really this is the future we want
for our children and the recent photo or
I really am going to ask is the
future that we want for ourselves
all the plastic that we do not recycle
there is no cinema we were that finally
we do not bury what we can find
easily on our beaches and this
passes for a reason or 80 million
tons of plastic we are sending
annually to our marx to our
oceans
this is what we are doing
same
now they will go 80 million tons of
reserves before plastic because if it is or
be here in this picture you can see 150
plastic kilos only only 150
kilos of plastic making a
proportion
I want to tell you that this is more or
minus the weight of two people the
population of india which is the second
most populated country in the world weighs
approximately 80 million tons
imagine each year all the
population of india entering the sea to
stay there for they already said it
for a few hundred years
us those 80 million tons
we see as 80 million opportunities
opportunities to start changing
other problems social problems in
this case we want suddenly started to
impact a bit on poverty and
extreme poverty
one in seven million people
in the world and in this way we are
speaking 40% of the population
Africa Latin America and Asia
and if we focus only on
Latin America spoke of 77 million
people
and they build like this they live like this and
they build like this little by little
they save what little they can buy
materials store it there outside of
their houses
the material about humidity and when
after several months or even years
in some cases they have enough
to build already the material is
wet is disease focus and they start
to also have respiratory problems
but it is reality and this is the
reality of our cities
Latin American women this is the reality of
the lack of planning in the
growth of the cities this
reality the reality of migration
for forced displacements either
by either violence or disaster
natural also have to do
with climate change and this what
we see if we pass we get out of
the city if we go around there
but if we have the opportunity to have
we get off our car hit
the door and enter
this what we’re going to see where with only
give a blow to a wall we can
knock it down and this is what
we really have to change and
we have to change because the
construction finally is little very
little innovative is still a business
as it has always been
consume 40 percent of the energy
Electric consume 20% of the water
drinkable and generate 33 percent of
Co2 emissions globally without
mention also that your resources are
natural then does not have any
problem in ending the mountains
to get them and we remember again
again the plastic and to say good
suddenly here is some opportunity
we started to investigate also we
realized that 75% of the plastic
single use
that is a water bottle a bag
plastic a plastic cup a
plastic cutlery are already products
that remain in our hands only
a few minutes and only a few minutes are not
more than 15 minutes and then finally
remains on the planet for hundreds
of years during several of our
generations
is the amount of non-organic waste
and we rotate daily
this is the amount of waste that are
plastic this space that we use and this
It is the classic that we are recycling
now this is what there are numerous
be this what we know that goes in
generation that is going to recycling or going
to landfill but finally this what
is being lost in the environment
also and this is what is not in
hands or we do not realize that
finally the street turns out and then
goes to the sea as they saw it and
this happens because we are
living and from a line model in a
linear model is living in extracting
in manufacture in use and then in
discard as if this were infinite and
it is not and that is what we must change
we should change a bit towards a model
of circular economy
we say that it is time to give
a second chance at the plastic and
turn it into something that you really have
an impact
I think we are the only generation that
we have seen climate change as a
problem and for that reason we have to be
the last generation that sees the change
climatic a problem is a problem
that we have to solve in this
generation what we do is simple
we take plastic of all kinds
I will not bore you with terms of
plastic but there are products that
combine various types of plastic or
multilayer packaging good all this what
we can use even together with others
plastics that absolutely nobody
wants like those from the waste
electronic and finally what
we want is to offer change solutions
offer innovative solutions offers
sustainable solutions
what we wanted to do those upside
climb and is to start a bit to do it
but with impact with social impact
so
we simply manufacture some products
that are part of a system
constructive alternative we empower
the community so that they know themselves
and learn how to put it together and how
assemble it
emilia learned in three or four hours
what he had to do and with the hammer he
it was at the time along with 3 other 13
people and they built thousand 200 meters
square and why they did it because
it really is very simple to assemble
bone works almost like a layman and it
arm a way too easy
that problem of the long duration of
plastic
now we turn it into a quality
for a constructive system then it is
a system that they have not required
maintenance of a system that is going to
have very good properties and are
seismic resistant constructions
waterproof do not spread the flame four
people can build a house
five days
those same four people can
disarm the idea to treat it in three
days are more economical solutions and
they are solutions
obviously they have a low footprint
carbon what we do a little is talk
and make alliances with producers and
plastic processors to be able
finally go to the citizen to teach him
how to recycle that must recycle as it is
do it so then the recycler
You can also increase your income and
in that dynamic
then we in the transformation
to be able to offer affordable solutions
to people who really need them and
they need a solution in a way
more economical and more viable is a
project that plays in 12 of the 17
sustainable development goals
we are fighting poverty and
extreme poverty a direct way
are we say that by avoiding a certain type
of diseases due to non- material
absorb moisture or do not observe any
type of disease focus solution
affordable and a long time are also going to
save energy
the within the dynamics of recycling
we are also giving value to
plastics that do not have it
We are dignifying the work of
recycler we are innovating in a year
you were completely traditional like
the construction while we started
also to reduce those equalities
we are creating communities and cities
sustainable really because we are not
sustainable is what we have to do
in an awareness also of a
environmental awareness that what
we are buying what we are
consuming as we are arranging
later so that we can have a
impact of mitigating climate change
conserve ecosystems and in the best
way to make alliances because the
objectives that we have are very very
ambitious if we could work only
with half the plastic for example
that has my city of bogota
we could save the energy that
consume london for a whole year
we could save the water that consumes
15 thousand people also for a whole
year
or we could capture the co2 that
They capture 70 million trees
excludes one from the other thing we could
do all three things at the time and this
comparing it not only with recycling
of plastic but with what we are
changing a traditional material of
construction and we’re doing it from
this way also teaching
generating a little awareness and
people know that with the classic
you can do other good things with
some impact with some social impact
and what we need to do to precisely
impact
I want to tell you one thing if we can
use only 2% plastic
planet that plastic waste the
planet
we could end the deficit
housing in Latin America in only
ten years be that is the proportion of
plastic that we are using today
and we would stop sending 100 homes
daily to landfill
this is only in my city too
only in bogotá
we send the plastic of 100 homes
daily to the landfill
That is something we must stop because the
same time we have a deficit
housing and it ‘s kind of absurd with that
plastic we can start to change that
reality is we can start to change
lives we can start n
a little more conscience to generate
well-being to change reality is in
health to change reality is
socially of thousands of people and
start fulfilling dreams also a
little euphemia before I dreamed of having a
home and now he has it now he dreams
simply that your daughter can
visit in December for example we
says I used to clean glass in the
semaphores and now I am a teacher of
hour after being a while with
we build a house is
a difficult task that we can not do
alone is a task with which they
We have been doing some time and we have done some
good things but we need to have a
impact much greater than what we want
doing that also depends on you
we want to invite you to take action
we want to invite you to start
change things because we started
already a while ago and we have called is that
we have changed some ways and we are
ready to change the world but
we want to extend the invitation because
with the help of all of you
they are the ones who are going to be able to change
the world
many thanks
[Applause]
and
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