Economic dilemma of huge proportions. When german retailers started charging for plastic bags consumption of them fell dramatically by two billion bags a year not bad but a manton of them still end up in recycling bins here and a huge number never get recycled at all despite germany being a Global Recycling champion. Decided to take an up close and personal look at the problem. My flatmates are the best at recycling most of our waste ends up in the regular trash. Everyone says we really should be recycling because waste is full of valuable materials. Paper glass organic waste only whats left should go in the trash. Here in germany theres a separate bin for every kind of waste. Is something useful done with all of this. Germans produce an average of over six hundred kilos of waste a year. The countrys reputation for recycling is tops that take packaging only forty percent of it is actually recycled and often its turned into lower quality products. Incineration but at least that does produce energy plastic plants well much of the packaging thats incinerated is hard to recycle anyhow glass is different when it comes to glass bottles eighty five percent of them turned into new jars and bottles. When it comes to sorting can explain. Germans are pretty lazy too bad because nearly all of it can be turned into compost biochemists. In my shad flats nearly all of this ends up in the break you know waste to any incinerated instead of being recycled. Carbon footprint his knowledge of any should be the way for self to do better from now on. Cheap and nasty thats the best way to describe our relationship with plastic bags more and more countries are struggling to cope with the downside of Plastic Waste and trying to regulate it in the indian capital delhi single use items made of plastic and now banned india which uses over fifteen thousand tonnes of rubbish every day but technology could soon change that along with the lives of the poor who make their living from vast trash heaps indian founders of taking up the fight for a clean a better world as german entrepreneur dates discovered. This is. One happy place the ocean is my happy place its the place where i can tune out and just enjoy nature you know the. One not really. Its pretty crazy to see a beach where theres hardly any nature left. Where theres so much pollution and such incredible amounts of Plastic Waste on the beach. Indias economy is growing and its trash heaps are to. Has travelled to delhi in the center of the city refuse has been piling up for certain years and its still growing. There is no functioning Waste Disposal system here. Millions of scavengers comb through the trash looking for what can be recycled the founder of a Technology Startup aims to improve their lot to get that one dollar two dollars a day to put their hand in but that never no one to get in contact with theyre not there dont let anything you get so if you have lost everything in life you have no hope in life thats when you actually become a tech because. With its modern recycling facilities i got garbage is tackling indias trash crisis and providing a better workplace for the waste pickers. But. They have done i dont think you five million kid you go. Through our system and not only that were going to be speakers that on board it so were trying to make x. As much risk because were trying to make them into being applied livelihood as much as possible and they get the fix its ality their lifestyle is because they can fix it up i mean theyre going to beat me off so i bought in there that it isnt going. To optimize the process the company collects down to recycling facilities trash collectors homes all of them are interconnected. And that is available online. Why has made technology possible which was not possible before. Seeing we surely. Know race was always very invasive and people would you dont even know how much you would you know you were saying oh i should even before i dont drink much like you know you actually quantify the end of the month you actually see somebody you know its like five ten fifteen down the wave and you say like youre actually going to get a lot and this is the kind of stories are very intense its over and thats pretty much like having if it was going to be if you are home any steps you take it is already heartbeat and like all the data and based on that you might be able to. Enough. Collective behavior to move it exactly like that. Indias refuse crisis is being fueled by one thing above all plastic. Plastic is an essential part of modern life it can be produced cheaply and easily and its very long lasting and thats the problem. I felt sick but not so if i use plastic to make disposable packaging. Things that will only be used once and then thrown away. When the Material Properties of plastic become terrible because it doesnt decompose. Unfortunately people are predicting that have. To eat this one to use single use batiks so we have introduced some i dont know if you can you know it seems you can use as replacement or plastics and the cost of the plastic the cured the. Conventional plastic can stay in the ecosystem for a hundred years and more. And the green bags biodegrade in just a few weeks theyre made from plant olson touched up a waste. To reach least critical twenty five countries by enough to those who need to. Be supply unexplored in hundred parts and may in india India Projects do this in countries at the same time riaz going to produce a new deal all in this im going to that we will supply it well me to you for it is your bags and you know. The consequences of our love affair with plastic are clearly visible on indias west coast. But as a kid its fascinating to find something on the meat which actually challenged maybe ocean without understanding the problem. Out of a love of our gannett waste on the beach and find one flashy our initial lighter and we stick out now its just like oh yeah theres a piece of wood or you know. The seashell here yeah yeah there were definitely some some some invasion has happened then and i dont very very fast. In the weve been invaded by plastic and this is only. This is only what the sea has decided to throw back on the beach theres so much more out there. So much more. Hydrogen or electric its everything all the currently available technologies can help reduce c o two thats right its right to it so you see the key is utilizing Renewable Fuels renewable gas or renewable electricity its the Energy Source that the term and c o two emissions not the exhaust all schools c o two has the Automotive Industry under enormous pressure but also the Steel Industry that takes us to do sport to steel producer to some cook which also struggles with high c o two emissions we meet marcus or less and look up from the companys Innovations Division theyre currently building a unit that will drastically cut back to do sport plants Carbon Dioxide emissions. And that had to you know carbon to can project. Is a blow material to producing chemical products. Steel production creates what are known as metallurgical gases theyre captured in burn to produce electricity and heat a process which emits huge amounts of c o two. The system works in a similar way to select a cyst driven process the c o two is captured for use as a basic material but to make products like chemical fertilizers instead of fuel. Like audi the two project managers also dont see c o two as a waste product but rather as a valuable raw material the dysport steel plant alone produces some twenty million tons of Carbon Dioxide annually if the idea takes off it opens up new Business Opportunities for tizen quote in line with the regulations tess and co pass to pay more than nine euros per tonne for c o two emissions writes the efforts these engineers are spearheading could drastically reduce those costs but will it work. Yeah i mean just so you its not our goal to produce the products here rather using real mathematical guss of two to three years to show that it works in order to move to the next area which requires a major Capital Investment in audi has been running at c o two project for several years now have on paying basis numerous challenges the plant only runs when the market provides sufficient surplus wind energy which costs next to nothing yet it still operates at a loss if it isnt paying off because the taxes are so high and also because the technology is still in its infancy if investment costs for electrolyzers go down over the next few years which is already evident then the technology will get cheaper and cheaper than. New ideas or Old Industries using Carbon Dioxide as a raw material shows great promise offering an entirely new perspective on the climate menace. Business its all about the bottom line so if you want to force industries to care about Climate Change one of the most effective ways is to tax the emissions they produce the European Union is trying to do that with a program known as cap and trade is a quick explanation of a policy instrument that hasnt been as successful as its inventors had hoped how does the emissions trading scheme work. In the European Union and its intensive business isnt perfect polluters have to buy carbon credits one credit allows a company to emits a ton of c o two for an equivalent Greenhouse Gas some firms need several million of these certificates every year. To cut Carbon Emissions throughout the new presses has agreed to reduce the number of credits available by around two percent a year. There are various options open to those affected they can invest in Climate Friendly technology to reduce their emissions to permitted levels. Or they purchase credits from another company which has already lowered its emissions and therefore has more certificates than it requires. Theres already a burgeoning market for surplus credits which businesses are entitled to buy also as they see fit. Emissions trading all cap and trade works on the principle of boosting plan of action at minimal cost. In practice however companies have more credits than they actually need. The ongoing surplus of certificates has been continually driving down their price for years now. To a level where the financial incentive for companies to invest in clean energy and reduce emissions is close to zero. Well meaning sadly ineffective the environment is meant to be profiting from this at the end of the day and the transport and Agricultural Industries havent even been factored into this then there are the new Energy Intensive technologies like bitcoin you may think its over but just one transaction uses as much power as your house in a week people mine for the cryptocurrency using huge Computer Centers but when stanley analysts say worldwide the mind is a bitcoin could use as much as one hundred forty terawatt hours of electricity this year thats a third of the power of all germans use and germany is europes biggest economy. Then there are the fees involved in using big court which leave out the middleman the banks so why the added costs one cryptocurrency startup based in berlin has come up with an alternative report about here in hutto went to meet the companys founder. Its been youre not my pocket and im still using cash and i use paper like this in shops but as a Business Reporter im really interested in whats going on with cryptocurrency is right now they want to get rid of this stuff. Im eating a visionary a take a live report in berlin his Digital Currency might one day take off. Dominic sheen or. The twenty two year old is already a startup entrepreneur palli with everyone there was really busy a munden. Sheen or sees himself as a rebel fighting against the old financial system. Like we are doing business the Old School Way were taking a more disruptive approach. You can say that again. He wants to put an end to my way of paying for things apparently cash isnt safe enough. And Bank Transfers are too slow. The Digital Economy is gaining speed every day thats internet the bigger point this is the internet of things today is focused on automation and our mission isnt automation its to make things independent and away we make machines independent is to give each of them a digital wallet. And what we then do is get the machines to pay each other one good example is a core paying its own parking fee in the future that will be sorted out by the car and its parking bay or its charging station or the road toll sensor. Groceries offer another opportunity for automation a fridge the makes purchases automatically and plays digitally crypto currencies could be the money of the future the best known is bitcoin which is based on Block Chain Technology dominic she believes its already outdated the whole. The main reason we developed the yoga is because we saw the problem with launching these one dimensional chains block after block after block are only able to make a limited number of transactions but if and the other problem is transaction fees if i want to carry out a transaction using bitcoin i have to pay fees of between ten and twenty dollars and thats obviously more expensive than a bank account if youre looking at the machine economy where one machine is paying another were not talking about larger transactions like ten dollars were looking at transferring micro payments a few cents at a time and you can only do that with the yota. The currency is based on whats called a tangle. Confirmation of a payment functions much faster and more cheaply than with locked chains from competitors like bitcoin. Small sums are easily dealt with. Critics say its not as safe as a block chain. To be quite honest were still working on proof of concept but its easier to hack them. Saluted not thats not true. As it was there was just a rumor that its not as secure as a smear thats only a rumor. We choose the best software hundreds of crypto currency programmers could argue about that all day but they all agree on one thing. Digital currencies dont need a central bank at their heart constantly pumping fresh money into the system for withdrawing it. Thats what Monetary Policy is all about crypto visionaries are questioning the entire traditional monetary system. And increased us about what kind of regulation could be imposed for crypto currencies in the future as well as blocking technology and thats why were aiming to Work Together with regulators to collaborate with them and ensure we have some input as to what shape regulation could take because were experts in our input on how things can be regulated is solid. Advice is this do i have that right the regulators dont understand the technology theyre regulating some do some dont so is this visionary or a lot of hot air how much longer will we be using last centurys payment methods. I just didnt i pay with your job thats never heard of that tell me about it like. Im happy to do so but in the future transactions like this might be carried out by my fridge. How much freedom would you give your fridge in the future if you can help me say food waste and save money ill be a happy man if you want to see any of our reports again head for our website or check us out on facebook if you have anything to share with me personally get in touch on twitter and make sure you tune in next time because maybe germany is being remade. So i think a lot of the people who play this is the thing im really proud of. The boy. Im excited to do thanks for joining us see you again soon. The be. Subdued. The be. The big. Boobs. Blogs get. To. See. The. 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