated that 40 to 45 percent of the sand used in construction in morocco has been stolen mostly from its beaches. Loaded onto trucks the sand is sold directly to unscrupulous developers but thats not where the problem ends. Without proper treatment salty beach sand mixed with cement is highly corrosive make americas New Buildings ticking time bombs in danger of collapse. Ironically the beach is meant to lure the tourists are being stripped bare to build hotels and condos that may turn out to be death traps. In mumbai lavey enjoy. The position of being the Financial Capital of the country andrea also have a huge housing Boom Construction boom thats because of the influx of so many new people into the city. But the Indian Economy booming construction has to keep pace and like in so many other battlegrounds of the sand wars easy profits lead to corrupt practices. The value of sand is such that its a commercial commodity that is smuggled i mean the its a big business is smuggling the fam. Sand mafia is the most powerful criminal organization in india. And lot of the people in the whole. Who control of the sand mafia oso controls a lot of the construction the Construction Materials businesses in bombay as well as the constructions themselves. In addition to that they also control the administration through their political contacts so that just completes the whole value chain right from the extraction to construction be the profits in each bottle fed the administration and the police. Under the eyes of corrupt authorities the sand arts ply their trade in broad daylight and more than 8000. 00 dredging sites scattered across the coast and river banks of the subcontinent. For the mafias beaches are easy prey because the sand is literally within arms reach so they had even the most popular tourist sites the places where you expect to stretch out on the beach and worship the sun. The tentacles of the mafias however are just adding to the pressures facing the world speeches. Just 2 years ago there was a row of houses here. About i think about a house though from about here all the way down to the condo and those houses verano water the shoreline with going right past them so they ended up taking them out of these houses here with her on the beach front were row number 2 and i have the fact that the house wont be here and 5 here. We thought the house about 2 years ago hoping that we would be able to retire here. But from here you can see how much sand weve lost underneath the house. Because it was up to level with the cement but of course it went out into the ocean. So. The beach area was about the length of a football field and over the last 2 years the a scar is underneath the houses so. The erosion on this part of the beach is much quicker than we anticipated or that is deemed to normal. Globally between 75 and 90 percent of beaches are actually undergoing some sort of retreat and thats only going to get worse. In response to Global Warming germany is gradually shutting down its coal industry what is happening fast enough we dont have any time to waste anymore we cant wait so were taking direct action to call for the immediate phase out of coal in germany as Climate Change activists challenge communities reliant on the industry for jobs people in power who will win the cold war on aljazeera. Struggles full of pleasure i dont mean nobody that a person. Who was only a household name grew into an intimate look at life in cuba getting. On a kerry i flew into the atmosphere this is my cuba. On aljazeera. Theres a wave of sentiment around the. Well the people actually want accountability from the people who are running their countries and i think often peoples voices are not heard because thats not part of the mainstream news narrative. Obviously we cover big stories and little from big events going on but we also tell stories of people who generally dont have a voice and one of the charms why thats never be afraid to have a last question and i think thats without any doubt he asked the question to people he should be accountable and also we get people to give their view of whats going on. Im not seeing dennis live in doha these are the top stories here at aljazeera new yorks governor has made a desperate plea for medical supplies warning the corona virus is spreading rapidly in the u. S. State andrew cuomo says as many as 40000 people could need intensive care treatment within 2 weeks the president drums continuing to strike an optimistic tone saying he hopes to have the situation under control by easter but not everyone agrees with the president s goal as mike hanna reports from washington. There has been push back against the speculation or the president s intention to lift the lockdown in a number of areas by easter thats less than 3 weeks time even though he said that it would not be in the whole of the country it would be in specific places Health Professionals arguing very strongly this simply not enough data to make any kind of prediction at this particular point there are not enough tests being conducted and even in areas that have not been hit badly by the virus there is no knowledge to what extent it is dormant so from his Health Advisors the president receiving strong pushback against any concept of a lifting of the shutdown if less than a few weeks as hes saying and certainly places like new york city making very clear that march has been terrible to deal with april could be worse and maybe could be even worse than that so certainly governors and mayors throughout the country pushing back very strongly against president trams contention that the possibility of lifting the lockdown is only weeks away after 2 days of declining death rates the number of fatalities in this and he has risen again by more than 740 and spain has recorded its highest daily tally of deaths and confirmed cases indias 1300000000 people have been put under lockdown for the next 3 weeks people about and from leaving their homes but the government says essential supplies will be made available to the tokyo 2020 a limp it simply in a year japans Prime Minister shinzo of the says hes determined to hold the games in full by summer 2021 as a symbol of the worlds triumph over the coronavirus all right shock today those are the latest headlines lets go back now to send was. The world is running out of sand consumed by industry and construction stolen and transported by criminal mafias around the world. Behind air and water sand is the most used commodity in the world. Where humans have intervened and weve built structures a wall concrete seawall a highway a hotel a parking lot the beach cant move back and we see long term beach lost. As part of the natural cycle beaches adjust to seasonal changes and summer beaches grow thicker and in winter they recede and level off to better absorb the energy of the waves to survive the ocean salt beaches must have enough space behind them but weve built too close to the shore so with nowhere to go beaches are overcome by the waves which carry their sand out to sea. If you have an eroding beach what is the problem. Not the symptom the same symptom is the beaches eroding but what is the problem. Whats causing this us. We are drawn to coastlines today 3 quarters of the largest cities and half the worlds population are on the coast as the population growth accelerates the worlds hyper. Increasing density by 2025 to 3 quarters of the worlds inhabitants will live near the ocean and those ribbons of sand which surround the continents are feeling the pressure. If we think. Of the water and i hope that we learn from that but now we hear. And we have to figure out how to make projects. That is wider and thats what brings tourists. In florida 9 out of 10 beaches are in the process of disappearing along with the future livelihood of all those who depend on this economic engine. Each year of the planets tourist had for the beach beaches feed the Hotel Industry as well as recreation transportation Food Services and a multitude of other sectors in some areas almost half the g. D. P. Depends directly on beaches. Letting them disappear is out of the question. So what were trying to do is try to mitigate those problems try to lessen the impact and thats why we have to take these unnatural acts of pumping sand into the beaches. To keep their beaches viable cities that can afford it invest. In beach replenishment their. Dredge homes sand from the ocean floor and force it onto the beach. Some people see this as a solution others see it as a bandaid which only true. Its the symptom. Theyve put up the beach and say this is beach nourishment but its just another hole. Those big machines that when they go take this there in killing everything within that sand as ground put into a pipe crust moved and then it comes out and pumped the life forms in that part of the beach arent prepared to be buried alive and suffocate it. Its a killing process for the sake of dollars. Replenishment is a temporary remedy after year 2 the sand has been washed out to sea and the whole process must be started again from scratch nonetheless this method is highly popular to the delight of the dredging companies its a matter of big money big big influence green its not a pleasant thing to see you see this beautiful beach but behind it is something thats not so pleasant. In a desperate maneuver to try to trap the sand on the beaches coastal engineers are advocating the construction of dikes breakwaters and all sorts of other structures. But sand cannot be so easily tamed. The Constant Movement of sand is not necessarily always cooperating with the way we want the place to be it will fill up harbors and all it will wash away from beaches where we like tourists to come and so that balance is something that we all dramatically changing just by building on. All by building a sea wall around the extends out from the beach we build a wall to to contain sand to keep it on our beach what do we do we stop the sand from supplying the neighbors beach. The tragedy is that people are just not aware theyre not aware that an action here is going to have a reaction somewhere else so we all have to be very careful when it comes to redeveloping the coastline we have a responsibility because we dont want these great wonderful treasures that we want to share with our children to disappear because of greed because of irresponsibility. And because of just not dan paying attention. In order to avert further catastrophe its important to understand the source of 90 percent of the world sea sand often a long way from the beaches. For the most part it starts in iraq somewhere that breaks down it might be in a river from ice or snow or rainfall and is that grain comes out of the granite or the sandstone it gets into a small stream and then a larger river and in a normal world ultimately will work its way all the way to the shoreline. It takes thousands or even millions of years for a grain of sand to reach the sea and its a journey full of pitfalls. In america we have been building one dam every day since the dec relation of independence and 7761 a day. 80000 dams blocked the rivers of the United States in china where the demand for energy is exploding dams are popping up everywhere so that by 2020 not a single waterway will reach the sea. And in the rest of the world there are at least 845000 dams and its not only water theyre holding back so all that sand that should be at the beach is behind the dance. One quarter of the sand reserves of the planet are hostage to these dams and the sand that makes it beyond the dams will run into another trapped river dredger. Although its regulated in many countries its still a widespread practice especially in countries where legislation this week results about 50 percent of a sandwich or nurse the worlds beaches will never reach the sea. The coastline like many other environments its like the earth was always thought so big so vast that we couldnt have an impact on it we built a dam for water or electricity which is a good thing but downstream theres no more sand so somehow we have to figure out how to bring all those things back into balance by taking some conscious steps to try to reduce the impacts of those things were doing as a civilization. Is coming. To you. On the. Green after green beeches slowly erode victims of decades of human interference. If you add the rise in level b. Or sure you get an ecological time bomb. To see right its just going to happen a lot more quickly without saying. But its not going to stop there its going to take out in all half of manhattan and its going to this could take our cities as well its going. Keep coming. The sand is our barricade and we have to understand that. In the middle of the indian ocean sand is a matter of life and death. Not only sand divers have been collecting call sand from the lagoons for years and selling with developers. But with Sea Levels Rising this sand harvesting is leading to some serious problems. Sound is a very ambitious commodity and the moment its because this one millimeter of the ocean touching you constantly every minute every 2nd every day every year is such a false and it is eat. Or you dont deny. The mall deaves our road at an alarming rate residents do what they can to protect their homes but many beaches are little more the memories. Really not god and i get all of them are sick and the demonic in the house im in a body did it come up with my idea how to undo what the law gave the one nun a difficulty down the dictaphone line number mcdonnell building i got in riyadh only make a name on a clinic the highgate at the lodge i didnt have a month in and it will need on the money keyboard unless the unite in the going to come and live in. Several 100 islands have already been evacuated and today the refugees crowd into larger and better protected islands such as small as the capital. Already overcrowded new houses are being crammed together. But in another better irony of the sand wars new. Construction requires ever more said. We have been in the middle of the indian ocean for the last 5000 is we have it in history that goes back 2000. You cant just die. Far from the mild deaves beautiful threatened beaches greed and speculation drive the Global Markets for sand and show no signs of slowing down. Bombay is not an isolated case theres never been so much construction but at the same time housing has never been less affordable. One 3rd of urban populations now live in slums well go cities and empty apartments are being built all over the world. In china 65000000 flats are empty yet the Construction Industry is flora xing swallowing up one quarter of the sand extracted on the planet spain holds the unfortunate record as the european country most addicted to sand in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis 30 percent of the homes constructed since 1906 sit empty entire airports have been built without seeing a single passenger and in dubai the emirate continues to build and import sand even if 90 percent of the apartments in the burj khalifa are bacon. But sadly real estate speculation doesnt hold the monopoly on the wasting of said governments are also to blame. I would construction uses inexpensive see said the strips of asphalt weve built snaking around the world have swallowed up massive amounts of the worlds beaches. Think about the number of roads that governments across the way have to beat its the Public Sector why the largest can do most of sad. How the sand wars even registered on our political leaders radars. Access to energy in the developing world on the forestation on Climate Change on the reform of the agricultural common policy on the common fisheries policy on learned on not traversal says i dont access to water without come here very often you find that you need a program to get a lot was before its going to get on the agenda. We talk about water because we know theres a major problem is that its right now in europe and we have had the debates on that weve had the policy were implementing a policy and soil were still having a debate. On science were not having the debates. Its fair to say that petitions scientists engineers come together and find alternatives for them or for the foot for the use they used most machines construction. Can we continue to build and at the same time for yourselves from this dependence on sand. Or other materials capable of replacing concrete. From the straw thats burnt after the crop is done you could build straw bale houses which use no cement. Except maybe the slab on the floor but and theyre earthquake proof those houses theyre perfectly insulated and theyre fireproof you dont have to build concrete buildings you see this building right here this building was built with 95 percent Recycled Materials all the steelers recycled its made from. Japanese cars you know its all recycled steel and when this building is finished they can melt this steel down to make more buildings. Theres so many materials which can be recycled i think we need to exhaust those and in the meantime maybe the world changes you know some years ago people used to build not with this quantity of reinforced cement concrete but a different methods of construction perhaps 35 different methods of construction but in the meantime at least we need to use Recycled Materials as far as possible. Like strong metal our homes are recyclable and rubble can be really used to build roads or new housing projects. But these Solutions Must face our usual inertia and relentless lobbying by the Construction Industry. Construction companies are equipped for and know how to work with concrete so radically changing our construction practices is an uphill battle. What if there was another granular material that might substitute for sand. Theres one very interesting beach north of San Francisco called glass beach and it turns out that for years the city dumped. All of their trash on to the beach the glass that got broken up by the waves and got rounded and today this is this wonderful sparkly shiny sort of a magical beach is started out as a garbage dump when nature is done the glass beach has inspired people to attempt a similar trick thousands of kilometers away in florida. Which is something that has to be disposed of and takes landfill space or Something Like that into an asset then youve killed 2 birds with one. I think everybody realizes the glass is made out of saying that if people start scratching their heads and say well maybe thats a good use of it to return it to science. Glass bottles and packaging are everywhere theyre usually collected and recycled into new containers but when its crushed into find pieces that glass can be just like sand got all because your core characteristics it says im contaminating regular beach sand it always looks like sand but it behaves exactly like sand so what i say and i mean theres no reason to expect a difference. Sand from recycled glass is one promising alternative for the beaches of florida and elsewhere on the beaches where it has been tested even the sea turtles have adopted it as a place to lay their eggs. As much as one quarter of the glass that we throw away is not recycled and ends up in the. Crushed it could be a perfect component in the making of concrete. But compared to natural sand this sand is still too expensive. When sun begins to cost high maybe. The sources cant compete with that though attentive can compete right now there is no competition you cannot compete thats something that is going to be a truck bottom. Pricing. As sand alternatives and new construction methods struggle the game budget a must see the sand gold rush is gaining speed and more battle fronts are appearing. On the coast of britain hundreds of families survived by traditional fishing. But today the fishermen are angry. A multinational with a thirst for sand plans to exploit the ocean floor destroying their livelihoods. But what need an issue does. It doesnt matter. So ill go so this is a. Lot with the global. Companies have come to brussels complaining about it not sure if i was in rules say. And that does rules get to the things we need. So what they try to demonstrate is that by doing it by taking out sand from the not so rare there is no impact. Going from you know mcginniss well enough so they get on quite often with a great deal more preschool seduces a. Lot of them see if they move it since it can become a democracy for them or. Duck just for me and all the while. Simplicities im also doing no evil move. So. Blue book is going to do for sub sub. Into google on the us use st. Exasperate of the brittany fisherman has shaken up both the elected officials and the citizens inspiring them to mobilize against the seizure of their sand with the engine. Of a loving world. Perhaps grassroots movements such as this will mobilize other groups around the world to stop the sand wars. Once people know once people understand what the issue is and how important it is whether its each grain of sand on that beach or the importance of that beach in their community to their lives and their community i think theres hope. So you see if. This is the sand for useful construction this sand has been taken from there. From the beaches so it is much is there take these sand the soviet ocean to be more and this will have a very seat is in either. Go to the beaches enjoy the beaches learn about the beaches and then do something about it. Lets not let the beaches disappear. I believe that the younger generations of the planet must come out and tried to impress a point now that is the gravity of the issue in but is happening to the planet and to skew it we must save the beaches. Given the scale in which society is built with sand i think sand is a little more respect. Whether its more freeways whether its more dams weve got to get away from these gigantic seams and get back to a simpler way of living. Theyve been tremendous environmental victories but the beach itself its been to fight for itself. Maybe needs us to fight for. The fate of the worlds beaches is not cast in concrete perhaps the day will come when well see sand with fresh eyes conscious of how every grain plays a role in the health of our planet and in our lives. Then by working with nature instead of against her we can win the same wars for the good of a song. Welcome to look at weather across the americas in north america we have a deep air of a low pressure moving up the eastern seaboard where he quite miserable conditions for washington d. C. And new york temperatures struggling as well the system will gradually push away as we head on through into thursday so brought to conditions following temperatures recovering somewhat in the sun appearing conditions across the whole of the size ready temps there into the thirtys dallas and new Orleans Sherry across the southwest San Francisco will see some showers so to los angeles heading down into central parts of america weve got of sketching of the Lesser Antilles but gerry mostly honest not looking too bad fine weather there for 30 degrees in the sunshine and a mixed bag really across the isthmus with many areas seeing drawing fine weather sunshine for the yucatan peninsula 29 the high in cancun more showers expected across the cure i go during the course of thursday heading down into south america weve got an active weather system affecting argentina at the moment given some pretty heavy rains or just from the river plate southwards and that will extend further towards the north as we head through into thursday cincy for parts of paraguayan into peru some heavy rain is expected meanwhile in Rio De Janeiro it should be largely dry and fine but the temperature of 29. 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