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  • Hello and welcome to CNN 10 on this 10th day of the 10th month of 2019.

  • It's like a perfect 10 of Carla zoos.

  • Happy is always to have you watching.

  • We're starting with an update from the Middle East.

  • The nation of Turkey has begun a military operation in neighboring Syria.

  • The two countries share a border.

  • Syria has been tort apart by a civil war that started in 2011 and Turkey says terrorists have been trying to establish control along the border and that its military offensive is intended to destroy that and bring peace to the region.

  • Witnesses say Turkish warplanes have started launching airstrikes in some areas.

  • Syria's government opposes the attacks.

  • It says Turkey has hostile intentions and that it's trying to expand its territory into Syria.

  • But other nations factor into this to a few days ago, the United States announced it would move its troops out of northern Syria as Turkey prepared for its attacks.

  • About 1000 American forces were there to keep stability and help US allies hunt down terrorists.

  • Now international observers are concerned that those U.

  • S.

  • Allies might be threatened.

  • Turkey sees them as terrorists who have launched attacks against the Turkish government for decades.

  • One group that America's support says it will fight Turkish forces along the Syrian border.

  • And U.

  • S President Donald Trump has suggested that if Turkey goes too far in harming America's allies in the region, the U.

  • S.

  • Will wreck Turkey's economy.

  • Several other nations, including the Netherlands, Germany in Egypt, have all spoken out against Turkey's military actions in Syria.

  • One possible side effect they're concerned about is that the Turkish operation will cause civilians in the area to leave their homes, leading to a new wave of refugees in an already war torn country.

  • Turkey says its mission is to establish safe zones near the border where refugees can be resettled.

  • Second trivia.

  • Which of these scientists invented dynamite in the 18 sixties?

  • Albert Einstein, Alfred Nobel, Nikola Tesla or Thomas Edison?

  • It was Alfred Nobel, namesake of the Nobel Peace Prize, who invented dynamite at the age of 28.

  • The young Marine met and married a French scientist named Pierre Curie.

  • Together in their laboratory in Paris.

  • They shared in the research that isolated teen ovary, 800,000 homes, businesses and other buildings have lost electricity.

  • In Northern California, stores have sold out of backup generators.

  • Several school districts have cancelled classes, some traffic lights or dark, and though this could last for a week in some places, no single event has caused it.

  • This is a safety measure.

  • Pacific Gas and Electric, the largest utility company in America's most populated state, is responding to a weather forecast.

  • Northern California is said to be under extreme danger because of high winds and dry conditions.

  • Those air key ingredients of wildfires and PG and E is trying to prevent them from flaring up by cutting off electricity.

  • The company's equipment has been blamed for causing a number of wildfires in the past, and it's agreed to pay billions of dollars in damages.

  • It says it's probable that the campfire, California's deadliest blaze that struck last year, started when PG and E equipment made contact with nearby trees.

  • It says this power outage is a last resort to prevent wildfires.

  • But critics say the company ought to improve its equipment so that it won't have to shut down electricity whenever conditions are dangerous.

  • Even after the winds die down.

  • PG and E says it'll take several days to make sure nothing is damaged before it turns the lights back on.

  • A reusable packaging company is trying to change grocery shopping instead of buying ice cream, for example, and later tossing out the cheap Corton, The so called milk band model would deliver desert in a nicer container like the milk bottles used by your great grand parents, and that container would be returned, cleaned and reused.

  • There are downsides.

  • You can't pick up your products immediately, and it takes a lot of shipping.

  • So what's environmentally friendly in terms of packaging isn't in terms of the effort required to get it to and from your home.

  • But if it takes off, it could help close the loop on trash.

  • Tom Zaki is on a mission to eliminate the concept of waste.

  • The act of throwing something away in itself isn't bad.

  • It's actually incredibly convenient.

  • Problem is where it ends up, and it's a big problem.

  • About 91% of plastic ways ever created has never been recycled.

  • So Zach he decided to go to the source to target the company's making the kind of single use plastic containers that constantly end up in the trash and he started with the four largest consumer goods companies in the world combined, their sales totaled almost $285 billion in 2018 way went to all these major companies, saying, Here's this new big idea.

  • Come take a risk on it and let's ideally change the world in the process, he called the big idea loop his pitch to consumers by the same household products you already love.

  • Plus a small deposit.

  • And we'll send them to endurable reusable packaging when you're done, returned them to be cleaned, refilled and re used by someone else.

  • How hard of a cell was this, too?

  • You know, manufacturers and companies.

  • Loop is a gargantuan task because we're going into a Procter and Gamble on saying, Reinvent the packaging of these world famous products completely build production lines to fill this reinvented package owned by the way.

  • I have no proof if anyone's gonna buy it, but they said yes because they know that there's a garbage crisis and they really don't want to contribute to it.

  • Oh, and Nestle didn't need much convincing.

  • We've invested so much time, energy, people, resources and dollars because, as we think forward to the future.

  • We know consumers will demand more recyclable products, more reusable products, and some project loop is a way for us to tipper tote into this territory and really learn a lot.

  • In the end, Nestle, along with Procter and Gamble, Pepsico, Unilever, Clorox and others took the leap loop is an ecosystem.

  • If it was just one company making a few products, it wouldn't work.

  • You need everyone coming together, and they sort of became the sort of, you know, snowball effect, where, as it got bigger, the more and more companies join even faster and faster Loop launch an early 2019 in a few cities with about 300 products.

  • Since then, Zaki says, more than 10,000 people have signed up.

  • It's expanding to more cities as well, and soon the products will be available in major retailers like Walgreens and Kroger.

  • What's neat is you could buy it at one retailer and return it to another, so it really creates this night's network effect.

  • We're adding a brand every day, and so you know, things you'll see are from pet products, toe automotive products, not just one type of shampoo, but a dozen different types of shampoo and everything really growing and pushing each other.

  • We still don't know if Luke will catch on.

  • What do you think has to change in regards to the consumer's mind set?

  • In order for them to adopt this new model you're proposing?

  • I believe that asking the consumer to change anything is an uphill battle.

  • I think it's much easier to ask the model what it could do to match the convenience the consumer wants.

  • Loop is not the first refill idea out there, but none of them have really taken off.

  • And I would argue it's because it's less convenient to the consumer than throw it away and buy a new one.

  • Maur.

  • We make it feel like a disposable lifestyle, the easier it will be to get mass adoption, that mass adoption that's really key here.

  • It's everything.

  • I think a lot of people are going to think about whether there's a future and reuse by whether we succeed, because all the world's major manufacturers air saying we're gonna give it a shot and loop is their shot wavered of turbochargers, superchargers, nitrous oxide.

  • But what this car has under the hood is nuts, walnuts.

  • After hearing noises and smelling burning, the woman who owns this SUV looked under the hood and found that squirrels apparently stored 200 walnuts right there, along with some grass.

  • Took about an hour to clean everything out, but the car was fun.

  • Course it could probably cash.

  • Use a tune up.

  • It may be pistachio overdue for an oil change.

  • You should always check the Filbert and make sure you concede that everything else is pine.

  • You don't need to be a master MCA dami act to make sure your engine is running like butternut Carlos, who's driven to make puns on CNN.

Hello and welcome to CNN 10 on this 10th day of the 10th month of 2019.

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