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Good morning, good afternoon, good

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evening, wherever you are in this world.

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I'm Koi Wire. This is CNN 10. I have

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your 10 minutes of news with stories

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from all around the globe today. But on

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this final day of the month, March 31st,

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let's kick it off with this. On this

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day, 137 years ago, the Eiffel Tower was

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officially completed. The iconic

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landmark was built as the centerpiece of

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the 1889 Paris Exposition, a World's

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Fair, marking the centennial anniversary

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of the French Revolution. Construction

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took more than 2 years. The French feat

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of engineering stands more than 1,000 ft

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tall and contains roughly 18,000

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individual pieces of iron weighing about

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7,300 tons. The tower stood as the

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tallest structure in the world for more

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than 40 years before being dethroned by

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the Chrysler building in New York. And

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get this, the tower was supposed to be

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temporary. The original plan was to

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dismantle it after 20 years, much to the

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relief of some Parisian elites who saw

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it as an eyesore. But science saved the

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day. The tower proved itself to be an

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indispensable asset for emerging radio

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transmission technology and it's served

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as a vital antenna ever since. These

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days, Laam Deair or the Iron Lady

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continues standing tall above the city

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of lights, offering unparalleled views

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to nearly 7 million visitors from around

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the world each year.

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>> I think it's really iconic, you know,

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like when you think about Paris, you

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think about that about like the Eiffel

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Tower.

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>> It's just a symbol of Paris.

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It's a symbol. It represents France.

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It's one of the prestigious monuments,

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as you can see with the number of

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tourists around us.

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>> The tower's history is as unique as its

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architecture. Did you know it was

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originally painted red and it was even

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briefly yellow? Or did you know that

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it's taller in the summertime when hot

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temperatures cause the iron to expand?

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Speaking of metal, would you believe a

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notorious con man once sold the tower to

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scrap metal dealers, not once, but

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twice. And get this, the tower even has

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a unique connection to France's most

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famous gift to the United States. The

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Statue of Liberty. The tower's namesake

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designer, Gustaf Eiffel, was also the

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brains behind Liberty's intricate iron

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framework. I fell out of my chair when I

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learned that. From lighting up the

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skyline when it first opened to going

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dark for a global cause, the Eiffel

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Tower is once again taking center stage,

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this time by switching off its lights

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for Earth Hour. In Paris, the landmark

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dimmed its iconic lights, joining cities

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around the world in a symbolic move to

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spotlight environmental challenges.

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Earth Hour began in Sydney back in 2007,

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organized by the World Wildlife Fund.

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What started as a local initiative has

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grown into a global campaign encouraging

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millions of people, businesses, and

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landmarks to turn off non-essential

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lights for one hour each year. This

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year, the movement stretched across

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continents, including Greece's iconic

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Parthonon and the Acropolis, the Sagrada

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Familia in Barcelona. And in Hong Kong,

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nearly 4,000 buildings, including

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skyscrapers along Victoria Harbor,

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switched off for an hour.

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10sec trivia. What is the name of the

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process that heats and airates cocoa and

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sugar to make chocolate? Fermentation,

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coning, tempering, or refining?

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If you said coning, you so smooth. It

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was accidentally invented in 1879 by

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Rodolfph Lint, who discovered that

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mixing chocolate for a long time created

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the melt-in-you texture we expect today.

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Did you hear about the 12 tons of KitKat

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chocolate bars that were stolen? Give me

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a break. Swiss food giant Nestle says

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that they were stolen from a truck

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leaving its production site in Italy.

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We're talking more than 400,000 candy

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bars. The company reported the heist

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happened earlier this week. The vehicle

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and chocolate still nowhere to be found.

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But listen to this. Nestle said all of

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its products can be traced using a

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unique batch code assigned to individual

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bars. So officials say the thieves could

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get caught if they try to resell the

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product. A company spokesperson said,

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quote, "Wilst we appreciate the

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criminals exceptional taste, the fact

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remains that cargo theft is an

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escalating issue for businesses of all

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sizes." Unquote. The good news, the

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brand says there are no concerns for

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consumer safety and supply is not

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affected. Well, now it is time for an

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encouraging update about the stranded

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humpback we told you about last week.

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Rescuers have been helping to free a

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stranded whale off the coast of Germany

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for 11 days now. And as of this taping,

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they're more hopeful he will swim free.

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According to one aquatic wildlife

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expert, the whale, now nicknamed Timmy,

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has been pushed to deeper waters where

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it can hopefully swim to safety.

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>> He is not stranded on the sandbank. He

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is in water deep enough for him to swim

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away from. And so the animal is being

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left in peace for now. And we naturally

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hope that he is simply gathering his

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strength there and will be able to swim

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away on his own and then hopefully

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eventually find his way out of the

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Baltic Sea.

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>> Humpac whales are not native to the

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Baltic Sea and conservationists say the

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human influence often plays a role in

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whale strandings around the world.

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Plastic pollution keeps piling up every

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day. About 2,000 garbage trucks worth of

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plastic ends up in oceans, rivers, and

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lakes around the world, according to the

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UN Environment Program. Now, one company

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in Wales is looking to turn the tide

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with seaweed based packaging to replace

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single-use plastic, showing how

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something from the ocean itself could

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help protect it. CNN's Leroy Aen has the

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story. How do you take this seaweed and

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turn it into this biodegradable

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packaging and tackle the scourge of

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plastics in our oceans?

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I was born in Fiji in the middle of the

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South Pacific where plastics in the

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ocean are a huge issue. And I've always

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asked myself, surely there must be an

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alternative to this. And while

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researching that question, I came across

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this company called Plansy in Wales. So

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I've decided to go check them out.

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My journey begins here on the rugged

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coastline of Wales.

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This is where Plansy is using seaweed to

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create truly biodegradable alternatives

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to single-use plastics. It starts at

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seaweed farms like car eore.

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We'll go out to the farm and harvest the

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seaweed and then bring it straight back

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here and it gets spun around and the

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solid seaweed gets separated from the

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from the liquid. And the liquid is our

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seaweed bio stimulant which is being

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used in agriculture on farms

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>> like fertilizer.

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>> Yeah, light fertilizer. And then the

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solid bit that's left over so our

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byproduct is what plants will use to

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make their plastic products.

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>> Smells quite tasty.

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>> It's lovely. You can eat this.

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>> Plans then brings the seaweed to this

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innovation center for processing.

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>> This is where it all starts. So, the

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seaweed that you've just seen at the

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farm, this kind of gets dried and

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chopped up and flaked. Um, and this is

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where it starts in our process.

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So, today we've processed around 20

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kilos of of seaweed, but this should

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yield in terms of the wet products.

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We'll get about 40 to 50 kilos of a dry

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polymer powder. They'll turn this into

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film. We should have enough film to do

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120,000 of these solid capsules

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>> for plant. Seaweed is a natural fit.

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>> So the seaweed actually lends itself

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very well to material innovation. It has

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very a very rich like chemical structure

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has um it's full of sugars and

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polysaccharides. So it lends itself very

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well to bio materials. Most people don't

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realize that these are made from a

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synthetic polymer which is petroleum

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based. Now while they do dissolve, they

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don't ever really truly disappear. They

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create liquid microplastics. Our film

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and our polymer is a natural polymer and

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it doesn't leave behind any

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microplastics.

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>> Plans is already working with major

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brands proving this can work at scale.

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So seaweed is kind of like a wonder

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material. You can eat it. You can use it

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as fertilizer. And now it appears you

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can use it as an alternative to plastic.

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The question is why aren't we using it

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more?

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Today's story getting a 10 out of 10 is

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stirr uping something special. In the

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middle of South London, between train

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tracks and city streets, a riding school

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is giving kids a chance to connect with

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horses, many of them for the first time.

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At the Ebony Horse Club in a

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neighborhood in Brixton, each week about

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160 kids are the main event, learning to

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ride, groom, and care for horses free of

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charge. Hey, it's all part of a program

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focused on supporting local youth.

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Teachers say it behooves the kids to

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participate because riding helps build

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their confidence and they learn to stay

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present in the moment.

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>> So when I tried it was actually great

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and I had fun.

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>> It's a different kind of classroom where

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these young riders are learning more

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than just how to stay in the saddle. All

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right, superstars. Couple of shout outs

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today. This first one goes to Miss

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Stewart and Miss Sanchez aka Sanchez at

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Fifth Street Elementary in Decar,

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Georgia. They sent us these DIY

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stickers. And I have to tell you, I've

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been putting them on people's backs all

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around the office and I don't think

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they've noticed yet. That's a good

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thing. Thank you for helping us spread

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the love. And a very special shout out

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goes to Mr. Powers at Manaste Middle and

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High School in Manaste, Michigan.

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Retiring after 45 years as an educator.

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Your students want you to know how much

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you mean to them. Think of how many

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former students can say the same. Salute

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to you, sir. Tomorrow is your word

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Wednesday. So submit your unique

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