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  • Through waste management eTrash2Cash is saving planet earth, helping women access healthcare

    December 22, 2022 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    eTrash2Cash strives to create a healthy, sustainable zero-waste society by collecting trash and recycling it to become useful resources. It does this by employing women with low incomes to do the waste collection and recycling and in turn, provides them with social incentives like access to healthcare. So far, eTrash2Cash has diverted over 10,000 metric tons of trash out of landfills across four states and has trained 200 women on how to upcycle plastics.

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  • ‘Plastic Roads' Are Paved With Good Intention

    December 14, 2022 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Pilot programs across the United States are testing recycled plastic and asphalt mixtures to pave roads and keep plastics out of landfills. A program in California saw success in their mixture’s durability.

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  • Why Avalon International Breads is rescuing spent grains to fight climate change 

    December 08, 2022 |

    Planet Detroit |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    As a part of the Upcycled Grain Project, Avalon International Breads in Detroit makes crackers out of spent grains from breweries. The practice reduces food waste that would otherwise produce greenhouse gas emissions.

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  • Nigerian Climate Action Group Trades Trash for Cash

    December 07, 2022 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    Ecobarter is a startup in Nigeria that collects waste from communities and delivers it to recycling services. Individuals that deposit waste are paid in points based on weight and type of waste. The points can be converted into money, used to get health insurance, transferred to others, or used to shop at specific marketplaces.

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  • Exchanging Plastics for Learning Resources: How This Non-profit Addresses Low-Quality Education

    December 01, 2022 |

    BONews |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abeokuta, Ogun State

    The Recyclearn Initiative is a Nigerian nonprofit that arranges for students to work with its team members in collecting plastic to sell to recycling companies. The profits provide school materials to students in need.

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  • Felled City Trees Could Grow a New Lumber Economy

    November 29, 2022 |

    The Pew Charitable Trusts |

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    Response Location: United States

    Groups and businesses across the country are encouraging cities to sell or recycle urban wood instead of sending it to a landfill. Many have started small businesses that turn the wood into products like furniture.

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  • Hope in a bottle: A glass recycling project is helping Louisiana reverse the effects of coastal erosion

    November 14, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    Powered by the ReCoast Initiative, Glass Half Full recycles glass to turn it into sand needed to replenish Louisiana’s coastline and regrow native marsh plants like various grasses and willow trees. The group also uses social media to explain topics like coastal erosion and the importance of restoration efforts like Glass Half Full to a wider audience.

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  • Meet the man using e-waste to build solar lamps in Nigeria

    October 24, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    QuadLoop is a Nigerian business that produces solar lamps from recycled electronic parts like lithium batteries and screens. This practice makes the lamps more cost-effective and reduces electronic waste.

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  • How Angwan Gwuragwu, FCT women are earning while keeping community

    October 13, 2022 |

    NewsWire NGR |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Angwan Gwuragwu, Abuja

    In an effort to address issues of waste disposal, the Women Recyclers Empowerment Initiative empowers women in local communities by paying them to recycle plastics. Not only does the initiative address waste issues, but it also allows women to become financially independent. So far, 40 women have participated in the initiative.

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  • Waste workers on the frontlines to protect Apo Island from plastic threat

    October 11, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Philippines, Apo Island

    In the Philippines the War on Waste - Negros Oriental started a zero waste project on Apo Island to reduce landfill use and improve waste management. Waste workers train residents how to sort their trash into categories and collect the sorted trash twice a week.

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