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00:16resources it could use again and that waste is choking landfills and warming our planet
00:21but here in the uae and also in uzbekistan that story is starting to change waste is
00:27being turned into power and rubbish into a resource this is what the future of consumption
00:32can look like if we choose it it all begins on the sorting line we are looking at the primary
00:39sorting line at bs waste management complex in charge high volume commingled and commercial
00:45waste is processed continuously using automated screens magnets eddy currents ballistic separators
00:50and optida sorters increasingly the sorting is done not by hand but by machine ai vision and
00:59optical sorters detect material at the polymer level in milliseconds while robotics pick at
01:05speeds human sorting cannot match this allows us to recover lightweight and complex items
01:10that are previously lost to landfills pushing bail purity above 95 percent this is what the future
01:16of the circular economy looks like in practice charger now diverts a vast majority of its household waste
01:23away from landfill over 1.5 million kilograms of waste moves through this facility every single day
01:34almost nothing is wasted what comes off these lines is given a second life we recover high demand
01:40industrial feedstocks plastics pete pp ldp as well as hdpe are converted into pallets and flakes for new
01:49packaging and consumer goods metals on the other hand are melted down into structural steel and new beverage
01:55cans non-recyclables are sent to waste to energy where we produce electricity for up to 28 000 homes per
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02:03and whatever cannot be recycled is not buried some of it is burned to make power
02:10i'm here in the control room of the sharja waste to energy plant which was the first of its kind
02:15in the region it turns everyday household items into electricity powering thousands of homes
02:22the plant's engineers explain why a modern city can no longer rely on landfill waste to energy converts
02:30non-recyclable waste into valuable energy reducing landfill dependency while recovering value from residual
02:37waste and it matters they say far beyond this plant it matters because sustainable cities cannot rely
02:45for those who built it there is a real pride in what it represents i'm extremely proud this is the
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03:00of infrastructure that delivers lasting environmental economical and societal value for future generations
03:09every circular economy begins with ambition in uzbekistan that ambition is being put into action
03:14a nation moving to transform how it matches waste on a scale few countries would attempt
03:29uzbekistan generates roughly 15 million tons of household waste a year government figures suggest
03:36only around five to six percent is recycled or processed by specialist companies most waste
03:42therefore remains outside the recycling system the country's response combines landfill reform recycling
03:49and waste to energy these approaches address different parts of the waste stream and they do not
03:54all play the same role in a circular economy the first challenge is the most basic collecting waste safely
04:01and controlling what reaches landfill 50 years of waste went into the ground just over there this facility
04:09they replaced it last year 24 hectares compacted waste and proper containment up to 2500 tons of waste arrive
04:18every single day from across the capital but the most interesting part is what happens next
04:25organic material buried without oxygen produces methane a powerful greenhouse gas it can escape from landfill
04:33or be captured or be captured and used as fuel or be captured and used as fuel
04:37cely star will probably go on which in basho i was kind of opinion
04:41gas and it on a chance what not кстати no stone polygone it was a jet project
04:45public check it will go as a minute on a e-prison of electric energy
04:50gas capture can reduce emissions and generate electricity but sealing a landfill does not answer
04:56risk massane and polluted liquid known as leachate can persist for years and require long-term monitoring
05:06it's a lot of effort to improve landfill management
05:25alongside efforts to improve landfill management uzbarkistan is expanding waste to energy incineration
05:31government is rolling out a nationwide network of waste to energy plants with six currently under
05:37construction and additional projects planned the site will be processing 1500 tons of samarkand waste
05:46every single day and sending the electricity straight to the national grid
05:50that is the government's case in the waste hierarchy however burning waste for energy is classed as recovery
06:15not recycling it can reduce landfill volumes and generate power but it also produces emissions and ash
06:22as the environmental performance will depend on what is burned the pollution controls used
06:26and how the residues are managed beyond the large projects private operators have also entered waste collection
06:33in 2021 years the president gave the rest of their premiums to create this business to be a
06:41store for the Payment Reply that was not the proper application
06:43At household level sorting remains a major obstacle in 2024 zero waste distributed 10 thousand bags for
06:51residents to separate recyclable waste only around one percent were returned sorted it's not a national measure but it
06:59ilustra a dificuldade de mudar de comportamento de casas.
07:04A descerção de casas é irreversível.
07:07Nós devemos pedir a todos os populares de Uzbekistan que eles precisam descerção de casas.
07:14Nós devemos trazer os escolas e os professores de crianças para os universitários, para que isso seja respeito.
07:21Os projetos estão mudando, mas a economia circular depende mais do que a nova infraestrutura.
07:27Whether a household ordem can keep pace remains an open question.
07:33From the UAE to Uzbekistan, this proves that closing the loop on waste isn't just possible,
07:39it's already happening, whenever people choose to act.
07:42That's all for this episode of Earth Now.
07:45Join us next time as we uncover more about the work underway across the planet to safeguard it.
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