here, marking a hard fought victory. translation: i ve been voting for him since - i was 18, yetter tells us. my generation backs erdogan. we won the election fairly, thank god. recep tayyip erdogan. outside his presidential palace here, marking a hard fought victory. translation: i ve been voting for him since i love you a lot. in istanbul, he did it his way. with a sing along for supporters of his ruling ak party and an attack on familiar targets. is the opposition pro lgbt? he asks. could any lgbt infiltrate our party? no, they chorus. over at the opposition s headquarters, it was like a funeral. almost half the voters were with them, not the president. the election has crystallised the divisions here, and the opposition is warning of trouble ahead. it s already visible here in currency exchange rates. the turkish lira fell again to a record low on news of the president s victory. experts say he has mismanaged the economy, resulting in rampant inflation. some of the young
the stakes are high, given that annual plastics production has more than doubled in 20 years and is on track to triple within four decades. the french president emmanuel macron warned that plastic pollution is a time bomb. translation: today there is not a single place on the planet that. has escaped plastic pollution. and this pollution is accelerating. if we do nothing, we will generate triple the amount of today s plastic waste by 2060. plastic pollution is therefore a ticking time bomb. as well as a plague that has already commenced. it is our duty to end it as quickly as possible. to explain the scale of the plastic pollution problem, and the ways some companies are trying to tackle it, here s our newsroom reporter naomi choy smith. we produce more than 460 million tonnes of plastic wastes every year. that s according to the un. and that is a figure that is set to triple over the next four decades. now, only 9% of that plastic is actually recycled. the vast majority of it is use
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introduced these cardboard boxes, and their quality tins also featured more wrapping made from environmentally sustainable materials. so all of this part of a global initiative to try and tackle plastic pollution. naomi smith there. while russell is an ocean and marine ecologist and says the statistics around plastic pollution in the oceans is terrifying. have a listen. if someone told me every year hundred and ten tonnes of plastic are added to the ocean i would say that s a ridiculous amount. if someone tied a tonnes of plastic is ocean every year i would say that s ridiculous. but it s actually 12 million tonnes of plastic that is added to our ocean every year, because it takes so long to biodegrade. hundreds of years to biodegrade. hundreds of years to biodegrade. this plastic isjust building up and building up and building up and building up and building up. my brainjust can t comprehend it, like what 12 million