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How to pronounce riverbank in Dutch?

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i'm from the school's newspaper i'm
trying to ask some questions to him to
for a report in the schools first of all
i'd like your name and occupation please
my name is tingha
let me write it down for you
as the plastic soup surfer i try to make
an effort to raise awareness on the harm
that plastic brings to our seas and
oceans
and i try to make this personal by
combining it with a physical challenge
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this time i'll be stand up paddling down
the entire river rhine on a board made
from plastic litter
and i start at the source
uh we're we're at the overall bus we're
near the highest point
of this expedition tomorrow we'll climb
up to the source that will be the
highest point
at this point we're
2046 meters above sea level
so we'll have to descend in 2000 meters
to get back to the north sea
this water
this snow
when it melts
will go down that valley
and all those small creeks together
they'll form
the rhine probably when we walk up to
the to the source there'll be a lot of
snow and the thomas a the small lake
uh where where it starts the source is
probably frozen over as well so we'll
have uh ice there
well
we'll see at least
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during this expedition i hope to learn
what the sources of plastic waste are i
will collect examples just plastic stuff
i bump into and then afterwards use
those very pieces to hold accountable
those that are actually responsible for
that listen
because plastic soup starts in our own
backyards our own streets and waterways
and by going down this iconic river i
want to show the pathway of that plastic
as it inevitably flows down
to sea
just like i will
we've reached the highest point the
reincar and
yeah just look at that
this is connected to the north sea
through the rhine and we're going all
the way down
along these mountains and then
yeah the river the river gets wider
it's going to be great
yeah looking forward to it
i wanted to go to the source and show
how clear and clean that water starts
and that we do not have to accept that
it gets polluted by
plastic
as it flows down
to the north sea
an important part of my story is that
the board i'm standing on is made from
plastic litter but of course that board
needs to be sturdy and strong enough to
hold out for a month
so i was very fortunate when science
center tu delft offered to help me build
my dream board together with them
i'm no expert in
sub board design so i
teamed up with starboard they sent me
this board to replicate
what we're going to do is make a 3d scan
so we're going to have a 3d model in the
computer
which we can use to make all the ribs
afterwards
so not only are we using all this
plastic glitter in the board every
aspect in that board is thought about so
this for instance is a finn which is
alkalon which is fully recycled nylon we
have fully recycled abs
even recycled resin
every aspect in its construction is
within this recycle mind frame
now that the building of the board is
taken care of i can shift my focus to
something equally important in this
preparation which is learning to stand
up paddle
i feel like this is something i might be
able to do easily or that's the way i
planned this and today
we're going to see if that's actually
true and well i've got one of the best
dutch paddle boarders with me so if she
can't teach me nobody can
board
well when you're battling 28 days
in a row i think physically and mentally
that's quite a challenge
you have to be able to to have a good
mindset and think well i'm gonna finish
and then you're halfway and then
physically you need to do the rest
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i got a little scared when uh yannick
started uh talking about the challenges
i might meet along the way so
i'll have to do a lot of shopping before
i do this so
next coming weeks that's what i'll do
so
if you are separated from your board and
you have to swim to shore a good place
to swim to is the gravel banks here
uh if there is cliffs or big rocks it's
hard to climb out and what you really
want to avoid is swimming into trees
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what an experience
it was
so much harder than i thought
it would be
if when you're a surfer you sort of use
your speed and your balance together to
turn the board we're here
the river is the speed so you don't have
your speed yourself it's sort of like a
rodeo
i was so bold yesterday to think that i
could do this
but yeah but it was a thrill it was a
thrill i fell off multiple times
first time i you know you're in the
river
yeah you see the rocks coming at you you
try to climb up up back on the board as
fast as possible
yeah just just the idea that i thought i
could do this yeah yeah
yeah
yeah
this is the confluence
of the four degrees in the hintergrind
and from here on it's called i think
it's called the alprine
from here on we can't go any further
so there's a dam behind this
uh so we have to pack up
and um drive a little and then we can
get on get on again
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i'm getting a little concerned about the
board that board is very important for
me because it's the way i tell my story
it's a board made from plastic litter
and as the plastic soup surfer i surf on
boards made from plastic soup
and it feels like if i do not have that
board
i could be just any guy paddling down
that river
uh well i think
i think i already sort of
accepted
the possibility
that the board the plastic soup surfer
sub board
will not be ready
when we're at the zero kilometer
zero kilometer sign of the rhine at
constance
yeah there's nothing i can do
from here
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this is
uh konstanz this is where the
where they start counting uh the rhine
so this is the zero kilometer rhine sign
just uh behind the alter reinbreuke
and from there on it's uh
1035 kilometers
to the north sea and today
i have a headwind
the predicted rain
so the first real day of of of paddling
it's going to be a
tough one
uh i'm taking my tent
and
camping gear that's the big bag that's
actually the heaviest
and then my cooking gear which is
another bag
as this one
and then there's my clothes
and
the food i'll be eating
and uh
the wheels i'll be i'll need those to
walk around the locks and there's a big
waterfall the reinfole
i'll need to walk around
a spare paddle
a sort of camelback water
and that's it
i'd hoped to
get on the the actual plastic soup sub
they'll bring it in a day or two but for
now
i'll be uh
using this inflatable starboard sub
to do the first part
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i've just done my first hour
um
what can i say
wow
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what have i gotten myself into that's
what i'm thinking
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oh
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just keep on going
keep on
going first stop after
two hours of paddling
um
yeah i've done about 10 kilometers
so i think i need to do another hour and
then
hopefully
hopefully the
flow of the river will
help me
just take a quarter of an hour rest and
then go on
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these are the rabbits i need to cross
i think i'll just take off the fin
and i just had a look at the route
and
it's more hassle to take everything off
the board and walk around and i
feel i just need to cross this if i take
off the fin i can sort of slide through
feels like it's possible and i have a
little experience
now but i don't know i just don't feel
like pulling the board off actually
i just want to go
we'll see what happens
i'm a bit tired
this is the fourth day of full paddling
that's always typically the day that you
feel sort of worn down and
see the road ahead
and especially all the hassle with
taking the board up and all that side
stuff you don't feel like
you don't have the energy anymore to do
stuff like that so
just
make sure everything's tight
to minimize the risk
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yesterday uh
roberto from the science center to you
delft
called me
in the evening
first it seemed like they would have it
ready on time for the press conference
today
at uh 1 30 year at night he has sms that
he was too tired that he'd be working
too much and that he wasn't fit to drive
yeah
that's the story
but
i felt i feel pretty bad
you know you disappoint so many people
you have all these partners waiting for
it
and uh yeah have to disappoint them that
was the feeling i had this morning
and then
i had a moment when i thought what would
the plastic soup surfer do i was
reflecting
walking over the railway i was thinking
what would the plastic soup surfer do
and i said to myself the plastic soup
surfer he'd press on he'd go on
so that's what i'm doing
this is the board i'll be using
hopefully um for only one or two more
days but i'm not making any promises
anymore i'll just go on with this
mission
i've been looking uh for plastic uh from
the beginning on of this expedition so
everywhere i am i look for that plastic
but it's
after the rainfall the big rhine falls
that i actually find
larger quantities of plastic glitter
most of the stuff you cannot see what it
is because this is small torn off
fragments of packaging what i bump into
i take along with me on my board i put
it in a
small pouch small sack on my board
and that's what i'll be using later on
to confront the companies with
and to make sure they listen i will send
a bailiff to the person in charge
because i feel that they should take
much more responsibility for the end of
life of their packaging and products
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so this is nestle right
and i've got an
avm bottle as well i found
so i would like to ask the ceo of nestle
what he thinks
what he thinks about this
what he thinks about his
plastic his products floating down the
rhine into the sea
i wonder what he would say if he feels
any responsibility
because your feet are wet all day
uh
any wounds you get
um they won't heal
so i'm barefoot nearly all day so if i
bump into anything
i get these small wounds but they
they just don't heal
i sort of hurt when i
press them they're sort of swollen
but it seems like uh they're they're
healing a little they're getting used to
being
battered by the sun
and water all day
the first quarter of an hour when you
grab your paddle for the first
time
after having slept
that's when you sort of feel them but
after that
they're fine
it's like
i mean your whole body hurts so this is
minor
compared to uh
to the whole thing
i try to paddle when i'm in the valley
of the wave
go over go through my knees
and then when i'm in the valley again i
stand up and i give it another
push and that's the way i sort of
glide in that same
um
rhythm of the waves i
i cross them
but these this is the experience i
should have had when i was on the
on the fast flowing part of the river if
i had all that experience of standing on
the board with waves
then probably that part would have gone
a lot better
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oh
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i'm deflating this board because um the
real plastic soup
board has finally arrived
i'll be paddling it uh from this day
onward
25k or something
feels like just as heavy as my other
board with all the luggage on it
let's give it a test run
standing on it and he's having uh
a good time
it's still a prototype there are lots of
things that can go wrong
i think miranda will handle it
delicately but it's great to see it
going
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i feel whole again
with this board and under my feet now
i'm i'm really the plastic soup surfer
the surfer
surfing on plastic soup
from here on i expect
this this whole campaign to get an extra
boost just because of the board and
the story it details
the picture has become one
you know
you can see me paddle by and you'll
understand
what this project is about
just the rhine
the litter
and the story of paddling
from source to sea
i'll stay good
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i don't
i've been paddling for uh over a week
now i've been away from home for two
weeks
the thing is
once you've paddled one week you can
paddle two weeks
and four so
i've sort of reached the point where
i could go on doing this
for uh months
there's nothing that's going to stop me
from paddling
it's because the river ends that uh that
i probably will have to stop
but i'm really into
uh this routine of
waking up early breaking up my tent
looking for coffee
looking for food
looking for plastic
having an interview
and then
looking where i can can
pitch my tent again and that routine
sort of
continues
and there's a development in that as
well as
i'm not listening to music or or
something like that when i'm
paddling so i'm really
reflecting
if i'm not concentrating on just
paddling sometimes there's just
kilometers that i need to do or or the
wind is against me and it it just takes
all my
strength and concentration
to keep on paddling
but most of the time i just reflect on
the plastics i see on
how i feel about that
also by seeing all that plastic
everywhere i go that's really
uh strengthened my belief that we should
do something about this now and that we
we need every means possible
to do that
which is awareness which is targeting
ceos which is
uh policy
those are the things i i i think about
just paddling down
that river
the packaging the bottles that's the
part of the plastic pollution i can't
see but there's also a large part which
i cannot see at all because plastic
breaks up into smaller pieces
microscopically small i even went to a
water waste treatment plant and they
told me they do not have the facilities
to filter out
those small particles of plastic so i
contacted an expert on the field and
asked him about the scope of this
problem
these are microplastics i isolated from
the rhine river
it's a biman lobet so where the rhine
river enters the netherlands i sampled
the river water there and
well microplastics as you can see they
are abundant
and easily easily found
i took many samples every week i took a
sample for for half a year
long and at any time i found
microplastics every time you took a
sample every time
based on my research i estimate that at
least 40 tons of microplastics
go through the river each year just only
micro plastic 40 tons yes where does
this come from then
well i isolated uh four different kind
of microplastics based on their
appearance uh you have films
tiny pieces of bag plastic bag
you have spherules which are
balls tiny balls and in the end i also
found micro beats i i could easily
isolate
these tiny particles and i could
recognize them because i had this
uh this product this product you just uh
i isolated a few of these so i knew what
to what to look for yeah yeah you know
these particles are this small it's just
dust you're looking at i know some
studies uh on muscles
and they
could easily isolate uh micro plastics
from the muscles
you have quite a good chance that you're
eating plastic and that gives me a bit
of a
unpleasant feeling actually
i was just thinking
man can make all these
impressive machines
like this one here
and yet
they can't prevent
plastic winter
why is that that's not because they
they can't
that's because they don't want to
because there's not an incentive
because there's not an interest
in nature
no financial interest in nature
of course they can prevent plastic
they just don't want to
they don't want it enough
they don't want to change the designs
they don't want the alternative
materials they don't want deposit return
systems
why is that
because
it's not in their interest
that's why that's why
i'm sending a bailiff
because maybe they don't want to because
of their finance but they should
because of my kids their kids and our
future
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so
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with the headwind it's pretty hard work
yeah yeah
this is the boat the famous boat
oh my god
that's very nice
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um well done um congratulations for this
campaign for this initiative
we're very fortunate i think to live in
a country like deutschland which is very
good at recycling but still even in
germany plastic pollution is a is an
issue we know that increasingly the the
plastic is degrading in the oceans and
many toxic chemicals are attaching to
that plastic
and then getting into the the the food
chain the wildlife food chain but also
the human food chain so it's a big issue
and as the science unfolds even more we
realize why we should be doing this even
more than perhaps we even thought of a
few years ago so congratulations well
thank you very much thank you thank you
yeah well uh
one one part of course is about the
awareness and the other part is actually
targeting those ceos
and i hope well i expect that to really
um that will be the exciting part of
this how are you actually going to do
that how do you actually get the plastic
to the companies that you identify the
thing is we try to actually get to the
ceo
themselves the ceos themselves through
the bailiff will actually deliver it at
person so at boardroom level right at
the siding level
um that's where we get real impact okay
great yeah cheers do you have a business
card i'll give you i'll try to look for
mine
um
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next i want to know
how long in rhine kilometers the trip
actually is or at least
how many kilometers you
leave behind each day
on average
the whole rhine is 1200 kilometers but
the packaging part is
thousand at 35 i started the fourth and
i'll be at 20 i'll take 24 days
and in the beginning i did more
kilometers like up to 80 a day and at
the end i'll do only 24 a day so i think
the average is
47 47 kilometers 47 per day per day
that's impressive
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thank you that you're here in omargan
you see we have a lot of people great
great to see so many people here so i'm
paddling down the rhine from source to
sea from the
mundung and i'm doing this to raise
awareness for boost time
after splashing in maya
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but it's a lot of
things i see here it's just from from uh
barbecues and picnics actually
it's people picnicking and not using
this area where the picnics are in the
barbecue yeah a lot of stuff like that
yeah
what would this be what is this from
it's uh
real coca-cola
this is uh this is spa i think
the recycling site with fun
yeah
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the water level uh will rise this high
uh in
in winter time
and this is where you find all the small
stuff within this
grown grass
and within the thicket
it's well it's everywhere but it's very
hard to pick up and clean of course
it's all broken down
small pieces
well this cannot be cleaned so the
solution is prevention
definitely
no littering and make sure that
everybody takes their their
responsibility civil society
consumers and producers
they should work together on this
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snaps
and look how small it is
i'm getting a good impression of what we
find here this is the actually the this
is the the barbecue
zone
they have enough energy to take it down
to the riverbank but they don't have
enough energy
left afterwards to take it back with
them
what i'm really looking for is those uh
all those plastic bottles and
the small stuff which is in the the
spool zom
stuff you cannot
clean up because
it's just too small and it's
in between the plants
i've been passing this for
more than 700 kilometers
one confetti of these small pieces
waiting for the next high water rise to
be pushed on another
100 kilometers towards
the north sea
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i think i was disappointed
i think i was disappointed
it it has always been very theoretical
taking attorneys to ceos to do something
about
plastic litter
and that hasn't changed but
by actually seeing where people sat and
left
their stuff
it has become very personal
and now i have to convince myself that
the the theory i have
is
is right
maybe
through this experience
i've seen how
fundamental how
this this is really a
behavioral
thing
and we need every aspect of the chain
to to solve this so that means producers
as well
but of course consumers and civil
society if we want to do something about
this
it will take a whole lot of time a whole
lot of energy
sometimes i just feel tired
i think the
excitement of
of the first week
the excitement of of
seeing whether i could actually
accomplish the whole
expedition
that's gone and i still need to do one
quarter
but now it just feels like hard work
and
yeah sometimes i just feel tired and
then they go then they say we need
people like you
but i think uh
well we need we need everybody
two days from the netherlands
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it's all sort of sag now
dull
dutch
canal i have to take over 20 kilometers
there's a headwind expected quite a lot
of wind and then there's also nowhere
to shelter and then there's al also
um
a thunderstorm
coming
and i need to be in arnhem tomorrow
i'm so not looking forward to this
even though
i'm paddling into the netherlands today
the first part
is going to be
very very tough
it's going to take
a whole lot of power and strength
not paddling parts
so last phase mine yeah last phase last
phase
uh welcomed here in uh in arnhem
great great welcome but it's not the end
yet this is only
uh three quarters i still need to do
another week
yeah a lot of wind yesterday and
that really makes it tough
well it's impossible to pedal actually
when the wind really picked up i only
did two kilometers all day and i and i
waited
all afternoon and the evening uh for the
wind to ease but it didn't
so
finally i had to uh just pitch my tent
uh where i was on the beach
it felt pretty uh lonely and miserable
and cold
well for the next couple of days
well the predictions are that there will
be a lot of wind
that makes for a lot of hard work
and since the program is so tight
i'll really need to
push and pump to
get on time
these last days
i meet my biggest challenge the mental
challenge because i got the wind and the
bad weather pushing me back
but what i did not expect and what i was
surprised about to see
is
how many people turned up
to support me
and they give me that push i need
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the first stop in the netherlands the
first city in the netherlands on the
rhine is spike and at spike you find the
pet recycling
plant
and the great thing about this company
you can fully 100 recycle pets into new
pet bottles for instance
um
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foreign
yeah we've seen several examples of of
products of bottles for instance of the
wrong color which could not be
recycled or if they have a certain
sleeve all over the bottle they cannot
be recycled because they're this company
is interested in in pets and they have a
very advanced technology to separate it
from other types of
of plastic you know
about my projects yes i'm paddling down
the entire rhine from source to sea uh
showing
how much litter flows down the rhine
looking for that plastic and on the
other hand i'm going upstream back to
the sources
of that litter i've seen you walking
around and taking all different types of
products or bottles from these bales and
saying like uh this is not a a a a good
product for
this well for this for this type of
recycling for instance that's true i
think if you talk to uh
brand owners like unilever procter
gamble
with coca-cola and that kind of nestle
i i sometimes have the feeling that it
is marketing driven and i understand it
is marketing driven but it would help if
we if we share our knowledge about which
bottles can be recycled more easily and
which are more difficult
and more difficult means most of the
time that will be a linear
recycling process which is a pity
so what would you say to these companies
i would say please visit us or please um
uh get your heads around about what is
really recyclable uh yes or no
uh is is that multi-layer mono material
yes or no um does it have to have food
content is there metal in there
is there different materials in there
and and if you change little to your
products you can make a much more
recyclable product
improve your know-how about what can be
done
to make it more
circular
what you see is the complexity
of the whole chain of the business of of
the waste
and you see how all these companies
should work together if we want to close
that loop
actually they're already doing what i
want to do they're already going
upstream they're already going to these
companies and telling them
your product should be such and such if
you wanted
recycled if we want to recycle your
product you should think of these things
think of the end of life of your product
so
as i paddle into rotterdam i'm very
small on my
tiny paddleboard in between all these
big freighters and big ships and
buildings
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rotterdam is one of the biggest
sea harbors in the world
and i even get a nautical salute
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i'm approaching the end of my expedition
this is the last press event we have
before i
paddle out to see tomorrow
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reaching the north sea is the symbolic
part of my journey since i want to
paddle from source
to sea
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reinforced well
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the packaging i find the packaging right
here
just before it well with the next high
water
will will flow into the north sea
just as i will in in
a few kilometers
this doesn't belong here
this shouldn't flow out to sea and this
is something producers can do something
this expedition has shown me the urgency
of this plastic pollution problem
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we are we are warned
we should not accept this
plastic pollution is a result of our
convenient society
and we need a behavioral change
and if there's any hope it's in the fact
that we handle plastics every day that
is very tangible and we have
the choice every moment what we do with
it
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and it will take
consumers legislators
producers
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and producers here are are vital
since they are the ones that are at the
source they should think
of the end of life of their products
it's up to individuals to take the first
step
to a world
where plastic waste does not exist at
all but it is seen
as a resource
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do
so
so
you

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riverbank::noun | Spocien Dictionary

riverbank

noun

/'rɪvər,bæŋk/

the bank of a river

Type	Words
Synonyms	riverside
Type of	bank

How to pronounce riverbank in Dutch?

riverbank::noun | Spocien Dictionary

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