Is there such a thing. But 1st our planet is drowning in Plastic Waste how can we clean up all the world. The plastic revolution began around 1955 and early 70 years an estimated 9000000000. 00 tons have been produced every year more than 350000000. 00 tons of plastic a radish to the mix and just a fraction is recycled around home off of Plastic Products they used only once and then thrown away the majority of Plastic Waste goes in a landfill is incinerated or ends up in the Natural Environment every year around 25000000 tons of plastic ends up in our oceans thats a truckload of it every minute if our plastic consumption continues to rise well be discarding 2 truckloads a minute within 10 years and for 10 minutes by 2050 then that will be more plastic than fish. In our oceans. Plastic need centuries to decompose so the plastic we discard today will be a problem for many generations to come. And i delete location on the who are river in western germany but take a closer look and its not as beautiful. As. Kevin know where and their classmates have come to do some fishing but not the usual kind its trash there fishing for. And here it doesnt take long theres lists are everywhere they look and lots of different types of it and kevin and i where show us some discarded newspapers and cigarette lighters they worried they could cause wildfires. And theres plenty of plastic. And quite a few glass bottles to. The students attend a local high school and are taking part in an initiative called plastic pirates its a Research Project where Young Students get to do the work of real scientists. They take water samples and measure count and record the pieces of trash they recovered from the rivers and river that. Scientists in queue use the data to generate a garbage map of german rivers and calculate how much trash ends up in the sea since 2016 more than 15000 plastic pirates from 700 schools have collected samples from all over germany. The project is now being launched in other European Countries to the state also for title the great advantage for science here vast amount of data can be collected by within a very short period of time thats also what plaster pirates to around the initiative for a period of 2 months and within and time we normally receive hundreds of data sets we could never achieve that with our small team so that great benefit of Citizen Science is the amount of data that comes together. For the past 2 years the school has included the topic of recycling on the curriculum. And the teachers are happy to do their part to inspire the budding scientists. Its something i care about myself it always bothers me when i see people leaving rubbish behind especially when they have small children with them and are supposed to be setting an example. And its part of my job to teach the students to care for their environment. A hands on project is much more effective than sitting in a classroom with a piece of paper in front of them especially now in the pandemic. I think looking at those. The work of the plastic pirates shows that on average one piece of trash can be found for every 2 square metres of riverbank in germany. France also has a project aimed at tracking down the trash its called plastic origins and goes a step further using Artificial Intelligence and an app we want to move. As much as brought us and citizens as we can. On the reverse. And using those data using the video that. We will be able. As with a. Little i dont. Use it to my previous plastic pollution the aim of plastic origins is to get straight to legislation introduced on Plastic Waste and regulatory limits for the amount of plastic in european rivers their garbage map is intended to identify especially polluted areas and its important because its going to help us. To know exactly where we should start 1st you know the pollution is coming from everywhere. We know that most of the crew should we found the ocean transported by regrets that right now we dont know which way it goes the most polluted. But the app contract micro plastics in germany and dont fall kilos of micro plastics per person per year end up in the environment the main sources particles from vehicle tires industrial waste and household garbage its difficult for waste Water Treatment plants to filter out the tiny particles but a munich startup called eco faria is showing how it can be done using a simple but effective method. The. Last stage in the purification process we take to clean water that would normally be pumped into the rivers lakes or sea. But it still contains a remnant of micro plastics. And might only be a few particles per liter or it might be quite a lot when you whatevers left were able to remove a large amount of it and. They prototype is currently being tested this is how it works the waste water is pumped into the filter a powerful voice x. Is generated in the pipe pushing the water containing most of the micro plastics to the top of the company says 95 percent of micro plastics from municipalities and industry could be filtered out in this way. But thats not enough. That hes calling for a plastic revolution. I mean given you just having a few people doing things differently wont be enough to turn society on its head so that will only work with really rigorous legislation concerning areas like Single Use Plastics micro plastics wasteWater Treatment regulatory limits and so forth legislation that specifies exactly what Technology Must be used and where whether its ours or someone elses doesnt matter. And if. The young plastic pirates agree that more needs to be done to combat plastic pollution after just 2 hours in this idyllic location they found more trash and they can even carry. Shifting our World Economy toward sustainability will require both a lot of cash and a good deal of support from wealthy investors theres no shortage of capital in 2019 Global Wealth totaled nearly 400. 00 trillion dollars and global stocks alone were worth around 95. 00 trillion dollars. But the overwhelming aim of investment is to make money the impact on our planet and its people often takes a backseat but there are other ways of doing things. 20 years 2010 a drilling rig exploded in the gulf of mexico leading to the Largest Oil Spill in history. Ports revealed that the attempts by oil company b. P. To cut costs and maximize profits had led to the disaster. Disaster which is still taking its toll. On. The incident illustrates the frequent conflict between the planners and shareholder profits. But what if it didnt have to be this way. Very expressed around. All this scandal some investors have sold their b. P. Shares concerned about the companys record on environmental social and governance issues so they avoided the stock crash the fall of the oil spill. These 3 metrics are now called e s g and then he finding a new way of investing that promises to reconcile climate and profit. But can they deliver. As cynical as the financial world might seem ethical considerations of always played a role in investment decisions. The origins of responsible investing trace back to 1758 when some religious leaders predicted members from profiting from the slave trade but the modern era of responsible investing really evolved in the 1960 s. Together with the Boycott Movement it started with the boycotts of companies that did business with apartheid south africa that was really the genesis i think of. Many kind of along the Green Movement through 7800 going through the great move of tobacco stocks removal of firearms manufacturers removed all our Nuclear Weapons manufacturing about excluding companies this exclusion strategy is called divesting d and despite the initial excitement it led to mixed results. Ringback however according to a modern political theory hurting your bottom line a little bit and you have to sacrifice some financial returns. Vestments remove entire sectors like energy into bacco from investors portfolios when a portfolio is less diversified its risk goes up. 5 5 the 1st of such funds for example has historically underperformed the market but big money is now betting that this will change in his 2020 letter to c. E. O. s larry fink the chairman of black rock the Worlds Largest fund manager came right out and said climate risk is investment risk. But i dont think there is a choice between plan and profit. Somebody actually metrics that youre scoring companies on you look at anything or is this really any s. G. Thing or is this just Good Business are you producing are you wasting resources or wasting resources back to the bottom line well that. Bring it straight back into being. Screening companies for the s. G. Criteria has proven an effective way to anticipate and avoid scandals capable of wiping out share prices through for example between mutual fund. Folks who are going for a long time because there were questions around the governance structure of the company. This allowed those e s g firms to avoid the stock crash that followed reasonably use emissions cheating scandal. Of their cause with Cheating Software to make their. Green companies are also better prepared to face the growing threat of climate change. These factors are reviving the appeal of green investment. Sustainable funds are attracting new assets at a record pace. The real question then is not whether Green Investments can make profits the question is whether they can be called green in the 1st place. This only is a definition problem with got yesterday the lack of a Central Standard is an issue so company could in theory score very well on these. Rankings but on the other hand have a large negative effects on the environment. And even if a company is genuinely green buying its shares may not translate into creating an impact. d the theory of change behind Sustainable Investing is pretty straightforward the more fun Screen Companies receive the more they can pursue their sustainable. Vestments are unlikely to financially starve the fossil fuel industry for this strategy to be effective it must permanently reduce a companys ability to Access Capital when capital is divested theres also creates an opportunity for other investors to buy shares at a lower price when this happens the stock price can quickly pounds back to its previous level without impacting the. Valuation ringback. Its not enough it simply isnt because the effect is so tiny. And investments are not a magic formula. Very often what is advertised to sustainable is just greenwashing. Of the cases impacts can be achieved only by sacrificing some profit. In investing in our early profitable nongreen companies and then diverting the profit to environmental causes would be more effective. At similar calculations miss a more important point. It is tough to actually measure an impact. Your conscience is clean you dont profit from an activity. Many people simply no longer want to invest money at the expense of the environment and that alone is an important step forward and. Investing in our future leading us selfdetermined life this should be a given for everyone including women on our Facebook Channel d. W. Women youll find stories about those taking a stand and inspiring others to do the same. D w women gives a voice to the women of. This week in global ideas we also turn our attention to waste much of what is discarded in landfills is still perfectly usable including food. Around 1300000000 tons of food just thrown away every year at the same time according to the u. N. 690000000 people worldwide suffer from hunger even though there would be enough to feed everyone. Most people only see a carpet of trash here. Sees a scandal in thailand landfills nearly 2 thirds of the waste is organic mostly food waste there you if you go on the surface this all looks like Plastic Waste. Of it but when you look inside as well as a soft gooey stuff down there its offload organic its biomass. These still are quite ok theyre well packed you could probably wash them and make something with them like most of my. Original a from germany done your book is head chef in a band called hotel food and reducing food waste is important to him. It doesnt mean i personally hate throwing food away not only because when ive cooked something ive put a lot of care and attention into it but also because it just seems utterly idiotic to throw something away thats clearly edible. Government and its always bothered me. And it drives me nuts. For me. Can normally be found in the hotel with over a 1000 rooms its one of the biggest in thailand has planted a vegetable garden on the roof of the hotel for his 200. 00 stuff. Its yield is negligible compared to the hotels needs but the project has raised his staffs awareness of the life of food and. The way we carelessly throw things away as a result of our seeing food merely as a product. Were not aware of how difficult it is to actually plant something and how long the path is from the seed in the soil to the edible produce. Bootless says storing food correctly is key something he always thought was up these but hes found many people ignore even some of the most basic principles. Things like drawing washed vegetables to help them keep longer. Every day heightening to most check the food in the hotels pantry and to make sure its pressure. Its on i kissed him if you have a bell pepper which is going soft in a box like this goes whole part of the box can turn very quickly and then it has to be thrown away my booth says hotels waste food in part because the chefs have to work at a fast pace. So he set up a central kitchen in his hotel where many of the leftovers can be put to good use. He is the man we collect all the leftovers from the preparation and the unused and the vegetables or meat. At the various carvery is in the hotel there are always the bones left over we collect them to make stock with normally you wouldnt bother if you only used one onion but when youve sliced hundreds of onions theres enough for a stock. Run. This hotel post 6 different specialty restaurants. Theres also a buffet area with a variety of different stations for preparing various dishes. With a bit of supervision and planning hes able to keep waste to a minimum. Its the boiled eggs left over from breakfast all land in their death or that its a midday favorite people really like eating it and we dont have to boil the eggs in it was mine and i darted into the dies the problem is that breakfast eggs are cooked in the western kitchen but this is chinese cuisine its. Ideas like this have helped to her and his team cut their hotels food waste in half over just 2 years it wasnt easy it was a learning curve and a lot of work flows had to be changed. Once youve got things working its easy and runs out of magically. Once a month bu her and his team take stock. They take a look at what food has gone and use that day and how it could be transformed into cool make cuisine. Everyone lets go live. Here to mash the sequin and you can take this salmon for instance we take the head it was baked in a salt crust and make soups out of it it goes into the Japanese Breakfast soup because of this you can break up. And in the evening were doing pasta so we can do that with salmon and spinach. Food that is still good to eat that the hotel cant use is donated to an end. Its tough collect the leftovers each day and distribute them to people in need across the city. Only perishables containing things like fish or cream end up in the bin though even then not till theyve been weighed and richest it. Just have to live up with us this helps us to better understand what were throwing away and how much we always compile our monthly report. Then we can see exactly how much it is and maybe manage to reduce it a little and if i want to know where were focusing on next or whats next to be tackled then we use that data to say ok these are the areas where we have to save and where we have a problem of involved in. Data collection can be a good way to discover new solutions to old problems like the problem of food waste. The German Agency for International Cooperation g is said is funding a study to examine the waste produced by 400 representative households across thailand this kind of information hasnt been collected before in part because the costs will Garbage Disposal here are livid at a flat rate and not according to volume or weight. We want to know how much garbage gets sorted in separated where it goes to and what happens to it. Its hoped that this data will help discover ways to reduce food waste food that ends up in landfills isnt just wasteful its also terrible for the climate when organic matter rots it releases me thing gas a powerful Greenhouse Gas thats estimated to be 25. 00 times more potent than c o 2. So ok nick waste is a real climate killer especially in developing economies which rarely have modern recycling or Composting Technology for dunny the solution is clear. Daily and off we often talk about what to do with all the waste and there are important debates but we should really be talking about how we can prevent these trash piles from building up in the 1st place. Wants to lead by example pay knows that every step forward will make a difference. In the. Red square in the heart of moscow and home to the renowned Gum Department store. Amidst its regal arcades a soviet style can take offering a huge helping of nostalgia canteens via 57. 00 cells Traditional Russian dishes including shuba or herring under a fur coat Alaina Melnyk over shows us how its prepared. Its a must have on every new years eve table band a very popular lunch and dinner dish. And. Those that are still just working a look at the place on this flight it today making herring under a coat a Traditional Russian salad for most of us a favorite dish that we prepare for every holiday meal. But i say. Lets get started. We make it in a ring full on the bottom layer will put herrings so. The surgeons to use muscle to make it more just each layer with mayonnaise. The next layer is boiled potatoes. The legend has it that during the 1917 revolution a merchant wanted to create a dish that people could identify with herring cooked vegetables and beet root are symbols of the proletariat. The french mayo that dresses the salad is a reminder of the enemies of the soviets. They thought serving we remove the ring so. We decorate it with some fresh postulates and its ready yet wasnt it that. We always had it when i was a kid especially on new years eve. Its our familys favorite dish. Really tasty it was our childhood rich on new years eve my mother was a very good cook she knew how to remove the bones and prepare the hair and she taught me to do it because. Number one its nice here they put in the right amount of heroin some places put into little herring and too much potato here its good. But. This is my 1st time in moscow and ive chosen a dish i know well and it tastes really really good here on the hottest. Style of by a 57. 00 cells between 3. 00 and 9. 00 large trays every day portion costs 120. 00 roubles or about one euro and 0. 29 shubha can be found in many cafes bistros and supermarkets. And. Thats all from us that labels 3000 this week dont forget to send us your feedback limit global 3000. And visit tell facebook pages d w. Label ideas and women as the scene take cat. In australian cinema on the brink of extinction. Thousands of moms were killed by devastating the bushfires. And the surviving enemy are staring into the eyes of a catastrophe. After the inferno the battle to save us trillions coming. Close up. In 30 minutes on t. W. The fight against the corona virus pandemic. How has the rate of infection been developing. What measures are being taken. What does the latest research say. Information and context. The coronavirus update the code special monday to friday on t. W. About this issue when i arrived here i slept with 6 people in a room that is very similar. It was hard i was from there. I even got white hair and. Benjamin language and not enough this gets me and they go. To entrap lives and say you want to do their story. Its worth fighting and reliable information for margaret. And im game did you know that 700000000000 land on the muslims are killed worldwide shit so that we can include but its not just the animals of all suffering its the environment we want uninsured to find ways out of the nutrition if you want to know how old weightlifter the priests and the culturists changed doesnt need to use this listen to our podcast on the screen tends. To be a pedophile. 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