Path. Than. Made its present and its as Everything Else may retain its spiritual its what i find peace it feeds my passions my out what i think its just scott im a. Mere pod i just want just another out of the elements of nature not just some old blonde. Bacteria its also. Things like rulebooks this guy the atmosphere obviously to see. The way to me is like another living living thing moves its gone none of this sort of. Eternity is that i was there from the energy gets there it flows. You feel as if youre a plant rooted to the sea. This is the source of those moments that can really change you when you think a lot of things have. Led. For the first few years i saw it and i did the first fifteen years to take it before i decided id like to fade away if i just thought that you surfing was going out and doing maneuvers and even write the very beginning it was very competitive and i thought surface like a sport where surf if there isnt a competition surfing still exists i can remember some days well just being out in the ocean in big waves and you have this connection with the ways its almost like the waves or its not the person you build up the relationship with the way the self. Id already been here a lot when i lived in england we did some really good trips to calif here and it was a sort of our no thing we didnt really can find any other surface its served very much along the coast of us to reassemble if youre. Amazed to see this way and we wondered how we could get down to surf it and where i venture they found how to get down the cliff and get into the water from another angle then i suddenly looked back then you just see this great big pile of rubbish. And then you had. More looking for waves with tony parted as we began to find real rubbish decency that. No one looks out of the beaches from september you may or june only surfers parade because theyre always on the beach most of those things because those women and its sad to go somewhere every day and see more rubbish every time. The us when you see lots of bags here. Theyre full full of rubbish and you know. You have to be careful they may contain glass is then you know. If you know what i can if you can see how much rubbish there is. Its all full of stuff like this one thousand bottles of course. Theres masses of this year. I want of thats all washed out during a storm like this you know this create them. I. Mean. Im from going over i go up on a south case is quite different i used to spend my time cycling to the north coast because i wanted to surf better. Obviously living on prime force them to take leave this when the rubbish on the base has just been unbelievable basically the sea sort of always wanted back up what was on the ocean floor so foundries breaking down and all the crosses kind of intermingled with all the plastics this sundays it was became play with this stuff so its a red green you know i think just from bits of broken boxes masses of fishing that the storms really did project to the whole public how much rubbish was in the sea i was utterly shocked i couldnt believe it was like a carpet being put into the sand. It seems like the more you read and the more you research on these problems the worse the problem gets so now if ive just finished a big report on marine plastics the problem to me now is a lot worse than it was before before i thought that somehow it degraded or somehow it just got absorbed back into the surface of the planet but it doesnt it just stays just stays plastic we know really the mass producing plastic long enough to to fully understand its right to take radiation we know that in the environment. A large plastic item starts to become brittle as a consequence of exposures to the to hate and mechanical action in the city and it starts to fragment into very small pieces even microscopic pieces that we describe as micro plastic if i thought the polymer chemists they tell me that all of the plastic that weve ever produced is still with us on the planet in a form thats too large to be biodegraded. For our First Expedition was to sail from. The bahamas to bermuda number of you to cross todays oars and this was to understand what was happening on the eastern side of the north atlantic and that was our first big expedition from there. Went around the world went to the south the south atlantic then the the South Pacific the indian ocean and then we knew it was it was global so with a very big data set and some of the best ocean modelers we then made the first estimate of how much trash how much plastic all plastics all sizes and all oceans and that number is two hundred sixty nine thousand tons from five point two five trillion pieces of plastic we know at the moment that around about seven hundred species of green organism and counter debora of some kind and most of those reports relate to encounters with plastic deborah we know that those creatures will ingest that their brain and some of them becoming tangled in it we know for many of those instances that they can be home for even faithful makes me feel quite guilty because i cant do enough about it and i feel that this is kind of its all wrong. That the whole world is backwards. When the does this when you like a place you try to keep that Environmental Task is immediate missy gives me so much the waves the wind understand that i have to give Something Back it was for me i can live a life just. I think that the connection to say being a want to use it surfing ingesting immersing is half the fun. And by yourself first hand when you when you walk at high tide line for the trash it makes you angry and im not the person who can turn a blind eye to that so i can either get angry and frustrated or i can get angry and i can get active. So frighted one thousand nine hundred ninety i joined them in one thousand nine hundred five and white happened because we were surfing. In the water on the beaches and all year long. Sure enough the beaches at that time were clean in spring so good coming in summer and everything was nice everything was not nice everything was clean before they arrived we were there all year long surfing into waste and polluted waters we could see this and where not not only. They were the witness of it by the time victims i mean who is here troubles or gastric troubles and what the heck am i doing to me well. So this is why i guess we will try to do something in fact as some say the only level of the only. Out of the whats called of the ocean and telling speaking about what we saw that. I remember finding the small plastic wheels are to be. Essential i flash you always see all sorts of disasters object on the beach so i didnt think much of it. But as more and more of these wheels appeared i started wondering what they were because if this is which it was actually. My asked around but no one knew anything about the sea. Once i started asking the questions say i found out that they want just appearing here a ship or stress that it wasnt real people were also finding them in spain spines it was generally known around other places. To question there was all sorts of speculation about what they were for but they were used to. Packaging and boxes to keep things from moving around. That they were from submarines things like that. But no one really knew what they were so. Surfrider is an organization with chapters in a lot of locations. So we sent an email to all the chapters around europe. Then as it happened there wonder now jocks hero on the island of corsica. Had just received an invitation from a Company Called band c. To take a look at its new modern Sewage Treatment plant. In prison think its really process youre. Going to capital city they got a brochure. Ive got it here somewhere they send it to me all. This is. Going well you know i saw the photos we sent them and compared them with the picture and they said this is a false one so there was just so. You can see from our kids so now that we knew what they were and what they were for. This we were able to start investigating. You know what we knew they were using Water Treatment plant so many visits sewage plants that used. You Water Treatment is done in several stages. In the first stage grids are used to retain the larger floating material hugh. If you treat them as you only get the grids get smaller and smaller. And when theyre no longer small enough a different process is employed. Which involves using bacteria that eats or destroy organic material in the water. They realize that if the bacteria was attached to Something Like a barnacle to iraq it was more effective and it worked better. So volcanic rocks were then used to have the bacteria something to adhere to the dry lava has holes the bacteria can have it. And thats part of process the. Sex became increasingly important and more rock was needed but its a problem to get. To see so these plastic objects were made to use instead millions of them are placed in a tank and the bacteria adhere to them to do their job and clean the water Something Else will come i. Need to eat and we set up a web page and we started to publish what we knew on the internet and we saw that other people were investigating as well and coming up with the same sort of information for example from two thousand and twelve until now there have been several cases of pollution in switzerland from switzerland to lay claim on both sides of this with side and the french side see. If you actually wrong so serious really do could deal with this research which is causing. A lot of trial i use every step i work for the valet district Environmental Protection service. I take charge of ensuring that the sewage plants observe federal requirements in this matter. The plant management informed me if it had been a spill of bio media filters. I asked them why you know where it came from what. Was it but it wasnt until a few months later that we knew how it happened and the quantity that had been lost. Said yes. We calculated about five cubic meters commit it sank it can actually scoops. Oh yeah. Sure. What happened was that there was an excess of water there was a thaw which led to a lot of water there was no separate so which system then to separate the waste water from the surface water it was all in the same time. So the water level in the tank rose until it overflowed the last the wheels that came to the surface and overflowed they went down the drain. T. C. So you. Got to go to a horn concert of the it ended up in their own a large river which passes through lake geneva and into france is descending totally on that band and flowing into the mediterranean its a relatively new treatment process id say about fifteen years old and this process is used when the capacity of a sewage plant becomes limited thats what it is quite an easy system to set up. Well you have to do is add the bio media filters to the tank and it. Doesnt cost much as opposed to building a new tank. Thats much more expensive. And many districts use this system like your city you know theres another planet by the way and the same thing happened they had a bio media spill i think it was the same problem and they did the same thing we did to prevent it from happening again. Through us through this youre going to be sure you do it in switzerland its been a lot of pollution the authorities have cooperated a lot. Theyve given us documents to help us understand the process so the solution is quite simple like putting a grid on top of it for use and weve visited many Water Treatment plants and weve seen that the pollution was often caused by extremely silly and simple things. The problem is that in a tank like this there are ten or one hundred millions of bio media filters and when they spill out millions of them end up in the sea. Youve got to go on there were. Even or are and this is what i would class as talks of next plastics from our area paper net. There are the kinds of plastic objects you always find along the bad. We found these shotgun shells. Then we have i think theyre called by a mediocre its a kind of. Well when we later found out that they are from the Sewage Treatment plants. And they are talks and its objects power x. Or loans are tampon applicators. They come in all kinds of shapes and colors. But anyway. Theyre all over the place i thought you know. I dont know. This show here hes trying to understand the problem of rubbish in rivers since the only data we have up to now is that eighty percent of the litter in the secret comes from the rivers or system. In this study began just over a year ago to find out the quantity in the type of literal which comes from rivers to find its origin its movement now it ends up in the sea. The main conclusion we can draw from this study is that of the fifty thousand waste products collected during these twelve months that are a collection point so about seventy percent was plastic. Behind the sewage plants we found waste products which are usually in the sewage plants and a large quantity of medical waste is found just behind the sewage plants. I find all this stuff from combined so its overflow i find the ocean i find the air buds i find that tampon applicators little little little pink little tubes i find cigar tips i find all these things that you find just in sewage are still floating out to sea you know a thousand miles of the mill the ocean. There are two main reasons why we find a large quantities on the beaches the first is that there are people out there who clean their ears with cotton buds and then threw them down the toilet. Here they go into the sewage. Only so they should throw them into the bin. Then secure the problem is that in many towns there is only one grain pipe which carries the rainwater and the sewage together. Only when the climate is mild it goes to the sewage plant but when it rains have a life so much water goes into the sewage plants that they cant create an enemy know. This from their fields so they have no other option. And to open the watergate and let the uncreated water flow directly into the environment. This is the part we see. The plastic which has been thrown away the part we dont see or detergents chemicals and all the bacteria which come from the toilet. Two of them of law like that it got sometimes research for big wave near here and you come out of the water smelling of feces but your wetsuit smells like crap because youve been surfing near the sewage plant and this does not only happen here it happens everywhere. Such as again surges set up in one nine hundred ninety eight in this village in st agnes by a group of those who were repeatedly going surfing and becoming sick and opening turn into together the u. K. Used to discharge all of its sewage untreated for a long sea out folks and that basically meant when when i was on show winds and swell all of the sewage pollution was coming straight back onto the beach is. When i first started surfing in the early ninetys he would quite often be surfing amongst sanitary towels and feces and it was it is all in the series i go surfing in and out and so. When i was a kid grease come down to cornwall every holiday we spent many weeks down here and my dad told me surfing way back in the early seventys is really passionate about water love the thing about it was terrible and yet he still i mean his boat used to go out into the water from about the age of sort of four five years old and yeah being totally hooked on it since then there was always this thing about me getting sick i was always sick in Summer Holidays and call it became a bit of a joke really to. After i end up going to the doctors getting antibiotics these kind of things always with their infections upper spiritual Tract Infections and really bad conjunct of isis and we hadnt made i mean it was only literally probably fifteen years ago that was talking through my parents and i sleep with us for a second you were the one that was in the water the whole time you know bathing with bathing in in the sort of horrible wool area where the effluent was coming out and i was just yeah ingesting rule sewage at the time and then you know within two days of the holiday you know bright red you know streaming control devices and the left left ear just constantly getting infections and it set up a weakness the sadly went on to me just getting more and more infections and to the point when there were pretty bad hearing loss and left it for me in the early ninetys when s. S. Was born it was born on a single issue Pressure Group so it was a group of surfers who were campaigning against untreated sewage going into the city and it was a big problem then because it was continues to charges of sewage all around the u. K. So with the help of the arab and wasteWater Treatment directive weve seen billions of pounds spent on u. K. Sirrah to infrastructure to stop untreated sewage going into the se day in day out so thats a major step forward now the trouble now is instead of discharging sewage one point eight kilometers out to say you have these things called sewer overflows combines or overflow can discharge untreated sewage during periods of rain or periods of malfunction stray out onto the beach or into the river very very close to the beach. This is a combine. So youve got these four grills when theyre sure each infrastructure is in a depression this actually is in emergency exit you have human sewage as you can see all in the great sign or two ways that you have human sewage completely untrained and stone walls are coming out of these grates. And out since you want to call most most premie so the most well loved beaches. Refer to patients for this year especially where you know the over from. Over for. People you know to speak to air infections you know i mean for one you know on our to notice for sort of you know and there has been severe wear burning for you know. A thing for you but. I suppose it was sustained by terror at its dissemination in the environment as we understudied by it could be a potential by which millions of people in the u. K. Anyway and come into contact with the system of terror because we know that. Close to water is all contaminated with sewage on occasion at this time which can contain resistant bacteria it means that it will difficult street with antibiotics so what we did is we collected sea water holes tatham for the presence of water in a particular type of terry hadnt called the code i. Had a tough time for resistance to one green provide tax and we found that its even though that present and small number die. Boat it was just and i was here all present and coastal bathing water is and that people here enjoyed Recreational Activities to see all of these bacteria we didnt really know what happens when someone swallows a assistant terry we dont know what they it survives in the body or whether it goes on to develop. To calls a subsequent infection we dont know that is something that were investigating for close has the potential but i personally wouldnt. Ok bathing after rainfall event. Whats happening in country and its also happening in many of the beaches around the country is the regulators deciding to take walks go to sample from some way down the beach far away from where the source of pollution is entering the city just like many beaches around the country a country the there will be children there will be thousands of people who will you see right in front of the River Country which is where the sewer overflow discharges so those people are being told the Water Quality is excellent because the Environment Agency will take a sample many hundreds of meters away from where they using the sea what what we do is we look at where the most bathers are on a bathing water and we draw an imaginary line right there into the bottom of the tide to the top of the tide and we always take the sample on that particular point what i can say is that after a really heavy rain the combined sewer overflows are likely to operate to save peoples houses being flooded with sewage and that sewage will end up going dying the red river and into quickly and i dont agree. It will it will happen and it will flow with the tide depending on where the tide days back out to sea and across the front of the big we do know that and thats true but where people are most of the people day it will be classed as excellent when you look at all of the data that weve got. The u. K. Is given a choice as every member state is you can take the worlds call to sample from where the worst source of pollution is or where the major source of by the sun so by the Environment Agency deciding to ignore that source of pollution knowing full well over the course of the day than seasons many thousands of people will used up body of water right in front of the river then they are not supporting their community i havent any Environment Agency i have liked his people and i understand theyre there because theyre there because they want to protect the environment so theyre good people in a Good Organization war i fear and this is just my opinion sir might be completely wrong but when the was called say results get released at the end of the beginning in november the Environment Agency hauled before the press to say why are these beaches passing where should pay to pollute is there again held to account should be Water Companies that should be fun and see should be industry theyre getting perks of our camera to say the speech has failed again why why an intern or you should have been hearing about this. Case where they the private Water Companies this is. An industry that makes billions of pounds of profit year on year on year now that profit needs to be taken back from the shelters and it needs to be invested in the protecting the environment because thats what these Water Companies should do they should give us clean and Safe Drinking Water and they should take away our syringe and treat it responsibly without dumping it into the environment that should be a bottom line that the Company Works from and it can still make money we did a lot of undercover work we filmed these c. S. I. Those discharging into rivers and into ses around the u. K. And we worked with a national t. V. Company b. B. C. s panorama programs watched by millions of people. Tonight schools on camera the pipes spilling sewage into some of britains most popular place the beaches this is the stuff. Well be as a direct result of that law being referred to the b. B. C. And also working with national newspapers. We were called in for a meeting with the environment minister and those surface against sewage and all of the stakeholders in the water industry with the environment minister and he set down the challenge and he said its not good enough he doesnt want to say so it was overflowing on national t. V. So what can we do to stop it and the first voice he came to in that meeting was surface against sewage for a solution and that gave us the opportunity to say. Whilst were not able to reduce the sewer overflows right now without investment but we want is information so tell us when a sewer is overflowing and well tell the public and then they can make that informed decision and leave weve been informed of over three thousand so overflow incidents that can cause a waste impact on your health in the last few years and weve passed on to thousands and thousands of paid. Into little. As a price of being late. And having discovered or even taken the problems you see twenty fifteen ten years ago all of the biggest improvement weve seen is awareness from everybody from the citizen to people leaders in brussels in European Parliament for instance like twenty years ago. If they had if we had trouble with Water Treatment with sewage water as people would say where theres no problem and who asked us to believe this then we said no no no its not its not ok and no they say its its the opposite its now an argument which is no from our politicians look at what was meant to improve Water Quality and this is a wrong a long term. Improvement. And i think for me the most important. Is to really feel how how long the process how difficult the process and how far you are from. When you are fighting into from the beginning. Stage. Some of the water make sure you dont get cold. Just for the search so just for you know going to contaminate as much as having a shower on for forty five minutes. On the saturday when. The straight come out vigorously. Ready for lunch. How we came out in the water is really warm. At least compared to where you come from. Several degrees warmer thats wonderful you know and i just went for a swim in the river had a shower. John israel. The way i justify. Guiltiness being part of the problem because i mean you know where this is plus ok its recycled but its probably it would be better if it was. Didnt exist in the first place is the best that we can do but you know its still not perfect. You know i travel ive got a car. Hydrocarbons. You know im using up resources. Quicker than that being renewed. My justification for that is that i can be happy with less less resources than most people and i havent got this thing this addiction to. Buying new stuff all time and throwing away which is a big problem i like to keep things you know i dont drink water out of those plastic bottles because they are just of a metal bottle and i just refill it every time from the top i mean its important to recognize theres no single solution to this problem and its about things that are familiar to its about reducing reusing and recycling now if its a drink of water fresh water bottled water in most parts of the developed world we have very good Drinking Water coming out of the town so absolutely its a case of having a refillable bottle that we can fill from the top every time of course we could start to try and clean up the mess in the oceans but my view on that is that were putting litter into the oceans far faster than we can ever take handouts and really the thing we need to do is to stop it going in in the first place. Blaming each element is we seem to know the basic idea is very simple. If you go to the beach second you pick up three pieces of litter so if you take a photo and you put it on the social networks i mean if were on the right track. Itll take time but i think were on the right track. Obviously the answer isnt to clean a beach because we can clean it today in the i have more litter tomorrow but the point is to make people aware that there is an extremely serious problem in the solution is right here us something families and i you know not am i think most anything and we clean are necessary once a year and we carry out periodic clean ups with kogo three and other groups as well you can clean it one day and its clean and you go back the next day and you see the same mess again and yes it hurts it hurts it is something that hurts isnt it was again lately i dont know. I suppose its because of a lack of education among the population. And say why do they not sitting on the most correct guy in the world. Is a mess but when i was young and my parents taught me not to drop litter to keep it as now and put it in a litter pan. In winter and then i can fly i hope everyone will end up doing that one day. Off way out i have learned that it will be less well off in the process of setting up the club and school and working with children. I saw that it was my duty to transmit this to the children. Because i thought that if we managed to get the youngsters to grow up with the idea of not leaving litter and making them aware that we have this problem. In later years when theyre grown up pass it on to their children. Especially for thinking that in the future things will be better for us and essentially passing it on to children i think that means well theyre the future. Therefore. You got it well but if you have every time i go to a school and ive visited fifty five of them last year things. Parents come up to me and say. You really get your message across to the kids. Its essential to reach kids because as i always say its too late for our generation. I mean how do you convince people my age we have two kids a mortgage and stress. But if we change the behavior of their kids we will have achieved something. Dave. Bottles. Can styrofoam cups of rope. Pieces of plastic i cant even identify. Its not nice to be on the beach and find plastic objects everywhere. People dont know how to dispose of bottles. They toss them into the ocean as if it were a trash bin. Its not the sea but at school i often tell of a children not to drop their candy wrappers on the floor. And. They dont seem to care. I often pick up after them because they dont seem to know what happens when they drop litter its wrong it isnt right nature isnt meant for that were changing it into something it isnt and one day will destroy it if we go on like this. She. Talks to me just like you know this has to be done because. It was really amazing. That. For me it was worth it to the students is to raise awareness of this it was really. When i began speech you need to pick up three three objects and see what you can give them the compositions also they might have. Rights or interest if they can create art work as well thats. Fantastic i mean for me its a case of collecting that bridge and making something with it and rather than going into a big big trash bag i dont think they knew the facts and figures they want to help and then the passionate about being involved and i was i think. They want the. Association with protecting the environment and that for me is me and thats what its all about. Is much more attractive to people to try to modify the environment and then they dont have to modify their own behavior that enough to sort of. Train and minds and train themselves to react in sequence with nature uncertain is surfing in real waves in the ocean the whole thing of anticipating the swell thats going to be coming. From the guests the wind direction was where to put yourself and all that is trained over years and years and sometimes decades and it all focuses down to that one point where you turn your board around you touch the way and what youve done is youve trained yourself to fit in with the rhythms of nature. Into the conflicts are confronting the powerful. This week my guest is mark gregory from israeli government. A spokesman for his countrys ambassador here in london that. Ive addressed since israel an excuse of a kind of sixty six because. If thirty minutes douglas. Place keeps him about that. Place its all about the slaves in some place its all about George Chance to discover the world from different perspectives. Join us to respond by distinctive instagram or others at g. W. Stories the topic each week on instagram. He tells us strange story slate makes us live now from and probably play and smile. Magical images flames the emotion the no place to go. To see to bring jammed on t. W. 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