@@noaht3087 Why do you watch documentaries? You're mind is fixed, cant learn anything - just pop along to slag others off? Sad little creature, take you petty gripes elsewhere
Polluters are good for the economy. The huge problems they're creating spells golden opportunities for those who venture in with a clean up solution. We need polluters the same way Bacardi, Budweiser, and A.A., treatment centers need alcoholics, lest they perish and away go millions of jobs.
@@insectbite1714 paper or cardboard water bottles like in India we drink frooti which are stored in a hard paper container. there are many options but the plastic industry mafia dominates.
Teach these people how to turn plastic into gas. plastic is made from oul. Now change the plastic back to oil then into gas.All you have to do is cook the plastic in a pressuredize cooker that has a valves and tubes. At least they can use the gas.
It irritates me that they burn their garbage but haven't invested in an energy plant that could turn the burned garbage into electricity while also making a water source. It would also save them on using gas generators.
Hi DW, did you think of where the trash comes from, of course we already know the Brazilian answer, every day of the year at least 1 supertanker ship can be filled with the trash left on Brazilian coastline beaches by 6pm every single day, and 2 supertanker loads if it rains in the afternoon, thank you
@@xpengfangirl7942 no discussion about it, though I don't believe Brazil should be pointed out. China, for instance, seems to have a much worse polution problem.
@@azerko unfortunately, brazil is the king air polluter as well, apart from the king trash in the ocean superspreader, you have no idea, they just don´t care, and stuff their faces on any beach, making it look like a junk yard after they leave the beach, tide comes in and mountains of trash wash out
thank u for helping to cleanup this world i wish we all could do this in other countries like Pakistan where they put it into the oceans and seas 🤔🤔👍 = all plastic can be melted into sewer pipe (all of it)
I was thinking the same thing. Its one thing to give a couple of bucks to "the cause." its another thing to start crunching numbers and know, This is not good...
I mean... that's a bullshit pseudo-intellectual way to put it. A more nuanced way to describe the problem would be to say that we don't have enough regulations on the materials that we produce. No incentives to get companies to be sustainable.
I agree with you. It doesn't take rocket science to know that reusable containers are better for the environment. There is a city in Europe that restricts single use plastic bottles, and they have free water dispensers all over. A simple sustainable option for something we all need.
So your solution is to stop producing plastic? Have you ever tried to imagine the modern world without plastic? Companies are not the villains here - they exist as long as there is demand for their products. And they give jobs to people who otherwise might've ended up unemployed.
@@reinterpret_cast Uhm, not sure who you're arguing with: no one here said that the "solution is to stop producing plastic". But since you started it, let's take a look. Of course plastic has important applications that would be difficult - and unnecessary! - to replace. That said, "the modern world" might do just fine without individual plastic wrappers for bananas, plastic straws, plastic cups, plastic boxes for three slices of cheese or four tomatoes, etc. Our current levels of plastic addition are simply perverse, and only getting worse. As for the companies which, in your world, only exist to provide jobs and goods, well, they do tend to generate two other things: profits (for their owners), and externalities (for everyone else). Now, I have nothing against profits, but externalities (offloading the costs of your economic activity on third parties, or society/the planet at large) are basically theft, with a stinky whiff of environmental terrorism. Of course, said companies would aggressively deny that they're responsible for the negative environmental, health, and economic consequences of all the completely unnecessary plastic crap they push on people, because that's exactly what villains (to use your terminology) do...
So you never purchased a plastic bag, bottle or a drink with a straw in your life? Or are you saying let's buy them first and then dump them at the companies who made them?
These people are Fake people . Just Infront of camera becoming environment activists by the mean of collecting money & fund for their people . For buying house from others country & doing business. Not for the environment work.
Highly doubt showing Hijabi Muslim women cleaning the planet is in the commercial and political interest of BBC and CNN. They would rather show something else.
I have so much respect for this courageous woman. She sees a different way of being in the world. I love in the ozarks in the u.s. and it's natural beauty is stunning but despite it's natural beauty I see plastic trash scattered along the roadsides, it's depressing. In my perfect world it would be illegal to produce anything that cannot be reused or recycled. Our culture is insane🔥🔥🔥
it's good to know that there were still people who cared for the environment especially for the minimization of plastics, so a big salute to the PARLEY TEAM
We need to fund an advertising campaign during the soap operas to explain. Furthermore, we need an incentive. Don't you hear, the fish are eating the plastic waste and dying. If the fish die, they don't produce poo food for the phytoplankton. If the phytoplankton die, WE ALL DIE
I want to go no plastic waste but it’s terribly hard when the world you live in practically shoves plastics on you. Hell, Clerks even seem confused when I tell them I don’t want a bag at checkout.
Policies by the government are underway to stop single use plastics. Yes its very late. But better late then never I guess. Also many Maldivians are against this. Many aren't well informed.
I've a friend who is from the Maldives. He came to study in India. A lot of them do come to India to study. He said the government there is serious about the risk of sea level rise. They can see it happening. In 2009, the government had organized an under water meeting to get the attention of the world on this problem
Ms. Ali is working tirelessly to protect the beautiful Maldives but, her goal is unattainable because the other countries (especially wealthy) who use these plastics are addicted. Also companies that sell sodas and water does not seem interested in the world’s environmental disasters. Money so evil most times.
Been there three times, but will not be going again. The locals are absolutely mis-managing this beautiful place, and the more tourist go there, the bigger the pile of plastic waste. On my last trip, I signed up for a much announced "clean the island day", and the only people showing up to collect litter were tourist. The locals hung around to see the action while dropping cigarette butts by the hundreds in the sand that we just cleaned. Pathetic...
@@fakenamerton2568 We didn't had party system before, there was a political uprising against 30 year dictatorship. 2005 we had political party systems and 2008 Democratic party came to power. These thing happened in a decade. America took 200 plus years for a written constitution or democracy. About Sharia it not just a law, its Muslims way of living. If you're talking about law we practices in Judiciary, Maldives practice English legal system with Sharia admixture. Yes, there are Muslims majority countries like Malaysia and Turkey beautiful infrastructure developments, clean road's and well managed wastage systems.
The other day I was at a home improvement show in my country. There is a Amish group who recycle plastic and turn it into beautiful , reliable, and sustainable patio furniture. If I could give these people any advice, take the plastic and do the same thing. Their main source of plastic came from milk jugs. These beautiful patio furniture pieces are not cheap, yet a great industry. Good luck, it seems like this type of item would be needed in those areas, whether it be for hotels, people's patios, and just to have retailed around the world.
We need to hold these companies and corporations accountable. When individuals are only given the option of plastic, this is what's going to happen. Companies can, and should, do better, and stop gaslighting the consumers. It's not entirely our fault.
Shaahina is a superhero. Her dedication to tackling such an important issue is something we should all emulate. We can't all do what she is doing, but everyone can do something.
I find crazy that with all those bastards multi million corporates running the tourism in there, one person has to do the dirty job. I admire this woman but me I'd collect all those fkn bottles and park them just outside of each hotels. Take back what you spread...
Thank you DW brilliant as always & what a beautiful place they should be protecting it not dumping rubbish on it & the poor animals in the sea it’s such a shame
@dolita windo you only say that things that reduce big corporations money are "conspiracy theories" and climate change is real. You just need to go somewhere with plants that are adapted to specific overall climate. Such as coral.
@dolita windo there is proof of climate change. There is more proof of climate change than there is proof of your existence. So therefore I should report your comment for being a bot or a troll
They should be incorporating electricity generation into the incinerating plant, that would reduce costs for incinerating the rubbish and maybe generate an operating profit from the sale of electricity once the start up costs are repaid.
you just said they poop, pee and throw their trash in the ocean. why the hell are you telling them to recycle when they need to stop pooping, peeing and throwing all their trash in the ocean!!!
Somebody needs to come up with a way to recycle plastic into building material. Imagine a company that harvests plastic from the huge floating garbage island.
they already do plastic is used to make decking and railings in place of 2x4's and 4x4 posts etc and plastic can be turned back into fuel as well it is possible to recycle plastics...this lady is on the right path....just needs more help from us...
@@rorymunroe3771 It sounds like the process and transportation makes it too expensive in a lot of places. The developed world could help. Imagine if they built a factory in the region that could produce a product and create jobs in places to reduces the reliance on tourism revenue.
Hopefully the Maldives can begin to get more of their electricity from solar rather than relying on diesel generators. I went in 2019 and seeing the bleached coral and watching all the dredging to try to fight the rising sea levels was a real wake up call. There are few places where climate change is as obvious as in the Maldives.
Can we dump all these garbages in some active volcano lava to be melt out without pollution: pack them and ship to the destination then airlift and drop down to active volcano lave?
Good thoughts. There are enough people who would extend their boats ships and such, pull the refuse along and choppers pick up and drop. While doing this, what else can be accomplished by these long lines of _____?_____? need words here, help ! :)
Thank you exposing what needs to be improved. I hope that there are volunteers to help clean up the place. Thank you for the hard work the lady did, it seems like hard work. hope the best for everyone in Maldives
Yeah since they're sending their trash to poorer countries, no one sees it out in the open like on that tiny island. And let's not mention big companies like coca cola and their fake recycling campaigns
We're are the worst species in the world, then I see Shaahina, gives me hope. We really have to turn this around, we can't end up like those science fiction movies where we're trying to find another planet to live on.
You guys should make a documentary about the nation wide homophobia, hatred towards every religion except Islam and the Overwhelming rise of terrorism in the Maldives.
And now there is so much fish dying in the Maldives. I saw them dying. It seems like they have seizures, so I think it is the Nipah virus.First there was one species dying and now it spreads to others.
We have to many consumers now, people who would have passed due to the way the world works or used to work to cleaned itself are now having 5 kids and spread throughout Europe and so it goes, sad but true ,
its sad how all of this has ended in an ocean instead of the bin. i wish we could make this world a better place and stop littering for good, but that probably wont happen anytime soon sadly.
Thank you Shaahina, you're doing and amazing job. I hope many will tread in your footsteps, and that there will be easier and better solutions to all waste disposal all over the world. Blessings to you and us all xxx
Highly doubt showing Hijabi Muslim women cleaning the planet is in the commercial and political interest of BBC and CNN. They would rather show something else.
Again, this is a wonderful story of hope. Maybe they can collaborate with the organization from Australia who recycles different kinds of materials turning it into usable materials such as tiles. "Recycling revolutionary shows how you can turn old clothes into kitchen tiles | Australian Story"
There is A LOT that is not making any sense at all. 1. Why fossil fuel for electricity? Why not solar and wind? 2. If majority of your GDP is from tourism then why haven't they prioritised taking care of what the tourists come to see? ie investing in a water desalination plant so there are no plastic bottles anywhere?? 3. World Bank doesn't give gifts why isn't that plant working? The World Bank guy is content to export the problem?? THAT HE IS MEANT TO BE SOLVING?? Was it a Loan or a gift the money for the plant????? Does he really want to fix the problem 🤔 IMO he looks to comfortable 🤔 why leave paradise 🙄 4. What does the Thai company do with the bottles? We have seen ships of waste shipped elsewhere and not being dealt with instead it harms the poor people of another country. I'm sorry DW the whole story wreaks of something fishy 👁😷🤥
they will just increase the height of that seawall periodically. there's no escaping the rising seas for an artificial island only a meter above sea level.
Very thought provoking documentary from the DW team. Very Nice documentary indeed thanks , these are a must for studies all over and fast before the garbage devours everything. When there is a will there are many ways. Thanks to the DW TEAM.
A model of what can be accomplished if we open our minds and hearts to the world we inhabit. Awareness, education, experience first hand, planning and finally action.
That is why I never throw a single supari bag rather I put it in my pockets until I find a dustbin... but the sad thing is there no one who take care of those public dustbins not even WEMCO... even today me and my best friend did talk about this cox we saw WEMCO guys collecting from guesthouses near hulhumale beach area yet they left the public dustbins untouched in that area...
Best quality Documentary channel out there. Well done DW. Keep up the good work
Hi @Ni Gangte, we are glad you like our content, thanks for watching!
The only solution begins when we STOP producing single use plastics and excessive packaging.
Or all we can do is keep picking it up.....
Governments should step in and be strict!
@@honeybunch5765 Last month the Maldivian government announced that single use plastic will be banned from 1st June 2021. 😊
@@ahmednashaath3341 good news, wish the rest of the world will take note but I wish we can do without plastic period.
Until kids keep dropping their water bottles and they shatter because they're glass.
3.6 billion asians refuse to stop
The BBC, CNN, Al-Jazeera should come here and take notes. Again, wonderful documentary, grim prospects.
Al-Jazeera has wonderful documentaries. Bbc used to have. But DW's are just outstanding
They will... as soon as Exxon and BP tell them it's okay.
@@noaht3087 Why do you watch documentaries? You're mind is fixed, cant learn anything - just pop along to slag others off? Sad little creature, take you petty gripes elsewhere
They do and have covered this horror - first saw a series about this on the BBC some 10 years ago, Al J also has covered in some depth
Yeah I think it is safe to say that DW own the international documentary space.
Maldives looks like such a paradise 🏝
Of course, because it comes under India, men and women here are treated equally and we don’t stop girls from getting educated.
@@6507353 : Could you be any more stupid?
Good work by Shaahina Ali, multinational companies Should support parley organisation to keep Maldives Sustainable.
tourism is one of the biggest polluters in the world
Polluters are good for the economy. The huge problems they're creating spells golden opportunities for those who venture in with a clean up solution. We need polluters the same way Bacardi, Budweiser, and A.A., treatment centers need alcoholics, lest they perish and away go millions of jobs.
It's the fault of the plastics and petroleum industry, not the people that don't have choices to avoid plastic.
it seems like it's not the tourists, but the Islanders and overpopulation
not if the people that live there poop, pee and throw their trash in the ocean!! its the people that live there that are the problem
just banned cola and mineral water companies and 80% of the plastic bottle will get reduce
So how do they get water
@@insectbite1714 paper or cardboard water bottles like in India we drink frooti which are stored in a hard paper container. there are many options but the plastic industry mafia dominates.
If I ever get to go to the Maldives, I'd like to volunteer for part of my time there. I wonder if they would allow that?
Ditto! We have to talk to that lady or to our embassy, I guess....
No
Please go and do swimming classes for those kids
Teach these people how to turn plastic into gas. plastic is made from oul. Now change the plastic back to oil then into gas.All you have to do is cook the plastic in a pressuredize cooker that has a valves and tubes. At least they can use the gas.
What a beautiful lady doing Gods work on these beautiful islands...
Microplastic can be removed from beach sand using a section of pipe and an auger.
Thanks that was interesting
good documentary film
It irritates me that they burn their garbage but haven't invested in an energy plant that could turn the burned garbage into electricity while also making a water source. It would also save them on using gas generators.
Make a floating boat or island with bottles ,don’t burn cause of pollution.
Hi DW, did you think of where the trash comes from, of course we already know the Brazilian answer, every day of the year at least 1 supertanker ship can be filled with the trash left on Brazilian coastline beaches by 6pm every single day, and 2 supertanker loads if it rains in the afternoon, thank you
Hi, sorry are tankers leaving trash on Brazilian coast?
@@azerko I will give the simple explanation: Brazilians throw trash on all the beaches, then the water washes it into the oceans :)
@@xpengfangirl7942 no discussion about it, though I don't believe Brazil should be pointed out. China, for instance, seems to have a much worse polution problem.
@@azerko unfortunately, brazil is the king air polluter as well, apart from the king trash in the ocean superspreader, you have no idea, they just don´t care, and stuff their faces on any beach, making it look like a junk yard after they leave the beach, tide comes in and mountains of trash wash out
Everyone speaks English well that's nice
Well we were formerly a british protectrate
@@zemo5218 it was only addu city.
@Love Travel what?
ANY DOCUMENTARY OF SHIP STUCK AT SUEZ CANAL???
11:33 i can´t get my head around that. They live on a isle and can´t swim? That´s the first i would teach my kid.
Recycle. Make fuel from the plastic. Build roads. Joh.
So, were the kids doing free labour by collecting plastic for some multinational company to profit from?
Girls are doing a great job
REMEDY is Plasma Power Burner = converts anything to power using Plasma very simple, convert your problem to an asset.
thank u for helping to cleanup this world i wish we all could do this in other countries like Pakistan where they put it into the oceans and seas 🤔🤔👍 = all plastic can be melted into sewer pipe (all of it)
We're all responsible we stop using plastic we wouldn't have this problem car problem no matter what today or tomorrow
Damn, I am amazed by how much she has to work for the environment That looks so tough. Props to her for all the hard work she does. She is a legend.
I was thinking the same thing. Its one thing to give a couple of bucks to "the cause." its another thing to start crunching numbers and know,
This is not good...
As a species we should know by now that conveniences have consequences.
Easy words but will you give up your ways of life?
I mean... that's a bullshit pseudo-intellectual way to put it. A more nuanced way to describe the problem would be to say that we don't have enough regulations on the materials that we produce. No incentives to get companies to be sustainable.
@@dandiaz19934 Lol.
I agree with you. It doesn't take rocket science to know that reusable containers are better for the environment.
There is a city in Europe that restricts single use plastic bottles, and they have free water dispensers all over.
A simple sustainable option for something we all need.
Send the plastic back to the companies that made them. Drop them off IN front of their building.
Yes I was thinking the same,
So your solution is to stop producing plastic? Have you ever tried to imagine the modern world without plastic?
Companies are not the villains here - they exist as long as there is demand for their products. And they give jobs to people who otherwise might've ended up unemployed.
@@reinterpret_cast Uhm, not sure who you're arguing with: no one here said that the "solution is to stop producing plastic". But since you started it, let's take a look. Of course plastic has important applications that would be difficult - and unnecessary! - to replace. That said, "the modern world" might do just fine without individual plastic wrappers for bananas, plastic straws, plastic cups, plastic boxes for three slices of cheese or four tomatoes, etc. Our current levels of plastic addition are simply perverse, and only getting worse. As for the companies which, in your world, only exist to provide jobs and goods, well, they do tend to generate two other things: profits (for their owners), and externalities (for everyone else). Now, I have nothing against profits, but externalities (offloading the costs of your economic activity on third parties, or society/the planet at large) are basically theft, with a stinky whiff of environmental terrorism. Of course, said companies would aggressively deny that they're responsible for the negative environmental, health, and economic consequences of all the completely unnecessary plastic crap they push on people, because that's exactly what villains (to use your terminology) do...
So you never purchased a plastic bag, bottle or a drink with a straw in your life?
Or are you saying let's buy them first and then dump them at the companies who made them?
I wonder how much that would cost.
Let’s give them a pat on the back especially to this woman, an amazing person indeed!
These people are Fake people . Just Infront of camera becoming environment activists by the mean of collecting money & fund for their people . For buying house from others country & doing business. Not for the environment work.
do you think she walks and doesn't have a big expensive car? Or maybe she cooks everything at home and doesn't go to McDonald's?
yes give them a pat on the back, job well done lol
Highly doubt showing Hijabi Muslim women cleaning the planet is in the commercial and political interest of BBC and CNN. They would rather show something else.
how strange to live on a tiny island but never go into the sea.
Seriously. It looks awesome too. I'd be in that ocean every day.
not just that but to be afraid of it. That sounds terrifying. These girls have such a minuscule radius of life.
It's dangerous in the sea, that's why they don't go in.
@@jinxterx what are the dangers?
@@andrejrockshox sea monsters.
I have so much respect for this courageous woman. She sees a different way of being in the world. I love in the ozarks in the u.s. and it's natural beauty is stunning but despite it's natural beauty I see plastic trash scattered along the roadsides, it's depressing. In my perfect world it would be illegal to produce anything that cannot be reused or recycled. Our culture is insane🔥🔥🔥
What a fascinating woman. I wish her and all her co-workers luck in their work
it's good to know that there were still people who cared for the environment especially for the minimization of plastics, so a big salute to the PARLEY TEAM
We need to fund an advertising campaign during the soap operas to explain. Furthermore, we need an incentive. Don't you hear, the fish are eating the plastic waste and dying. If the fish die, they don't produce poo food for the phytoplankton. If the phytoplankton die, WE ALL DIE
I get really thrilled every time foreigners talk about my country on RUclips. It's a rare feeling i get. "Wow that's MY country!"
HI BOR
They Said Trash Island 😂😂
Maybe instead of getting thrilled help this woman out in cleaning up the garbage in your country.
@@BalboaBaggins yeah, hopefully in the future
@@BalboaBaggins always easier said than done how about you go help too since you think it’s so easy
Greetings from Canada - Happy we can help 👍😊
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I was so happy to hear about that! I love this country!
Don't send your waste to Asia
@@samuelroper3049 Tie your shoe laces.
@@samuelroper3049 88% of USA waste is send overseas !!!
I want to go no plastic waste but it’s terribly hard when the world you live in practically shoves plastics on you.
Hell, Clerks even seem confused when I tell them I don’t want a bag at checkout.
My only problem with my snacks.
Because u can't find any of them with out packages
Right...
First Maldives should stop allowing plastic bottles and plastic related food packaging to avoid pollution in that island.
Policies by the government are underway to stop single use plastics. Yes its very late. But better late then never I guess. Also many Maldivians are against this. Many aren't well informed.
I've a friend who is from the Maldives. He came to study in India. A lot of them do come to India to study. He said the government there is serious about the risk of sea level rise. They can see it happening. In 2009, the government had organized an under water meeting to get the attention of the world on this problem
Ms. Ali is working tirelessly to protect the beautiful Maldives but, her goal is unattainable because the other countries (especially wealthy) who use these plastics are addicted. Also companies that sell sodas and water does not seem interested in the world’s environmental disasters. Money so evil most times.
Been there three times, but will not be going again. The locals are absolutely mis-managing this beautiful place, and the more tourist go there, the bigger the pile of plastic waste. On my last trip, I signed up for a much announced "clean the island day", and the only people showing up to collect litter were tourist. The locals hung around to see the action while dropping cigarette butts by the hundreds in the sand that we just cleaned. Pathetic...
this
that's why I never even want to visit the place
It's because of politics. Maldives is a young democratic country. When things get stable. People will focus on social and environmental issues.
@@sahyl3327 Is any country under Shari’ah law really able to be called this?
@@fakenamerton2568 We didn't had party system before, there was a political uprising against 30 year dictatorship. 2005 we had political party systems and 2008 Democratic party came to power. These thing happened in a decade. America took 200 plus years for a written constitution or democracy. About Sharia it not just a law, its Muslims way of living. If you're talking about law we practices in Judiciary, Maldives practice English legal system with Sharia admixture. Yes, there are Muslims majority countries like Malaysia and Turkey beautiful infrastructure developments, clean road's and well managed wastage systems.
The other day I was at a home improvement show in my country. There is a Amish group who recycle plastic and turn it into beautiful , reliable, and sustainable patio furniture. If I could give these people any advice, take the plastic and do the same thing. Their main source of plastic came from milk jugs.
These beautiful patio furniture pieces are not cheap, yet a great industry. Good luck, it seems like this type of item would be needed in those areas, whether it be for hotels, people's patios, and just to have retailed around the world.
I thought the Yeager brothers will activate the Rumbling to protect paradise.
Unstoppable never ending pollution. :(
Voluntary Human Extinction Movement - VHEMT
We need to hold these companies and corporations accountable. When individuals are only given the option of plastic, this is what's going to happen. Companies can, and should, do better, and stop gaslighting the consumers. It's not entirely our fault.
Geeeees the NGO lady is a walking contradiction😹
A great video, she's amazing hopefully with her drive and passion solutions can be sort.
How is this legal? This is selfish. Ask your neighbors for help!
Shaahina is a superhero. Her dedication to tackling such an important issue is something we should all emulate. We can't all do what she is doing, but everyone can do something.
I find crazy that with all those bastards multi million corporates running the tourism in there, one person has to do the dirty job. I admire this woman but me I'd collect all those fkn bottles and park them just outside of each hotels. Take back what you spread...
The ambitious swamp morally pat because thailand grossly spill to a sophisticated goose. obnoxious, roasted cover
We definently need to study more that plastic eating bacteria...it will help so much if we can efficienctly use it.
Anti plastic activist gets plastic flower. What an irony! LOL
Thank you DW brilliant as always & what a beautiful place they should be protecting it not dumping rubbish on it & the poor animals in the sea it’s such a shame
"The anti- plastic activists receives a warm welcome and bouquets of PLASTIC flowers" just ironic I must say 🤣
@Tagedieb 👏👏
@dolita windo you only say that things that reduce big corporations money are "conspiracy theories" and climate change is real. You just need to go somewhere with plants that are adapted to specific overall climate. Such as coral.
@dolita windo there is proof of climate change. There is more proof of climate change than there is proof of your existence. So therefore I should report your comment for being a bot or a troll
Dude that place is heaven..,👍👍👍👍😩😩😩😍😍😍😍
Heaven with demons yes 😳
We should teach these importance information to our children. Kudos to the ladies 👍
Not throwing plastic in the ocean is a novel idea? Well, better late than never...
Edit: They live on tiny islands and only a few of them can swim?
One of the subject in school is swimming and scooba diving l don't know why they don't know why they don't learned but it's different in other islands
About half the people of Jamaica cannot swim either.
They should be incorporating electricity generation into the incinerating plant, that would reduce costs for incinerating the rubbish and maybe generate an operating profit from the sale of electricity once the start up costs are repaid.
you just said they poop, pee and throw their trash in the ocean. why the hell are you telling them to recycle when they need to stop pooping, peeing and throwing all their trash in the ocean!!!
Outstanding ! Thank you DW✌️💕💫
This is BS!...their plastics are no different than ours!
Somebody needs to come up with a way to recycle plastic into building material. Imagine a company that harvests plastic from the huge floating garbage island.
they already do plastic is used to make decking and railings in place of 2x4's and 4x4 posts etc and plastic can be turned back into fuel as well it is possible to recycle plastics...this lady is on the right path....just needs more help from us...
@@rorymunroe3771
It sounds like the process and transportation makes it too expensive in a lot of places. The developed world could help. Imagine if they built a factory in the region that could produce a product and create jobs in places to reduces the reliance on tourism revenue.
This is so sick. Why not pass a law to prohibit piping sewage and dumping garbage into the sea? It is not too much to ask of the citizens.
Useless, stop blaming people, stop it at the source, stop using plastic for disposable products
Hopefully the Maldives can begin to get more of their electricity from solar rather than relying on diesel generators. I went in 2019 and seeing the bleached coral and watching all the dredging to try to fight the rising sea levels was a real wake up call. There are few places where climate change is as obvious as in the Maldives.
Sad
Thank you Shaahinna for all the generous work you do! Really inspiring, we need more people in the world like her ♡
It should be easy with all the ultra expensive resorts generating a lot of taxes/fees there and the relatively small population size.
Sure! Money and human ingenuity can fix everything, right?
It was one of poorest nation now become middle income they need to improve
As long as all that money doesn't evaporate in corruption... maybe they fixed that in the last couple of years...
"Martin jones will stay on Vaadhoo. Just like garbage" LMAO
Can we dump all these garbages in some active volcano lava to be melt out without pollution: pack them and ship to the destination then airlift and drop down to active volcano lave?
Good thoughts.
There are enough people who would extend their boats ships and such, pull the refuse along and choppers pick up and drop.
While doing this, what else can be accomplished by these long lines of _____?_____? need words here, help ! :)
Thank you exposing what needs to be improved. I hope that there are volunteers to help clean up the place. Thank you for the hard work the lady did, it seems like hard work. hope the best for everyone in Maldives
The sad thing is that people in rich countries does not care about plastic problem. Lot of trashes are not recycled...
Yeah since they're sending their trash to poorer countries, no one sees it out in the open like on that tiny island. And let's not mention big companies like coca cola and their fake recycling campaigns
13:17 - pollution or overfishing worldwide?
Over fishing in the Maldives. Mainly due to Chinese fishing vessels aka their maritime militia. Just like what they did in the Galapagos islands.
We're are the worst species in the world, then I see Shaahina, gives me hope. We really have to turn this around, we can't end up like those science fiction movies where we're trying to find another planet to live on.
Honestly I think Ticks, Fleas and Botflies are the worst with humans in a close 4th place for worst hahaha
@@marcosburgos8415 Lol! Yeah cuz they're annoying TO US. Take us out, and the planet is much better off. Makes ya think, eh? :)
@@marcosburgos8415 the tick population quickly increased due to climate change. Ever notice that?
That's a real superhero. She admitted what she's doing only a drop in the ocean, but I personally thinks it will make much different in the future.
Why do people pronounce it like mall-deevs. Its pronounced like Mol-divs (you have to speed up the pronunciation)
arrogance? We also say eye rannn or eye raqqq😂
*_More like MOLdova?_*
The locals actually use the name Dhivehi Rajje (kingdom of the dhivehi) hence the "Dives" of Mol Dives
@@hazanaimon6458 yeah I know. I am from there
You guys should make a documentary about the nation wide homophobia, hatred towards every religion except Islam and the Overwhelming rise of terrorism in the Maldives.
They are Muslim, an Islamic country, their income is higher than India, Pakistan, Bangladesh combined, respect from Indonesia 🇮🇩🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍
What does that have anything to do with the pollution?
Amazing people makes me so happy to see this in the world GOOD JOB
And now there is so much fish dying in the Maldives. I saw them dying. It seems like they have seizures, so I think it is the Nipah virus.First there was one species dying and now it spreads to others.
Good job Canada 🇨🇦 I need to immigrate.
Where? To this homophobic radical Islamist nation?
The sloppy blow untypically work because lion critically form below a overt octagon. decorous, pricey accordion
Disgusting behavior. No one else to blame.
We have to many consumers now, people who would have passed due to the way the world works or used to work to cleaned itself are now having 5 kids and spread throughout Europe and so it goes, sad but true ,
its sad how all of this has ended in an ocean instead of the bin. i wish we could make this world a better place and stop littering for good, but that probably wont happen anytime soon sadly.
It's a major tourist country and smallest country in Asia too they don't have enough place also was one of poorest country in world before tourism
Plastic must be banned. Use biodegradable one especially for islands use.
Thank you Shaahina, you're doing and amazing job. I hope many will tread in your footsteps, and that there will be easier and better solutions to all waste disposal all over the world. Blessings to you and us all xxx
Highly doubt showing Hijabi Muslim women cleaning the planet is in the commercial and political interest of BBC and CNN. They would rather show something else.
Welcomed with plastic flowers,they have no clue
Silver to the moon
Biodegradable plastic should be a top priority
Another excellent doc from DW.
Adidas x parley great product one of solution recyacled plastic waste
bye bye beautiful earth , plastic everywhere
Again, this is a wonderful story of hope. Maybe they can collaborate with the organization from Australia who recycles different kinds of materials turning it into usable materials such as tiles. "Recycling revolutionary shows how you can turn old clothes into kitchen tiles | Australian Story"
Yuck, how do you dispose of plastic buildings? Blowing them up and making microplastics? Australia lies and their governemnt lies even more.
@@insectbite1714 I just appreciate how they create their own solution to the problem and not just relying on the government.
There is A LOT that is not making any sense at all.
1. Why fossil fuel for electricity? Why not solar and wind?
2. If majority of your GDP is from tourism then why haven't they prioritised taking care of what the tourists come to see? ie investing in a water desalination plant so there are no plastic bottles anywhere??
3. World Bank doesn't give gifts why isn't that plant working? The World Bank guy is content to export the problem?? THAT HE IS MEANT TO BE SOLVING?? Was it a Loan or a gift the money for the plant????? Does he really want to fix the problem 🤔 IMO he looks to comfortable 🤔 why leave paradise 🙄
4. What does the Thai company do with the bottles? We have seen ships of waste shipped elsewhere and not being dealt with instead it harms the poor people of another country.
I'm sorry DW the whole story wreaks of something fishy 👁😷🤥
So the Maldives are not going to be flooded by rising waters anymore?
they will just increase the height of that seawall periodically. there's no escaping the rising seas for an artificial island only a meter above sea level.
What?! Did you think about what you typed 🤨
They all should be able to swim... Dory style!💯🤣🐟 Seriously though, they should not be fearful of the ocean.
I can't understand how someone who stays on an island nation cannot swim.
Very thought provoking documentary from the DW team. Very Nice documentary indeed thanks , these are a must for studies all over and fast before the garbage devours everything.
When there is a will there are many ways.
Thanks to the DW TEAM.
A model of what can be accomplished if we open our minds and hearts to the world we inhabit. Awareness, education, experience first hand, planning and finally action.
That is why I never throw a single supari bag rather I put it in my pockets until I find a dustbin... but the sad thing is there no one who take care of those public dustbins not even WEMCO... even today me and my best friend did talk about this cox we saw WEMCO guys collecting from guesthouses near hulhumale beach area yet they left the public dustbins untouched in that area...