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hello lovely people happy Monday I hope
you had an awesome weekend today is the
holiest day of the year in Judaism yam
Kapur the day of atonement it began
Sundown Sunday and It Ends Tonight which
is why many schools are closed today for
those of you who observe yam kapore we
hope you had a meaningful fast all right
summer has ended officially here in the
United States but in Australia it's
early spring and it's unseasonably warm
Australia's Bureau of meteorology
announced the arrival of El Nino a
natural weather pattern that tends to
bring hot and dry conditions to the
country experts worry that the
combination of El Nino and the
underlying Global heating spells a
summer of extreme heat and fire
Australia suffered its worst fires in
2019 and 2020 burning millions of Acres
including homes and natural habitats the
Fire season down under usually starts in
October and ends around March it's a
dangerous sometimes deadly time for
people and Wildlife already this year
bush fires have hit parts of the country
and firefighters are working hard to
keep up with the help of volunteer Crews
there are tens of thousands of volunteer
firefighters across Australia especially
in rural areas we're about to join two
of them now when I tell people I'm a
firefighter I actually get a lot of
mixed
reactions oh you do all that for
free what makes you do that it really
does spark a lot of curiosity in
people Australia battles some of the
largest and hottest wildfires on the
planet the Fire season in Australia
typically runs from October until the
end of March when temperatures are at
their highest most of the fire fighting
is conducted by the rural fire service a
volunteer Force separate to State
Emergency Services the New South Wales
rural fire service has more than 70,000
members we were founded in 1939 by local
farmers and local residents that needed
a firefighting service in the area and
it was a bunch of guys with old trucks
or
trailers now we're sitting here in a
Million Dollar Plus facility with these
trucks that are basically a
multi-tool we do flood work in this we
do fires car accidents house
fires we're coming into a family of a
long line of firefighters I believe
there is that little bit of pressure I
can remember when I first told my
father-in-law that I had joined the
first thing he said to me was as long as
you can operate a pump you'll be fine as
a volunteer service recruits come from
all walks of life and require intense
training before being deployed it's a
huge amount of effort a lot of hours
going into training a new recruit not
for bragging RS as because they've got
to go out on the truck with you you need
to be able to work with everybody from
different backgrounds you know people
that work in corporate people that work
in construction you'd name it we've
probably got it what do R come from Pon
One blue the common thing is this desire
to help people so you've got to be
willing to give your time to someone
else for a thank
you in 2019 and 2020 what became known
as the black summer fires burned 10.3
million hectares of land across the
country we were tasked to go and do
property protection but the house is in
a spot that was very difficult to defend
one Road in one road out but then you
walk around this house you look in the
back window and it is a carbon copy of
my kids's bedroom there's Lego all over
the floor there's posters on the wall
this family have literally bundled
everything they can into the car and
they've left they don't know that
there's someone there to look after
their house but you staying there and
maybe you know putting in that extra
time and that extra work is going to be
the reason they have a house to come
back to the deadly fires claimed 33
lives including nine firefighters more
than 3,000 homes were destroyed the
house Andrew and his crew protected was
one of 14,000 saved in New South Wales
10 second trivia which industry is
behind at least 232 million tons of
emissions that warm our planet every
year oil and gas Transportation plastic
or
tourism the plastic industry is your
answer here and it's responsible for the
same amount of Emissions on average as
50 million cars according to the
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EPA all right if you clicked into CNN 10
last week you'll remember it was a big
week for the United Nations the general
assembly held its annual Summit in New
York and while they were in the city
world leaders also gathered for a
one-day conference about the climate
crisis the climate ambition Summit so
altering temperatures spawning disease
and thousands fleeing in fear as
historic fires ra this is UN Secretary
General Antonio gutterz he kicked off
the conference with a special sobering
speech gutterz called on developed
countries to reach net zero emissions by
2040 what that means is removing at
least the same amount of Planet Waring
pollution from the atmosphere as those
countries produce he also asked
countries to commit to timelines to
phase out fossil fuel emissions
significantly increase financial help so
that low and middle income countries can
move to clean energy and invest in
climate resilience measures to better
cope with increasingly severe extreme
weather events but you don't need to be
a world leader in New York to help our
planet some solutions start right at
home reduce reuse recycle recycling is
important reduce re use recycle these
three green habits have been part of our
daily lives since the 1970s recycle we
the power is your but it seems like many
of us are still confused by one of these
elements a report from one NGO says more
than half of household recyclables end
up in the
trash think you know the rules pretty
well what about this piece of
cardboard nope
this finished Jam
Jar wrong
again this greasy pizza
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box yes and no this one's tricky some
local authorities accept this for
recycling but others don't because they
count grease as food
contamination so it's not as simple as
you might think all these items are made
from materials that can be recycled but
there's a few golden rules to Remember
If an item has food residue on on it
then it can't go into the recycling
rinse it first it's the same for mixed
materials like sticky tape on cardboard
you should remove it before you
recycle when something's thrown into
recycling that shouldn't be there it can
contaminate the entire
system this recycling plant in East
London sorts more than 400 tons of waste
a day contamination is where in the mix
recycling there are things that should
just not be in there like food waste for
instance uh electrical equipment food
waste will just contaminate the other
materials in the recycling the paper and
the cardboard and make it useless but
the other items they can obviously just
cause blockages within the complex
Machinery luckily there's a couple of
Handy tips to help you make the right
decisions the first is the scrunch test
for things like packets are wrapping
paper which are often mixed with other
materials if you crush it in your hand
and it stays scrunched it's probably
recyclable if it starts to open it
probably needs to go in the
trash if you can tip the item upside
down maybe even over your head and
nothing comes out you're good if not
rinse it
again with so many symbols rules and
regulations that not only differ country
to country but region to region it's not
surprising that we often get confused
there's a lot of confusion about
recycling because our industry is
constantly
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changing marathons are tough running
26.2 miles takes a lot of training heart
and determination Courtney Rich from
Salt Lake City Utah was nearing the end
of the race but her legs started giving
out she started crying because she
worried that she was going to disappoint
her kids she said well she was totally
re-energized when her 10-year-old
daughter Avery jumped in to help her
finish the race in my head I was
thinking I love my mom and I'm doing
this for my mom and she needs it so I
have to do this as soon as I caught
Avery's hand in that moment like any
pain that I had in my legs it felt like
it
disappeared my goodness poet and
playwright Johan vuan vanut once said
magic is believing in yourself and if
you can make that happen you make
anything happen well sometimes we just
need someone else to believe in us too
and you know what I believe in all of
you today's shout out goes to the
Bearcats Mr bingham's class at Berling
game Junior High in Berling game Kansas
rise up I'm COI wire and we are CNN
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