Plane. Made its freedom and its as everything thats its its what i find it feeds my passions my out what i think its just me in a. Were pod and i want just another animal the elements of nature not just. Blonde. Bacteria its also. Things like this go i must fear obviously the sea. The way to me is like another living living thing moves its gone mind of the sun. And if you. Use that for the energy thats there close. You feel as if youre a plant rooted to the sea. This is the source of those are moments that can really change your way of thinking to find yourself. In the first few years i saw it would be the first fifteen years in safety before i decided i liked being away i just thought that you surfing was going out into the maneuvers and even right the very beginning it was very competitive and i thought surf was like a sport where surf if there isnt a competition surfing still exists i can remember some days where ive just been out in the ocean in big waves and you have this connection with the ways its almost like the waves or its another person you build up the relationship with the wave itself. Id already been here a lot when i lived in england we did some really good trips to galathea and it was a sort of all known thing we didnt really confine any other surface it served very much along the coast of us three a circle if you. Wish to see this wave and we wondered how we could get down to surf it and when i eventually found how to get down the cliff and get into the water from another angle then i suddenly look back then you just see this great big pile of rubbish. And then you had. More looking for where use was tony boarded it as we began to find real rubbish to see that. No one looks out to the beaches from september you may or june only surfers because theyre always on the beach so its got to expose him and its sad to go somewhere every day and see more rubbish every time. You go you see lots of bags here. Theyre full full of rubbish. You have to be careful they may contain glass and eunice. You know that it was like that if you can see how much rubbish there is and its all full of stuff like this one thousand bottles corks. Theres masses a year. I want. Our song was right during a storm and i was you know this. I thought i grew up on the south case is quite different but i used to spend my time cycling to the north coast because i wanted to learn to surf better. Obviously living on time for them to take leave this when the rubbish will invade has just been unbelievable basically the same sort of always wanted back up what was only a shameful sunday school breaking down and all the grass is kind of intermingled with all the plastic this sundays it once became been a release stuff those who read going yeah i think just from bits of broken boxes massive fishing net the storms really did project to the whole public how much rubbish was in the city after the show i couldnt believe it was like a carpet being put on to the sound. It seems like the more you read and the more you research on these problems the worse the problem gets so now if ive just finished a big report on marine plastics the problem to me now is a lot worse than it was before before i thought that somehow it degraded or somehow it just got absorbed back into the surface of the planet but it doesnt it just stays just stays plastic we know really be mass producing plastic long enough to to fully understand its right to take radiation we know that in the environment. A large plastic item starts to become brittle as a consequence of exposures to the saw to hate and mechanical ice in the sea and it starts to fragment into very small pieces even microscopic pieces that we describe as micro plastic if i thought the polymer chemists they tell me that all of the plastic that weve ever produced is still with us on the planet in a form thats too large to be biodegraded. For our First Expedition was to sail from. The bahamas to bermuda number muta across the bays oars and this was to understand what was happening on the eastern side of the north atlantic and that was our first big expedition from there. Went around the world went to the south the southern lactic then the the South Pacific the indian ocean and then there was it was global so with a very big data set and some of the best ocean modelers we then made the first estimate of how much trash how much plastic all plastics all sizes and all oceans and that number is two hundred sixty nine thousand tons from five point two five trillion pieces of plastic we know at the moment that around about seven hundred species of marine organism and count deborah of some kind and most of those reports relate to encounters with plastic that very we know that those creatures really just that their brain and some of them become entangled in it we know for many of those instances that it can be home for even faithful makes me feel quite guilty because i cant do enough about it and i feel that this is kind of its all wrong the. Whole world is backwards. When the does this when you like a place you try to keep that environment and task is to me missy gives me so much the way it was there when i saw that i have to give Something Back it was me i feel obliged to. I think that the connections are the same being a want to use it so fame ingesting immersing thats half the fun. And when you l. First time when you when you walk at high tide line for the tracks and im so angry and im not the person who can turn a blind eye to that so i can have a guy angry and frustrated or i can get angry and i can get active. So afraid of one thousand nine hundred ninety i joined them in one thousand nine hundred five and white happened because we were surfing. In the water on the beaches and all year long. Sure enough the beaches at that time were clean in spring so good coming in summer and everything was nice everything was not nice everything was clean before they arrived we were there all year long surfing into waste and polluted water as we could see this and where not not only. They were the witness of it by the time victims i mean who is here troubles or gastric troubles and what the heck am i doing to me well yourself and so this is why i guess we will try to do something in fact as some say the only level of. Which go out of the water of the ocean and telling speaking about what we saw that. I remember finding the small plastic wheels had to be. Essential and crash you always see all sorts of disasters objects on the beach so i didnt think much of it. But as more and more of these wheels appeared i started wondering what they were because because it is which is. Why i asked around but no one knew anything about the sea. But once i started asking questions i found out that they want just appearing here a ship and stress that it was several people were also finding them in spain. And. Other places. There was all sorts of speculation about what they were for what they were used to. Packaging and boxes to keep things from moving around. That they were from submarines things like that. But no one really knew what they were so. Surfrider is an organization with chapters in a lot of locations. So we sent an email to all the chapters around europe. And as it happened there were not jocks you know on the island of corsica. Had just received an invitation from a Company Called dan c. To take a look at its new modern Sewage Treatment plant. Imprisoned its really process. Going to capital city theyve got to brochure. Ive got it here somewhere they send it to me. Yeah this is it. Going well you know i saw the photos we sent them and compared them with a picture and they said this is in france once again was there so we. Did so now that we know what they were and what they were for an address we were able to start investigating. You know when we knew they were using Water Treatment plants and we visited sewage plants that used. Water treatment is done in several stages. Longer than the first stage grids are used to retain the larger floating material he. Limits you have all your grids get smaller and smaller. And when theyre no longer small enough a different process is employed. Which involves using bacteria that eats or destroy organic material in the water. They realize that if the bacteria was attached to Something Like a barnacle to iraq it was more effective and it worked better. So volcanic rocks were then used to give the bacteria something to adhere to the dry lava has holes the bacteria can inhabit. And this part of the process became increasingly important and more rock was needed but its a problem to get. To see so these plastic objects were made to use instead millions of them are placed in a tank in the bacteria adhere to them to do their job and clean the water. And we set up a web page and we started to publish what we knew on the internet. And we saw that other people are investigating as well and coming up with the same sort of information for example from two thousand and twelve until now there have been several cases of pollution in switzerland from switzerland to lay claim on both sides just with side and the french side says. If you actually morsi was really do could deal with the specific differences. Ill also tell you serious that i work for the ballet district Environmental Protection service. I take charge of ensuring that the sewage plants observe federal requirements in this matter. The plant management informed me if it had been a spill of bio media filters. I asked them why you know where it came from what. Was it but it wasnt until a few months later that we knew how it happened and the quantity that had been lost. Said this is what we calculated about five cubic meters could commit it sank it can actually squibs. Oh yeah. Sure. What happened was that there was an excess of water there was a thaw which led to a lot of water there was no separate so which system then to separate the waste water from the surface water it was all in the same plant. So the water level in the tank rose until it overflowed the last the wheels that came to the surface and overflowed they went down the drain. But. It ended up in their own a large river which passes through lake geneva and into france descending to leo then flowing into the mediterranean its a relatively new treatment process id say about fifteen years old and this process is used when the capacity of a sewage plant becomes limited thats why its quite an easy system to set up. Well you have to do is add the bio media filters to the tank. So. It doesnt cost much as opposed to building a new tank. Thats much more expensive. And many districts use this system so. You know theres another planet by the way and the same thing happened they had a bio media spill i think it was the same problem and they did the same thing we did to prevent it from happening again. You sure you do in switzerland theres been a lot of pollution the authorities have cooperated a lot. Theyve given us documents to help us understand the process. The solution is quite simple like putting a grid on top of it and weve visited many Water Treatment plants and weve seen the pollution was often caused by extremely silly and simple things. The problem is that in a tank like this there are ten or one hundred but millions of bio media filters and when they spill out millions of them end up in the sea. Of on there were. No question there are and this is what i would class as a toxin explains to extreme our area notepaper net. There are the kinds of plastic objects you always find along the beach. We found these shotgun shells. And then we have i think theyre called by a meteor into kind of. When we later found out that they are from the Sewage Treatment plants. And they are talks innes objects par excellence our tampon applicators. They come in all kinds of shapes and colors. Anyway and i was there all over the place i thought you know. I dont see the kampala point of this show me trying to understand the problem of rubbish in rivers since the only data we have up to now is that eighty percent of the litter in the seat comes from the rivers. In this study began just over a year ago to find out the quantity in the type of literal which comes from rivers to find its origin its movement how it ends up in the sea. The main conclusion we can draw from this study is that of the fifty thousand waste products collected during these twelve months that are eight collection points so about seventy percent was plastic behind the sewage plants we found waste products which are usually in the sewage plants and a large quantity of medical waste is found just behind the sewage plants. I find all this stuff from combined sewage overflow i find the ocean i find the air buds i find that tampon applicators little little little pink little tubes i find cigar tips i find all these things you find just in sewage are still floating out to sea you know a thousand miles of the mill the ocean. Simply going to destroy it because there are two main reasons why we find a large quantities on the beaches the first is that there are people out there who clean their ears with cotton buds and then throw them down the toilet. Here they go into the sewage. Only they should throw them into the bin. And see the problem is that in many towns there is only one grain pipe which carries the rainwater and the sewage together. From the climate is mild it goes to the sewage plant but when it rains have a life so much water goes into the sewage plants that they cant create it of me know. So they have no other options. And to open the watergate and let the uncreated water flow directly into the environment. This is the part we see. The plastic which has been thrown away the part we dont see or detergents chemicals and all the bacteria which come from the toilet. Two of them of you know like you got sometimes research a big wave near here and you come out of the water smelling of feces but your wetsuit smells like crap because youve been surfing near the sewage plant and this does not only happen here it happens everywhere. Is against surges set up in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight and this village in saint agnes by a group of those who were repeatedly going surfing and becoming sick and they were putting turning two together the u. K. Used to discharge all of its sewage and trace it for a long sea out folks and that basically meant when and when i was on show when its and swell all of the sewage pleasure was going straight back onto the beach is. When i first started surfing in the early nineties he would quite often be surfing amongst sanitary towels and feces and it was is all in the series i caught in and out and so. When i was a kid grease come down to cool every holiday we spent many weeks down here and my dad told me surfing way back in the early seventys is really passion about water loved everything about it was terrible and he used to lend me his boat and used to go out into the water from about the age of sort of four five years old and yeah being totally hooked on it since then there was always this thing about me getting sick i was always sick in Summer Holidays and call it became a bit of a joke really to. At the end up going to the doctors getting antibiotics these kind of things always with their infections upper respiratory Tract Infections and and really bad conjunct of isis and we havent made i mean it was only literally probably fifteen years ago that was talking through my parents and they sleep with us for a second you were the one that was in the water the whole time youre bathing with bathing in in the sort of horrible wool area where the effluent was coming out and i was just yeah ingesting rule sewage at the time and then you know within two days of the holiday you know bright red eyes you know streaming control to voices and the left left ear just constantly getting infections and it set up a weakness that then sadly went on to be just getting more and more infections and to the point now where ive got pretty bad hearing loss in the left ear from it in the early ninetys when s. S. Was born it was born a single issue Pressure Group so it was a group of who were campaigning against untreated sewage going into the se and it was a big problem then because it was continues to charges of sewage all around the u. K. So with the help of the dont waste Water Treatment directive weve seen billions of pounds spent on u. K. Spirit infrastructure to stop untreated sewage going into say day in day out so thats a major step forward now the trouble now is that instead of discharging sewage one point eight kilometers out to say you have these things called sewer overflows combines or overflow can discharge untreated sewage during periods of rain or periods of malfunction stray out onto the beach or into the river very very close to debate. This is a combined. So you got these four grills when theyre sure each infrastructure is in a depression this actually is an emergency exit you have human sewage as you can see all in the great. You have human sewage completely untrained and stone walls are coming out of these grates instead of river and out since you want to call most most premie. Beaches. Reproaching prices for areas here especially where you know the overpressure is over for periods of. Writing paper. Notes bigger air infections you know i mean for one you know on our to notice for sort of you know in there has been severely brain for you know. A thing for me but. I suppose it was just an bacteria its dissemination the environment has really understudied it could be a potential by which millions of people in the u. K. Anyway and come into contact with resistant bacteria because we know that. Close to water is all contaminated with sewage on occasion and at the same which can contain resistant bacteria it means that its difficult street with antibiotics so what we did is we got that ted sea water holes test for them for the presence of water in a particular type of terry havent called the code i. Dont have time for resistance to one group of antibiotics and we found gods even though that present in small number has died. And i was hit with and i see our president and castel bating water and people here enjoy seventeenth and failing disability bacteria we gain clearly know what happens when someone swallow is i was just about tearing they dont know what they have fives in the body or what they case on tend to follow up. To calls a subsequent infection we take that is something that were investigating for cause that has the potential bite pathname. Bathing after rainfall event. Whats happening your country and its also happening in many of the beaches around the country is the regulators deciding to take a was called to sample from somewhere down the beach far away from where the source of pollution is entering the sea just like many beaches around the country a country the there will be children there will be thousands of people who will use sea right in front of the river a country which is where the sewer overflow discharges so those people are being told the Water Quality is excellent because the Environment Agency will take a sample many hundreds of meters away from where theyre using the sea what what we do is we look at where the most babies are on the bathing water and we draw an imaginary line right there into the bottom of the tie to the top of the tide and we always take the sample on that particular point what i can say is that after a really heavy rain the combined sewer overflows are likely to operate to save peoples houses being flooded with sewage and that sewage will end up going down the red river and i interact with the i dont agree the big it will it will happen and it will flow with the tide depending on where the tide days back out to sea and across the front of the big we do know that and thats true but where people are most of the people they it will be classed as excellent when you look at all of the data that weve got. The u. K. Is given a choice as every member state is you can take the world call to sample from where the worst source of pollution is zero m. Major source of by the sun so by the Environment Agency deciding to ignore that source of pollution knowing full well the over the course of the bathing season many thousands of people will use that body of water right in front of the river then they are not supporting their community i havent any Environment Agency i have lights as people and i understand theyre there because theyre there because they want to protect the environment so theyre good people in a Good Organization war i fear and this is just my opinion sir might be completely wrong but when the wards quote say results get released at the end of the beginning in november the Environment Agency hauled before the press to say why are these beaches passing where it should pay to pollute is that again held to account should be Water Companies that should be fun and so it should be industry theyre getting perks of our camera to say the speech has failed again why why an intern or you should have been hearing about us. Anyway where they the private Water Companies this is. An industry that makes billions of pounds of profit year on year on year now that profit needs to be taken back from the shelters and it needs to be invested in the protecting the environment because thats what these Water Companies should do they should give us clean and Safe Drinking Water and they should take away our search and treat it responsibly without jumping into the environment that should be a bottom line that the Company Works from and it can still name money we did a lot of undercover work we filmed the c. S. I. Shows discharging into rivers and into ses around the u. K. And we worked with a national t. V. Company b. B. C. s panorama programs watched by millions of people. Tonight caught on camera the hype spilling sewage on the some of britains most popular place the beaches this is disgusting its. Real good as a direct result of that lobbying for the the b. B. C. And also working with national newspapers. We were called in for a meeting with the environment minister and those surface again sujan and all of the stakeholders in the water industry with the environment minister and he set down the challenge and he said its not good enough he doesnt want to say so it was overflowing on national t. V. So what can we do to stop it and the first voice he came to in that meeting was surface against sewage for a solution and that gave us the opportunity to say. Whilst were not able to reduce the sewer overflows right now without investment what we want is information so tell us when a sewer is overflowing and well tell the public and then they can make that informed decision and leave weve been informed of over three thousand sewer overflow incidents that can cause serious impact on your health in the last few years and weve passed on to thousands and thousands of paid. Into little. Of the bryce of the late. And having discovered or even taken the problems he was he twenty fifteen ten years ago one of the biggest improvement were seeing is awareness from everybody from the citizen to people leaders in brussels in European Parliament for instance like twenty years ago. Is that if we have trouble with Water Treatment with sewage water as people would say where theres no problem and who asked us to believe this then we said no no no its not its not ok and no with ace its the opposite its now an argument which is no from our politicians look at what was meant to improve Water Quality and this is early wrong a long term. Improvement. And i think for me the most important. Is to really feel how how long the process how difficult the process and how far you are from. When you are fighting it from the beginning. Stage. Of all the water make sure you dont get cold. Just for the search so just for you know going to contaminates much is having a shower almost forty five minutes. On the surface when water straight come out vigorously. Im ready for lunch. We came on the water is really warm. At least compared to where you come from. Several degrees warmer thats wonderful. I just went for a swim in the river had a shower. The way i just told but its probably it would be better if it was. It wasnt it didnt exist in the first place is the best that we can do but you know still not im not perfect. You know i travel ive got a car. Hydro carbons. You know im using up resources quicker than theyre being renewed. So my justification for that is that i can be happy with less and less resource. The most people havent got this thing this addiction to. Buying new stuff all time and throwing away which is a big problem i like to keep things you know i dont drink water out of those plastic bottles because i just have a metal bottle and i just refill it every time from the time i mean its important to recognize that theres no single solution to this problem and its about things that are familiar to its about reducing reusing and recycling now if its a drink of water fresh water bottled water in most parts of the developed world we have very good Drinking Water coming out of the town so absolutely its a case of having a refillable bottle that we can fill from the top every time of course we could start trying to clean up the mess in the oceans but my view on that is that were putting litter into the oceans far faster than we can ever take it out and really the thing we need to do is to stop it going in in the first place. Blading. We seem to know the basic idea is very simple if you go to the beach second you pick up three pieces of litter you take a photo and you put it on the social networks and as were on the right track. Itll take time but i think were on the right track. Obviously the answer isnt to clean a beach because we can clean it today in the i have more litter tomorrow but the point is to make people aware that there is an extremely serious problem in the solution is right here i think there was not i thought i knew not here i think i was pretty young and we clean are necessary once a year and we carry out periodic clean ups with koga three and other groups. You can clean it one day and its clean and you go back the next day and you see the same mess again and yes it hurts it hurts it is something that hurts him secondly i dont know. I suppose its because of a lack of education among the population. And seemingly no not not. Sitting on the course correct guy in the world. But when i was young my parents taught me not to drop litter and to keep it and put it in a litter pan. And when i can fly i hope everyone will end up doing that one day. In the process of setting up the club and school and working with children. I saw that it was my duty to transmit this to the children. I thought that if we managed to get the youngsters to grow up with the idea of not leaving litter and making them aware that we have this problem. In later years when theyre grown up theyll pass it on to their children. Thinking that in the future things will be better for us and sensually passing it on to children i think that. Theyre the future. Youre going to feel they have every time i go to a school and i visited fifty five of them last year parents come up to me and say wow you really get your message across to the kids. Its essential to reach kids because as i always say its too late for our generation i. Mean how do you convince people my age we have two kids a mortgage and stress. But if we change the behavior of their kids we will have achieved something. Bottle. Styrofoam. And some throw. Pieces of plastic i cant even identify. Its not nice to be on the beach and find plastic objects everywhere. People dont know how to dispose of bottles. They toss them into the ocean as if it were a trash bin. Its not the sea but at school i often tell other children not to drop their can do you. Or is on the floor. They dont seem to care. I often pick up after them because they dont seem to know what happens when they drop letter its wrong it isnt right nature isnt meant for that were changing it into something it isnt and one day will destroy it if we go on like this. You mediums are current mediums and she. Started me to go there just to be done because. I have. Made. It. From a with what i think of the students is to raise awareness of the issues really we just said to the students when i began speech you need to pick up three three objects and see what you can give them put them into compositions beautiful so they might have color coded reds oranges and yellows if they can create work as well i mean for me its a case of collecting the debris and making something with it rather than going into a big big trash bin i dont think they knew the facts and figures they want to help and the passionate about being in both and i was a think. They want to do the association with protecting the environment and that for me. Thats what its all about. Is much more attractive for people to try to modify the environment and then they dont have to modify their own behavior that enough to sort of. Train their minds or pride in themselves to react in sequence with nature uncertain is surfing in real ways in the ocean the whole thing of anticipating the swell was going to be coming. From the just the wind direction was where to put yourself and all that is framed over the years and years and sometimes. At age and it all focuses down to that one point where you turn your border around you touch the way and what hes actually done is even stranger self to fit in with the rhythms of nature. Are you up to speed on the latest technology. Know when it may be time for an upgrade. Become part of the future become the most something or. A minus a word so i have created a new sense and the new organ and of design my perception of reality implants that make every day life easier. I use my you plant on a daily basis that optimize the shoeman body and connect to people more effectively. I hope that this will make us more ethical persons if we have a greater understanding for each other. What would life be like as a cyborg how far would people be willing to go into so at the end of the day these technologies can be used against us and what effect will it have been society does the human race really need an upgrade i think its only the beginning of this. Cyborg human machines starting february first on d. Double. Me me me. Me. Me me. Me. Me. Me me me me me me a to. Touch this is due to a news live from crunch time for talks on forming a new Coalition Government here in germany forty eight hours remain from the americans conservative bloc and the social democrats to strike a deal where the country could be heading back to the polls well get analysis from berlin brussels paris and london. Also coming out south koreas president says he is willing to meet north Koreas Kim Jong un if denuclearization is on the edge and it will take a look at what the chances are of talks between the two. Former white house