Discarded its right away and fought often ends up in the environment planets plastic thats what we want to look at today here are made in germany how to get our addiction to plastic under control so where to put it all the landfills a full is cycling capacity is lagging behind so why not send it abroad germany exports around a 1000000 tonnes of plastic weighs every year but the main destination china is no longer willing to take in the rubbish so it goes to other countries that often end up dumping all burning it. Plastics plastic and more plastic and the stocks are only getting higher recycling companies in germany have been pushed to their limits in recent years. Because we didnt have enough Processing Capacity in germany the volumes involved and the production costs were just too high for huge quantities of Plastic Waste are shipped abroad as a result around half of the worlds Plastic Waste used to be sent to china to be processed there in 2018 china stopped accepting as other countries to fill the gap. Destinations for germanys Plastic Waste are now in malaysia 132000. 00 tons a year followed by india has around 76000. 00 and then indonesia in the 3rd place at more than 64. 00 sides and followed by vietnam at nearly 57000 tons. Of size of mines but in malaysia the trash piles up on dumps like this they dont recycle here at all the trash d. K. Use polluting the soil and groundwater. The money is here i want thank left if you have a little rummage around here youll see a lot of it comes from germany from other European Countries too and the u. S. But theres a lot from germany this is an old capri sun is on a. Theres a mix of household rubbish and used packaging and. The volume is starting to overwhelm many of the importers because there arent enough Plastic Recycling plants Environmentalist Group greenpeace discovered 45 legal and 5 illegal landfills in one malaysian region alone with garbage from more than 19 countries. The biggest export her is the us around 16 percent of their Plastic Waste gets sent abroad. To pan exports more than 15 percent germany more than 12 per cent and the u. K. More than 9 per cent. Recycling old plastic trash into new plastic is a complex and costly process it has to be separated cleaned and source it exports are only legal if the country theyre being sent to can process them but Asian Countries are often found ways thats barely recyclable. The environmental and Health Impacts have led many countries to limit imports or ban them completely but waste still get sent there illegally cambodia recently received 83 containers with a rand 1600 tons of banned Plastic Waste from the u. S. And canada officially declared as recyclable materials cambodia plans to send them back. To the germany conducts regular checks to prevent these kinds of illegal exports environmental authorities here in the port of hamburg want to determine exactly whats in the cargo its not always clear cut. What can and cannot be recycled he must take p. T. Buckles you see these images of them being sorted by hand made into pellets and they do things like outdoor clothing. But not all Plastic Waste is as pure as it should be manufacturers arent careful enough or they just want to make some fast cash those are the criminals. Done due to we know. Some companies are already working on alternatives to exports in plastic and chip maker and recycling company at an Environmental Institute have joined forces to build a recycling ship it will anchor in 7 african countries and buy Plastic Waste from the collectors on the land to be recycled right there on board the vessel. Lots of people make a living from selling garbage like here in sierra leone they could make 5 times more money by selling it to the recycling ship on one condition the plastic is preselected interesting go varieties around 60 4000. 00 tonnes of Plastic Waste could be recycled here every year. Because of and of course on lot of them we need a big plant to process plastics in a profitable way to lend and none of these countries has the means to build one that big we think well be able to buy our own 10000000. 00 euros worth of plastic every year as if its the middle of. And when you think it takes 10000 euros of revenue to create a full time job in these countries then we could create 1000 jobs in the region know your machine. Building the resources to process Plastic Waste where its created could help the world to start breaking down its mantle of drop this. But breaking down plastic is also part of the problem goes with Plastic Packaging disintegrates in the environment through the force of waves of the ocean or chemical processes like oxidation in the air it creates an additional problem the plastic actually never fully decomposes just breaks down into smaller and smaller particles called micro plastics we see them but at some stage they get small enough to be absorbed by animals getting into our food and even into the air we breathe have a look its actually quite frightening. Did you know that you live in a world full of plastic. Its in the water you drink and even the air you breathe and the food you eat is full of tiny plastic particles. Every week you ingest up to 5 grams of micro plastics about the equivalent of a credit card. That much of that will remain in your body with as yet unknown effects on your health. A 3rd of all the plastic produced goes into the packaging that you buy. If youre a german you generate an average 38 kilograms of waste from Plastic Packaging every year thats more than any european average of 24 kilograms and no matter where you live the richer you are the more ways to generate if you buy things online youll create even more Plastic Waste. Chances are youll use half of your Plastic Products only once and then discard them. But the plastic will stick around you and your environment for the most part not just for your lifespan but for centuries. For many years weve been told that its up to us to stop the flood of Plastic Waste reduce reuse recycle that is what we are told we should be doing but how feasible is it and is it enough reusable bottles and biodegradable bags may not be as good as we think they are our reports of took a long hard look at our own consumption of plastic and found out its not easy being green. This is the amount of Plastic Waste my flattr produced in one day one day i mean refined people but still we all know we have to reduce Plastic Waste but how do we actually do it. Well in the main meitner the mantra reduce reuse recycle but its not that easy number one read you just refuse this plastic stores dont buy a coffee to go buy on package easy right. Easier said than done even at farmers markets like this one many things are package and plastic. Lets be real from things have to be packaged to be transported and sold like these varies because this is small or this coffee because it will lose its aroma or. These cookies because they will crumble but those that have to be this smart and the that have to be planned that you know there are alternatives to Single Use Plastics like these in our very stylish plates made out of probably most all these biodegradable trash bags sound also right but many of the alternatives are only nice products which makes them quite expensive. These cost me 0. 50 per piece the plastic ones are much cheaper less than 10 cent. Socalled bioplastics only make up less than one percent of the market and bioplastics can only be composted on the very specific conditions not in your private compost heaps and often not in industrial ones either. So plastic alternatives still have a long way to go i know nobody can avoid using trash bags entirely but trying to avoid single use plastic and packaging especially is a good start so the 2nd thing to do is really use. You know use and reuse the bag the fancy water bottle and cement all straw just kidding i didnt have one this is a chopstick. There is a whole industry cropping up around these trendy reusable products leighs can cost up to 50. 00 euros but using these doesnt make you a saint because producing these fancy things also costs a lot of energy like a cotton bag you might have to reuse a new one hundreds of times to stay below the Environmental Impact of a single use plastic bag so go with what you already own even if its not the worlds most stylish thing and if you really need something maybe just go buy it secondhand that way it also gets reuse number 3 recycled. Ok so even hardened environmentalist cant live entirely without Plastic Waste i know i car but thats ok right because all Plastic Waste gets recycled well you know in germany these p. T. Volatile they can be recycled but a lot of these plastic cards its quite confusing the German Government says we recycle less than half of our plastic some critics estimate its less than the fish companies recycle things that are easy to recycle and make the money black plastics for example cant be sorted by machines so they dont get recycled packages made out of a combination of plastics are also hard to recycle the same goes for p. T. Trees a lot of this gets burned to produce energy all get shipped overseas. So separating your trash diligently sadly doesnt automatically mean avoiding Plastic Waste but before anybody says whats the point of all this there are a few things that everybody can do if they want to reduce their plastic ways try to avoid Single Use Plastics as much as they can this bestially of the how to recycle stuff single use items out of other materials some like risso paper are better than plastic but some of those environmentally friendly as they claim to be and use and reuse what youve got here even this plastic bag until it falls apart remember it takes a long time to do so. Cured of that consumption is one part of the story obviously production is another one plastic was invented it was praised as a wonder material extremely useful cheap and easy to manufacture a Huge Industry developed making a lot of money producing Plastic Packaging and bottles there are some facts and figures. Slapstick is versa town it can be a lasting or hard transparent or opaque take on virtually any shape. Its an amazing material that has become indispensable in Medicine Electronics construction and even mobility. Since the 1950 s. Production has skyrocketed plastic has meant huge profits for industry because its cheap and easily disposable except it isnt greenpeace says cocacola pepsi and nestle are the Worlds Largest producers of plastic trash cocacola sells 88000000000 plastic bottle see here if you lined them all up theyd spam the equator 600 times. And plastic production continues to grow to date industry has produced more than 8000000000 tons of plastic by 2050 that total is expected to reach 12000000000 tons. Incredible numbers that we wont be able to do without plastic anytime soon but the image of the plastic producers has definitely been tarnished now it seems the industry has begun a rethink thats all well and good but is there still time to turn things around my colleague martin who spoke to an executive responsible for sustainability at a major german plastics manufacturer about the industrys efforts to clean up its act. The conditional we cant do without plastic model every solar maggio every blade on a wind turbine it contains plastic stuff and. When harry german plastics manufacturer a spinoff aspire last year sales amounted to 14000000000 euros so business is good but the plastic sector has a waste problem and image problem. Christiane has led the companys head of Global Sustainability is supposed to find solutions to both of them. Recently joined forces with competitors to form an alliance to end Plastic Waste. Is the 1st it industrys poor image a problem for you. That cover stroke we want to tackle this as part of a consortium we cant solve it on our own. Alliance too and Plastic Waste is an industry wide attempt to solve the problem of plastic pollution. We have to ensure that plastics that are too valuable to end up in the environment can again become valuable resources for industry at the end of their life cycle. But if they are valuable resources why if theyve been thrown away isnt it a bit late for this alliance founded in january 29th. Well to prevent them from being discarded you have to have a functioning a Waste Collection sorting and recovery system. And the job of the chemicals industry is to make sure there are technologies that can turn these plastics into Raw Materials for industry. Restaurants plastics generally end up in durable goods. These include cars insulation for buildings and consumer goods. A major line of business is polyurethane fames used in shoes for example and mattress is. One of our 2 main product lines polycarbonate and polyurethanes. This is not easily recyclable. Correctly recycled mechanically too but of course not the same amount as we produce so we dont have a circular economy for this product yet. Germanys recycling rate is below 30 percent theres some dispute over how much is that far too little. No 2 is written over the course if we want to achieve a circular kaname the target has to be 100 percent but dont underestimate the complexity of this problem we want to recover the plastics in a purer form as possible lines of wood for instance rods all speaking of pure pass to recovery is not the manufacturers responsibility shouldnt they use less mix plastic and incorporate more pure great plastics can stuff up and up on. The challenge of course the product should be constructed to be more easily recycled and separated like thats part of the whole package of measures that we need to implement some pockets that will matter to me. An insight thats come rather late thats already so much Plastic Waste in the environment and accordingly pressure on the industry as a plastic has a major image problem. Yes we want to improve that image of us on this its all about recovering the plastics after use. Thats a joint Task Force Society policymakers and us and we will do it well it will be on this one will him because he went over decades its a complex process. Well what else can be done a lot on a small scale all of the world rising numbers of local initiatives to reduce Plastic Waste the southern german town of froebel for example has been cutting down on single use coffee cups by introducing the deposits on reusable cups to go in over 100. 00 cafes they can be reused up to 400. 00 times in san fernando in the philippines plastic bags and out right in the recycling rate has jumped from 12 percent of waste to a rather astonishing 80 percent in the city of misurata in southwestern india officials are championing the cause of sending 0 waste to landfills not only that recycling waste is creating jobs there. The city of mysore who is on a mission. At the break of dawn every day an army of civic workers goes all out to reclaim their city status as the cleanest city in the country. But then i got my cereal was given the cleanest city award by the government 2 years in a row and then we came 3rd in 27th and the next year we were a. Whole administration all these workers all of us are trying very hard to get back to number one on account of about the more players now preparing. For a city traditionally committed to hygiene the swat sort of action or annual cleanliness index is a big deal. Its a survey that ranks indian cities according to their level of sanitation and the quality and scope of their facilities for Waste Management. We want our my student to be just as clean as the developed countries of the world. My pseudos model of cleanliness goes beyond the efficient collection of garbage. Combining traditional methods of segregation with modern processing plants the city has been pushing for 0 waste to be sent to landfills. One things for sure it has to be dealt with at every level right trauma many my crew office small kitchen. Right up to a hotel generating way to a wedding hall or a banquet hall this is. And it in ways to industrial campus to an office area everyone has to attempt to deal with it to the maximum possible extent in them around them and only send out what theyve gone deal with for cities to manage. My soup produces about 400. 00 tons of waste every day 50 percent of it is treated at compost plants while a quarter is processed at recycling units. The National Figures however arent quite as impressive. India produces about 62000000. 00 tons of waste every year its one of the largest generators of waste in the world while 82 percent of it is collected only a quarter gets treated. Most of the waste and variably ends up in landfills and open dumpsites. 2 decades ago the local government here decided to set up a 0 Waste Management plant in the north of my soon. To come back up our Waste Management plant was going to set the stage for the rest of the city. They always manage when does lake norways show go to the client on line to the incineration bank so we are completely money can be reestablished that is even from our different watch of my specific operation. As you can see we have bought 26 day Waste Collection segregation here and we have also had this we gave out most of the public. About 40 civic workers are employed at the combat compound plant they all have the title of nagar bundles. Which translates as friends of the city. Developing a detailed Waste Segregation model has also created an opportunity for formal employment for these workers. Most of them used to be part of a Large Network of informal rag pickers. The City Corporation is now trying to bring more and more of them into the fold. Stated to them. May help or did i dont regard as took the benefits particularly for d. S. I and. It is like a Health Insurance exclude me given by goldman. Today to plug cells 95 percent of its recycled waste back into the city to local entrepreneurs like shes done jenny rajshekhar. Recycling of plastic is done here that is we have plastic into our and we can use this into stationary engines so after this weekend to come up with the new projects like making it much with the using another catalyst and making up off the facts which is another kind of recycling of. The ways does not every state is treated as a resource so we should make use of any given time we have to do this into the property. My soon may or may not receive the cleanest city award once again. But its well on its way to achieving so much more and its and has to build a sustainable future. So theres hope and thats it for today from the maids to tell us your ideas on how to help rid our planet of all that plastic on our facebook and twitter chop watching c. N. N. Stay with. Us. Good. Food good. Going. Into the conflict zone with Tim Sebastian turkey has outraged many of its allies and fatness with its military operations in syria my guest this week here the Foreign Policy forum in balance is turkeys president ial spokesman favor him cailean how does he justify his countrys highly controversial policies ive spoke on the full conflict so far 30000000. 00 spawns do you believe the feat. In athens they call him the king of the homeless. Christos on the country. He provides jobs for street people in his own cafes. To help them start their own newspaper. But 1st of all to restore their sense of dignity was read the young. 90 minutes on. In the height of climate change. Africas most. Whats in store. For the future of the book. Called african megacities the multimedia insight. Culture. Every 2 seconds a person is forced to flee their home nearly 71000000 people have been forcibly displaced. The consequences have been disastrous our documentary series displaced depicts traumatic humanitarian crises around the world you know. Good thing when i didnt go to university to kill people that i dont want to have my boss come to me and tell me to kill someone having in many and if i dont theyll kill me. For their lives and their future so they seek refuge abroad as a boy in a basket as me the most about their status seem to rise is that someday we wont even see the rooster. But what will become of those who stay behind and say my husband went to peru because of the crisis. If he hadnt gone there we would have died of hunger. That sentimental down and down the. Display starts a journey of 15. Game. This is deja news live from berlin the u. S. And iran step back from the break to. The american people. Should be extremely grateful and happy no americans were harmed. In last nights attack by the Iranian Regime u. S. President try