with you. fire made for mines. ah mm. i've always been drawn to the far north, pristine nature and escaped from civilization. ah. almost like being on another planet. at least that's what i thought you come and help me out here in just a 2nd there. ah, this is horrible. you see you're becoming a plastic archaeologist. sorry. the whole earth is just so this, these layers. what has that different generation? if you would just figure out how much testing there is just along this little coastline. it's hard breaking there everywhere isn't thick. and now i'm here helping in in you it pick up garbage on a deserted island in the arctic ocean. and not just a little a lot. the rack this across that are high, i listen can help. that's it. so it, it is you look at how the color of it and i want to touch this looks like it's from u. k. miss bruckner. this is a boy. maybe that's not a very to reagan expression. it looks like it's been in the ocean for very long side to had listed on the 3rd of ah oh, okay, it's running fluff, man, i'm a chef, kronos my name, stephanie cornel. i'm a filmmaker from dresden. most of my work has been in advertising. these jobs have taken me around the globe, including to low fulton in arctic, norway, which is where i gotta know chris lewis. he ensign. he's a local and we worked together on a film. we hit it off right away. one day he took me kayaking. we paddled to an island in the middle of the arctic ocean. it's inaccessible by foot. i think we've all seen pictures of polluted beaches before, but so much plastic waste in the arctic. i had no idea. yeah, mm hm. ah, lizzie lewis written, i'm a staring at their mistake mellow and there was even a german b, a bunch of reflection in the middle of the arctic clifton in active side . and now when i walked through the streets in germany, again, i see garbage everywhere. it's like something changed. i didn't notice it before, and it makes me crazy because i don't want the garbage to end up in the arctic. but how likely is it to end up in the arctic? the garbage would have to drift downstream about 600 kilometers to hamburg and from there to the north sea. then the atlantic, in the end, a piece of plastic would have to have traveled over 2500 kilometers to end up near crease in the arctic. so i, so i started doing research session the up north in here, then out there. from down here. of course it would be really wild if it did come from the east and current home. if i release the bottle in the in the german river, alba across the coastline, could it end up in the arctic? if you release a bottle on the german coast line and it stays afloat, the chances that it ends up in the arctic i think would be 95 percent. i am eric centerville and i'm a climate physicist, an oceanographer here at utrecht university. now what happens to a piece of plastic or something that you throw in the ocean is slightly more complicated, a piece of plastic and also sing to the sea floor. it can also end up and beach. so there's ample opportunity for a piece of plastic to not end up in the arctic, but gets done. and unfortunately, we don't know, we don't have food enough simulations or models and theory yet to exactly calculate what the probability is in reality, something to go from germany all the way into the arctic. because what we found out a few years ago is that the amount of plastic that is currently drifting at the surface of the ocean is probably less than one percent of all the plastic that has ever gone into the ocean. so 20 times more plastic enters the ocean in a single year than we can now account for at the surface of the ocean. 99 percent of all the plastic is probably missing. so domain name now is to figure out where the plastic is or so many of the dear com. and so i came up with the idea of simply taking a bottle, feeding it with a gps transmitter, and watching what happened to him, what i needed help me. i law, finish up my husbands organ. when i asked my neighbor, i knew he was studying technical design at the dresden university of technology. paul, his name is paul vice. i thought, hey, he's a tinkerer and a real tech head or i'll ask him, i'm taking to his simplest idea was to build a 3 d models, which i would then have printed them, whatever. you can then just put the gps tracker inside a seal. and thompson on also saudi. i idea that's the planned and now it's just a matter of trying it to her. correct yeah. we we are following up down there at the loveseat. i think i'll walk for video. wow. i'm excited. ok. ready? okay. ready. all right. oh and one, i'm fly on 3 by oh, i didn't mind he wants to hear the bottle story, terence. oh, i see flashes, i'm sorry. yeah. no idea what the bottle supposed to be. i'm still getting a gps signal. i was right there at the spot that the bottles just not there. the flashes, i'm not mr. dixon does not have i think so. i think maybe it filled up and it's now on the water. i well, i got a lot of rocks that we have moved, piles of garbage instead, right where my bottle supposed to be more garbage, more of a full trash cans with but do you know what i found? but he is another message in a bottle. what. what i'll have to break it open. do you have a double eye? because he did a broken trash. can i pay you? glad you found my message in a bottle. i drew this picture for you. my name's carlos. i'm 5 years old and i live in dresden. i would be very happy to get a letter from you. sonny greetings, carla carlo did a nice job with 36 kilometers later i realized that this is all more complicated than i thought. our 1st drifter was a flop, but hey, at least i've got a new pen pal. i so hoffman on, so we needed a new boy, miss the one that wouldn't sink on. we also needed more battery powered solar. maybe by through the law. does. i'm a contract, i'm almost forever. that would be cool. chick we're yes, the p 68, it's unthinkable is info all . ah ah, you see the water space that's bad. stop him and i think we have to redo it all. think if i am to explain myself, i would say my name is christine 32 year old. i am have green landing my my the site and a half danish, the weekend for my father's foot. and so i've always been very fascinated with the that's the element that i feel at home. my clean and the other thing that i need visited when i was 1st time i remember there was baptism, but i only have fragments of memory. oh, you know in greenland, if you walked just a 100 meters, you're far from civilization. i never had that idea of moving to the local and i had an idea of traveling all of knowing. after that month, i told my friends, but i'm sorry, i'm going to stay here. and i had the toughest to into my, my my car broke down. and i had no money. the only job i could get it was at the fish factory here. i was living 10 kilometers from it, started at 530 in the middle of the polar winter, the horrible weather for 3 months. and i used to being with been bicycling and have you had to borrow equipment from people that this is like chris. and now you have to stop to borrow your title. just take it. i can. that's the thing about some people say they have a great experience telling me their 1st formative years and placement. this is what i'm going to do. this is who i am and this is what i wanted. expand. excited sean gazelle adlene business has gotten. it's changed a bit. the dawkins and associates, it's different now. as far as young. where do i start calling on my friend yona list? yesterday with him soft meter, he works at the plastic smithy. hein di recycle plastic? it's a group that recycles plastic, cleared his head out a sort and shred to plastic waste. hang them moscow cuffed it can then be melted down again and recast. and i know form things when garbage knew, that's where i came up with these rings in against farm home. the rings are supposed to support the whole structure of plastic. and we only use a very small amount of plastic. and we use recycle to plastic. so it's basically plastic neutral, classic not high, which is nice and road format as you can find it right here. nature. sure nice. now we have all this garbage residence hall, them. you have it all a told in english and between the rings, you see these disks. so banashali is cork, their super sustainable with super buoyancy. it is however, a bit hard to say how much weight it can carry and for how long. because even cork absorbs water at some point buffer. maybe it float steeper now or something or he is the boy with the bulk of land, it was completely under water, a total of 80 kilometers within 3 months from time warner. and on top of that, our tracker, it's definitely waterproof and lasts about a year and say, $300.00 days, something like that. sorry with us with we eventually learned that the river can carry both our boy and trash a long way, especially when running high pools, new boy allowed us to continually adjust the prototype and fix problems depending on the river levels. our prototypes took around 3 months to cover 80 kilometers, with several brakes along the way. it looked of improvisation. it's definitely because of the low water levels, the way it's positioned you can tell it'll probably be carried away again when the levels rise. since the risk would offset looks pretty good. we decided to build several boys and then set them out along the elbow every 100 kilometers so that there parts could overlap. the good of, i love it, let's get started. it's now 1230 and we have to finish today. addition they say, oh start. okay, gotta oh, wow. this works right. the laser into the spin. these will be the covers with information like a contact details and the names of the boys sponsors line. unfortunately, the weather's a bit, but put into a bit of short on time. come up 515 minutes later, for the ortho. with ah, couple of it, it's a little after 7 and we really need to get this done today when a healthy ah too. mm hm. i contact cap, here's the captain on and the guest of honor by that is the fin. hello. oh, hello. caroline. farmer i found has already tested the boat and i've got the right ready. yep. so that was the captain. you have to tell stuff on what to do. it's clerk and sir calla. calla. we're ready. this is the drop, the boy was it and was yes. floating love or if we did well, bosun one of those. then we go downstream and put one out every 80 to 100 kilometers, so that their roots overlap it against the embassy, and then we wait on them shamela was possessed. ah, was ex 9. 0, when i with a quick upside of what the project started with the growing scientific interest in the environmental problem is maureen letter at some point you just can't ignore it any more if it will, then i will the notion like i don't, it's been moved. i'm rosanna sion, i shall just, i'm a marine biologist. no, i don't have my doctorate and quite yet, but i think when the film is finished, i well that did it other one back on the homeless in may or those before. i mean, of course we found out and looked for it as is always the case in science. i know for every question, answered 3 new questions, are the main findings all that garbage does. indeed. travel along the north seas main current work. but what we also found out is that gonna be just very susceptible to wind ins, kazama to hum the done that i'm up where we released him. the boy is a total of 3 times a year under those $63410.00. but boys were released in the north sea in the tributaries law and offshore, up the hook made at the response rate. the literally for 40 percent life, it's actually 43 percent finished or in the direction of the current. we know that waste is basically driven into the gym and bang and then more or less along the coast deflates we call shine and denmark to the north. and then along the norwegian coastline out in the arctic. what do you think of but this coastline is not so heavily populated by and that means although these small islands that i think there will be a lot left us focus is on my new one. or if your boys really make it not just to denmark, but it may be that they land somewhere here along the swedish coast, even see that they then go out again with a tight and then drift out along the coast of no way towards the out. take if doctor we still have an hour right out of that. yeah. another hour status stuff. that's all we're not crazy. who did $93.00 bottom to one is now we're taking china in total of $800.00 whole another ambulance the one to talk to you about like to know way what we want to do, whether we want to re book it, move it forward. how me listen to them. do we have dates? we're just allowed to go on the streets and the very necessary things. she's like them getting groceries. we have to go out the door. if you take your interest to still get a hold of me, ah, 2 years of work and one last minute film, shoot with chris before he moved south to study. and suddenly the world comes to a standstill. down thing is you'd have to climb $10.00 to $14.00 days if you wanted to do that. yeah. so like i've been trying and looking into the government, but it's difficult to get over it right now. no country is kind of locked in and the only thing moving between orders, plastic in these all address. mm hm. so what does it, does it not as you man, his name is wyatt. so he's a must've got to he rescued it from the water kids. now it's going to hell, bob. all right, nice to meet you. what? i think it's funny. right. wired. miss wyatt. oh, hold up dinner on board. okay, bye truth. so we found this point from throwing it back. thank you. hello. hello. hi stefan. hi, stefan. i just didn't read the name, click. okay. okay, and i'm hannah. and this is my sister marie. and we are from hamburg humble. and we found a docking together with an assistant, lena o clinical nurse. it's a non profit company again, be ha, yeah, we started doing i to clean up some friends and family last year on the phone for stopping. and it grew really quickly and a lot of people joined till and now we do it regularly when a slager. mrs. yeah, as of right, yes, that's the one that was right at the beginning of the knocked down. we got a call that we should throw the boy back in the water and cook oven, and that was super exciting, but it was the push button with yeah, yes, and then we went there and then we watched the current little bit 1st. we got some advice so that i knew exactly where to throw it in our did best left out. i'm alpha . when i go for it. yeah. very good. good of if you meet is most banker. all right, thanks bye. i found this in the atlantic ocean 5 or 6 years ago, but you can't even tell what it was. it's actually the process of micro plastic formation. all these little crumbs that we see here, they used to be pieces of these larger yellow pieces. this was actually just sitting around in my house. i've only moved it a few times and it's still decomposing. and that's basically what happens in the environment that these larger objects continue to decompose until they become micro plastic. my name is dr. laws good to me. i'm a marine biologist at the alpha vega institute in brand and basically i study the reactions of marine animals and ecosystem ultimate changing environment. and these changes can be natural, but they can also be caused by humans, such as climate change or the pollution a. every plastic object is more or less unique and there is this variety of animals that are sensitive and react in many different ways to the plastic. the effects are basically as diverse as the animal world itself. but is there high fish? what we often observe in many animals is that micro plastics in the tissues. trigger oxidative stress, does this kind of damage the genetic material and can also damage the facts that are necessary. for example, to build up cell membranes. proteins can also be attacked. i'm creating a sort of inflammation in here on hika research vessel from the alfred vega institute for coal and marine research. i will now launch the boys ever got it? yeah, yeah. it's been anchors with a dinner. i'm actually pretty optimistic that they'll start moving again when conditions change, im heightened and then the tides, the wind. i don't know how to handle them then they'll start floating them from you . that all was the same there. but i can also, there was a lot of garbage around it there with that. i think it'll stay there forever. severe. it's heading norton on. now kerry garbage was move. oh yeah. some to stigma before breakfast we'll go dance up the wood. crazy. when you listen, when they get you find a lot of fresh everywhere. bottles everywhere. crackling, even if they are almost like a finder, they're like garbage fine. yeah. they were shooting the hot spots with was on plus they got a very well what they actually do in the reverse 3. interesting. usually they have a little journey around like maybe 10 hours. but it's interesting that on some point they stop there for like a couple of days. and then i look lower, they start moving down here, we threw it in. and then actually when we, through the trip to it, it just went a raw along the curve and then it gets stuck there for a couple of days. maybe even even 3 or 4. then it went further to this point. they've got stuck again. and then i think yesterday or the day before it moved again and it went all the way up here. interesting. you're going a you don't bring in the ocean. what i understood was washed up in a pile of mud covered all over. it's really a dumb p. m. and a lot of the winds this from the is on 2009 crazy. ah. so you can tell her it might stay there for like even 10 years or whatever. but as soon as there's a lot of water, it just gets taken away because what, what's 10 years of a plastic lifetime? that's just like waiting one month in human lifetime or whatever, right? there's other doesn't grady. my number's melanie back ma'am, is my name, is melanie bergman. 7. i'm a deep sea reset, shown marine litter and climate change in the arctic than climmer london enact that i've had with nancy. twould betide sides of the alfred wagner institute as had the house gotten deep sea observatory since 1999. specifically to track the effect of climate change. this includes towed in camera systems which are drive one and a half meters above the sea bed. along the same route every year, give us yard long, bare them striking onto the alba. and we've noticed that we're seeing more and more rubbish on the sea bed. and we took a detailed look at various stations and thousands of images and found that the amount of trash increases sevenfold between 242-017-5000 feet in spite of it since he took off a little pot of what we see is just the tip of the iceberg ones, i'm a 5 nickel plastic took funny fits. we have also started to quantify micro plastics and found enormous amounts in power. at one station there was a $19000.00 particles per kilogram of sediment that exceeded anything we had previously imagine target. they've had with extreme air. amazing. they come out to do this. oh, i got some interesting news. one has landed in no way. my friend. yes. yes, if i remember right, you told me that you are studying close to also or in also right. very you cause i mean it's, it's not in the optic yet, but it's pretty close to where you live, man. this is amazing. this is amazing. you guys know it's really cold, remiss. see all of reasons. right. this is a testament because i yeah. so 10, right at the spot in love kill with malaysia. yes, we got there. that, that's the place all the best to get to release the show that it was about you know, like shortly. great. there's a lot of different material is really good . ah, oh, crazy. look at the guy all the way from branch to lisa plus get it. it is wrecked, man, it is just destroyed on the other side. so it also cuz i'm right now writing, i'm continent printing fasting, and their ability to host invasive species. you know that whenever chris in the ocean you can get your microphone on it. this is exactly the problem, like how it travels and so the plastic will take you along the coast. and no, not even if some boys were still moving, it was clear that german garbage was drifting over way to norway. it just took much longer than expected. okay, so for this is the animation that forgot. so for i look forward to, oh, this one was almost made. i had some of their friends, the moving race here. says that like those, those 2. now here it stops for you. but in reality, probably what happened is that tiny bits broke off and they could have voice, but they can slowly step by step by step. every time we finish smaller, smaller. that's how we get michael plastic in the arctic. damn what we found over $10000.00 particles of micro class, like the liter mounted z. i just typed this shirt that apple micro pastor goes everywhere on all of them. plenty of him call it and we scientists are relatively united in our opinion that we will no longer be able to get it out. but most of the plastic that is now in the oceans will remain that much of the large amount of ways will break down into micro plastics. but we won't really get it out, especially not if it is the size of micro plastics from garnishment and course michael nickel plastic this one. yeah. exception song as old. i understood you for yes. yeah. i am worried say a study last year showed for example, that micro plastics even palms from the mother to not yet born fetuses via the placenta you to buy the plot center. and if in the show not born wouldn't offend. it's disturbing. the children are exposed to it before they're even before the raw hopped surveys. and i wonder if this somehow impacts their development and fickle changes to some way by and i think to am jeff i and that's a note and i form rubica did god, thank you. thanks everyone. regardless of gender, political affiliation, and age it up will every body produces garbage in. and just because you took out the garbage bag with the garbage tray on, it is not gone. what happens afterwards? well, what are the consequences for nature for society? if they don't think about adding benwa's, i am kind of that go on my home to come on down. if you think about it, then it becomes clear very quickly that it is not only an environmental problem, but a social problem. we live in an economic system that is based on continuous growth by a constant increase in production. at some point we have so much that we can no longer control it behalf, and we're starting to see those effect. something that same does infinite as the ocean where we thought everything we through when will never see again is bringing all that material back to us. now link is gone so much i thought what? and that i think is the most important thing. the plastic is on top of all the other pressures that we put on the ocean is on top of the ocean. warming, the ocean is edification, neosha, overfishing, the noise 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