Put our hope and also for the health of the planet. Luckily their actions we can take the reduce this pollution. Thats what well be looking at today on eco india. Im some of that i lets start with air pollution. Its a major problem in india. In 2017, it was the cause of over a 1000000 debt. To clear the if thats still a lot, we need to understand about the way pollution spreads. New Monitoring Systems in delhi promise to help with that. Lets see how the ah, marine granddaddy was born in delhi. She grew up here and played on the streets. Something that had gotten worse liter unable to do because of the air pollution studies show the air quality and the new capital has steadily deteriorated. Its air quality index on e q i is among the worst and the 120 as a goal of the leading doctor. He said that ok bobby. And if you are okay with your children playing basketball in the so if you, i then remember that between the 2 of them, one will be fighting cancer in their early twentys and we had them, i goes 18 already. So, so these things, you know, they, they hit do, i mean every time i say that i get to simple hovering and hardy regularly test the air in her neighborhood. The 49 year old joint forces with other mothers to establish warrior moms for 20 years. The nationwide association has been campaigning for clean air and against the use of fuels environmental experts. And only that only georgia 3 has spent decades campaigning on the issue. Delhi has more and quality meters than any other density of the town said. History in the regular nation wide senses. Few collect any data at all. If you look at the number of sensors sounds that we have and thats more than 4200 pounds would be happy to be. Id barely able to monitor it in about 10 percent of the cities and towns of india as of today. Sure. Less than 400 cities today have air quality Monitoring Systems. Daily started measuring air quality 50 years ago. The levels were already extremely poor due to industry and diesel emissions. The city then pass laws and installed air filters. There are now 40 large extensive measuring stations in you all is not allowed in daddy. Dirty fields have been banned. Ok, watch more. Pinch show data then. Sure. Does that. Would it be due to time daily has been able to reduce pollution by miss quarter percent, but now this will not because the i monetary that yes we have taken action. So the pollution lever in delia now not going the long dont solution trend is not increasing further, but we had bend the pollution their days helping us to understand that but the same day days also helping us. You understand that even after the tubing on this dentist, dentist, guy to pollution, and you measuring technique using small late weed sensors, is designed to help it install it. Several intersections in a neighborhood and accorded the air quality daily and different games. The city of good omnia delhi has already installed either the sensors. If the air values address are on high, the traffic is regulated differently. The devices can be moved to different locations as necessary. The Company Behind the sensors save the Business World is also digging and interest doesnt play with companies. Were installing the systems there for lamina in the campuses. Just to ensure that the ad in the campuses is good and it is good for the workforce plate. I have were hard at a company, they have a through the you the legal incentive limited for theres on they are going to be there is an order they often available it in the fed one up. And if i didnt even bicycles, and now the hell of anybody call it index, which is good for or than letterman and good for the new sensors are up to 20 times deeper then conventional devise is another argument for local authorities to invest in them. Daily is now planning to use the sensors at 13 locations in the city where air quality, specifically bad environmental activist marine godaddy can hardly wait for the additional data. Anything that you dont see a leg. I figured youd end up saying that its not happening. So its very important to bring in the data and the, the issue i monitors and i lead should be something that a very easy and all with the real dime the dar management. You know, it can be a totally different o gone vision going and offered critical ah, marine cand, hardy and had organization. Warrior moms wanted to become a matter of course, that people in india monitor the air quality, just like they look up the bees weather forecast. Clean Renewable Energy is good for the environment or so we pink bio mass in wards re growing resources and using wrist to make energy. And it sounds like a perfect will turn a dive, power source. Its currently responsible for 5 per cent of energy globally. But how clean is it really . Lets find out all the non appeals, not shells and other left over foods can actually power the device youre watching this on. Its called biomass energy. Not just left overs would plants all animal theses can also be a source of electricity or heat. We are surrounded by biomass and as such by opportunities, trash from the dump as well as waste from homes restaurants, all farms all provide suitable organic matter. The collected waste is cleaned at a processing plant, a temperatures of around 55. 00 degrees celsius. The waste is sealed off from oxygen and eaten up by bacteria in a, by a reactor. This process called Anaerobic Digestion generates gas that contains high quantities of me they, its a powerful source. Were generating electricity and heat once its fed into the gas green blue, it can also be used to power natural gas vehicles. The left over bio mass can be used as composites for farming, for example, taking the whole process circular by a gas plants of this time exists all over the world. In europe, there are around 20000 there are 2200 bio gas plants in the u. S. And about the same in thailand, malaysia and indonesia, combined by a gas plans produce only a quarter of the c o. 2 emissions that coal plants emit. And bio mass energy has one mortgage advantage over solar and wind in that its on demand. So you dont care if the winds blowing sun shining. But there is a catch by a me saying, can leak from these facilities. This gases ability to warm the planet is much greater than that of c o. 2 and bio gas facilities are only sustainable as long as waste is used. If crops are cultivated for the purpose, its not viable. The same is true of biofuels produced from bio mass like bio ethan all or biodiesel. The crops for them need to be grown and that takes away space for food crops, or even depletes forests and biodiversity. As is happening with palm oil, trees in indonesia, sugar cane in brazil and rapes seed in germany. Wood pallets are an alternative and increasingly popular biofuel. But researchers say there is strong evidence that natural forests and habitats in Eastern Europe and north america are being destroyed by the rising demand for would pellets through illegal logging. U. S. E, u and british policy makers have classified woody bio mass as renewable, and therefore, governments are subsidizing the production and burning of wood pellets. Producers are required to reforest areas, so the c o 2 that is released while burning pellets is re absorbed. But a study found that depending on the type of forest it could take between 44 and 100 full years until nearly planted trees can absorb the same amount of carbon sucked up by the ones that were cut down over a 100 year period. Hands down, trees, pine, anyway. Climb any these egg cross on or a good source of energy. Over a 100 years. Over 25 years over 40 years. Frankly, they probably more especially when forests play another crucial role. Countries are spending money. They should be spending on true renewables like wind and solar, on this energy source. Ah, thats not going to get us where we need to be assa plan and fast growing plans could be another option because the carbon emitted could be absorbed again, much more quickly than in trees. Can you make bio mass, a sustainable and a have you make sure it has a positive carbon impact answers . Yes. And then you have to get into the details of what kind of bio mass, what kind of lan . Ultimately, most forms of biomass pretend to be better than they are burning would alone, for example, is not a solution because even if its source and sustainably, its still produces emissions. Would waste can however be digested by bacteria at a bio gas facility and organic products like that. Banana peel powering your phone can help manage waste cycles to de bio, mass. Energy covers only a small part of our world wide demand. It can work in combination with other renewables, but its not scalable to be our Main Energy Source in the future. From Renewable Energy, electric vehicles, many countries of encouraging a transition to electric mobility. It will move the world of a from harmful fossil fuels like gasoline and oil. But it still means a compromise for the environment as far as a walk to go off figuring out every morning nelson comas walked through his barn with a heavy heart. He wonders how much longer he will be able to keep his cattle many who live here covert still, but also in northeastern portugal farm for a living. But that could soon change because of a lithium mine. Similar for them present. Got the mill so that now were talking about mining on a huge scale for the school. All the rocky debris, the volumes of water that will be consumed, liberty, the noise boulevard. You pull up and were right next door to the sound. You can last and we brought in an entire village feels threatened and is intent on blocking the project. This banner reads no to the mine. Yes. To life. These signs say together, we resist. No such gomez and his neighbors have founded the citizens initiatives. Carlos conservative as is also on board. Hes a beekeeper concerned about the impact on his 450. 00 hives. What i mean, bring your mind here. We use as much water as the whole community. So wheres that water supposed to come from . We dont habit. Sure, we can redirect a stream, but streams have already been drawing up more in recent years and circles. This is a consequence of Climate Change. Yet lithium mining is part of a solution to fight global warming. These pictures show what lithium mines look like. The harmful alkaline metal is used to produce batteries. In turn, these are used to store electricity also from renewable sources. Portugal is thought to have the largest lithium reserves in europe. Test drilling has already been conducted near cove esto, but also for most people here. However, this wealth is a curse, even in boutique us, the regions mean administrative town. We only found one person in favor of the project. Your bill gave with them. I think its important that we facilitate the lithium my all the do. We cant always just think about the environmental to my and weve also got to think about the economy that that may make one me it would appear the portuguese government is also intend on extracting the lithium, the ministry of environment and Climate Action informed us. It was committed to the European Green deal and wanted to help ensure that europe could meet its own lithium needs. The light metal could soon be extracted just over 100 kilometers to the south of co vestal, but also in vila garcia where courts mines already exist and where theres less resistance from the largely older population. Get it also people here are used to mining rehab rideau, who im not sure what the plan is or whether it will be beneficial to us, murphy, i can even get, oh, some say it will create jobs and we need those jobs. The ill this makes their job all the more difficult. Josie, alameda and his friends are raising awareness or whatever in neighboring tranquil, so they want to inform locals. Their argument is that lithium mining represents a dramatic encroachment on the natural world. Not they see the moon to the val gov. Theres not been enough information about will still mean for People Living close to the minus the also to some extent it fight is being pushed through behind peoples back or leave us liberal blossom. 20 kilometers away and pin. Yes. The mayor even has plans to sue the portuguese government. Louis ventura says, just the years of preparatory exploration on 40 percent of the land unsettled investors, he expects europe to look for less aggressive alternatives. Told us, i remember the ticket, then we all know how important mariners go for him. But we also know that there are other options without lithium i thought of as the lead you. But we should continue to investigate those ala but cannot bulletin the thought thought a hug. We have to let the scientists do their work. It always europes always saying that, but doesnt do it. Opa, avella in lawsuit no son. Gomez. The farmer from cova stiletto also knows that for now, lithium is crucial for meeting climate targets. But he says the price is just too high. They will not be the so law. We have a healthy, sustainable lifestyle. Here is the boys on it, leading fools in our land and destroy everything walks. Then i wonder what will become of our region after the minds of lou leanne gets it up. And then as i was young, the boy that there were some that means just 4 years ago the, you enlisted his home region as a globally important heritage system because people live in harmony with nature. Those here are not willing to give that up. Theyre also fighting Climate Change in their own way. Multi layer plastic is widely used for wrapping in packaging. In india, it accounts for some 50 percent of plastic pollution. One initiative is trying to make sure this Plastic Waste gets collected and recycled in the process. Its helping disadvantaged women and living upon the cong is working on a typical indian hand. But it is not so fred, for a sorry thats on her spindle. She is reading a strips of plastic into fabric. She works at eagle curry, social, and broaden put on the trans women from disadvantage background to op cycle single use plastic me godaddy guy. Before i joined equal guardy, i had no idea that we could make things from plastic potato chip bags. I was so learned that they had to be cut in a certain v to bd wednesday. Right . You know, demila the whist, come from all over india work and segregate and wash it before cutting it into strips to handcraft fabric that is used for items like bags, cushion covers, and blunders. Since it was founded in 2020, the companys team of 25 has up cycle close to 2000000 plastic bags. Eco cardi works with a specific type of refused, multi layered plastic or m l. B. In addition to plastic, m b includes layers of other materials like paper and maggie, thats on it. A reputation as an un recyclable material. Y m l fees. Im ordering this i believe because the other people fall is in a plastic. And each and every layer has different mark mailing points. So, oh, in the traditional we offer recycling, they put it, i made it ando mcdaniels out of everybody else. What with this kind of plastic or can not do it because of her and william while and everything as in mary and the same point im of these are widely used by manufacturer was of ready to eat foods, toiletries and pharmaceutical products. Theyre lightweight, easy to cross boat and cheap to produce in india and the account for some 50 percent of plastic pollution. Simply about a growth has been collecting plastic and the garbage in tune the since you were the child with speakers in india and have long faced economic exploitation and socialist digging in buena though there is growing recognition of their contribution to Waste Management in 2008 the union and the city deemed up with the grass roots, organization, swatch cooperative, to build a network of 4000 west, because most of them in the segregated waste for 2 thirds of boone as households sought, has also partnered with id, seen one of indianas largest conglomerates, and develop a program to incentivize the collection of multi layered blasting but buying vis, refused directly from best workers and channeling it into recycling. To this project, we are able to actually create a market value using support from the project or to buy this kind of waste from waste. Because in doing so, we are able to not only pick up the plastic oh, thats causing a problem for Waste Management. But were also able to pass on that benefit directly to the west because of from the city. So far, the project has diverted around 1000 metric tons of emerald be away from landfill. Thats more than 200000000 packages of chips where speakers monthly earnings have increased due. Now that they have buyers for emily be rubbers hot. Now we can sell all the plastic wrapped boilers and not just a selection. Zappa on biscuits. Job jet ne parcel packaging everything is the he did the this factory marashi says its a myth that multi layer plastics gone be recycled. The material accounts for 40 percent of the raised that has been processed here or the past 50 years. Actually m l p hugley lake out about i can gather is yet what caused did auntie lot of people doing emily processing because it is costly and lengthy process. Once the emerald be processed, it can be used to make not just fabric, but items like benches, dustbins, and even dives. But i will be recycling as a labor intensive process that also uses a lot of water and power. Most of the am will be waste that is collected still ends up and landfills, a gets incinerated, which adds to the air pollution. India is a still a long way from facing out multi lead blasting, but initiatives like thought and he could gaudy a, creating a thought for positive change. Pollution isnt always just that sometimes possibility is to find a use for it. Like the Greenhouse Gas, carbon dioxide, for example. Once captured, it can be used to make something very useful. Our reporter was thrilled to learn about a new use from canada. Hey, ever heard of this . You can build houses with god. A no joke. You can make concrete out of carbon dioxide. Well, thats what i heard from a start up in canada. Wait, did i hear that . Hey madison, can your Company Really make concrete out of thin air . We can, its actually me concrete out of out of been here. What we do is we have a c o 2 embedded or enhanced supplementary material, the very long word. But essentially its an additive that can replace a portion of cement in a concrete met, okay . Not really concrete odyssey or to but something that replaces a part of the cement confused. Lets break it down. Concrete is basically made out of 3 ingredients, cement, sand, and water. And it seems to me that it is everywhere. Right Madison Colgate right now is the 2nd house you substance on earth, other than water. Currently, the rate of growth emitted the built environment is about equivalent to building one new york city every month. Wow. Building houses and infrastructure. The great thing with a little problem. This is the bad guy. The production of cement, emits enormous amount of c o. 28 percent of all Greenhouse Gases are caused by the Construction Industry. Thats huge. Madison said her company has a solution. A substitute made out of surprising ingredients. Industrial waste, like ashes and c o 2, when you have time to process technology and that kind of comes in the form of a very large reactor, especially how it works is we put our solar heat into the vessel. And then we pressurized that with c o 2 and we rotate the vessel for a number of hours. Okay, lets go industrial wrist like ashes. And your to ah, whats happening in the chemical process . The c o 2 molecule men of the lives with the industrial, as it is as if theyre Greenhouse Gas force allies in a completely different material comes out and it can replace up to 40 percent of the cement the production does not emit Greenhouse Gas. It absorbs it. In other words, the climate damage in Greenhouse Gas is trapped in the concrete madison. You want to build the future with the waste of today me project that i 2030 will be able to achieve 600, make tons of carbon reduction. Good luck. Using human substitutes can to make the Construction Industry completely green, but it can at least make it a bit greener. With so much pollution in the world, its easy to feel overwhelmed and do nothing. But there are people looking for ways to tackle this problem, and every small solution is a step forward to a better world. If you will, one of them let us know on equal india a d, w dot com until next time from all of us in india and germany, goodbye. And thanks for watching. Ah ah, ah, with who a germany to learn german. Hello. Its been why not learn with him online, on your mobile and free just the w e learning course, ecos big imagine how many push a 3rd out in the world right now, Climate Change, if any, off the story. This is much less the way from just one week. How much work can really get we still have time to go. Im going all in lexus. His subscriber for morgan was like a red alert for the blue climate. Ah, this isnt just drought. This is a rid of vacation, i think were going to have some epic fighting there. All over the world is becoming a scarce commodity is just getting dryer and dryer and we need more and more water. So were earth dying of thirst. Theres no water at all. Then its like be a pod with global struggle for water. And nothing can be done. The thirst starts august 10th on d w a. Hm. Ah ah ah ah. This is dw news live from berlin, a truce between israel and palestinian militants. In garza a cease fire over the territory holds through the night and into the new day. It raises hope that medical aid will get through after 3 days of fighting. Also coming up