Worldwide now its 350000000 tonnes of concept but i produced in just one year plastic is everywhere and most of it is single use packaging that is discarded its right away and far too often ends up in the environment planets plastic thats what we want to look at today here made in germany how to get our addiction to plastic under control so where to put it all the landfills a full is cycling capacity is lagging behind so why not send it abroad germany exports around a 1000000 tons of Plastic Waste every year but the main destination china is no longer willing to take in the rubbish so it goes to other countries that often end up dumping or burning it. Plastics plastic and more plastic and the stocks are only getting higher recycling companies in germany have been pushed to their limits in recent years. Because we didnt have enough Processing Capacity in germany the volumes involved and the production costs were just too high for huge quantities of Plastic Waste our ship broader as a re
Narrator dark skies and ruined water, burning rivers, oil spills, closed beaches, silent spring. 20 years ago, the wealthiest nation in the world that they had ever known, a people who enjoyed a level of private consumption undreamed of in the past found itself awash in environmental squalor. Our cars were comfortable, but our children could not play outside because of the smog. Our clothing was clean, but our bays were choked with sewage and our lakes were slowly dying. A wave of horror swept the nation as we began to realize what we had done to the Natural Systems that supported all life. The Environmental Movement was born. Governments at all levels responded with programs aimed at controlling pollution. By 1970, it had come obvious that further progress would require a Strong National effort. As a result, on december 2, 1970, president Richard Nixon consolidated 15 Environmental Programs from across the federal government to form the United States Environmental Protection agency. N
Democracy movement is freed from prison and adds his voice to the calls for leading carry lamb to. Egypts 1st democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi has died during a Court Session in cairo the Public Prosecutor said he collapsed in the defendants cage shortly after addressing the court the 67 year old Muslim Brotherhood leader had been in prison since 2013 when he was ousted after less than a year in power the secretary general of the Muslim Brotherhood has told aljazeera he fears Security Forces will bury morsi and cairo late at night denying him a proper funeral. The sect on the head of the real me home has even less of a problem this is a sad day not only for the muslim brothers but also for the egyptian people what was lucky of them for his family was shot and for arabs and muslims and especially for the Palestinian People of course who witnessed how morsy stood with them in the war most of all theres no doubt the history will remember that this as a day morsi was martyred
Bass is going to get hot to make berdahl go wrong for modi so so will after his landslide election victory plus no longer the worlds garbage can china disrupted the multibillion dollar global Waste Industry counting the costs on aljazeera. The explosion of Plastic Waste across the world threatens the very survival of life on our planet. Every year up to 12000000. 00 metric tons of plastic and. From poisoning marine life to littering landscapes and cloaking waterways Plastic Waste in the environment is set to trickle in the next decades the problem is so vast it can seem overwhelming but spy reimagining this waste as a result we can begin to redress the balance im tony in cameroon where a young entrepreneur is turning the tide on Plastic Waste by building boats out of bottles and im back in the cabin in the u. K. Where one company is tackling a really sticky caustic president also making unique and sustainable products in the process. Here in cameroons economic capital while the scale o
Outside the Army Headquarters have been protesting for months to transfer power to a civilian led government when the site was stormed the internet was blocked blocking out social media the main platform for the protest movement for now the videos a few and far between but some are slipping through the net showing protests are continuing but while people in sudan have been unable to share their videos social media users from around the globe assuring their solidarity by changing their profile pictures to all of the memory of one of the victims whose favorite color was blue. The manly aljazeera. Heres whats coming up for you on this news hour philippines president demanding answers as to why several fishermen were left stranded at sea when a chinese vessel rammed their boat and fled. The battle for land were looking at the conflict between herders and farmers in northwestern nigeria and in sport the host nation makes a winning start at the cup but america is here with both of them later