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Sunday videos: Sustainable waste in Vietnam; rare tiger cubs in China
photo by Flip Nomad (Flickr CC)
We’ve got two bits of eco-news from Asia this weekend.
First we’re off to Vietnam to see how megacity Hanoi is coping with a growing waste problem with the help from scientists in Germany.
Enormous amounts of waste, a rising population, over-crowding, and an aging infrastructure: Vietnam’s capital Hanoi is a perfect example of a fast-growing megacity. Scientists at Darmstadt University have developed a pilot project that combines wastewater treatment, waste disposal and energy production in one. Their goal is to design a biogas plant for Hanoi that digests waste to generate electricity and heat.
–Deutsche Welle
Next we jet over to Shandong Province in China, where a cute pair of baby white Bengal tigers strut their stuff in custom made clothing at a local zoo. The tiger species is endangered, with only 210 white Bengals remaining in the wild.
Check out the video from ITN.
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heheehhehehe Sometimes it’s not advisable eating while watching a video especially when you’re clueless what’s in it. Perhaps it’s just me and my gross imagination as if I could smell the fume coming from the whatever! ok let’s move on , Well I think biogas has been practiced by a lot of countries, but I’ve read that it has a greengas effect too…As for the second video, at a very young stage of those baby bengal tigers you could already get a glimpse of how fierce looking these animals are when they’re full grown…