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- Hi, I'm Carl Azuz.
A warm welcome to our viewers around the world
and thank you for taking 10 minutes
to check out today's show.
We're headed back to the US state
of California for our first story this Tuesday.
A leak in an oil pipeline has shutdown beaches,
threatened wildlife, and triggered
a large cleanup effort.
The problem was first reported last Saturday.
Officials think it occurred about five miles off the coast
of Southern California.
The CEO of the company that owns the pipeline
says, employees were working at sea when they
noticed a sheen in the water.
He says, they contacted the Coast Guard
and cleared out oil at both ends of the pipeline
to try to keep additional crude from leaking.
But while officials say, it looks like the leak has
stopped, it still caused 126,000 gallons of oil
to spill into the sea.
It's not the largest oil leak in US history.
The Deepwater Horizon Spill of 2010
released an estimated 168 million gallons of oil
into the Gulf of Mexico.
But you can still see the evidence
of last weekend's leak.
Huntington Beach, Laguna Beach, Newport Beach
- these are all located in Southern California near Los
Angeles - they buy their issued warnings about the spill
or shutdown altogether.
Local officials say, natural habitats in the area,
Wetlands have been damaged and dead animals
have washed up on shore.
US government agencies are investigating the spill
and helping with the cleanup, but what's still a mystery
is how exactly this happened and where exactly the breach
of the pipeline occurred?
The faulty pipe is 17 miles long,
it belongs to a company called Amplify Energy.
And it says the systems that operate the pipeline were built
in the 1970s and 80s, and are inspected every other year,
including during the pandemic.
So while investigators are working to figure that out,
the Coast Guard has been working to remove thousands of gallons
of oil from the Pacific.
NATASHA CHEN: More than 1,200 gallons of oily water mixture
have been recovered as of Sunday afternoon,
and 3,700 feet of boom have been deployed.
But 1,200 gallons is nowhere near the potential total spill
amount of 126,000 gallons.
We've watched as boats have dragged
a boom up and down the coast trying to collect that oil.
The recovery and cleanup will take quite some time.
So far, one oiled ready duck is under veterinary care,
and other reports of animals washing up with oil on them
are being investigated.
People here at Huntington Beach have found tire balls
on the bottoms of their feet and on their skin which Orange
County Public health officials warn
could cause skin irritation.
Health officials said Sunday they would
issue an advisory especially for people
with respiratory illnesses.
That products evaporated from this spill
could also cause irritation for the eyes,
nose, and throat, could cause dizziness, or even vomiting.
The bottom line is people should stay away from the water
and away from the shoreline.
KATRINA FOLEY: I was there for a few hours today
and even during that time, I started
to feel a little bit of my throat hurt
and you can feel the vapor in the air.
I saw what I'll describe as little pancake clusters of oil
along the shoreline, and I've described it
as something like an egg yolk.
If you push it, it spreads out.
And so we don't want people to disturb
those little clusters so that the cleanup
can be more easily maintained.
NATASHA CHEN: The parent company responsible here
is Amplify Energy.
Their CEO said Sunday they would do everything in their power
to make this a quick recovery.
The spill was about 4 and 1/2 miles
offshore from a pipeline that connects from a processing
platform to the shore.
Divers were in place Sunday evening
at the potential source site to investigate
how this leak happened.
And the National Transportation Safety Board
has also sent out investigators to help figure out
how this occurred.
CARL AZUZ: There's a subtle difference between the type
of oil leaked off the California coast and the kind
we've seen in other spills like the BP or Deepwater
Horizon Disaster in 2010.
This time around, instead of raw crude, what leaked
is something called post-production oil.
CNN's Tom Sater explains how this could
impact the cleanup effort.
TOM SATER: Let's show you where this complex is.
Notice these boxes offshore here,
this is called the Bader field.
It's actually property that is owned by the US
Department of the interior.
This property is leased by these oil companies.
Now, we're getting it closer and you're
going to see we have several of these oil rigs
they all begin with the letter E their names -
got Edith and Ellie here - this is the concern.
The red lines that move toward the shore or pipelines.
This is as mentioned as post-production oil,
it's not raw crude like we had with the BP oil spill.
So the consistency is going to be a little bit lighter less
dense so it's easily going to disperse on the field
of the ocean waters.
But again, the farther northern line, that's Ellie's line.
We have heard preliminary reports
there was a breach on this pipeline where it is unknown.
We were told that they did put a temporary patch on it
or at least a partial patch yesterday
and they're getting at work on that again today.
But this is 3,000 barrels of oil, that's
126,000, 130,000 gallons.
So again, these pipelines carry it to the shore
where, again, we're just not sure of.
So let's follow the winds that push the sea currents.
Anyone in Southern California will tell you
you've got the onshore flow the offshore flow.
So even though you see that red box here,
this is where that oil sheen is at 5.8 miles in length.
When you have the winds pushing onshore
at a less density with this crude oil,
you can almost expect that field to expand.
CARL AZUZ: 10 second trivia.
After paper products, what accounts for the largest
category of US solid waste?
Food, plastics, your trimmings, or metals.
The US government says food accounts for more than 21%
of solid waste.
Next story is not a total waste but it
is totally about that topic.
The US Environmental Protection Agency
says what we've done with our garbage has changed
dramatically over the decades.
In 1960, for instance, almost all municipal waste
went to landfills, a fraction went to recycling.
Now, much more waste is recycled while food management,
composting, and combustion for energy
are all growing alternatives to landfills.
But that's not always the case for the electronics
we increasingly use and throw away.
What can be done with e-waste?
ANNA STEWART: This is it.
The end of the road for old electronics.
Well, not quite.
LYES YAHIAOUI: So this is an example of few wastes.
All these are the microwaves, laptops, phones,
everything goes from here.
This is the start of the process.
ANNA STEWART: A new lease of life
to unwanted devices, cables, phones, printers
go in all chopped up.
Outcomes all sorts of materials like new ready to be used
in manufacturing once more.
LYES YAHIAOUI: This materials are coming from this phone
and will it be go to make a new phone like this.
ANNA STEWART: Enviro Serve collects
e-waste for more than 10 countries across the Middle
East and Africa.
Once in the Dubai facility, devices needing a quick fix
get repaired.
Anything broken has their batteries
removed gets torn apart and is separated
based on what they're made of.
We each produce an average of seven kilograms
of electronic waste per year.
That's the equivalent to almost four laptops per person
on the planet every year, and is expected to double by 2050.
Getting rid of all this stuff isn't easy.
First, as the health risk of being
exposed to toxic materials.
And if you chuck it in landfill, then all these valuable items
just go to waste.
LYES YAHIAOUI: The e-waste going to the landfill
is not a solution, it's just parked idling for the future.
For when, nobody knows.
ANNA STEWART: Which is why Enviro serve is determined
to provide an alternative.
For now, they are currently operating at only 7% capacity.
But eventually, they hope to process 39,000 tons of e-waste
every year.
LYES YAHIAOUI: We are not at full capacity definitely not,
but we are ready for the future.
So we can do more and more
ANNA STEWART: Around the world, less than 20%
of electronic waste is properly recycled according
to the global e-waste monitor.
KEES BALDE: And currently, only $10 billion US dollars
of raw materials are being recovered from e-waste,
and nearly $50 billion are not recovered at all.
So there is a big opportunity out there.
ANNA STEWART: Electronic waste - an example
of how one man's trash is another man's treasure.
Anna Stewart, CNN.
CARL AZUZ: Kaylee Ricardo Ramos gets 10 out of 10 today.
She's an Alaskan teenage athlete with a 4.0 grade point average.
But it's what she did with an old delivery truck that's
getting her national attention.
Kaylee previously worked in a cafe
and she wanted to save money for college.
So with the help of family and friends,
the high school sophomore converted her grandparents'
unused truck to a mobile coffee shop and voila,
espresso, and college savings.
Let's see, should we wheel out a load of truck puns
or serve up a latte coffee puns?
One would be a chassis easy way to haul out some bedliner one
liners, but the other could brew up
an energizing coffee to puns that we
could milk for all it's worth.
So I think I'll go with--
but we don't want to make you caffeine late.
So want to give a quick shout out
to Mostyn High School in Mostyn, Wisconsin
and wish you a good day.
I'm Carl Azuz for CNN.