And what you do with all the stuff we no longer want most countries have a trash problem only a few really recycle. Rubbish piled high in the streets of beirut after lebanons largest waste dump closed in 2015 it was already groaning under 15000000 tons of excess trash sounds took to the streets to protest against the situation has anything changed since then. The beaches in the lebanese capital beirut could be beautiful but the reality is theyre often half buried under garbage. So these young people are getting ready to transform their local beach theyre taking part in a campaign called run unclean its the brainchild of eddie p. H. R. And his n. G. O. S live love beirut the group spends part of the time jogging and the rest picking up litter the events store up to 200 people. Many young people in particular are fed up of waiting for the lebanese government to take the initiative. This is part of the outcome of the crisis that we had a few years ago we see that people are more and more concerned whereas all the problems facing the environment in lebanon and we are very happy to see that all the young people families used are all coming together in order to remove all the trash. Much of the rubbish that the group picks up was not dropped on the beach but washed up by the sea thats because beiruts 2 largest garbage dumps are located right next to the water the team spirit is evident as young people from beiruts muslim and Christian Communities come together in a rare joint project theres a lot of pollution so we could do anything just. So we can. Help the local authorities are absent when it comes to its management and i think we should put it on record that while we were running to clean this part of the beach the coast we saw the mayor walking in the opposite direction and we asked him to come help and lead by example and he said he was too busy. 3 years ago local residents forced the closure of what was then the main local dump garbage was left to mount up in the streets of beirut as Garbage Collection Services was simply suspended. Heads up the Nature Conservation center at the American University of beirut she says the government lets the crisis happen despite repeated warnings it will happen again because we dont seen from the government any plan to implement a sound Waste Management solution so it will happen and some cities but in some other cities where positive change has been already implementing it will not happen. These days garbage collection is once again working normally in beirut but the trash is simply taken to a new jump sometimes it goes to an incinerator but that pollutes the air recycling containers like these are not yet widespread these ones were provided by the shuckers company he says since the garbage crisis more people are keen to see recycling introduced. People have really embraced and theyre asking us for more and more locations but the problem really however is that sometimes people leave their bags outside their brains they dont put the stuff in and if you keep bags out other people would bring in unsorted garbage bags and they would place it near those bags and then sort of degenerate into a mini landfill. In addition to the recycling waste his company also. Sauls through 20 tons of household garbage each day hes employed 23. 00 Syrian Refugees to do the work giving them proper contracts and the local minimum wage equivalent to some 500. 00 u. S. Dollars a month the company collects metal textiles paper and huge amounts of plastic c. R. B. Shaka open the facility in the middle of the garbage crisis taking out a loan of more than 700000. 00 us dollars. The garbage processed here gets 100 percent recycled organic waste which makes up a High Percentage of garbage unleaded on this turned into compost. The problem was before the crisis is that all this forest would go to a landfill and when the crisis happened this was the instigation to build a facility like this one where you have sorting and kobolds thing and where nothing goes through the end of the intimidating. But thats not all on the roof of this Refugee Center in beirut hes putting some of the recycled waste to good use cod shock his Company Makes what he calls eco boards out of Plastic Waste they used to create raised beds the vertical gardening the beds of filled with compost generated from the organic waste. The rooftop offers over 100 square meters of space on which to grow vegetables there are 3000. 00 plants here in all. A group of women at the refugee home have set up a Catering Service using the vegetables its their own company. Im working yeah im back here and. I have a big flower outside my home have a good. Income. For my yeah my family. Meanwhile eddie batar from the Beach Cleanup Campaign is pursuing new solutions for beiruts Waste Disposal a mobile phone up allows residents to have paper and Plastic Waste collected from their homes his drivers deposit the waste in the carriage ready for a Partner Company to collect and recycle it. Theyre now getting between 60 and 100 orders a day. If i never got a real believe that theres room to grow and people want more of those services. And their daily life. In just 6 months 15000 people have done loaded up and 5000 households are now using his service regularly. Half of all clothes also find their way into the trash most within a year many of them unworn every 2nd the equivalent of a truckload of textiles arrives at a trash or is burnt making 500000000000 u. S. Dollars worth of wasted goods a year. The clothing industry is also environmentally damaging every year over half a 1000000 tons of textile microfiber end up in the oceans the equivalent of 50000000000. 00 plastic bottles. Greenpeace says that between 2002014 worldwide clothing production doubled its now around 100000000000 items a new clothes. Each year in germany consumers buy an average of 60 such items annually and wear them just office long as they did 15 years ago and. Spend time on from the German Clothing Foundation is a patient man and he doesnt mind his job unpacking boxes of discarded clothing and blankets in the city of homs stet but over the past 5 years hes noticed a change people now throw in all kinds of items that simply dont belong here. At a construction site warning them. For. Clothing banks are increasingly being used as garbage containers perhaps a case of people not only having too many clothes but too much of everything so how is this happening to. The cotton fields have traditionally been a key factor in the production and pricing of Quality Clothing global cotton production is on the rise climbing 14 percent last year alone nevertheless the proportion of textiles containing cotton has dropped thats because of the growing over production of clothing and other textiles worldwide. Cotton is gradually being displaced by Synthetic Fibers with the Chemical Industry eager to expand its share of the supply chain as a quick glance around shopping zones in germany confirms synthetic clothing is all the rage in addition to the low prices that can cater to different requirements being comfortable durable and breathable and Umbrella Organization for clothing collectors in germany is alarmed by the trend toward more and cheaper textiles ive. Every year in germany 1000000 tonnes of textiles off thrown away thats the equivalent of a queue of trucks covering 1000 kilometers. Its unrealistic to expect all that material to be used for people. Need you know we calculate that less than 10 percent is actually given to local charitable initiatives once its out its like i gave them. As for the other 90 percent thats passed on to sorting companies which later sell it on the world market the price those Companies Pay has fallen in recent years to 300. 00 euros per tonne 5 years ago they were paying 400 per tonne back then the surplus of used clothes was not as excessive and the quality was better to. Those highs to untie the proportion of poor quality textiles those which are no longer wearable is rising and the problem especially with these low quality items is that theyre often only partially recyclable if its whole. If you believe the advertisers people who want to look good don a new outfit every day for troops in many western countries are bursting at the seams because clothes are cheat or rather in market speak good value for money and compliant customers duly take the bait. The profits of prime mark h. And m. And other Global Retail chains are rising sharply as are their share prices and customers are wearing clothes for ever shorter periods of time its a classic consumerist cycle. Spend steinman from the German Clothing Foundation has reached the next collection point this makes the one with the building site beacon look pretty orderly. So whats this impression of this container. Not so nice. There was i guess were Throwaway Society sadly is that out of all. Honesty something smells a bit rancid here. And. What does he mean by rancid. Its things like someones throwing away their rubbish in here. What was his most extreme experience so far. As a rotting food with maggots ive seen it all. But poor hygiene is not the only problem facing the close collecting organizations. The materials have become noticeably thinner. Parcel donations help to compensate for the declining quality. People who send donations by post to the German Clothing Foundation tend to wash the garments before hand they seem to give more consideration to those in need. Nonetheless its becoming increasingly expensive to ensure the requisite quality when it comes to the bales of compressed clothes that eventually go for sale on the world market. For meth ive got something we have to sort through a huge amount just to get to the 4 or 5 percent of good quality items. Also we are around 80 percent we can only sell to industry for uses filler material and use the income to finance relief aid projects that we are because they feel its there. But its a system under threat african markets which for decades have provided new homes to german cast offs are becoming more selective. Uganda for example is making efforts to boost its own small scale textile industry. Thats one reason why the economic area the East African Community wants to halt imports of secondhand clothes starting next year. Its a move that many say is long overdue but not everyones applauding after all many consumers in countries like uganda do benefit from access to used european clothes. Next on. A lot of people secondhand is the best option for getting quality clothes. Secondhand our terms are often cheap and good plus that charging them can also provide people with an income. Through fuel or mention back in germany the flood of discarded clothes is not set to stop anytime soon so german clothing recycler so axis working with many major high street retailers now take back clothing this means the stores can claim their businesses are more sustainable and in the best Case ScenarioCompanies Like renu sell in sweden recycle the clothes and turn them into a form of synthetic cotton. And the consumers they get vouchers in return for their old clothes to put towards more new purchases from their favorite stores. Information that something people complained about jewing they were in a sense back then of course only scholars had access to all the knowledge compiled in manuscripts and books. Now thanks to the internet a flood of digitized information has become part of daily life. Whether the students tradespeople children over searches more than half of people worldwide use the internet. 400 hours of Youtube Video material are uploaded every minute. 103000000 spam emails landed our mailboxes every day. 500000000. 00 tweets are posted to twitter per day. Thats 6000. 00 tweets per 2nd. Its more than any one person could process in a lifetime a constant bombardment of stories images and marketing can overwhelm us leading to information overload. But what accounts for this clacked. With new information being produced at such a rapid rate everyone feels pressured to produce new content just to keep up. Newspapers update their on line sites throughout the day. And audiences to have gone global anyone can make a video and upload it and the number of news and media portals continues to rise. Too much information too many choices many people respond in one of 2 ways. We can become overstimulated. Addicted to the constant flow of information and new input. Our stress levels rise and we worry we might overlook Something Interesting or important. Others go numb lose interest in the information and succumb to the colorful flow of energy. Stress when were stressed we become forgetful then lose focus busy where i find worrying is the polarizing effect where we see everything as black and white were quicker to perceive a situation as threatening when we are overwhelmed were more likely to go on the attack. The psychiatrist john kyl that 2nd acts research at the center for internet and Mental Health at the shotty University Hospital in berlin. Mentioned voice people have a need for information but this glut the way the media is always blaring the alarm makes us afraid even of the real world we live in a Virtual Reality we might be walking through a safe city but the constant flood of scary headlines makes a. Afraid. Were pummeled with opinions claims and counterclaims it can become difficult to distinguish between real news and fake. And theres little to help make sense of the chaos. Search engines dont necessarily give us the best results but the results promoted by paid advertisers. Its a big problem when the internet is entirely controlled by money that has to stop as a society we need to step in both politically and as individuals. The internet affects our brain maybe even rewiring some studies have shown that constant multitasking on our computers and devices overtaxes our prefrontal cortex. Another setting has shown that the area of the brain responsible for Thumb Movement is larger in people who use a smartphone. So we cant just say the internet is dumbing us down. Lets mention when humans began using their opposable farms and using tools it changed their brain structure we began walking more upright so that we could better use our hands our brain always has to adapt to new conditions it would be terrible if it couldnt. Be so how do we adapt to this new reality. Radically limit their exposure others try to approach the online information in healthier ways but theres no getting around it nowadays Everyone Needs media literacy. More than 821000000 people on our planet suffer from starvation one in 9 of us doesnt have enough to eat and yet a 3rd of food worldwide is wasted north america australia and new zealand tops the list of food waste is in 2nd place europe. Meanwhile in Subsaharan Africa generally very. Little food is wasted but south africa is a clear exception. Tachyon a front man pays regular visits to the garbage dumps around cape town. She studied the wasteful lifestyle of many South Africans and says changes are urgently needed. Every year the landfill alone receives thousands of tons of food waste it comes from restaurants factories and local farms. We estimate that a 3rd of food is dumped in south africa every year this has significant ecological impacts because all that food has compounded water and energy and from a Climate Change perspective in the landfill it emits harmful Greenhouse Gases both me thing and Carbon Dioxide in south africa up to 12000000 people dont know where their next meal is coming from and yet were wasting 10000000 tonnes of food every year. Russia has spent years looking at ways of reducing food waste here in the western cape he works for the Regional Department of agriculture for the bomb and has come to visit one of his projects which she believes could provide a model for the rest of the country. Has managed to persuade farmers to donate their food surplus instead of plowing it back into the ground lizette kloppers farm is the collection point 7 local farmers bring their excess produce here. You should see the quality it is not thrown away food its export quality that they just deliver. I see these steamy anything even if these it at the mall on the spot do something though thats not good enough they want to deliver the beast so yes they want to give sometimes several tons of food arrived here in a single day government sponsored vehicles then transported to soup kitchens in nearby townships like a. V. M. Park which is home 220000 people. Poverty is rife here as are Gang Violence and drug crime and its often the children who suffer most. Courses today were cooking a dish with pumpkin potatoes carrots and other vegetables then we also have it with rice thats what were giving the children today. By the time the soup kitchen opens crowds of children are already waiting it feeds 150. 00 of them a day serving nearly 3000. 00 meals a month if it werent for the soup kitchen those children would go hungry. To have the center only caters for children many of whom are undernourished. But. Most people in the township live from state benefits the soup kitchens may be a lifesaver for some but theyre still not the ideal solution long term. Handouts are not going to put us on a sustainable trajectory we need to look at the whole system and we need to look at that that leave us for change to tip the system into a positive states that are for looking at the issue of farming both on a commercial level how bit of farming practices can be implemented but also for smallholder farmers so that they are both. Environmentally and economically sustainable. Another example an avian park shows just what small holder farming can do a few years ago some of the residents teamed up with the department of agriculture to begin growing their own food the township now has 45 food gardens where members plant fresh vegetables for the local community those in need can come and collect for free the garden project has been running since 2015 instead of getting paid the members get a share of the harvest. It is thought of as there was the department of agriculture to create food gardens in a Community Group to purpose to the community to make food. For the bulls but we soon realise that its will not be enough to address the Food Security problem book and therefore we supplement that the food with donations that they get from the food surplus project that we do with the commercial farmers in the. Major Food Retailers are now joining the initiative to instead of disposing of food that is past its sell by date the retail chain woolworths donates it to charitable organizations that work with the poor. The food is still within the use by date and to ensure dreamings refrigerated at all times woolworths issues it directly from the shops cold storage room. And it has given me great hope for the future that we will no longer have the absurd situation of wasting a 3rd of all the environmental and climate impacts that go along with that and actually Work Together through the value chain to ensure that all edible food is an idea he reaches those who need it the most. Today the unsold food is going to a homeless shelter in cape town its a practice that could work for the whole. Of south africa in a country where 12000000 people regularly go hungry at least a part of the surplus food could be put to good use. 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