Takes five seconds to produce a plastic bag it takes five hundred years to decompose and veyron metal and the economic dilemma of huge proportions. When german retailers started charging for plastic bags consumption of them fell dramatically by two billion bags a year not bad but imagine of them still end up in recycling bins here and a huge number never get recycled at all despite germany being a Global Recycling champion. Decided to take an up close and personal look at the problem. My flatmates are the best at recycling most of our waste ends up in the regular trash. Bin everyone says we really should be recycling because waste is full of valuable ball materials. Managing paper glass organic waste only what is left should go in the trash. Here in germany theres a separate bin for every kind of waste. Is something useful done with all of this. Germans produce an average of over six hundred kilos of waste per year. The countrys reputation for recycling is tops but take packaging only forty percent of it is actually recycled and often its turned into lower quality products the most is incinerated but at least that does produce energy plastic burns well much of the packaging thats incinerated is hard to recycle anyhow glass is different when it comes to glass bottles eighty five percent of them turned into new jars and bottles. When it comes to sorting organic waste germans are pretty lazy too bad because nearly all of it can be turned into compost or biochemists. In mine shared flat nearly all of this ends up in the regular waste the end its incinerated instead of being recycled. So our Carbon Footprint is larger than it should be but weve resolved to do better from now on. Cheap and nasty thats the best way to describe our relationship with plastic bags more and more countries are struggling to cope with the downside of Plastic Waste and the trying to regulate it. In the indian capital delhi single use items made of plastic and now bant india produces over fifteen thousand tonnes of rubbish every day but technology could soon change that along with the lives of the poor who make their living from vast trash heaps indian founders of taking up the fight for a clean a better world as german entrepreneur they discovered. If thats me. My happy place the ocean is my happy place is the place where i can tune out and just enjoy nature enough to organise that. One night when its done. Its pretty crazy to see a beach where theres hardly any nature left of someone where theres so much pollution and such incredible amounts of Plastic Waste on the beach. Indias economy is growing and its trash heaps are too for star has travelled to delhi and the center of the city refuse has been piling up first thirty years and its still growing there is no functioning Waste Disposal system here. Millions of scavengers comb through the trash looking for what can be recycled the founder of a Technology Start of beans to improve their lot to get that one Dollar Dollar they did you put their hand into that you never know what to get in contact with theyre not there dont let anything to get so if you have lost everything in life you have no hope in life thats when you actually become a tech because. Its modern recycling facilities i got garbage is tackling indias trash crisis and providing a better workplace for the waste pickers. And. The ive done that on thirty five million kid you go. System and not only that within the speakers that on board it so were trying to make x. As much miss because were trying to make them into being if i had lived. As much as possible i may get a fix its a lifestyle is because they can fix it i mean they get. To optimize the process the company collects down to recycling facilities trash collectors homes all of them are interconnected. And that is available online. Has made technology possible which was not possible before first of seeing was really what kind of race was i was really in with have been people who would you dont even know how much would you know he was saying oh i should even before i dont think much like you know you actually quantify the end of the month you actually see somebody you know its like five and done fifteen done with and theres a like you actually give it a lot and this is the kind of casualties are very intense its over and its pretty much like having a fitness trigger which goes if you like how many steps had to. Be done like all the data and based on that you might be able to. Enough. Collect your behavior to move it exactly like that. Indias refuse crisis is being fueled by one thing above all plastic. Plastic is an essential part of modern life it can be produced cheaply and easily and its very long lasting and thats the problem. I thought think but not so if i use plastic to make disposable packaging. Things that will only be used once and then thrown away. The dots when the Material Properties of plastic become terrible because it doesnt decompose. Unfortunately people are predicted to that have that i think this is one to use single use batiks so really having to do some type of need for you if you knew not to change you can use. Replacement or plastics and the cost of the plastic the cured the. Conventional plastic can stay in the ecosystem for one hundred years and more. And the green bags biodegrade in just a few weeks theyre made from plant a little vegetable waste or division nice to reach at least printer to print if i can please buy enough of those in a day and well be supply unexplored two hundred percent made in india reared in india for next to this and country at the same time riyadhs encouraging no other produce in neutral or in this im going to do that even supply would want me to give you food is your bag from here to. The consequences of our love affair with plastic are clearly visible on indias west coast. And as a kid its fascinating to find something on the beach which actually challenge the ocean without understanding the problem. Out of a pile of our gannett waste on the beach would find one flashy our engine lighter and really stick out now its just like oh yeah it is a piece of wood or you know oh it is a sea shell here yeah yeah there were definitely some some some invasion has happened and i dont very very fast. In the weve been invaded by plastic and this is only. This is only what the sea has decided to throw back on the beach theres so much more out there. So much more out. There is the worst Case Scenario in this really works. Like this one on. One to actually started this. Because im taking the. Plastic. Mind pollutions this if it leaves very personally i think you either enter in denial and completely are trying to do something about it and initiate behavior change so im not a tree hugger im not a hardcore i still consume i still im a citizen i can anybody else im being im trying to be conscious about it but its the beginning music of my reflection and this is my participation to it. In forming and using my mates but the use of image. As a pollutant talk about it. Best the best thing about this project is that reveals how we are part of the problem. Reveals our consumerism. Our thought lets throw away mentality you can bengals we just keep producing and the worst accumulates everywhere and bit of move if you want to get the global trash problem under control from what we have to get out of this single use trial on the imo good policy. Using things once said then throwing them away doesnt even make economic sense its a waste of resources which we cant afford really then there are the added production costs of course the whole process produces masses of the Greenhouse Gas dioxide according to projections the economic consequences of rising temperatures will be devastating. Forest fires hurricanes drought these consequences of Climate Change are tragic for those affected and their costs keep climbing twenty seventeen hurricane erma set a new record that caused over thirty two billion dollars in damages. Will this trend continue insurers in particular have to factor this into estimates for future costs according to forecasts for twenty six the Global Warming of one point five degrees could cost twenty trillion dollars worldwide as much as the total annual g. D. P. Of the United States at two point five degrees that number doubles if temperatures rise by four point five degrees the costs will more than triple. Talking about harmful gases in the wake of diesel gate here in germany the car industry has come under massive pressure to reduce how full admissions from their products the cheating devices that skirted around Environmental Standards of tonnage the industrys reputation and reports in the last few days about tests on monkeys and even humans involving toxic gases found in exhaust fumes have made critics even more vocal diesel powered cars and polluting industries are out of favor and pressure is mounting to offer cleaner alternatives companies are now getting creative in the search for low carbon technologies. These facilities next to the audi plant in ms land are developing the fuel of the future so called eve gas. This man is leading the companys efforts hammon paying wants to radically reduce the Carbon Dioxide emissions linked to Climate Change. Were basically using c o two as a raw material to make the gas cars use that you cast as fuel but it c o two is returned to the atmosphere during combustion and its a cycle with no no you see. Missions. Here the c o two comes from a neighboring bio gas plant using Surplus Renewable Energy to power electrolysis the c o two is combined with hydrogen from water to produce methane the combustible gas c o two becomes synthetic fuel. Has been driving for years because cutting edge fuel sensor a gas can be fed into the existing natural gas grid theres no need for new facilities like the charging stations for Battery Powered vehicles. Is a realist he knows that gas is not a panacea. Problems. The path forward is highly diverse. That hydrogen what to me there is no standard. Its not exclusively hydrogen or electric its everything all the currently available technologies can help reduce c o two. The key is utilizing renewable fuels. Electricity its the Energy Source that determine c o two emissions. C o two has the Automotive Industry under enormous pressure but also the Steel Industry that takes us to do to steel producer to which also struggles with high c o two emissions. And from the companys Innovations Division theyre currently building a unit that will drastically cut back the plants Carbon Dioxide emissions. And not carbon to. Steel production. Creates what are known as metallurgical gases theyre captured in burned to produce electricity and heat a process which emits huge amounts of c o two. The system works in a similar way to audis electrolysis driven process the c o two is captured for use as a basic material but to make products like chemical fertilizers instead of fuel. Like audi the two project managers also dont see c o two as a waste product but rather as a valuable raw material the dispose steel plant alone produces some twenty million tons of Carbon Dioxide annually if the idea takes off it opens up new Business Opportunities for to give him a physician see there are roughly sixty conservatives like this one around the country. They can all benefit from the solutions you can copy and put it in line with the regulations towson co pass to pay more than nine euros per ton for c o two emissions writes the efforts these engineers are spearheading could drastically reduce those costs but will it work. I mean new tests here its not our goal to produce the product here rather using real mathematical guss of two to three years to show that it works in order to move to the next add which requires a major Capital Investment in audi has been running at c o two project for several years now i am on paying basis numerous challenges the plant only runs when the market provides sufficient surplus wind energy which costs next to nothing yet it still operates at a loss. It isnt paying off because the taxes are so high and also because the technology is still in its infancy. If investment costs for electrolyzers go down over the next few years which is already evident then the technology will get cheaper and cheaper than. New ideas or Old Industries using Carbon Dioxide as a raw material shows great promise offering an entirely new perspective on the climate menace. In business its all about the bottom line so if you want to force industries to care about Climate Change one of the most effective ways is to tax the emissions they produce the European Union is trying to do that with a program known as cap and trade is a quick explanation of a policy instrument that hasnt been as successful as its inventors had hoped. Does the emissions trading scheme work. In the European Union and its intensive business isnt such a big polluters have to buy carbon credits one credit allows a company to him its a ton of c o two for an equivalent Greenhouse Gas some firms need several million of these certificates every year. To cut Carbon Emissions throughout the new brussels has agreed to reduce the number of credits available by around two percent a year. There are various options open to those affected they can invest in Climate Friendly technology to reduce their emissions to permitted levels. Or they purchase credits from another company which has already lowered its emissions and therefore has more certificates than it requires. Theres already a burgeoning market for surplus credits which businesses are entitled to buy also as they see fit. Emissions trading all cap and trade works on the principle of boosting plan of action at minimal cost. In practice however companies have more credits than they actually need. The ongoing surplus of certificates has been continually driving down their price for years now. To a level where the financial incentive for companies to invest in clean energy and reduce emissions is close to zero. Well meaning sadly ineffective the environment is meant to be profiting from this at the end of the day and the transport an Agricultural Industries havent even been factored into this then there are the new Energy Intensive technologies like bitcoin you may think its all virtual but just one transaction uses as much power as your house in a week people mine for the cryptocurrency using huge Computer Centers but when stanley analysts say worldwide the mind is a big could use as much as one hundred forty terawatt hours of electricity this year thats a third of the power of all germans use and germany is europes biggest economy. Then there are the fees involved in using big court which leave out the middleman the banks so why the added costs one cryptocurrency startup based in berlin has come up with an alternative report about the one who just went to meet the companys founder. Its been youre not me bothered and im still using cash and i use paper like this in shops but as a Business Reporter im really interested in whats going on with cryptocurrency is right now they want to get rid of this stuff. By meeting her visionary a take a live report in berlin his Digital Currency might one day take off. Dominic she never. Liked the twenty two year old is already a startup entrepreneur palli with everyone there was really busy and mandan. She never sees himself as a rebel fighting against the old financial system. If we arent doing business the Old School Way were taking a more disruptive approach. You can say that again. He wants to put an end to my way of paying for things apparently cash isnt safe enough. And Bank Transfers are too slow. The Digital Economy is gaining speed every day the internet the bigger point is this is the internet of things today is focused on automation and our mission isnt automation its to make things independent and the way we make machines independent is to give each of them a digital wallet. And what we then do is get the machines to pay each other one good example is a core paying its own parking fee in the future that will be sorted out by the car and its parking bay or its charging station or the road toll cents or so. Groceries offer another opportunity for automation a fridge the makes purchases automatically and plays digitally crypto currencies could be the money of the future the best known is bitcoin which is based on Block Chain Technology dominic she believes its already outdated whats better than bitcoin if you want to replace it right now can also hope. The main reason we developed a yoga is because we saw the problem with watching these one dimensional chains block after block after block are only able to make a limited number of transactions but if and the other problem is transaction fees if i want to carry out a transaction using bitcoin i have to pay fees of between ten and twenty dollars and thats obviously more expensive than a bank account if youre looking at the machine economy where one machine is paying another were not talking about larger transactions like ten dollars were looking at transferring micro payments a few cents at a time and you can only do that with a yota by. The currency is based on whats called a tangle. Confirmation of a payment functions much faster and more cheaply than with locked chains from competitors like bitcoin. Small sums are easily dealt with. Critics say its not as safe as a block chain. To be quite honest were still working on proof of concept the good thing about it is that weve got a lot of researchers on board almost ten mathematicians theyre laying out the theory behind the tangle. And theyre validating it with solid proofs which is what were working on now. But its easier to hack them. Absolutely not thats not true. As ok so its just a rumor that its not a secure system here thats only a rumor. Which is the best software hundreds of crypto currency programmers could argue about that all day but they all agree on one thing. Digital currencies dont need a central bank at their heart constantly pumping fresh money into the system for withdrawing it. Thats what Monetary Policy is all about crypto visionaries are questioning the entire traditional monetary system. And increasingly states have been thinking about regulating them. Yet you have difficulties with regulators they want to clip your wings a little. Obviously were a little nervous about what kind of regulation could be imposed for crypto currencies in the future as well as blocking technology and thats why were aiming to Work Together with regulators to collaborate with them and ensure we have some input as to what shape regulation could take because were experts in our input on how things can be regulated as solid. Evidence listen to have that right the regulators dont understand the technology theyre regulating some do some dont so is this visionary or a lot of hot air how much longer will we be using last centurys payment methods. I just didnt i pay with. Us never heard of that tell me about it like. Im happy to do so but in the future transactions like this might be carried out by my fridge. How much freedom would you give your fridge in the future if you can help me say food waste to and save money ill be a happy man if you want to see any of our reports again head for our website or check us out on facebook if you have anything to share with me personally get in touch on twitter always love hearing from you thanks for joining us see you again soon. The be. The big. Boobs. The big. The be. The be the be. The but. The be. The best. The be. The daily basis to is rescue people from the Mediterranean Sea the but all the playing into the hands of people smugglers above encouraging more if you choose to risk the perilous crossing a few critics say they are to our relief organizations responding to the educationists. N. G. O. S see the fuse. Blows up to. The fast pace of life in the digital. Such shift as the lowdown on the web it shows are new developments useful information and anything else worth noting. Presents though this finds. 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Soaps were at the end of the day these technologies can be used against us and what effect will happen society does this Human Rights Movement need to upgrade i think its only the beginning of this cyber wars human machines starting february first on t w. This is deja vu news live from berlin hallowing a new american moment President Donald Trump delivers his first state of the Union Address there has never been a better time to start living the American Dream and also miss the words after a turbulent year in washington the president calls for a bipartisan push to rebuild infrastructure and overall immigration well bring you some analysis. And the president s slashes pledged aid to the palestinian