the nice little man we all because like instead of the while of the best ways to protect and preserve the environment is through newco solutions that help communities list sustainably. well, we're checking out some of those ideas on this new edition of eco africa. i am chris gloves coming to you from lagos, nigeria good to have you with us today. a balls is sold to crease initiatives that start from the ground up can often set an example and influenced people across the

board. as i am sandra holmes, the 3 nobody you right to income prolong you can do. here is what we have coming up . the quotes and almost encountering using voucher reality to help the boys to be used by young. interesting you, you'll be a, with a stylish solution to bostic pollution and how small scale form is kind of for the 3 face, dr. diesel, we've clean solar energy. let us begin a ride to in uganda where many communities are named via the amount of plastic with that is littering. the streets, clothing see was on the humming the environment. organize with management could help a lot until then it is up to people like, you know, fuss report to find creative on wanting ways of dealing with these plastic blake

life. you know, there could you come in, you can is anything but easy. but daughter is cuz he does not phone the weight on money collecting plastic bottles. the company's lead touch with them, including the small patch of land where she grows her vegetables. she sells the plastic west to a recycling company. who was the moya, on this uh comic about $24.00 euros a month. cool. me 5. buy a waste of plastic bag. sima. yeah, i mean, i get 24 your i mean, but it has to be heavy or duties. covina fled, what to not keep a provenance in democratic republic of congo. about 80 years ago. she's one of the about 1700000 refugees living in uganda. most come from neighboring thoughts of done the democratic republic of congo and ruined the countries that have suffered

under conflict and civil war. as a result, your gun that is home to the largest refugee population in africa. me think that the need seems like a huge challenge. now the oldest of you guys to move in that young body. if hugh settlement in west a new gun down there is the west collection point to close to ha, from how got in the pavement arrives. those points on her mobile account, she can use them to make purchases and shops or get a cash disbursement of the dock. i'm a bus to get these people bring more plastics. it helps the environment. you know, the plastic chunk, the environment, tell you my best of the plastic. this was the sort of fatality, the so you lose is it's 42, you know, more frequent digits, collecting elastic decided where to gain it's fraternity. you know, normally with the problem was already turning plastic recycling into a business that was the idea of and to put in your front can you shop. he and his

team also developed the of which went online a year ago in 2 locations in the city of dean jay and he's done, you've done the on here either. if he comes in west of the country and for equal plus time, this is just the beginning. we think it's possible to talk about this more than a median refugees engage in recycling as a business. and i need a smaller door law in the uh, from plastic recycling, quite clean environment. if we can do that, then we assure that the heating the triple bottom line, which is the people planet and, and personality. the worst plastic has been brought from the come to the companies, 53. the come part of this is where the plastic is shredded and melted and then turned into roofing tiles. the tires are lightweight and cheaper to produce the

conventional play tires and they can be dyed in various colors triplicate, the appearance of natural clay or concrete. they've already been used on several roofs in kampala as we make them a 100 percent from plastic west. um they are brick red, they look like the normal crate dies by the way, by the tooth ends. light weight with 0 breakages and reduce the cost of construction loss. the company recycled more than half a medium kilo swath of plastic bottles. that's a lot for a small company, but very mex, a dentist of roughly 220000 tons of plastic waste. that's produced every uh in the country. so far that you've done and government hasn't come up with a plan to reduce plastic use. and there is no national recycling system to the dismay of environmental experts and do that on searching. i think it is around less than 3 percent of the plastics are being recycled and

the rest is being displayed. the is being thrown into the environment as a result, plastic waste is a problem across the country. it's mainly local organizations that are trying to stem the tide in this young, bloody refugee comes the n g. okay. international brought echo plus tile on board to help with the plastic recycling. what is good involved in the company? no more than 1000 refugees are taking part in the trash for caution program. the end you as also noticed that the program is making a difference. we have to do with the nearest ups when such intense or plastic corrected or by the video over the last 3 months. that is a lot in terms of their voice, you know, toner, plastic being corrected in terms of removing it from the environment. but you're looking out to and every time that we have you visited for the cortex as for the aggregate, as for the plastic recycle, as for those who are picking press because the source of income with the us any

incentive more plastic waste is now being collected for recycling, you don't have upfront can, with dish up pays a visit to, to young body is us to show how the up, what form. so many refugees here, the ability to on a small income mix like huge difference. and of course, because the, the, in this kind of, most of us, the single mother, we no longer with a whole bunch of them. it's like they abandoned us with the children's does yet. but this business has helped us stuff because we have something to do every morning who is front can, will you show and doty is viewed, i have both inbox and a new part and it's paying off the entropy. and you guys know, getting in touch with the organization so that he can launch is program even more if he comes collecting west plastic is one thing preventing good is another way of if you appear next to meet an answer for you was settled to reduce the country's addiction to plastic shopping box does right, sandra,

talk company is not just talking pollution in a stylish way. it's empowering women and creating jobs in the countries capital. the eco friendly and fair backs for men, women for work or for going out and produced locally in ethiopia. impossible. well, not for keeter's despite yet he just found it to be up. yeah. in 2019. in this suburb of addis ababa, she just created 31 jobs for women like us. all the women are weavers and work from home. she just comes regularly to collect the fabric they make or after this we use these properties for different states, defense of bucks. so we can balance with the data. she just had the idea to start a business 5 years ago. at that time, she was

a student and she was living in this area which is known for this big dump site in 2017 a land site on the site cause the death of at least 130 people. after this event, she just wanted to do something for the neighborhood. one of the reasons why that happened with the existence of select these functions, the garbage, a doctor, you get the concepts escalator back. we. so it's at that time if we produce environmentally friendly shopping box, next step, our body shop each box. we can replace draft each box. but she soon realized that the initial capital needed to produce paper or fabric for shopping bags was too high for her. so she looked for another way to create jobs here. i know this will live around here and that, and also the incident happened outside in this area. so i wanted to set you up for sure, and before the only minutes we'll leave it around here. to non you was one of the 1st employees of cheapest. that is very, very uh,

i'm trying to see if uh she'd due to the following week as i want it or as i trained. huh. so it's okay to non. yeah. it looks after 3 children. this work allows her to provide for a large part of the family's needs. with the money she's given me, i pay the rent for my house. i also have an extra job to ensure ruba has to do with the money from that i pay the rest food, etc. it's all done on a with the fabric made by the women. he does returns to her office in the city center of addis ababa. the bags are been made in this small room, cheated itself $60.00 to $75.00 bags every month. to cope with the crisis and to reuse the leather straps, she started to sell smaller and cheaper objects. like wallets were bracelets. she also often works at night to sell her products in a concert hall for the future. she dreams of selling more and more bags to create

more jobs for women. and in the longer term jobs to relaunch her idea of ecological shopping bag. building up a small business can be a real challenge, especially when you're trying to be sustainable as possible green solutions that often still also find out. she'll reach for many, but it doesn't have to be that way. let's go to start like a know where i'm in the african lead project is helping small scale families make the leap to clean energy. it's a desperate scene. the water tank is bone, dry. the ground water pump is broken and the diesel canisters are empty. all abandoned by a senegalese pharma, overwhelmed by the effects of climate change and rising fuel costs. it's a growing problem here. is it going to they are farmers who use 1200 meters of diesel to irrigate

a single heck to of agricultural that. sometimes we are in the i s region in north west in senegal region stretching 180 kilometers between the capital the call and the city of san luis. it is the country's vegetable growing hub, but it's raining, less and less here. and the ground water levels are dropping. so young cool button d'ye it is currently cultivating potatoes and onions. honest, we used picked up thought, but he's also managed to cultivate overseen and other vegetables on this land to. until recently this antiquated to the diesel generator was a small hole does the only means of pumped the ground water onto his fields. now he has 9 solar panels to this clean energy is helping him to save money and keep his business afloat. the

sullivan before getting the solar power. and i was facing enormous difficulties because my diesel permit, i'm because older and more than 60 does of diesel offering broke down may have. but with this installation of the solar panels, my consumption has dropped quite 20 meters total supply current. every gauge might hire farm using solar energy, but i can switch off the diesel generate at noon and just use the solar power for the rest of the day. loses young coal button d i boat, the solar panels with the help of a small load equivalent to 6000 bureaus. thanks to support from a state bank. the only has to be pay off of the loan. the loan was broken by an association in t is in the south of the region that represents more than 20000 vegetable farmers. my, my do d, i a has managed to secure a micro credit for solar panels for about 300 of these members by a sending a least financial institution. the long term goal is to d,

called an ice bombing in the region and save livelihoods in the face of the time in crisis seen with the local. but it's a problem is we don't model nice all ways of working and take into account of wiggling water resources. that's why we have to introduce solar panels. so that far must save money, conserve water supplies, but it adds save jobs, drop. got the no, no, no lives on property would allow zone spilled diesel contaminates the soil and kind of get into the ground water like other farmers, young coal button b, i is use yes. think about the benefits of switching to clean energy for mazda and get a new home what, what, what am i doing to boost the hospital like we have had and cause about the harmful effects of using diesel? it's not just a smoke, the fuel can also pollute to the ground and the harvest. but the pharmacy was to lose diesel. don't have any other choice anymore because anything, any more. i'm on my time on the think the bus goes on. i have

a new many personally, i wonder if i missed any more diesel on my feel for either if i had 5 solar kids or whether or not they they, they, they thought it all. but the small whole the content for to do that. that's i'd say according to agronomist i'm, i'm gonna do so from the senegalese and g o. enough food willed. so says the micro finance system favors big farm is the slow season going associated. it will lead to event. that is, interest rates are often a problem that, that they often too high. and that means that the producers frequently don't have the flexibility to commit just such an investment for you to be able to see some of that when you, what it is on. the what we are seeing is that people with both capital than the small whole, the other ones profiting from this kind of investment piece on keep of your, uh, but a positive that is more affordable solar facilities like young hol, button d,

i is good health regions farmers survived the new yeah, yes, region is also crucial for food security. this for the child coastal strip produces more than 60 percent of the tenant goals, vegetable. rapid climate change caused by human behavior have been effect all over the world on extra politics. those to a place that's having to deal with too much water rather than to lead to venice in italy, is facing rising sea levels. while on the same time, its foundations, us thinking the was from a city has already installed high tech, flog, gets bought the a wondering easy enough. the venice has fascinated the world for over 1600 years. and for just as long people have been scared of floods or worried that the city could sink into the sea. this is the latest attempt to

protect venice. 78 metal barriers that can be raised to separate the sea from the laguna. the system is called mos at signalfx triple symbol, if we hadn't had mos in venice, would have been irreparably destroyed. on november 22nd of 2022. it was the 2nd highest flood in history, but nothing happened. we were able to protect the lagoon and venice of del, provide to luna infinity, so it's elizabeth to spits has already given the order to raise the barriers over 50 times that much to compare, search, see, and she's having to do with increasingly frequently. so the jeanette authority on the most that we now know that the most it is a flexible instrument that does not always have to be opened and nor at the same time sec danville. so today we know much more about black than wind. so we're in a position to act again for flooding that out within 50 has the most

a system only partially to guarantee the exchange of water between the sea and then a good, very easy to go for somebody that does that mean venice can be saved climate experts predict that the sea level could rise by 60 centimeters by the end of the century. the oceanographer gate arc when the keys and says that most it is just buying time for the most house and he's most enough to say fence game, a man. yes, at the moment seen so definitely in the next 1020 or 30 years. but if the sea level rises by 50 centimeters, it will have to be used 300 to 400 times. that's once a day 1st. i mean, it won't manage shop, then it moves, it won't be able to cool as a structure, but nor will the lagoon manage it because it meets the exchange of water. uh, did i won't it, but often host gosh marco sequel vinny from the venice institute of marine sciences is researching the lagoons eco system. he says the frequency with which most

a is being used has not yet had any major consequences. but this could change if the lagoon is separated from the sea more frequently and for longer periods of time, the remainder of the time. okay, so i'm going to sort of see it could be that at some point, we'll have to decide whether it makes sense to maintain that laguna is a salt water lagoon or not the room for see the long closures interrupt the cycle between the seat and the lagoon, which is fundamental for venice, and we're also open to them. you know that it's what creates the lagoon floors open, which determines what plants and animals can lives there. i think it, we're going to face talk decisions because they could understand the future whether to save the lagoon or the city the nations would ideally keep both the sun marco is the lowest point of venice and the 1st applied the work is currently under way to raise the square

the get on my buddy now were raised to a $110.00 centimeters in the square would no longer be under water. because it would manage up to a $110.00 centimeters with like flooding. and that over a $110.00 centimeters come and what was the system would close? so in other words, there would be no more flooding on the son marco he says that venice, as we know it cannot last forever in any case. at some point the lagoon will have to be separated from the sea and the venetians will be forced to decide what kind of a body both cannot be rescued. we have to decide what to save some venice document . there is only one bed and it keeps my i'm in a difficult decision. one venetians hope they will never have to make the pad to deal with what apple problems may lie ahead. con,

really help quotes in girl is around the globe. are trying to understand how to adopt to the effects of climate change as you about to see some farmers and kind of guessing some innovative on striking count. it's not your average teaching age virtual reality technology takes a bit of getting used to but with the help of these headsets kinda runing caught in foam, is a learning have to adopt most sustainable practices, boosting their hobbies and their incomes. fit to do for much jump in this type of training, plunges farmers into a world where they can practice their methods and practicing helps them understand the challenges better. go and adapt accordingly. let me hello watching hello, who key learned how to from cotton, from his parents. but now he's willing to try out new approaches. i'm getting new skills. the high tech headset transports into a field for and

a must of learning experience. he can see the crops close up from his desk along with any info stations, and dangerous pass. the training also shows in some creatures a beneficial, such as spiders that feed on the catholic painters that can destroy his cotton chrome. if i'm in the video compared to like the way right there in the video, we can see exactly what's happening for us. it's been a great help to us who has been a great help to me. so i'm, i work with a company, not real well in northern cal, marine is the centers the countries cotton industry is the main cash crop growing in the region. and one 3rd of arable land 2 is used to cotton production. many families depend on it for their livelihoods. of 10 minutes specialists, including hollywood, g hello, keys, wireless for children or school. his wife and 2 of his neighbors are going to help

him with the harvest. hokey is planning to put what he learned on the course about pest control and sustainability into practice next year. when it's time to associates again, the units hit by at least to buy one used toxic chemicals because they caused a lot of problems. muskets i did as a buckle, is that these are products, kill all insight and say, but if i have some a useful okay. it, let's use that to see that goes back to our animals and that bad for the air we breathe that. okay, no, so long as you did, i wouldn't use toxic fertilizes either yet i'll use organic fertilizer, an estate team in north of the farm. i learned how to make what comic pesticides spray on the virtual reality course by mixing name. see proud of with water olive oil and a little washing up liquid. it's not on the back of the environment, the chemical pesticides. it's also a lot cheaper. the training sessions are organized by the international cotton

advisory committee and finance by the gym and development agency. the g i is that it must have learning in a virtual environment that replicates real world situations is also cost efficient . it reduces the sort of expenses associated with stem to training methods, such as traveling fuel. northern cameron and these, these are the, the rain full of the rest of the country. and climate change is exacerbating the irregular rains and drought. the guy you up? i look for the sign. it was what it isn't rain, nothing rose, come on. that's a problem. also it is up. we'll see it even if the truck start to grow without rain and they wouldn't let them properly yet. but that's another one. of our challenges will see the farm is learn how to best top is to cotton, to preserve its quality, and avoid dust contamination. hokey is also started using coal sacks rather than plastic,

not least because that means less waste. 250 farmers have already taken part in the virtual reality cools. a 90 instructors have been trained up to pass on the new skills is climate change. conference. com is with new challenges. hello g. hello, key in his family. a keen to keep up with the times whether it is high tech or low take, or a mix of the to the best solutions walk best. when the impala the people they are supposed to help. i am sandra co forms, the 3 nobody signing go from complex. right here in uganda. thank you, sandra and i am christa lansing lagos. nigeria, thanks for joining us and do checkouts echo off or go online for more great stories and ideas. see you again. next week the

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