achieving this? that's what we talk about today. hello, welcome to eco india. i'm some of that i'm now centuries ago, people sought to protect their feet from the elements and rough to read with the rudimentary footwear made from plant material and eventually led them. despite numerous advances in short designs and materials, affordability has remained a persistent issue. a relatively new concern, however, is how sustainable our shoes are. with st side, cobblers had long been a fixture of city life in india, their small shops, stock, residential neighborhoods and markets. but of a traditional repair and reuse economy that extends the shelf life of shoes. it's a sustainable approach, but it's on the decline. india's economic growth has opened up new opportunities for the marginalized communities that long brazil this profession. it's also given consumers to greater footwear choices and money to spend on them. today the massive foot bed industry, jones, our products, made predominantly of synthetic materials. they're hard to do to bed and recycle and often end their life dumped in the environment. if they talk about the 2 in part of the foot were mostly from talking about not that, but the soul soul is basically made from the different types of, you know, different types of plastic materials. you know, you know, have a, b, b, c and all those things. so basically that is one of the things which doesn't get. ringback absorbed by the environment or by degrees. and also that is one more very important aspect of these threats are the micro fibers which is wing and huge numbers within. but it's not just this waste. the production process itself places a huge burden on the environment. india is the 2nd largest global producer of foot bear after china, manufacturing $2000000000.00 pairs a year involving hundreds of production stages that consume energy, mostly derived from burning coal. i'm talking about greenhouse gases or hadn't been talking about greenhouse gas or attribute or on 1.4 percent of total emission ah, which is connected to a band as cheap growing awareness about the foot bed industries. environmental impact is driving the search for more sustainable production models. to farmer, at least from delhi, began looking for a way forward and started a social enterprise that uses bite of its profits to provide jewels to people who can't afford them. being gonna feel very close to sure that, i mean, we knew that you know, every day for monday of gender. so that's where we thought or let's go deeper into it. i already saw it and found that there are 250000000 tools which will do lang for the 2. and at the same time, there are people who are walking barefoot. so this was a clear connect whether if he started bearing this was if you start up cycling the food began are but when them from going to landfills and give it to some one or requires it green sol has set up a large network of collection centers across india, where be built underneath unwonted footwear. thousands of all are damaged shoes. slippers and sandals are then processed. basically our mother saw the tissues that we collect the least separate on the parts, like the leases in soul mouth and soil. and the upper part or tissue normally are in. so you know, all these and categorize whatever can be used for getting it after citing the body melody of cyclic, whatever we can act and use on the other bites to recycle. take into raw material, cycling, fun, usuals your a 2nd now or the 2nd was as well. okay. that that will, the entire process is done by hand transforming the separated bugs into functional footwear. proceeds from sales have helped provide more than 500000 bears to school children in doral areas. another company is turning to football production to get the volume of junk in the environment. monday based data products make shoes from discarded. dia, tubes, cork, and fabric this as your thing right now is that directly from the dial from the guided diagram that usually lines up in the landfills. this is the upgraded version, which also ensures the finance. this is a mixture of or die or with some other elements that are recyclable and sustainable . by definition, a truly sustainable shoe needs to be durable, made from non polluting or recyclable material. and it should be manufactured, but renewable energy sources, a budget that's an gotta admit that the bar is high. normally i don't in my, in the dining is 100 percent sustainable. because if it does equal playing, i'd go to bill then it's not, has dana, me. even so consumers, especially among india's urban youth, a warming up to the idea of climate cooling shoes. you know, you need of you feel good about what you're adding in the end of it. so i think when i bad things which are sustainable, i feel good myself. so yeah that's, that's a win win for me. that mindset is good news for me because of greenhouse shoes, but experts see the best way to minimize what, where's ecological footprint is for consumers to buy less and prolong the lives of the shows the already own? now the average person who menstruate will use 17 paulson son to the products through all their lifetime, assuming they have access to them in the 1st place, a recent survey suggested these products use whilst quantities of resources like would fibers gotten plastic and chemicals to be produced. on a global scale, most of these are not biodegradable, leading to a significant environmental impact. this was the driving force behind a revolutionary invention in thumb log. this is no ordinary sanitary napkin. it's completely biodegradable and disappears quickly. all you need to do as buddied, and so once you've used it, leave it on the stove and it's gone in just 15 days. it was invented by previewed on with us a polymer faintest and entrepreneur bathed in chimney india. when they use the napkins, they don't think a wall of the after knife of your napkin is just one napkin i through just one not going. this is what all the one thing conversations about menstruation itself a becoming less of a double in india. but safe disposal of minstrel hygiene products is still a huge environmental issue. there's just so much in misinformation out there that i feel is the main problem. and this is not something we can just shun then said, nor in gum group out a router problem. it's something that you'd be seeing open areas, it says at the center of the search, please, the prioritized not just the environment, but also the women who use it. all of us would have had those bacterial by genesis, the bacteria infections that we come across during being docked homes because of such napkins, which does not have any, but i'm back the, the property, isn't it? so i wanted to create some alternate to which is also equal friendly and also very friendly to the skin of fall woman. things you sanity bad predominantly of in the belinda market. i made from up to 90 percent h plastic. they contain super absolve and fallen was in the middle layer and are designed to hold large quantities of liquid. they're made of synthetic materials that take up to 800 years to be great. in india or 12300000000, single use energy beds are disposed every year. many of them end up being bonding incinerators, the leasing toxic and because in the air was end up in lanterns. so there are so many competence and mios to it, and landfills and dump are not conducive to having o son, dream napkin breakdown. please, he said the goal is to create disease, always mediate. this meant she had to make every layer from scratch. the drop on the bottom layer are predominantly made made of the same polymer that is used. the da plan is illusion column because it has antibacterial hubs, which is stud many quickly read and mean i, telson, preventing bacteria infections and also eliminates bad order. and the me, the nan is made all, far biodegradable, so, but absorbing the volume when it is altos and in those based on don't mixed at all with the sugar again, fibers. so these are the 3 layers that goes into this napkin when the blood comes in contact with the napkin, the my groups present in it, help it to degrade foster in the soil. it will begin and it'll be bacteria present in the soil along with few species of fungus breakdown the napkin and daily. so i knew you will sit immediately bodied in the, sorry, i'm just close it off and leave it for 2 weeks and you'll be good again. in the same place, you will not find the not going to use that sorry, has been tested before. the napkin was buried and after the napkin has completely legal aid, it was found that it increases the size nitrogen by 20 percent. so it made the thought more for them after liquidation. please johnny with this invention started in 2015, 5 years later she received her beaten, and today she is looking to make it into the market. she says that this napkin can absorb fluid of $2700.00 times its rate and has a shelf life of up to 6 months. currently, it takes please about 3 days to meet each sanitary napkins, since i'm not making it in the laboratory and i know the time it takes for making napkins. it's like a little longer that i was also an industry falling in place. the time will be reducing, picking the spot from a prototype to a full flow female hygiene product that is it any foreseen the means? one of these biggest challenges, reason that i'm not a woman in stem, as well as the reason that i'm working for the environment, working on a product that is eco friendly. it makes it even more difficult for me because you know, people, we don't bite on more together when you cross the 1st step, everything else will fall in place. i'm sure board and i hope that will definitely happen to me. as with the united nations estimates that are 800000000 women globally having the period on any given day talk to kings and environmental advocacy organization conducted a survey and founded more than half of the women were unaware of the harmful faith, of disposable menstrual ways. products, but i'm believe that it's not just up to the consumers to inform themselves about these changes getting together to change the product, add source, giving information on those alternatives that are dead in the market, making it easily accessible, maybe providing subsidies to the companies and people who are working in this area is like it has to be a multi pronged approach to make a difference in this, at ina and it has to be done as much as possible. that doesn't do though, to waste, think of something that can be even more eco friendly with 0 waste combating means to will waste and from wanting to legal friendly materials liaison to the stakeholders can view most industries and policy makers who must push together to bring about and change the days of the legend of cleopatra relying on natural ingredients like which to below is milk and honey. for every the beauty of the tools, a long gone in many parts of the world. today the medical industry offer the boss, daddy of shower jill creams, mascaras and perfume to keep us king and feeling are best with the industry, generating over 4500000000 euros and seals in 2022 alone. it's a highly profitable business. however, it's also important to ask yourself, is it really good for us? ah, people normally it was between 10 and 17 personal care products every day. here am i do it best when i wake up. so shampoo and conditioner in the shower handwash when i need a moisturizer, la mama, vaseline mit of perfume and eyeliner, and a bit of lipstick. answer, mouthwash, ingredients for these can come from forming sources. fresh water. animals like wheels, plants like in that sweet rose essence and yup. chemicals are please mineral oil, petrochemical paraffin. oil is also petrochemical and other common ones listed on products are butin all or any word with beautiful. anything with b, e, g, d, e r m year. and hundreds of others are still derived from petrochemical sources. i was teaching a class, did ph. d students. and they also didn't know. so this is not just like the general public is like people who are getting degrees and chemistry. don't know that constance. bailey, at the university of tennessee knoxville says the widespread use of federal chemicals was just not in public consciousness. yet literally, every chemical that we encounter in our life is made from petroleum. for the most part. while there is evidence of skin irritation or reactions, in some cases, the scientific community is strongly debates that toxicity and impacts on health when dosage guidelines are followed. so it's not really much of a health concern. but the big impact of using petrochemical is on the environment. fracking and drilling for oil can heavily pl. you'd the water air and soil and the petrochemical plants so polluting themselves community is have been actively opposing them around the world, including a region called cancer alley. in louisiana. good, pos, refinery. you can see all the smoke going up into the air right now that's, that's pollution. kings mill boring is an analyst at carbon tracker who focuses on the petrochemical industry. it's much, much more diluted, making pitch chemicals, then making peripheral fuel call. because there's also the question of what happens after use dentist. 17 products means up to $300.00 chemicals being washed on the drain per person body and it adds up micro plastics. probably the best known culprit had been found in all the 70 percent of fish species studied. they can dramatically change behavior affect the larger marine environment and when people consume them, micro plastics could even cause damage to human dni, and is getting worse. one for one betral chemicals have an even bigger impact on the climate than even the most famous enemy oil. to produce one ton of oil to be combusted around $2.00 tons of carbon dioxide released to use one ton of metro chemicals that number's closer to 5 tons, taking into account the energy use in production and disposal. so what is the alternative to slathered petroleum? what is we have that called it a fact? who was believing that if something as natural it is automatically good. it is better for us. and yet with science we now know that is definitely not true. dr. michel wong as cosmetic chemist who busts midsummer products on various platforms, including those spread by provenance of natural organic beauty salad natural. and there are lots of different definitions of national companies. will say you have to use over a certain percentage of natural ingredients, which means the sources, nato, like fruits appliance, but these aren't necessarily safer enough re of metro chemicals. in the e u, they have been international standard definition and some places use that other places just don't really have any regulations around or cannick is usually to do with how ingredients are produced in terms of how they were bombed. this generally also doesn't mean that every ingredient is from an organic source, all that it's better for the environment. and of course, these products can still have ingredients with links to petroleum. and using natural ingredients doesn't mean it's necessarily better for the environment either . take, for example, you want to smell like a morning rules. this friggin scan me synthesize in the lab, but to squeeze out one gram of rose essence from nature, you would need up to 10000 grams of 10 kilograms of rose petals. and obviously, growing the varies was harvesting naturalizing, like creating the fertilizer, irrigating all of that. so distilling as well, that just takes, sorry, much energy important don't from all hope yet. that is a bright spot is called green chemistry. the idea of synthesizing the compounds but from renewable materials. if we can make these from engineered micro organisms using cellulose feed stock rather than petroleum, then we're not reliant on digging oil out of the. 6 curve and it's already happening with groups using mainly agricultural waste, with a focus on sustainability. one company, the u. s. amorous has recently launched to personally carolines that you silicon that creams not from petroleum, but from sugarcane residue as a feedstock. mm hm. and a swiss company de carbonized a lipstick line by using a compound called iso dudek in which helps waterproof cosmetics last longer. it was fuss invented as an alternative to jet fuel. and that's something it could eventually become once production happens at skill. so a d, carbonation cosmetics could have a huge knock on effect, on other more polluting industries, cosmetics, no, they're not like as big of a market share is like plastic or something like that. but it's still matters, right? because we still like, ah, it's just idea that everything that we need chemicals for, right? we are making out of petroleum right now. and if we were to magically say, like all of our combustion needs have been replaced by renewal balls. to morrow. we don't need to drill another barrel of oil, we'd be pretty, you know, we would be pretty screwed because we don't have other ways to make all these other molecules that we need in world. so what can you do? the 1st solution is the most boring alpha, but an sd was less and 2 smarter. unity need the product that you're buying and doesn't make sense in your context. second, knowing what to avoid. it depends very much on your skin kenny's on your priorities and finally, where you put in money does matter. investing in big all small brands that have shown a commitment to using green chemistry is a good idea. in the long run, oil companies will have to figure out what to do with the by products and the petro chemicals that we no longer want. ah, oil spills, which are often the result of danco accidents, have severed and lasting consequences. the oil room slowly spreads, causing harm to seaboard, marine animals, plants, reefs, beaches, bees and the entire course to legal system. to mitigate the damage various measures at all from deacon, including the use of barriers to prevent oil from spreading, and the use of bonding skimming or suction methods to remove the oil. this last solution, let a british hairdresser to undertake a remarkable effort. and i'm quite a bit she my hair as well crazy to get one like well do nice face frame live when you are a little bit. we'll also do less repair in treatment for you as a wild room in the glowing hairdresser. adel williams loves to pamper her client in her house and on in wales. the cutting hair has always been more than just a job for her and just got her hair means a lot people i think. and it's not even a vein thing really carrying about how your hair looks. it's just, it is an essence of who you are and your personality. i think if your hair's not feeling great, then you kind of don't feel great either. it's a win win for a del williams and making her clients feel good while saving the environment with their hair cuttings. every one in the salon supports the cause. oh, loaded on the way here. i've always tried to recycle and things, but i always felt like that was something more i can do. it's nice to be trying to start a business that is using a waste product to do some in the us. so good for the world. safe, basically, from time to day this klein's has going from blonde to pink. her hair cuttings will end up in the back room. and with this, felting device will be turned into an oil mat that absorbs oil spills in the see what i'm doing is i'm spitting it up into fine metal pieces so that resembles a piece of netting. and in this gets fed through the machine multiple times. and till it gets thick enough about an inch thick, greedy, and then add a hammer. adel williams grew up in the town of haverford west and wales west coast. she loves the beach and the seni, her home town. in case of an oil spill here in the future, her mats could be used that's because hair is a good natural absorbant of grease and oil. the hair maps can soak up to 9 times their own weight and oil. according to environmental organizations, they already being used in the usa as an eco friendly alternative to plastic maps. there is cut by hundreds of thousands of salons in the united states about 900000. so on that are licensed care about a pound or 2 a week. i and we all know that we shampoo because here collects oil. so we started working with a hair stylist who came up with the idea of making oil spill math. to prepare taste an oil spill hits europe. adel williams was cooperating with the american angio. she is optimistic because even the oil industry is now showing interest. at the moment, i has a few companies trialing lots. hopefully they will soon order the mats and stop pushing out those polypropylene matter they're using at the moment. the makeover is almost ready and the customers pleased, not only because of her new hair color, getting my hair cut and be able to donate my hair to a good cause to mop up oil spills is really amazing. nice to see. last thing i see if that has as the young hairdresser is so much more than about looking good adel plans to continue proving just that as we've learned to be the us resources are finite, making sustainability and conservation essentially for the thriving future. if you take care of our environment to do our future generations will, hank us from the planet we have inherited. i'll leave you with that and see you again next week. good bye. and thanks for watching with ah, ah, with ah, theirs is the story of many ukrainians. before russia's invasion, marta and siri had trained as volunteers for emergencies. since the beginning of the war, they have been in combat. even fighting directly at the front focus on europe. in 30 minutes on d, w. conflict, the war and ukraine got a powerful international squat life. this past week. i level politicians met at the munich purity conference to discuss more and the 8th grade. my guess this week is a ukrainian m p 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