Every single minute of every day, about 2 truckloads of plastic get dumped into streams, rivers and seeds around the world here within the caps to the fraction of whats really in the river is plastic is part of our daily lives. But we have to do something to change this point. We cant just in fade a Natural Environment with plastic plastic micro plastics can now be found everywhere in our food in arctic sea ice, in the deep sea. Plastic as was on stick is incredibly long. Last thing, i find that point is threatening when organisms are affected by it, then we have to do something about it. If we dont tack now, the amount of plastic in our seas will have increased for full by 2050. The come rain or shine cheats your mind on june. A heads out onto the amount of people just like is for fathers. This small sea bass and connected to the mediterranean is his stamping ground. The muscles have been grown here for centuries in the shallow waters of the little c in the past 10 for cotton. Thats where used by muscle farmers switched to polypropylene in the late 19 sixties. And all too often, nets end up floating free and the c g t o might on joining see the impact every day. You as you put the forward all these on the plastic on the sea that starts marine vegetation of oxygen, and thats suffocates up to anybody in the back then the environment is severe. Im getting it marked cool men. See, is like a mama when im on, mano its brimming with love news, east on copy that. The way i even when a child doesnt behave well. How do you get . She still loves them in bed, is that a symbol of fish . But she doesnt respect them as much as a kind one minute or 50 of these. Im all off. It was all 50 years of muscle breeding with plastic. Met has turned the model, pico into a trash sheet every year ghost and thats measuring an area of 78000 square kilometers the same size as the czech republic. End up floating in our seas. Muscles grow in tubular polypropylene. Thats over time, salt water, sun and friction breakdown plastic, but it can take 450 years to completely decompose and toxic substances get released. The 49 year old is no longer prepared to be a part of that. Hes been taking part and assigned to the experiments since 2021, and only uses an estimate from matter b or a bio plastic based on may starch. Im not going to talk to this included. Let me be with most muscle readers are suspicious of this new material. And so now you have to be a very good muscle reader to work with matter being that did it. What else do you want me to do . Little sort of like its more work than with normal plastic. Probably because you have what ive shown in the plastic. The bio plastic is biodegradable and compose to bolt. It could prove a more eco friendly alternative to conventional plastic. Theyre testing whether the new material fulfills, keeps your mind on joanies requirements. Gentlemen means hes the same is youve been really pulled off, keep these net sit only lasted 6 rather than 18 months and then i would have lost my entire muscle harvest start the a couple of i took a big risk. Ive invested my time and energy in this endeavor for the sake of the environment. The last payment that soon ghost and thats made from plastic, often enough as death traps, killing creatures impacting entire submarine habitats destroying bio diversity. The people who live from and with the sea have 1st hand experience of that. Thats wine, thats made of new materials are being tested in europe and asia. Marine biologist kiana. Jo, me is testing bio plastic and its environmental impact. After all, many of us eat the sea food and then you have to enter, what is it that im really interested in finding out whether the nets make a difference to the quantity of muscle or is harvested form. And also whether the material of the nets could lead to an increase or decrease in the number of tiny organisms living on in the muscles. Mean from sooner than methodology can, can be on status. The guy i say fast, i see somebody okay. Together with kiana g o me and her colleagues sit in us, go to a 5, a muscle farmer wants to find out whether the bio plastic match will stand the test of time. Most plastic gets washed into the sea by rivers here in germany to has shown cost associated with amazing whats floating in the run design, run all of them. This one just to a nico lots of shy good, was no longer prepared to sit back and watch the rising tide of plastic. He set up an association called kaka, which is also the name of its floating literate collector. Its made of a basket attached to 2 pontoons, the open side faces into the current and captures the trash as it floats past. And the special the associations members designs the litter collector together with an engineering company, and had it assembled in a shipyard for 2 years. They fought with the authorities to get germanys 1st ever river born literate collector approved. Lets say here the phone. What we have found has given me a really nice to show, expect the place seeing the result of the 1st rain and a long time. Theres tons of water levels have risen by about 50 centimeters. So everything left line by the river over the past few months has been swept up. You can see that here, everything from shoes bottling, supply works from last year. There a lie that everything that people have left behind on the river banks with finding it here. Crazy. Right . Expecting so much. I this is alonzo name is jose. Let me just give us lots as well as a lot of hard work and conviction. A 160000 bureaus of donations have been invested in the litter collector, which has to be emptied every 2 weeks by the volunteers. The trash collect a is about 3 made is wide, but the river measures about 200 meters across at this point. So theres a lot of trash that just goes floating past on this. And i think that we should be worried that we dont have any kind of control of whats floating past every day in the ryan was how much trash there is the biggest one. Whatever the environmental activists dont retreat from the river ends up in the sea. Its estimated that the rhine wash is about a metric ton of plastic into the north sea every day. Some of it can hardly be seen with a naked eye on the plastic granules everywhere. Biologist, leon that hom on is conducting research in this field. But she wanted to do more. She decided to get involved with the rhine, literate collector in her spare time. What they did, yeah, this is just a normal piece of wood and a feather comes, but theres a lot of micro caustic on them. How about that . Because these things connect on the surface and micro caustics also float to the stuff as long as you can always, you can even see what kind of micro cost to get his tenet. And thats pretty wrapped in a piece of plastic pallets for stuff that they used to produce plastic products. And sometimes they get lost by accident from ships, containers. Oh sax, that split during transport and the pallets get lost and done. Ordering production, when the factories are cleaned, they go down the drain, you put a phone to be honest. I want is expected. There to be so much micro casting is something to get off thats associated me called las vegas. Illiterate collector has been given a one year permit. The members want to use this time to collect information about the quantity and type of trash in the rhine. There is no data of this kind at present. The volunteers sort the trash according to specific criteria. The fed, spite not to get a u. S. Created about 200 categories. One, see the many elliptic collecting associations, so the trash according to those categories. This, it allows different regions to be compared unless we enter the data into an app and its fed directly into a large database. So it does, ultimately, it allows us to link it with water levels, weather conditions, etc. And helps us gauge whats in the river and what particular time is lost in flows on the, on the home on from the university of bon is evaluating the findings in a long term study. Shes especially interested in the micro plastics washed into the ryan litter collector and estimated 330000. 00 tons of micro plastics escaping to the environment in germany each year. Thats about 4 kilograms per capita. Reliable data about the quantity and type of micro plastic found in rivers is a valuable political instrument. Pollution can only be curved if limits are introduced from micro plastics. Micro plastics are a lot smaller than the size the that but we cant see them. Id say that once micro plastics get into the environment, its too late. So its really important that we stopped at source and look where that being created and how they getting into the environment and then take measures to reduce that, that are up to now the micro particles have ended up in the litter collector more or less by chance we, under a hom on is working on a system intended to filter out in micro plastics this group of friends loved to see, but are themselves part of the plastic problem to mazda, if thats the dimes and serves so fella. So couldnt we set those feel very connected to the see on the its our playground to set 40. So at the same time, we also add to the pollution on that, even if were not always aware of, its made to me is that as well . Everything we use is petroleum based, or do you need now, surfboard . The lease that connects us to our boards. Now whats the deluxe one of the wax we saw and all the other accessories youve been calling, and then also produced on the other side of the planet it up. And its the manufacturer and surfing equipment isnt until friendly. And the products are rarely recycled. That has long worry to mazda of etc, and is friends by the agency. And due to a lot of people in 2015, they got to know each other in malaysia and tested out the regions top surface spots together under the ocean inside the contains masses of caustic click day to day. Do you can literally collect it while you were swimming or swap. It is a live is wash all that into the sea. Optis, stormy weather. Sick, pretty so long. So about 80 percent of plastic trash gets washed into the seas and oceans via rivers or from the coast. The other 20 percent is made up of fishing nets, ropes, and the band and fishing boats. The 3 water sports enthusiasts want to help slash the use of plastic, also in the production of surf boards and surf equipment the financial cape. But we were really shocked by the ship madness of this pollution since it was why i ended up doing the projects that im doing well, not still doing it. And then with nomads, we wanted to create an alternative to the conventional assess industry. Good yourself. Know mad surfing makes accessories and boards from sustainable and Recycled Materials. The surfers want to be a source of inspiration to the industries. Major players. They even quit their wellpaid jobs to embark on this adventure aesthetic one of the bill. Yeah, we knew we were starting from nothing. I think they didnt have the necessary expertise styles. The whole succeed was obvious. It would be hard to best because thats what we said to us selves. If were going to do this, then it should be for a sport that we share, a passion for god. And so we decided on this stuff industry. So it looks like most else at all. Most of the complex mix of materials and Synthetic Fibers which are frequently contained toxic substances, make it very complicated to recycle water and Outdoor Sports equipment. When summer is over, a lot of inflatable mattresses, bonnie boards and swim aids, and up on the track sheet along with wet suits the entrepreneur see them as a potential raw material. They put out a box for old wet suits in a branch of a major sports chain. When wet suit fabric gets recycled, they can lose that story ability and become porous. New technologies are needed. But nichol i t boned knows from working for Big Companies that they prefer to use fresh materials. Your cheese, initiate negative side costs, money to process waste products. And you see it takes a very long time to change an industrial process when he get, but we can do that a lot more quickly if were on his own. Were already producing 500 surfaces a day. Our advantage is that were very agile and contrast to the industry giants image on the understand. The pioneers are proving that it is possible to recycle wetsuit fabric and showing the big names how its done. Im going, you know, shell, she knows, got a weight cutting at rectangular areas like this, which we use to produce new stuff, equipment. So like light leashes for example. So the more thats the item that keeps the board and the surface connected or so. So good recycling ideas are vital. Only 9 percent of plastic worldwide gets recycled. 19 percent is incinerated, 50 percent ends up on the trash heap. 22 percent is illegally dumped. The nomads want to use up every last little bit of the discarded wet suits the surf entrepreneur sell the products via their own online store. Their next goal is to supply Big Companies to level chemo so a lot of bids get left over to st. Louis, we cut them into pieces and then spread them into near brain, scratched on the streets, which we time into new products. Like yoga mats found stuff, pads, the new material cheaper, but do stuff to do very much. The traction paths are produced by a secret process from a mixture of those wet suit, scraps and adhesive appraisal done by the new equipment mystically that is the prototype of a soft had made from recycled near print a political message. We have to refine this model before we can market and how may i assist you . Were also developing seth pads made from recycled, flip flops. So yeah, and the problem is ensuring that your ability for us its crucial to stop micro particles getting shit into the sea. But no sound in you cool, bought it and they are well on their way to being able to completely recycle old wet suits. And now they have to sell the idea of their traction pads to a Sports Equipment company to help protect our oceans. The cheats you a mother and you only cannot live from idealism alone either the muscle farmer can only afford to use the bio plastic nets if the yield is acceptable. West side or the a, this net is made from matter be thought of evolved as you can see, the muscles are bigger than the ones grown in plastic. Net tonin calling about plastic. Ok. Good. In particular, another place so, so that even that was also what we discovered now fast to test runs some can o n a the, me to a, than previous set of us. You only know when gamma we measure the some laser entity, the length human, french and weight of the shells and the flesh charlotte disorder, the phase of the live out of it physically. Then we found that muscles, bridge and my to be next grow bigger and move quickly compared to those and poly properly through method to be in the experiment. So we have control group growing and probably populating at the same time in the same environment in the studio, and then the next to so im going to noticed this woman to initial findings have also been positive in terms of bio diversity. More tiny organisms were discovered growing on the muscles farmed in bio plastic met. But there are disadvantages to if food plants like mays are instead used to produce shopping bags or nets, then valuable crop land is being lost. And research is still being conducted to find out how biodegradable matter. B is in water to the marine. Biologists are carrying out their 1st experiments with bio plastic bags and model pico no more. But even with quite a csc methodology, can every type of material that doesnt belong to the Natural Environment has some kind of impact studies in a visit that we have the pump based materials have less of an impact on the marine environmental uh, and then it allows these task the, on the inside, they might be broken down more quickly, the david asked the city, for example in fishes, stomachs. And she said to them to the, they say she teaches them out on giovanni has been working with nets made for matter. Be for about 2 years now and i thatll be in most the day while hes pissed off in comparison to plastic rod matter b is very weak in coming. Just fall got so it begins to break down after being in water for 18 months. No chair, some fish, that means the fish can free themselves from the net. I mean, you can cut off with plastic, thats not the case and throughout, but you can pull it apart. No matter how hard to try and unless bits just help. And then whats the best for the class . The researchers experiments show that matter be does decompose in water more quickly than normal plastic. But fisher is that muscle farmers will need a material that is both Strong Enough and biodegradable quite so the what did it the, it was the type of net can only be used here at the moment for you comments on the material will have to be developed and made more robust for farming in the open sea. They left as soon as the sooner what works here in these sheltered waters by tide on to doesnt work everywhere, but it is being tested elsewhere. Plastics should be stopped from getting into water in the 1st place, including via our drainage system. Biologist, delay on the home on is developing a field trace in system inspired by c, squirts flamingoes and macro of the disclosement on looking at how they felt a water at the move for the g of the mounds, which all which enables them to remove the food from water, and im as directing those ideas technologically so that hopefully at some point a washing machine filter will exist that can retain the micro plastics shed for ma, close. Texted in on, on the left side. Dont look at it. And con the sports clothing and fleece is shed. Synthetic fibers when theyre being washed about 500000. 00 tons of micro plastics from clothing end up in the oceans each year. In germany, those particles are largely removed during the waste Water Treatment process. But up to 90 percent of them remain in the effluent sludge thats frequently used as fertilizer lay on. The bahama wants to avoid micro plastics reaching the food chain as it ends. Ok, so you put realtor from the washing machine up here and it passes through the filter. You can see the clean water coming out the other end in tests up to 98 percent of the micro plastic fibers were trapped by the filter. Does this, its a filter that was inspired by fish orthodontics filter. We called show it yet because it might be the subject of a patient. But you could, in principle, replicate this fish filter mechanism and consider whether it could be used more broadly to tackle the micro caustics problem. For example, in sections of road where a lot of micro plastics gets shipped from tires 500 particles from tire. Where represents the single largest source of environmental micro plastics, pollution in germany, nearly a kilogram per person per year. In comparison, plastic pellets account for 182 grams per person per year. Well, 19 grams comes from cosmetics. But these statistics are all based on the estimates in the future. Real figure should show how important it is to act swiftly to protect our rivers and sees lay under the hop on could provide the necessary information with her filtration technique then. So that then then because it sounds that weve developed could also be used to filter micro caustics here. Probably just some monitoring purposes, to see the volume of micro caustics present in the rhine room. And i think it would be relatively simple to install here. Its not that big factor, obviously it has done yet. Us honest, it could be left to run for a certain time. And then we could check what was trapped in the filter on the name of the cock, illiterate collector, is to ensure that measures and laws are adopted to stem the plastic time. In the meantime, its helping to make the rhine that little bit cleaner. The inboard though, the 3 young entrepreneurs are looking for companies willing to sell their surface accessories, made from Recycled Materials. The french serve brand oxbow, has expressed an interest in their serv pads. The, the only impact to the the dish has to come. We up cycling something we oh were in some conflict lot thats going on. So political good. Well you could collect them for us so they dont and then sell the products we make from them and your stores because i really put you. Yeah. I never know them, i guess im only only correct me, but we already collect flip flops. So like we dont know what to do with them. Theres no recycling process for them. So thats really important for us as you complement this issue. Since 2022 Companies Selling goods in france have been obliged to take back and recycle, use sports and leisure items. Brands like fox bo benefit from the startup recycling its flip flops and wet suits, and nomad surfing has gained an important partner and somewhere to retail its products. And thats just the beginning. I mentioned class and election projection pads around the used by very few people say about what we have all the possible solutions and other projects we are doing. So we just only blood push it doesnt just take Something Else from other industries. Are interested in the materials were developing, so i dont know to be because us with automakers, boat makers, and interior designers. They dont tell you should already be offering their customers high tech, up cycled or Recycled Materials uptake. Once you create this partnership is a big step forwards and nomad surfing is already holding talks with other companies who want to ride the recycling wave with them. The muscle producer and wholesalers dont go down to the also wants to switch away from plastic. But he farms on the open sea and he knows and thats made of normal plastic, can withstand those conditions. And then well make that on. But the, if we find muscles and a net made of bio plastic, then the entire harvest can be lost up to 3 or 4 months. But i did it for about 150. Listen to my heart and i know i bear responsibility for 10 families. You need to put food on the table to the chief. I mean, they have to pay the taxes and bills. I dont know if i got any thoughts. Theyd be able to find that, but were trying to come up with a good compromise, settled down what on godaddy mall on your cellphone, put on this. So the muscle producer is testing different kinds of nets, together with a research institute. Theyre made of natural materials like jude size, all and have and therefore fully biodegradable circular. How did you make that . Yes, the long one to this net is made from science old. A fiber from an a. Got a plan that also grows here. No. Going to allow me to weigh mainly monitoring the material for ability and robustness and the my duty already know. James franco done to the i is putting it to the test the size on that has to be able to withstand the 18 month long production cycle. Embassy, so unhealthy me start to have to have get that. Of course im optimistic. So because i know that there is a sustainable natural alternative to these only we just have to really put in the effort to find it. And im going to be very new dentist, inconceivable that humans cant find a viable alternative to plastic or not so. So the 2 and evaluate the end. If i can do my bit, im happy to remove it. So clearly suppose it suitable as the and the 1st impression is promising. Altima a bit of trouble. Excellent. Its not coming apart. What do you mean . It holds the muscles altogether really well. See oper, montana being what the to muscle farmers from southern italy are trying is just the beginning. But it shows that natural materials or bio plastics could be real alternatives for the last time, protecting the environment. And at the same time exporting it to feed, my family is on your side, its up to us to find methods and technologies to ensure that our muscles become more value to them. Most of all the new nets are helping to make muscles from each other onto a stand out from those that come from elsewhere in the world. There are few egos, systems that are so much at risk from plastic as our seasoned oceans. Any idea that helps us to avoid replace or recycle these products is for many species a matter of life and death. The, [000 00 00;00] the, every jenny is surprises. Me. Its gone all out. To give you some of the right people in your northern most count the police the free time, but still very much alive. Your guy to the special hot spots in germany recognizes where exactly it was the fine arts culture history. All their travel extremely worth a visit. The what kind of get roxanne spurs quakes. Forest fires when natural disasters put human lives at stake. 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