Nigeria hi andy. I fairly sure i know one welcome to all of you our viewers out there we do have some new and exciting environmental stories from africa and europe to share with you today such as how people in rwanda are dealing with recycling since the country banned single use plastic bags but thats not all. We also have a company included was that ease producing what its called environmentally friendly like. With discover how it works and vegetables are being grown in the middle of the gyptian desert. And plastic green living we see how some european supermarkets are trying to do away with plastic packaging. In kind of wa more than half of the population makes a living from agriculture the country is the worlds biggest cocoa producer and also grows coffee and fruit most farmers use chemical fertilizers on their fields because its quick and easy but one companys leading the way in making organic fertilizer and its proving to be a big success we want to find out why its making such a big success. Looking for it lays out from organic waste its an idea that sylvia who had three years ago hes convinced dozens of companies to given their food waste so that he can make for two days out of it he founded the Company Green countries in asia. Our products final mixture was developed through ten months of constant experimentation in twenty six thousand it dizzy appreciative when we tried lots of think and every time i was ready we analyzed it and then the military to develop the best mixture to provide the richest possible problems a mere middle aged people dont need a poor do british comp of the. At the company site food west. Separated on two different piles according to a specific sequence to. The various layers of west we have cost you can see here that the coffee is the wrigley under the pineapple. The coffee is put in fast. But before the pineapple gets there there are other food left of us and i can lay over kitchen paper or so incredible. It was the song you will dig up this lead in midfield and cut against the growth of certain bacteria but that is illiterate the for mentation process after eight weeks the fertilizer is ready in twenty seventeen countries sold some three hundred fifty tons of its organic fertilizer and theres plenty of demand the mucky. Agricultural products make up the largest market sector in the ivory coast the countries as have all different layers are produced in the region and its almost always chemical fertilizers in order to bring about a time around the countries has contacted large Processing Companies such as jews manufacturer actually with the simple proposition we take the waste from you and you buy organic but lazy and use it on your own plantations. If you take a kilo of pineapple and press it you use forty five percent and throw away fifty five percent the green countries brought us the solution on how to make more out of our waste thats our contribution to fighting Climate Change issue a practice run in bonior sixty kilometers from abidjan kristoff city go house to regularly for two days hes five picked up by now for protection the so is exhausted after twenty years of monoculture farming. We used to be able to produce forty to fifty times but it. These days you can only produce about thirty times by actor. Up to now christoph city go had used chemical fertilizers to have just his fifty tons of pineapple like almost everyone around here he only switched the zia above all hes convinced that the clinic for the laser will not harm his health but. The printing legs how the new for the laser is produced and what its made of. Waste in the future we may be able to recycle it in move it and that could bring us even more advantages than it did i want. If you want Small Farmers to switch the. Organic fertilizers will have to come down in price at the moment the harsh reality is that conventional lasers are still considerably cheaper than those made from a good cultural waste in africa were all farmers lose a lot of the farm produce because they are not able to preserve them effectively their only means of preservation often times is to dry them in the sun but they are sometimes spoiled by the rain on emails attacking them and following them whats the way forward for them a Nongovernmental Organization came together in nigerias middle belt in very precise and built whats called a solar dryer so that the rule farmers can drive their produce and able to sell them off season at a premium. Product for mary baker a para is processed in the crossover have this with the help of her new book after peeling in costs in the tubers theyll be laid out to dry. Air drying is the typical way people here in the nigerian village of a drug preserve but theres no standard method. Leaving the vegetables out in the open however makes them susceptible to contamination now an alternative is being tested a sailor dry a tent has been constructed for the purpose of drawing fruits and vegetables sheet metal on the roof consent trace the heat of the song inside the tent temperatures can rise up to fifty degrees celsius slits allow air to flow in and out from all sides the cost of the materials was covered by the ngo Women Environment Program the structure was built by the villagers themselves some funds back came to this community actually for burial and it goes on the market the i when i came i saw that their family local to marcos and a lot of the tomato sample were in abundance but. By the time were going have this. The woman did not sell this tomatoes and they were ready to give us the view to give it away at a price of just a matter of if big basket. From. In the past miriam luto was often forced to sell her produce far too cheaply because it was on the verge of going bad when dried pop or relative a pirate keeps a lot longer and the new tent is a great improvement in terms of r g. Whenever i am i am pretty used right outside go to delete them up and flights will pass on name when i do write them inside the tent be afraid just flies and they get right still looking fresh and new trains into. The all mom bottle flourish. Pop all okro and popular ingredients for making soup the dried produce can be so that large markets and for higher prices during the off season then the farmers can charge thirty times more for tomatoes. Attends is of great help us. Try our crops efficiently for details and have lots of harvest restage due to an expected. Cannot sell on market days they drive them and sell out of season and make a higher profits. The drying tent is guarded to prevent test use of the tent follows a carefully organized shuttle. So for every person that comes. The more work from grunt work from the your products so direct to put up a monitoring it as a ticket and the person we call the highest this destroyer takes that takes about two days so they monitor each person that comes to the product so theres no question of still in or coming to take another persons hoarder. There are no plans to construct dry attempts in other regions of nigeria to ensure that the farmers can make the most of the fruits of their labor. The landscape of the Sinai Peninsula in egypt as i read and consist mainly of desert and although there are some today relatively haase conditions the people who live there are also suffering from the consequences of Climate Change and its becoming more and more difficult to find posture for the animals thats right and but like oasis in the desert there are places in sendai a green and fertile have able gannett farm and the better one village of new wave is a community that began as an organic farming project over a decade ago lets see how they doing their bit for the environment. No way but used to be a beautiful resort in south sinai egypt. Until bombings nearby in two thousand and four now tourists stay away. But no way but has fur thailand and groundwater. Its soil is rich in minerals and clay. Landowner market as saeed had an idea to help his community. He founded the organic hubby to boost tourism. His hosts volunteers through one thing world wide opportunities on organic farms they live on the farm for free in exchange for their work. The volunteers grow eggplants marengo tomatoes and much more. They teach local bedouin children english farming and. Once a week the volunteers prepare vegetables for delivery. The farm generates twenty five percent of its income by selling its organic produce boxes. Each box costs the equivalent of four euros the number of customers is growing. Like them. If youre also doing your bit tell us about. Visit our website or send us a. Cash to do your bit sharing your story. In two thousand eight hundred thirty bad single use plastic bags and since then so are the east african countries have followed suit kenya in twenty seventeen and uganda lost but bags are only one thing what about the rest of plastic and other forms still being used and distributed every day by people and businesses. Well why did the baghdad has given rise to many others and Plastic Recycling has become a veritable industry in rwanda africa paid a visit to one of these Innovative Companies in the countrys capital kigali. This recycling company in kigali shreds walshes and crew says around the time of plastic every day. Professional recycling has become big business here and one day. After the plastic has been equal fight it is made into k. Like strands which are then chopped into pieces these would later be mixed with all the material has wants me to start a company in the plastics. Because. We have. To protect the environment thats why we bought plastic and some of the people saw it. I say doesnt pertain to. The companys recycling process produces reusing who bags tops and packaging for the Construction Industry and so agriculture. When the ban plastic bags ten years ago Plastic Waste still everywhere. Who wonders Environment Agency recovers tons of it trim landfills a lot can also be found along the border with neighboring countries. As a country in africa where the countrys estie using plastics we can see. We have to have plastics one hundred percent i mean maybe our success is at a nine to five because. Exchanging goods paper is now being used more and more for packaging exemptions to the new plastics rule include Industrial Packaging for chemists all medical products kenyan and ugandan supermarkets and now also slowly phasing out plastic bags which too often end up clogging streets like in rwanda shoppers in these countries are increasingly using re usable bags its a minor revolution in the minds of consumers we have started with sensitizing our population on the benefits they can have in maintaining in a properly protecting their environment and one of the things we are proud of is that ownership of the population. When this recycling industry is also creating jobs this over ration for instance has ninety three full time employees and another sixty seven Seasonal Workers they understand the many benefits of protecting the environment. Because i love my job because it involves Environmental Protection of my. Family. And. The general manager understands the importance of a very mentality not just as a Business Model the business is going to be that there is going to be that but what youre fighting for is for the future of your child which is growing that we need the green a future we need a future which is we did the environment to protect the not. Despite the fact that this event on single use plastic cartons and Rwanda Companies like this one neednt worry about going out of business anytime soon. Its encouraging to see just how serious some countries are about reducing single use plastic items but somebody says ive got a big step further by eliminating all disposable plastic from the shops our next report takes us to target just admissions one of the netherlands and one in germany. At this shop in berlin. Customers bring their own containers the whole idea is none of the goods here are packaged in plastic theyre also free trade and organic. The owner Cristiana Zeke was inspired by other stores in germany and elsewhere in europe. She sauces many of the products locally and almost eighty percent of them come in paper or cardboard boxes. And we have this one can even as a child i found plastic weird and as i got older the thought of having nothing to do with it just kept growing on me and i started buying unpackaged goods. And that was a great idea. If the retail trade wont take responsibility then ordinary citizens have to do it and open their own shops. In the netherlands the organic Supermarket Chain eco plaza has seventy four stores its pioneered plastic free retailing starting with a store in amsterdam now products with plastic free packaging are available in all its stores. And those goods coming with glass metal cardboard paper and biodegradable materials that look like regular plastic but ont. C. E. O. Eric deuce soon found suppliers who wanted to join in. We do have a lot of. Change we want to do this if you show us. That youre inspire us. To take the next step. To do same still sell more and more plastic Free Products in all his supermarkets but he says much still needs to be done. We need to speed up when we need to. To make. Anxious seems possible we also need to inflate some more because not all the packaging is really suitable its need needs also to be convenient so we need to have several solutions in our store many customers at these organic supermarkets are also in favor of cutting out plastic even if some older ones used to find it modern and cool we sold it was really good our generation we didnt have a di dios so well now we have a little bit where really happening and and i think people have been baiting for do this for years the new plastic shopping. Is attracting quite a lot of attention some customers say theyd like to see more fresh produce. The dry products here have a shorter shelf life than their plastic pack counterparts that means modifying Shopping Habits buying less more often. Prices here as in other organic stores are a bit higher than in regular shops even so christiane is isnt sure that her business is sustainable. The problem is the competition from the organic supermarkets some of them are now also switching to unpackaged and lowering their prices customers think cool we can get the stuff for less but it just doesnt add up no retailer can make a living that way. A recent survey suggests almost everybody in germany at least wants to see less packaging waste many also want to see more organic goods and food so perhaps the prospects on so dial for shops that fit the bill in both respects. Natural habitats in central to as you have long been under threats from deforestation livestock grazing and Climate Change but theres hope for this arid region intended and thats news and government established a National Park on eight thousand hecht is east of the city up to your sense that considerable reforestation and very nature a sniff its have been made. Indeed felicia now in the province of is once again home to ostriches and gazelles and a variety of reptiles and the people there hope that they can attract more tourists to this remote area lets go have a look. Hes been a ranger into maine National Park for twenty three years every morning he scans the horizon these days the local wildlife is thriving the unique ecosystem in this region in southern has been regeneration and since it was made a National Park. The park is flourishing and the animals here are reproducing. The animals are free to roam although the Mountain Range forms a natural barrier every day of. Patrols the land his job involves protecting the wild animals from poachers. It would help if there were more visitors to generate revenue for the region the headquarters of the National Park are currently being renovated with the long term aim to boost eco tourism. The world bank is supporting the upgrade to the tune of some three Million Euros it includes an exhibition on wildlife in the sahara. On the seventy most here are native to the duma park such as the north african a rare bird thats been the subject of research here. Yeah yeah yeah we usually patrols the National Park in his car for safety reasons the park which spans eight thousand hectors is home to desert head chalks desert monitors is that of an extremely poisonous egyptian cobra famous for its alleged role in cleopatra suicide. And despite the conditions theres also a wide range of vegetation. And its very has a rich variety of trees and if the wildlife is suffering from any kind of shortage we can always make up for it. The ranger has been working with the local. Wildlife for so long that you react instinctively to their needs. I love all the animals here. Especially the ones ive helped to rear in the last sixteen years. Of. The hostages can be aggressive. But i still like know that. They have died out here by the late nineteenth century. But now theyre back. And. One threat to the positive developments is the water shortage that occurs in two may in the summer months i thought yeah yeah yeah we and his team have to collect their water supply from the neighboring district. Proposed building a deep water well so close to the shuttle juried salt lake so we dont need to drill five or six hundred meters to reach ground water good quality water then well be able to help the animals and it will be good for the rangers too in a desert region water is the most important factor all. The lack of water is also a problem for local animal herders they let their herds graze freely in the park but this meant the landscape became increasingly barren with the World Bank Funds the National Park managers have invested in a breed of sheep that suited to the desert conditions. They have brought in a kind of sheep can survive in this environment. Gave us what we need to grieve the sheep. For tomorrow she dont need a big field. And. They can stay in the same place. They dont move very much. And they have the. Ones life has returned to do name two d. F. Yeah yeah we take photographs to document its progress the National Park is a place where animal populations are nurtured and studied that closes our show today we hope you liked it join us next week for a new episode of in africa thats all for me being in Lagos Nigeria by. And also here in johannesburg its time to go but we can stay in touch follow up on social media please check out our website and the twitter account thank you for watching and well see you next week. Dull. Dull. Dull. Dull. We present here of at its most fascinating at its most exciting. Most creative colorful glamorous trendy tasteful innovative brilliant charming. Below. The resistible check out the flames stars february second two double. 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