The real deep dive into how we can tackle the problem of Plastic Waste head on indias Prime Minister in that interval is putting his might be hind phasing out single use plastic by 2022 the country generates 5600000 tonnes of Plastic Waste a huge number given how poorly its segregated and recycled and organization and the money is using technology to convert lost decreased back into its base of crude oil lets take a closer look at how it works. Renewable mothers day usually begins with back breaking work. She surely has the responsibility of feeding a family of 4 so she needs to collect and drop 500 every day. She cant afford to buy kerosene despite a government a scheme to provide poor households. Or liquid Petroleum Gas renu lack Clean Cooking few. On days that she can find food she has to dissolve to burning plastic. And it leaves her and her family at an increased risk of Heart Disease and respiratory diseases like. India generates close 226000 tons of Plastic Waste every year making it to 15 largest Plastic Waste polluted in the world. It is this type of 10 plastic known as multilayered Plastic Packaging or an lp that slips through the cracks of indias Waste Management system. Are also glaringly absent from the dirty dozen list the 12 single use plastic items which have been banned in india since october 2090. It was in 2009 that. Decided to take matters into her own hand along with her business bot. 1st 3 to 4 months we literally sat down with chemical engineers mechanical engineers polymer engineers or anybody to do with plastics and then realize plastic is a fossil fuel. After months of research and failed experiments with the help of scientists spreads the dew adopted a technology that converts all kinds of Plastic Waste into a high grade food that is Environment Friendly and has a high combustion well. With production costs of about 24 apiece by little thats about 3 tenths of your this you can be used as a few years without any need for further processing. When youre born this is the cell for outboard is much much less than the diesel allowable sell for content is around 80 ppm while with us is point 17. 00 p. P. M. So emission wise its much more clean the fuel. Is not easy to use to meet people that we are going to state that. Is recent. Local wall and the organizations like this group of residents from 34 communities are important and do that as fight against plastic pollution we go to societies we talk to the people we tell them the ill effects of plastic and how that is recycling in an Environment Friendly manner and because we have been doing it from 2016 it is now become easy for us to come in societies and people in. The garden city and urban township and build this has become a regular site over 100. 00 families and is a president ial campaign separate their waste and recycle their plastic. Once a fortnight the residents drop of the collected last year at a designated location. Employees from the memorial cross the Sister Concern of lewd conduct these pickups from over 15000 locations in 150 kilometer radius in and around the city. Police. First hard last 6 bags and on our terms are separated from each other. The plastics are cleaned and crushed then everything goes into the reactor the process called turmel catalytic the polymerization is set in motion by using a catalyst in the absence of oxygen. Being burned the blast a grazed in the reactor is gradually heated between 150 and 200 degrees celsius is when the plastic starts to melt and between 30430 degree celsius it arises the substance that remains in the polyfuse which is filtered stored and made ready for delivery. Not only is it sold at a cost of about 40. 00 rupees or about half when you are. The companys it also reaches people like green. Bullock that is it a little boy in the instead of owning board if i use this or if it does better for me it does not harm my children the flame does not on my utensils block there is not much pollution either. The all those in it. Has installed then plans for recycling Plastic Waste across maharastra and. All the plastic raised to collect is recycled there is none left over. I. Fumes from plastic raised this recycling process could perhaps be implemented worldwide. If it could be made to function. The pioneers in india and other countries are still working on it. Now many countries around the world simply dont know what to do with the monumental amount of plastic we used to generate the u. S. And countries in europe for example have been exporting their Plastic Waste to china for years but ever since china stopped buying this waste and 20 the market has moved elsewhere. 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. 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 our ship abroad as a result around half of the worlds Plastic Waste used to be sent to china to be processed there in 2018 china stop expecting as other countries have filled the gap. The main 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 dk is polluting the soil and groundwater likable. 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 panic sports 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 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. You see these images of them being sorted by hand made into pellets and into 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. Thats a done deal can we name. Some companies are already working on alternatives to exporting plastic 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 lands to be who sparkled 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 go varieties around 60 4000. 00 tons of Plastic Waste could be recycled here every year. Because of to go home and of course on lot of them we need a big plant to process plastics in a profitable way 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 the canal and when you think it takes 10000. 00 euros of revenue to create a full time job in these countries then we could create 1000 jobs in the region. Building the resources to process Plastic Waste where its created could help the world to start breaking down its mine to wrap this. One plastic is not recycled. What exactly is all the waste going about 8000000. 00 tonnes exports have for one end up in our oceans which is then inten by Sea Creatures big and small unknowingly a group of people in movie have come together to change this after they found a dying were stranded on the coast with a stomach full of plastic. Goes search shows how the clean up effort got started with a tragic incident off this island near better going norway that happened in january 27th. The doctor thought it would be hard in the probe a rare whale that was found stranded in shallow waters. Every attempt to herd it back to the open sea failed the whale was weekend emaciated and eventually had to be euthanized. When scientists at the university of better again examine the way oh they made a discovery its stomach was full of plastic bags. People in norway were horrified by the images tens of thousands flocked to the beaches to help. The. Ghost of the Coastal Service had about 60000 trash bags on hand well enough for 5 years. That would have a home back but in no time at all they were all gone so everybody wanted to go out and collect Plastic Waste because. Ronald gross are used to work for the oil industry now he joins teams of volunteers to clean up plastic trash among the countless inlets bays and islands of noways west coast todays destination is a small uninhabited island off barrack and these volunteers are members of a society of engineers most of the waste that washed. As on the shore here comes from britain or big ships many of the bags and bottles have disintegrated into bits and pieces for the plastic collectors its a never ending task. That the deeper you dig the more you turn up its pretty frustrating after this experience ill be even more careful about using plastic and ill make sure that i dispose of it properly. So that they somehow know. Even the snaps the volunteers have brought along are sealed in plastic avoiding plastic entirely isnt easy. I didnt. Think i last saw it but now we want to put pressure on industry and government to look for alternatives to the use of plastic but for me personally id like to keep on catching lobster here in the sea at my doorstep and id like my kids to be able to do that too. Its got barlow and also. Just 4 hours of work have yielded 5 trash bags filled with plastic. That home room ago sir posts what theyve achieved on the internet the site keeps track of every section of coastline the Collection Team cleans up given the length of norways coastline thats a herculean task. But meanwhile every Political Party in the country supports the initiative. The view is. The studies have shown that for every quarter or euro the state spends on supporting the volunteer effort it gets 10 times that value back in return 1st because of the clean up work itself but also because of the way to boost environmental awareness and social solidarity model. And other activists have had a plaque set up at the place where this environment. The initiative began in memory of the whale that came to such a painful end here in them then morgan with a stomach full of plastic you brought us the message about what is happening to the oceans thank you for waking us up with. A wake up call thats intended to be heard far beyond the coast of norway. Now in most cities around india freshen hot food is delivered at your doorstep at the click of a button while this is immensely convenient what many of us dont calculate is the amount of plastic used in packaging this food and how easily it becomes trash once the food is consumed some Food Delivery Companies in the country are trying to teach this. Bangalore is one of indias biggest cities and lies at the center of the countrys idea industry. People here often work long hours with no time to cook or eat out. Some end up ordering food online for every single meal. Ive been ordering in for almost forever since we have food for. The communion so you know the plastic containers and the experience you cant really be. Scavengers also live well on the leftovers the cultural food delivery has drastically impacted amounts of garbage in the city they have doubled in just 2 years. Across india Delivery Companies process i dont 40000000 food orders every month producing a staggering 22000 tons of single use Plastic Waste. With new government bans on plastics leaderless are now switching to alternatives like banana leaves people and aluminum although many say that those materials our friend impractical are simply not Cost Effective. To go to many a minute maybe use aluminum containers like these but they dont really hold the gravy. By so meals and thus the cost around 50. 00 rupees thats around half a euro. I can put bread in this where am i supposed to put the curry the lentils and the chutney the things that make it worth the price. There is some in austria and he is so. Which are over from his impostor. Biodegradable materials because of stuff costs but its something that we feel is required and said be done. Done and our owns one of the oldest ice cream parlors in the city and his product has its own delivery issues packaging ice cream is a nightmare but it always been experimenting with a Cost Effective alternative based on a biodegradable by product of the sugar industry. Its been quite significant i think. Over the course of days or 4 months that we started using because at least 60 to 70 percent of us the consumption has come down. It seems the id city bangalore is on track to finding Innovative Solutions in different fields in the Digital Space and also in the real world. A 1000000 plastic bottles are bought around the world every minute the demand is driven by an apparently insatiable desire for bottled water and the spread of a were still. On the go culture a German Company is offering the solution to this excess by making the usable glass bottles fashionable. Tap water is one of the safest things you can drink in germany yet more and more people are buying bottled water. Its just water there is no better. Part is the c. E. O. Of soul bottles a startup in berlin that produces glass bottles that you can refill. His mission is to stop people using plastic bottles. So you take the bottles for. Them if they live. In germany so we can have transportation emissions and we make them from up to 80 percent of materials. The caps are made with rubber and metal but the packaging used for shipping the bottles is partially obtained from recycled paper. The company has so far sold more than 700000 bottles. Part of the Purchase Price is donated to water initiatives with the goal of improving Drinking Water supplies in developing countries like nepal and uganda. This includes drilling water wells providing hand pumps and teaching local communities how to use and maintain them water is the most purchased beverage in germany 65 percent of people drink bottled water every single day but this is something completely unnecessary and most of the Water Bottles generally found in supermarkets are made of plastic. Its completely irrational to have plastic that we use for such a. Short period of time and then throw away and it just adds up to giant piles of waste the problem is that plastic usually down cycles because plastic decreases in quality the more time to recycle it and obviously this process also uses up better so its not a 0 sum game reusing is better than recycling. With more and more countries taking steps towards banning Single Use Plastics glass could experience a revival. But theres a downside a lot of energy is needed to produce glass and as it is heavier than plastic its transportation is less energy efficient. Although cant say that plastic could be substituted entirely by glass but theres a lot of things that we can think. Just get away from single use thats a very very key thing. Sold bottles is capitalizing on the latest green trend. Refillable drinking bottle definitely is kind of the new handbag we want to make it cool and sexy and fun to drink tap water so the package is important yet for us the kind of like the bottle is a very strong messenger for a mission and their impact. But a soul bottle comes with a hefty price tag a small 1. 00 sells for more than 20 euros several times more expensive than similar glass bottles the reason for the price is that weve really tried to guarantee as much as possible a fair supply chain so for example we can compensate all our Carbon Emissions because very strictly and then pay a few so we can offset those emissions. This elegant glass bottle might not be an affordable option for everyone but tap water tastes even better when drunk with a clear conscience from a glass bottle. Im sure you remember that heartbreaking image of a plastic stroll being removed from the nostril of a sea turtle a few years back the entire planet is having to pay for our rampant and indiscriminate use of plastics i hope you will be mindful of this the next time your is in disposable plastic boxes or when your waste is not segregated correctly well be back next week with yet another informative episode until then good bye. They were abducted by the nazis untaken to germany to be raised as citizens of the. During world war 2 thousands of polish children suffered this fate. Even today many of them dont know who their real parents were. 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