port has ground to a halt, but ukraine's agriculture ministers as grain exports will continue from 2 other ports. meanwhile, the body of his ambien man who died fighting for russia in ukraine has now landed in new saca lem akani. near anda had been serving a 9 year drug related sentence in russia when he joined the military. it's pretty the 23 year old student was pardoned on the condition that he participates in the war. zambian officials have demanded details from moscow surrounding his death. and may be in man is in custody in the us accused of making the bomb that blew up pan am flight one or 3 over scotland in 1988. the justice department says abil gila mustard will appear as a federal court in washington. d. c. allen fisher has moved from there. will i be a gill that mozilla masoud was originally charged with offences in connection with the lockerbie bombing 2 years ago. he's now in f. b. i custody quite how that happened. all the become clear once he actually mix it in the court here in washington. in the coming days there were reports that he was being held in the libyan prison on the charges that were not related to lockerbie. there was another report that he was actually kicking up by a militia group in libya and handed over to the united states. her palestinian teenager has been killed during a raid any occupied westbank israeli army carried out the operation engine in on sunday night. 2 people have been arrested to rescue boats carrying more than 500 migrants and refugees has been allowed to dock at ports in italy. italian authorities granted permission because of poor weather conditions and u. s. delegation has been meeting representatives of cuba, government, and havana to discuss migration and estimated the number of cubans arriving at the us. mexico border has gone up 6 times compared to last year. well, those are the headlines. emily will have more news for you after all. hell, the planet move. what is passing made us? ah, that is a great question. regularly said greg. but i don't know why she will read it. bet. florida bristow? classics aren't actually able to be recycled. it has to be a certain kind went a lot of people don't know that. oh wow. where's my recycling go? i don't know. it's a black box knows i think it depends a lot of what's gone through. you live in my mouth in any way up with our web, your quote to don. this is sick is a game i gave him the morning. my la, this is your know that i tried to do my best to segregated, to bring it to the right place and put it away. but there is a big story behind it, right? because all the waste is getting dumped somewhere on this face of the art with from the moment the day begins with swimming in a world of plastic. it's in our phones, our tooth brushes, our coffee machines. we wear it when we put on our bike helmets. we sit on it on a train journeys. we seed at luncheon now take our containers and disposable utensils, and we often throw a lot of it away. but waste is by no means the only toxic impact of plastic. one of the things that the plastic industry has done enormously well is gotten the public to think that plastic is waste problem. think that it's our fault because we just could manage the ways to better. it would all be self and that's absolutely not true. this is any, let it co executive director of greenpeace usa who has traveled to more than 40 countries to investigate. whereas stuff comes from and where it goes. the truth is plastic. a problem, every point of plastic life cycle is the problem is we've got to expand, look at the whole thing. we can start by asking some really simple questions. where does this material come from? what goes into the production of it? and what happens afterwards? what a lot of people don't realize when they're holding a bottle of coal. reckon they left over in clean film is that 98 percent of the input. so plastic a fossil fuels, mostly oil, or frank, natural gas, extracting these fuel, is just the start of a long chain of toxic processes. and so we know all drilling mining and tracking to all that environmental destruction and human health impact. and then you transport the stuff. when you have all the problems, you know about that oil spills look well trained explosions were getting submitted and then you can get to the petrochemical facilities where you turn this fossil fuels into plastic. adding all kinds of hazardous attitudes, softeners salads, chemicals, metals to, that's another real problem with the frontline community live next to the petrochemical processing and then the public uses it and you have the exposure of that toxic chemicals living at it leaking into our foods, into our bodies and then you have it disposed and you have problems there with it going to dumping, accumulating in the ocean are being burned, incinerators are the whole life cycle is a problem. in the united states, stretch along the mississippi river has gained a notorious nickname. that is as frightening as it is controversial, cancer alley, answer, alley, cancer alley. for decades. oil, gas, chemicals, and plastics have been manufactured in this 85 mile corridor between new orleans and baton rouge. there are roughly 200 chemical plants and oil refineries here and living amongst them are communities, mostly poll, largely black, who are experiencing high rates of sickness like respiratory disease and cancer. i spoke with resident, an activist sharon levine, is like a death sentence boss. we are dying. we are sick and we are, di is st. james. we have a population of over 2021000. in the 5th district where i live, i'd have to get a pencil to write on it one who died with cancer and write down the names of people who have cancer right now. so it's a lot. the refineries and chemical plants in the area emit dozens of different cancer causing substances, including something called pm $2.00 microscopic particles known to hom, human health. according to the environmental protection agency's estimates, the risks of cancer from air toxicity where sharon lives is nearly 50 times greater than most of the rest of the country. when i found out i had already new, available times in 2016 i did. my research is they can't from industrial pollutants . why would a whole lot of people die from cancer is coming from somewhere. the proof is in the pudding, the chemical plant, a poisoning us over the past 2 decades. the u. s. has seen a bloom in fracking, the extraction of gas from rock thrown incredibly resource intensive and polluting process the abundance of this fracture, fossil fuel, as well as prospects of jobs and investments in the region has meant companies like the taiwanese for most a plastic. so looking to build a $9400000000.00 chemical complex called the sunshine project, right in the heart of cancer rally. if it gets the necessary approvals, it could be one of the largest plastic facilities in the world. we're excited about the products that will make it will be ethylene, properly polymers and ethylene glycol. every indicator sank is, will be bad news. a dc based nonprofit called the environmental integrity project, found that if it gets operational performers, supplant, could release up to 14000000 tons of carbon dioxide. that's equivalent to more than 2000000 cars on the road. yet, officials for the state of louisiana say great care is taken to locate sites that safeguards communities regulate its require an extensive environmental permitting process before construction can begin. and that plans for new plants are subject to public consultation and the most of grass was being announced that it was gonna come in here. we had a public hearing and the majority of people well in opposition of this class. and our officials still voted for a plan to come here. i select, i'll politicians. they can rattle this in biggest, that's almost right now if you want to, but they don't want to. they say people need jobs. well, 100 direct jobs. that'll have a large multiplier. we're talking about 9200 permanent jobs associated with this project. people do new job but not jobs that's going to poison you. sharon and others like her have put up a fight against the foremost plastics plant. in 2019, sharon testified before congress. these new plants, poison oak, it is in depold of plastic crisis. then in november 2021. sharon confronted louisiana governor john bill edwards on a video called am i wanted to actually have you would reconsider to stop the construction of offer most appliances from family decide james care. we're all, we're looking at new vega and there's new guy to look at us, are we will he didn't, he didn't know what to state so that just popped into his iep. if he get more data, how much more data do it do you need? he need, i'll blow in my opinion, osteo like i don't care how much test me do they go on the still the night effect that his condition is causing us to be sick? that's my feeling. i hope i'm wrong when decisions are made about plastics. not a question of data. is there a magic bullet piece of information that some research could prove? it's a question of power too often, both resources and entire communities are deemed as disposable. plastic production has increased almost continuously since 1950. from 1800000 tons globally to 465000000 tons in 2018. if current plastic production trends continue by 2050 annual plastic production will be 26000000000 tons. that's 4 times more than the wolf has produced to date. a lot of things that didn't used to be plastic. and now plastic a prime example is our clothing. millie. 2 thirds of textiles. today, a made of fossil fields. you find this in synthetic fabric, such as rayon nylon, spandex performance where reagan leather. but the cheapest and most popular is polyester, also referred to by its chemical name, p. t. nearly 70000000 barrels of oil used each year to make the world's polyester fiber on one side. that materials gave some advantages and benefits because they can re thing. he eats her and made some product shiny and slick and straight. yeah, probably my top now is also probably containing some p t u u n is my what he is an indonesian environmental engineer who specializes in waste management and toxicity. the problem with that is that p t content is antimony, which is our toxic chemical. and the waste water treatment at the textile industry, manufacturing companies in many countries, especially developing countries and not designed to create or captured and timoney . another problem is that these plastic clothing they shed a little tiny, tiny bits of micro plastic. they're so tiny, we can't even see them. scientists have tested the brain water from washing machine centers, millions of these little tiny nano particles of plastic and now permeates our planet. they founded an arctic ice. they founded in fish. and recently they've just found it in human blood. so we're doing a giant chemical experiment of saturating the entire ecosystem of the planet, for the sole purpose of giving a lifeline to the fossil fuel companies that really need to be transitioning out of fossil fuels. putting away our ways for recycling has become a habit for many of us. but even that is something that the plastics industry came up with. let me explain. back in 2020 and investigation by 2 american media outlets national public radio and previous television uncovered crucial documents related to the plastic industry. there was a $973.00 report by scientists that laid out for executives why it was not viable to recycle plastics on a large scale plastic to great with each turnover. it says it's also costly and sorting it. the report concludes is infeasible. the plastic industry took this assessment seriously, came up with a plan i actually was working at reduced in the 90s. and somebody at the society of the plastic industry sent me an internal memo in plain brown envelopes. and it actually said in it that if we can convince the public, the plastic is recyclable, we will see a net increase in plastic use, which is the exact opposite of real recycling. and so they laid out this very expensive campaign that was all over the place. about the answer is recycling. the plant had been in the works for a while in 971. keep america beautiful. an anti little organization formed by beverage and packaging company such as pepsi and coca cola, teamed up to create an ad that almost immediately became both iconic and infamous. it was nicknamed the crying indian add. some people have a deep abida lewis for a natural beauty that was once with some people. don't people stop pollution? people can stop and i was a kid. the famous trying indian ad was on television, and i remember watching it just absolutely wrapped and committed to do my bet. it wasn't until many years later that i learned that that ad was actually created by the companies that make that simple use disposable plastic. one goal was to get attention away from them on regulation, but the 2nd goal was to get us to think it was our responsibility that the decisions that matter of the decisions made in my kitchen, but the decisions made. and that i'll, i'll of the grocery store and that's now where the decisions that matter take place decisions a matter of the decisions made in the halls of government and in the halls of corporate power to this day, the keep america beautiful group continues to focus on so called little bugs, parting people to better dispose of their plastic waste, while many of its members aggressively fight off regulations that would limit their production of that waste. we are keep america beautiful. the non profit empowering people like you to take action every day at home, work and in the community. don't get me wrong. recycling is undoubtedly an effective and important way to reclaim natural resources. metal, such as aluminium cans can be melted down and recycled forever, which is good because mining metal is incredibly expensive. an energy intensive. glass is another material that can generally be continually reused. paper also has a high recycled ability. however, it trails off after about $5.00 to $7.00 ri uses and then we get to plastic. it's not actually technically possible to recycle plastic immaturity because every time that you heat plastic, the chemical chains, they degrade, they break down. so it becomes a lower and lower all the plastic. so you can take up emptied coke and pepsi bottles and you can make a fleece jacket or flower pot. but when those things get thrown away, they're not recycled. one of the most iconic symbols associated with recycling is what's called the chasing arrows triangle. but that symbol was appropriated back in 1988 by the society of the plastics industry in the us who lobbied for their own chasing arrows with the addition of a number at the center and letters below to be printed on every piece of plastic produced in the us this was known as the resume identification symbol. the numbers range from one to 7 and a meant to indicate general ease of processing the resident with one being the easiest and 6 and 7 being very difficult. the problem is the presence of a code on a plastic product doesn't actually mean it's recyclable. and even when it does, it's generally only those products labeled one or 2 that can actually be recycled. the result is that many recycling plants are inundated with non recyclable plastics . and the issues don't stop there, doesn't mean that the, when we understand the type of racine, it help the recycling rate because every program have only one sign. but actually, it's a mix of everything you comp makes one type of plastics with another type of plastics because the chemicals are differ. and when you mix it, it will create a cocktail or ta 6. people think? oh recycling. that's what ecologists have been asking for recycling is good, it's green. remember plastic is fossil fuels. so when you have a toxic input which is on his olive name, plastic, and you heated up and represses it, it's gonna be a dirty, stinky, polluting industry. so i like to tell people that putting something in a recycling been is not recycling. it's putting something in your then you have to see where it goes. call your local recycling or a rice flood or ask where does it go and say, oh, can i go look oh, tracking where you are. cycling goes is not an easy task. depending away you live in the world. it could be headed to a bona fide recycling plant, or it could be headed straight to landfill. and sometimes there's landfills on, even in the same country. it's very difficult to get rid of waste in global north countries. it's expensive because it's strictly regulated, it's polluting, so there's a lot of community resistance and people don't want a landfill or incinerator in their area. and so what some really unscrupulous companies and, and municipalities have done, is load their waste onto a ship and send it to south countries. there is now a united nations convention called the basel convention, which does put some restrictions on export waste from the world's richest countries . what, what really continued was waste that was being export and under the guise of recycling . and we saw this specially 2 different ways to one is e waste. electronic waste has little bits of valuable gold. copper. it has a little bit of valuable metal in it, but it also has a lot of toxic material in it. and so rather than recycle it in a sound clean way, which is very hard to do here, where there's strict labor and environmental laws, people loaded on the ships and sent it to asia, africa, where it's reprocessed in really abhorrent conditions, exposing workers all kinds of health issues in addition to erase the other kind of waste that has been exported for decades now is plastic waste for many years. china was the largest dumping ground for plastics. at its peak in 2016, some 600000 tons of imported plastic waste were coming into the country. each month that stopped in 2018 when china banned the import of many scrap materials after it was revealed that most of it had been burned or buried. instead of being re fashioned into new products. unsurprisingly, much of the waste that didn't get sent to got diverted to other countries, indonesia, malaysia, cambodia, vietnam, and thailand, among others. so much of this rubbish is contaminated and unprofitable. unwashed food contain is dirty nappies mix plastics. the sheer volume of untreatable trash is the most disgusting part of this phenomenon. of waste colonialism. the california something is actually what they sand is not to recyclables, and it's encroaching our areas. why don't you increase the recycling rates and the capacity to recycle in your own countries? instead of sending it outside the arguments that i heard more and more from the global north, is that because there is demand for this? i said to what market to do you think this is the market? i showed them the pictures. how are the ways that ended up in the communities? i said this is not market as it on the market is only probably 10 percent of your containers. but the rest of them is just create a new problem. it's difficult to track exactly how the global waste trade works. but the basic idea is this. there are companies and countries willing to pay to dispose of their trash. and there are companies in poor nations willing to trade in that trash. once the trash is brought in, it isn't necessarily processed, improper waste disposal facilities. take a look at what happens in indonesia. plastic is either burned on a large scale or sold by the truckload to local communities. local people, children included, cherry picked the best bits to sell to local plastic factories. and the left of pals of poor quality waste provide a cheap, plentiful, and unfortunately very toxic fuel source for local businesses. but communities can only absorb so much trash. eventually it all gets mixed in with the domestic trash in landfill. so it'