Worldwide now its 350000000 tonnes of caustic that are produced in just one year plastic is everywhere and most of it is single use packaging that has caught it right away and far too often ends up in the environment planets plastic thats what we want to look at us today here are made in germany how to get our addiction to plastic under control so we had to put it all the landfills a full was cycling capacity is lagging behind so why not send it abroad germany exports around a 1000000 tons of Plastic Waste 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 net made in recent years. 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 have filled the gap. Destinations for germanys Plastic Waste are now malaysia 132000. 00 tons a year followed by india has around 76000. 00 and then indonesia in the 3rd place that more than 64000. 00 followed by vietnam at nearly 57000 tons. Of stice as 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. Too and the us but theres a lot from germany this is an old capri sun. 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 there is the us around 16 percent of their Plastic Waste gets sent to brought. Japan exports more than. 15 percent germany more than 12 percent and the u. K. More than 9 percent. 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 83000 tailors with a ram 1600 tons of banned Plastic Waste from the u. S. And canada officially declared as recyclable materials cambodia plans to send them back. To germany conducts regular checks to prevent these kinds of illegal exports environmental authorities here in the port of hamburg want to determine exactly what in the cargo its not always clear cut what can and cannot be recycled. Must take the bottles you see these images of them being sorted by hand made into pellets and they do things like outdoor clothing. That not all Plastic Waste is as pure as it should be the 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 a chip maker 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 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 presorted interesting overriding seen around 60 4000. 00 tons of Plastic Waste could be recycled here every year. On logarithms we need a big plant to process plastics in a profitable way and got us and none of these countries has the means to build one that big we think well be able to buy our own 10000000 euros worth of plastic every year as if its the middle of. And when you think it takes 10000 euros of revenue to create her full time job in these countries then we could create 1000 jobs in the region drops into your machine. Building the resources to process Plastic Waste where its created could help the world to start breaking down its mind of pace. 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 all sedation 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 want see them but at some stage they get small enough to be absorbed but animals getting into our food and even into the air we breathe have a look its actually quite funny. 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 effect 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 a 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 you will 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 there are 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 flat to produce in one day one day i mean with 5 people but still we all know we have to reduce Plastic Waste but how do we actually do it. Well maybe meitner the mantra reduce reuse recycle but its not that easy number one reduce just refuse this Plastic Straws dont buy a coffee to go buy on package for easy right. Easier said than done even at farmers markets like this one many things are packaged and plastic. Lets be real some 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 much and the that have to be plastic you know there are alternatives to Single Use Plastics like these now very stylish plates made out of probably all these biodegradable trash bags sound also right but many of the alternatives only need products which makes them quite expensive. These cost me 0. 50 per piece the plastic ones are much cheaper less than 10 percent. 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 getting i didnt have one this is a chopstick. There is a whole industry cropping up around these trendy reusable products these 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 recycle. 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 are that easy to recycle and make their 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 same goes for p. T. Trees a lot of this gets burnt to produce energy or gets 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 if bestially of the heart to recycle stuff single use items out of other materials some like this or paper are better than plastic but some are not as 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 when plastic was invented it was praised as a wonder material extremely useful cheap and easy to want to factor a Huge Industry developed making a lot of money producing Plastic Packaging and bottles here are some facts and figures. Plastic is versa town it can be a lasting or hard transparent or opaque take on virtually any shape. Its an amazing material thats 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 bottles seen here if you lined them all up theyd span the equator 600 times. And plastic production continues to grow today industry has produced more than 8000000000 tons of plastic by 2050 that total this 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 for sponsible for sustainability at a major german plastics manufacturer about the industrys efforts to clean up its act. The condition of we cant do without plastic almost every solar maggio every blade on a wind turbine that contains plastic stuff and. Herit german plastics manufacturer a spinoff of buyer last year they also amounted to 14000000000 euros so business is good but the plastics sector has a waste problem and image problem. Christiane has left the companys head of Global Sustainability is supposed to find solutions to both of them divest very recently joined forces with competitors to form an alliance to end Plastic Waste. Is the 1st it industrys poor image a problem for you. 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 to if they are valuable resources where 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. Restrooms plastics generally end up in durable goods. These include cars insulation for buildings and consumer goods. A major line of business is polyurethane foam used in shoes for example and mattresses. One of our 2 main product lines polycarbonate and polyurethanes. This is not easily recyclable. Chemically 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 has below 30 percent theres some dispute over how much is that far too little. But what is wrong with a local of course if we want to achieve a circular economy the target has to be 100 percent but dont underestimate the complexity of this problem we want to recover the plastics in as pure a form as possible lines that work for instance for the last meeting of people past it recovery is another manufacturers responsibility shouldnt they use less mix plastic and incorporate more pure great plastics construct. A challenge of course the products should be constructed to be more easily recycled and separated like thats part of the whole package of measures that we need to implement his own pockets the film thats. An insight thats come rather late theres 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 political view 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 cafes they can be reused up to 400 times in san fernando in the philippines plastic bags have been banned outright and the recycling rate has jumped from 12 percent of waste to rather astonishing 80 percent in the city of new syrup in southwestern india officials are championing the cause of sending 0 waste to landfills not only that recycling waste is creating jobs that. The city of my suit 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 mop i have now. For a city traditionally committed to hygiene the swat sort of action for 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 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 and i trauma many my crew office small kitchen. Right up to a hotel to a wedding hall or a banquet hall this is. And it in ways to an 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 invariably 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 school. To combat compound Waste Management plant was going to set the stage for the rest of the city. They always monies went as late norways shown both applying online to the incineration bank so we had completely money to give a still be terrorists even from a different watch of my specific operation. As you can see had we have got 26 very nice collection taken against india and we have also had this we gave out most of the public. About 40 civic workers are employed to 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 what is. 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. Still you. May have provided i dont think you guard as well lets check the benefits particularly gardy yes i and. It is like a Health Insurance search field to me given by the gold mine. 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 are converting plastic into our and we can use this into specialty engines so after this weekend we have banker come up with a new projects like making the markets with the using another catalyst and making a profit but its because ive been. Recycling. The ways does not to be used it is treated as a resource so we should make use of force against it and oh we have to convert to 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 chock stop watching c. N. N. Stay with. The to. 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