Air pollution kills millions each year, especially in the world’s megacities. But we found some surprising news: In many places, it’s actually getting better! Here’s how megacities around the world are already making their air cleaner and safer.
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We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.
Credits:
Author: Kira Schacht
Video Editor: Frederik Willmann
Supervising Editor: Kiyo Dörrer
Fact-check: Kirsten Funck
With thanks for interviews (included and not):
Rafay Alam:
/ rafay_alam
Zoe Chafe: https://www.c40.org/our-team/zoe-chafe/
Sophie Gumy, Technical Officer at WHO's Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health
Frank Hammes, IQAir: https://www.iqair.com/
Bhavreen Kandhari:
/ bhavreen-kandhari-8028...
Abid Omar:
/ abidomar
Read more:
WHO Ambient (outdoor) air pollution:
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sh...
C40 – Air quality:
https://www.c40.org/what-we-do/scalin...
Pakistan Air Quality Initiative:
/ pakairquality
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:46 The problem
01:31 Our analysis
02:00 The causes
02:36 Transport
04:04 Industry
04:45 Waste
05:39 Energy
07:12 What now
09:46 Outro
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“Bee extinction: Why we're saving the wrong bees” from DW Planet A
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Every year, nearly 100 billion items of clothing are produced – and 65% of them end up in a landfill within 12 months. New technologies in textile recycling may be able to curb that waste – while producing a host of sustainable materials.
#planeta #recycling #fastfashion #circulareconomy #textileindustry
We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.
Follow Planet A on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dw_planeta?la...
Credits:
Report: Dave Braneck
Video Editor: Frederik Willmann
Supervising Editor: Michael Trobridge
Fact Check: Alexander Paquet
Thumbnail: Ém Chabridon
Read More:
McKinsey - Scaling Textile Recycling in Europe
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/r...
NY Times - Will We Ever Be Able to Recycle Our Clothes Like an Aluminum Can?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/st...
EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles https://environment.ec.europa.eu/stra...
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:46 Textile waste's global impact
02:47 How do you actually recycle clothes?
03:50 New approaches to textile recycling
07:41 What else needs solving?
11:41 Can we even recycle all the clothes we make?
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Drawing collab with the amazing artist TDS_whovirak of TenRose (impossible planet and Satan pit) They do amazing Doctor who fanarts , and they draw Ten amazing check them out on Twitter HERE
@TDS_whovirak (on twitter)
https://twitter.com/TDS_whovirak
(Rose was drawn by me and Ten was by @TDS_whovirak and then we did our own version of the coloring! )
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