and they are talks in a subject sparks or loans are tampon applicators. and they come in all kinds of shapes and colors. anyway. and they re all over the place. you know. and all these and the compile appointed secured additionally that he s going to try to understand the problem of rubbish in reverse since the only data we have up to now is that eighty percent of the litter in the city comes from the rivers or. in the study began just over a year ago to find out the quantity in the type of glitter which comes from rivers to find its origin its movement is now it ends up in the city like this it s really like old minissha. the main conclusion we can draw from this study is that of the fifty thousand to waste products collected during these twelve months that are a collection points is about seventy percent was plastic. behind the sewage plants
we found waste products which are usually in the sewage plants and a large quantity of medical waste is found just behind the sewage plants. i find all the stuff when combined so it overflow i find the ocean i find the air buds i find the tampon applicators little little little pink little tubes i find cigar tips i find all these things you find just in sewage are still floating out to sea you know a thousand miles i know the ocean. or they simply don t we don t really there are two main reasons why we find a large quantities on the beaches the first is that there are people out there who clean their ears with cotton buds and then throw them down the toilet here they go into the sewage and again since about the only reason they should throw them into the bin. the problem is that in many towns there is only one grain pipe which carries the rainwater and the sewage together. don t use them in the climate is
mild it goes to the sewage plant but when it rains have a light so much water goes into the sewage plants that they can t treat me no. anybody s that s from the film so they have no other options. open to open the watergate and let untreated water flow directly into the environment. and says. this is the part we see. the plastic which has been thrown away the part we don t see or detergents chemicals and all the bacteria which come from the toilet. two of them of you know like you got sometimes we serve a big wave near here and you come out of the water smelling of feces but your wetsuit smells like crap because you ve been surfing near the sewage plant and this does not only happen here it happens everywhere.
plastic particles. and the residues can simply be removed after a few wash cycles or you can fit your washing machine with a special filter currently the fibers from millions of washing machines across the world are flowing into our sees. the antarctic research as didn t find any plastic trash floating in the ocean but they found micro plastic fibers in every single water sample they talk. visible or not litter in the world s oceans is a huge problem. how can we prevent micro plastic particles from entering waterways like the rhine river. researchers in switzerland think of upgrading sewage plants could be the answer. roberto fry is the to.
removed after a few wash cycles or you can fit a washing machine with a special filter currently the fibers from millions of washing machines across the world are flowing into sees. them talk to grease search as didn t find any plastic trash floating in the ocean but they found micro plastic fibers in every single water sample they took. visible or not litter in the world s oceans is a huge problem. how can we prevent micro plastic particles from entering waterways like the rhine river. researchers in switzerland think upgrading sewage plants could be the answer . roberto frye is the technical manager of waste treatment plant. he leads us down into civilizations