Single minute of every day, about 2 truckloads, a plastic get dumped into streams, rivers and seeds around the world. Here within the caps in a fraction of whats really in the river is plastic is part of our daily lives. But we have to do something to change this point. We cant just invade a Natural Environment with plastic. Plastic micro plastics can now be found everywhere in our food in arctic sea ice, in the deep sea. Plastic as well as on stick is incredibly long. Last thing, i find that point is threatening when organisms are affected by it, then we have to do something about it. If we dont, ex, now the amount of plastic in our seas will have increased for full by 2050, the or the come rain or shine cheats you might and you only heads out onto the model peak or just like its for fathers. This small c basin connected to the mediterranean is his stamping ground. The muscles have been grown here for centuries in the shallow waters of the little c in the past 10 for cotton. Thats where used by muscle farmers switched to polypropylene in the late 19 sixties. And all too often, nets end up floating free and lets see, teach you a lot on johnny sees the impact every day. You as you put the fault, always on the plastic on the see bit starved some marine vegetation of oxygen, and its suffocates up to anybody. Know the effect on the environment is severe. Im getting it marked. Cool men. See is like a mama when im on, mano its brimming with. Love, news, east on copy that the way i even when a child doesnt they have well, how do you get . She still loves them in bed. Is that a symbol . Of says that she doesnt respect them as much as a kind one, minute or fee are these, im all off. It was all 50 years of muscle breeding with plastic mats has turned the amount of people into a trash sheet every year goes to nets, measuring an area of 78000 square kilometers the same size as the czech republic. End up floating in our seas. Muscles grow in tubular polypropylene, thats over time, salt water, sun and friction breakdown plastic, but it can take 450 years to completely decompose. And toxic substances get really in the 49 year old is no longer prepared to be a part of that. Hes been taking part and assigned to the experiments since 2021 and only uses an estimate from matter be a bio plastic based on made starch, the jump up to this included. Let me be with most muscle readers are suspicious of this new material. And so now you have to be a very good muscle reader to work with matter being that it will not do you want me to little sound like its more work than with normal plastic from 40 piece level thats showing that ive lost the bio plastic is biodegradable and can postables, it could prove a more eco friendly alternative to conventional plastic. Theyre testing whether the new material fulfills teaching them out on june. These requirements generally means youre not gonna say means youre going to be pulled off, keep these notes that only lasted 6 rather than 18 months. And then i would have lost my entire muscle harvest started. A couple of i took a big risk, ive invested my time and energy in this endeavor for the sake of the environment. The last payment, thats your ghost, and thats made from plastic, often enough as death traps, killing creatures impacting entire submarine habitats destroying bio diversity. The people who live from and with the sea have 1st hand experience of that. Thats wine, thats made of new materials are being tested in europe and asia. Marine biologist kiana. Jo, me is testing bio plastic and its environmental impact. After all, many of us eat the sea food and then you have to learn who does it that im really interested in finding out whether the nets make a difference to the quantity of muscle or is harvested form. And also whether the material of the net it could lead to an increase or decrease in the number of tiny organisms living on in the muscles moving from san and then methodology can, can be danny say 5 cents to somebody. Okay, together with kiana g o me and her colleagues sit in us, go to a 5, a muscle farmer wants to find out whether the bio plastic match will stand with a test of time. Most plastic gets washed into the sea by rivers here in germany to has shown costs. Well see you. Its amazing whats floating in the run and run all of them. This one just to a nico lots of shy god was no longer prepared to sit back and watch the rising tide plastic. He set up an association called kaka, which is also the name of its floating literate collector. Its made of a basket attached to 2 pontoons, the open side faces into the current and captures the trash as it flow to positive. And those plus all the associations members, designs the litter collector together with an engineering company, and had it assembled in a shipyard for 2 years. They followed with the authorities to get germanys 1st ever river born literate collector approved. Lets say here before, what we have found has given me a really nice to show, expect the place seeing the results of the 1st rain and a long time. Theres tons of water levels have risen by about 50 centimeters. So everything left lined by the river over the past few months has been swept up. You can see that here, everything from shoes bought on supply works from last year. And there a lie that everything that people have left behind on the river banks with finding it here. Crazy. Right . Expecting so much as long as the name is okay, let me just give that slot the as well as a lot of hard work and conviction. A 160000 bureaus of donations have been invested in the litter collector, which has to be emptied every 2 weeks by the volunteers. The fact that our trash collected is about 3 made as wide. But the river measures about 200 meters across at this point. So theres a lot of trash that just goes floating past on this. And i think that we should be worried that we dont have any kind of control of whats floating past every day. And the ryan was how much trash there is the biggest one. Whatever the environmental activists dont retreat from the river ends up in the sea. Its estimated that the rhine wash is about a metric ton of plastic into the north sea every day. Some of it can hardly seen with the naked eye. Yeah. Come on, the plastic granules, everywhere. Biologist, leon, the bahamas is conducting research in this field. But she wanted to do more. She decided to get involved with the rhine. Literate collector in her spare time. But the, the, yeah, this is just a normal piece of wood and a feather. What else comes, but theres a lot of micro caustic on them about that because these things connect on the surface and micro caustics also float to the surface line with you can always, you can even see what kind of micro cost to get his tenants. And thats pretty wrapped in a piece of plastic pallets from stuff that they used to produce plastic products. And sometimes they get lost by accident from ships, containers on o sacks that split during transport. And the pallets get lost and done. Ordering production when the factories are cleaned, they go down the drain, you put a phone to be honest. I wouldnt have expected that to be so much micro casting is helping us get off the ssl fee and he called us that goes illiterate collector has been given a one year permit. The members want to use this time to collect information about the quantity and type of trash and the rhine. There is no data of this kind at present. The volunteers sort the trash according to specific criteria, the defense, why not try to get a u. S. Created about 200 categories, one, see the many elliptic collecting associations, so the trash according to those categories. This apply, it allows different regions to be compared unless we enter the data into an app and its fed directly into a large database. So does the ultimately, it allows us to link it with water levels, weather conditions, etc, across the board, and helps us gauge whats in the river. And what particular time is lost and flows beyond the hop on from the university of bon is evaluating the findings in a long term study. She is especially interested in the micro plastics washed into the rhine, litter collector, and estimated 330000. 00 tons of micro plastics escape into the environment in germany each year. Thats about 4 kilograms per capita. Reliable data about the quantity and type of micro plastic found in rivers is a valuable political instrument. Pollution can only be curved if limits are introduced from micro plastics. Micro plastics are a lot smaller than they saw that, but we cant see them on the id say that once micro plastics get into the environment. Its too late. So its really important that we stopped at source and look where that being created and how they getting into the environment and then take measures to reduce that up to now the micro particles have ended up in the litter collector more or less by chance. We under a hop on is working on a system intended to filter out in micro plastics this group of friends loved to see, but are themselves part of the plastic problem. The mazda fit the dives and serves so fella. So we set those feel very connected to the see on the itself, playground to set 40. So at the same time, we also add to the pollution on that even if were not always aware of its made to is up to as well. Everything we use is petroleum based, or do you need now, surfboard, the lease that connects us to our boards. Now, whats the deductible . The wax we saw and all the other assessors jeep important. And then also produced on the other side of the planet dependence. The manufacturing surfing equipment isnt eco friendly, and the products are rarely recycled. That has long worried, so, mazda, of etc, and as friends. But as you dont see, a need for a lot of people. In 2015, they got to know each other in malaysia and tested out the regions top surface spots together. The ocean in Southeast Asia contains matches of austic, critic day to day do. You can literally collect it while you were swimming or swap. That is a live is wash all that into the sea. Optis Stormy Weather said pretty song, so about 80 percent of plastic trash gets washed into the seas and oceans via rivers or from the coast. The other 20 percent is made up of fishing nets, ropes, and the band and fishing boats. The 3 water sports enthusiasts wanna help slash the use of plastic, also in the production of surf boards and surf equipment no financial cape, but we were really shocked by the ship madness of this pollution system. It was why i ended up doing the projects that im doing well, thats Something Like and then with nomads we wanted to create an alternative to the conventional assessed industry. Could yourself know mad surfing makes accessories and boards from sustainable and recycled materials. The surfers want to be a source of inspiration to the Industries Major players. They even quit their wellpaid jobs to embark on this adventure static. We must have built around. We knew we were starting from nothing. I think they didnt have the necessary expertise styles. The whole succeed was obvious, it would be hard to this because thats what we said to us selves. If were going to do this, then it should be for a sport that we share, a passion for god. And so we decided on the stuff industry. So it looks like most else at all, most of the complex mix of materials and Synthetic Fibers which frequently contain toxic substances. Make it very complicated to recycle water and Outdoor Sports equipment. When summer is over, a lot of inflatable mattresses, bonnie boards and swim aids and up on the trash sheet along with wet suits the on for newer see them as a potential raw material. They put out a box for old wet suits in a branch of a major sports chain. When wet suit fabric gets recycled, they can lose at store ability and become porous. New technologies are needed. But nichol i t boned knows from working for Big Companies that they prefer to use fresh materials your cheese, initiate it, costs money to process waste products such as yet it takes a very long time to change an industrial process when they get. But we can do that a lot more quickly. If one is only, were already producing 500. 00 surfaces a day. Our advantage is that we are very agile and contrast to the industry giants. What are the major, all the undersea . The pioneers are proving that it is possible to recycle wetsuit fabric and showing the big names how its done. Im going to show shingles. Got a weight cutting at rectangular areas like this, which we use to produce new set of equipment. So like light leashes, for example, itself, but the more thats the item that keeps the board and the so if it connected or so. So good recycling ideas are vital, only 9 percent of plastic worldwide gets recycled. 19 percent is incinerated, 50 percent ends up on the trash heap. 22 percent. Is it legally dumped . The nomads want to use up every last little bit of the discarded wet suits, the surf entrepreneur a cell the products via their own online store . Their next goal is to supply Big Companies to up level. So a lot of bits get left over. On st. Lou we cut them into pieces and then shred them into near brain, scrat on the streets, which we turn into new products like yoga mats and stuff pads. The new material cheaper to do stuff to didnt very much. I of the traction pads are produced by a secret process from a mixture of those wet suit scraps and adhesive plays on the on button on. You can always typically that is the prototype of a soft pad made from recycled native print. The a political message, we have to refine this model before we can market and how may i assist you . Were also developing stuff pads made from recycled, flip flops. So yeah, and the problem is ensuring that your ability for us, its crucial to start micro product goes, getting shit into the c panel, a sound in you. Cool. But they are well on their way to being able to completely recycle old went suits. And now they have to sell the idea of their traction pads to a Sports Equipment company to help protect our oceans. The teach you a model and you only cannot live from idealism alone either the muscle farmer can only afford to use the bio plastic nets. If the yield is acceptable, west side or the a, this net is made from matter be, you know, thought the ball. As you can see, the muscles are bigger than the ones grown in plastic. Met tonin calling about plastic are in particular that them other places. So that even that was also what we discovered now fast to test runs some can o n a the me do a video said about sealing noise when gamma we measured this, somebodys entity, the length human, french and weight of the shells and the flesh wireless disorder. The space of the live audio visual, then we found that muscles, bridge and my to be next grow bigger and move quickly compared to those and probably properly through method to be in the experiment. So we have control group growing and probably properly and at the same time in the same environment in the studio. And then the so im dancing unless this woman to initial findings have also been positive in terms of bio diversity. More tiny organisms were discovered growing on the muscles farmed in bio plastic mats. But there are disadvantages to if food plants like mays are instead used to produce shopping bags or nets, then valuable crop land is being lost. And research is still being conducted to find out how biodegradable matter. B is in water. In the marine biologists are carrying out their 1st experiments with bio plastic bags and model pico no more. But quite a csc methodology can every type of material that doesnt belong to the Natural Environment, has some kind of impact to these individuals that we have that pump face materials have less of an impact on the marine environmental a nail. And it allowed the thought, the quantity, in fact, they might be broken down more quickly. The david asked see city, for example in fish has stomach illness. She said isnt too they, they fish teach you a model and you only has been working with nets made for matter. Be for about 2 years now. A lot. I didnt be in most of them. Well, this is based off in comparison to plastic rod matter. B is very weak in coming, just fall, darcy, it begins to break down after being in water for 18 months, and then well choose from fish. That means the fish can free themselves from the net. I mean, cut off with plastic, thats not the case and throughout, but you can pull it apart no matter how hard to try and unless bit system help. And then whats the best for the class . The research has experiments show that matter. B does decompose in water. More quickly than normal plastic, but fishers and muscle farmers will need a material that is both Strong Enough and biodegradable quest. So the, what did it, the, it was the type of net can only be used here at the moment for you. Comment on the material will have to be developed and made more robust for farming in the open sea. They looked at zone and the but the sooner what works here in these sheltered waters by telemundo doesnt work everywhere, but it is being tested elsewhere. Plastics should be stopped from getting into water in the 1st place, including via our drainage system. Biologist, later on to the hop on, is developing a field tracing system inspired by seas, courts, flamingoes, and macro of the customer on looking at how they failed to water at the move for the g of the mounds, which are, which enables them to remove the food from water, and im as directing those ideas technologically so that hopefully at some point a washing machine filter will exist that can retain the micro plastics shed from all close. Texted in on, on the left side, on the lookout and kind of the sports clothing and fleece is shed. Synthetic fibers when theyre being washed about 500000 tons of micro plastics from clothing end up in the oceans. Each year in germany, those particles are largely removed during the Wastewater Treatment process, but up to 90 percent of them remain in the effluent sludge thats frequently used as fertilizer lay on. The bahama wants to avoid micro plastics reaching the food chain as events. Ok. So you put me on to from the washing machine up here and it passes through the filter. You can see the clean water coming out the other end in tests up to 98 percent of the micro plastic fibers were trapped by the filter. Its a filter that was inspired by fish orthodontic filter. We called show it yet because it might be the subject of a patient. But you could, in principle, replicate this fish filter mechanism and consider whether it could be used more broadly to tackle the micro plastics. Problem, for example, in sections of road where a lot of micro plastics gets shipped from tires and interested. Particles from tire where represents the single largest source of environmental micro plastics, pollution in germany. Nearly a kilogram per person per year. In comparison, plastic pellets account for 182 grams per person per year. Well, 19 grams comes from cosmetics. But these statistics are all based on estimates. In the future, real figure