What actually happens to Europe’s recycling?

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

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4.8 • 274 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

A lot of us are pretty diligent when it comes to throwing our plastic into the dedicated bin. But how much of that stuff actually gets recycled? This week we're digging into the truth behind Europe's trash with Nico Schmidt, reporter for Investigate Europe. We're also talking about Germany's massive anti-AfD protests, and Saudi sell-out Rafael Nadal. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT HERE: https://europeanspodcast.com/episodes/what-actually-happens-to-europes-recycling Resources for this episode: 'Secret plan against Germany' - Correctiv ‘Everyone, together, against fascism’: protests sweep Germany after exposé of AfD party’s deportation ‘masterplan’ - The Guardian Wasteland - Europe's plastic disaster - Investigate Europe ‘Queen of trash’ and employees arrested over Sweden’s ‘largest environmental crime’ - The Guardian On the French border, drowning in a sea of trash - PoliticoHitster'Black Butterflies' by Priscilla Morris Thanks for listening! If you enjoy our podcast, we'd love it if you'd consider chipping in a few bucks a month at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/europeanspodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (many currencies are available). You can also help new listeners find the show by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠leaving us a review⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or giving us five stars on Spotify. Many thanks to our friends at Outside/In for featuring our Oatly mini-series recently. You can find their show here. 00:22 The Europeans: coming to you soon in 200 languages?02:35 Good Week: Standing up against the German far-right14:35 Bad Week: Saudi sellout Rafael Nadal38:58 The Inspiration Station: Hitster and Black Butterflies41:50 Happy Ending: A 3,000-year-old map of the stars? Producers: Katy Lee and Wojciech Oleksiak Mixing and mastering: Wojciech Oleksiak Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ |⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Threads⁠ |⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Europeans, the podcast about the continent that speaks 200 languages.
0:28.5	But around here we talk about it each week in English.
0:31.3	How are you doing, Dominic?
0:32.3	Fine. Yeah, shame we speak in English.
0:34.7	There are now podcasts being automatically translated into other languages using AI, which I find fascinating.
0:42.1	Yeah, I find it fascinating.
0:43.2	And actually, here's some behind the scenes news.
0:46.3	On that series we made about the autocrats last year, one of the voiceovers or two of the voiceovers were actually AI voices.
0:53.3	That had been translated from
0:54.7	native Polish and native Bulgarian into English. They were using the voices of the people
0:59.6	that Vojc interviewed and just turned it into English, but with their voice. So we can actually
1:04.7	dream of eventually having full episodes of the Europeans in French, Spanish, Bulgarian.
1:11.0	You don't have to name all hundred languages.
1:13.3	I wasn't planning on it.
1:14.8	I just think it's quite exciting.
1:16.5	And I was really happy with how the AI translated voice went.
1:21.4	I thought it sounded really authentic, kind of scarily so.
1:25.3	Isn't it cool to find like a genuinely good, non-creepy use of AI?
1:29.3	Yeah, it's true.
1:30.3	I was actually reading about the most boring use of AI this week, which was in Austria where some scientists have been trying to work out if geese recognize each other's faces using AI.
1:42.3	That's not boring. What's boring about that? Okay, we'll make a special
1:45.8	mini-series about that in the next few months. Stay tuned for geese. But for now, I should
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