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Plastic As Tuition: A School In Lagos Is Reducing Waste, Providing Quality Education All At Once

Zubaida Baba Ibrahim

January 17, 2022 |

HumAngle |

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Response Location: Niger, Lagos, Lagos State

The Recycles Pay Educational Project allows parents in Ajegunle to collect and exchange plastic waste as tuition for their childrens' education. Isrina Schools has seen its enrollment climb since starting the program and has been able to recycle more than 5,000 kilograms of polyethylene terephthalate bottles.

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How last year's Christmas trees are rebuilding New Orleans' coast

Elizabeth McCauley Lilian Manansala Daniel T. Allen

December 23, 2021 |

Business Insider |

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3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Louisiana

Every year, the National Guard air-drops old Christmas trees onto a Louisiana wildlife preserve. The used trees help restore habitat, prevent flooding, and reduce coastal erosion in the hurricane-prone state.The tree recycling program also keeps the old trees out of landfills.

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A Brooklyn nonprofit comes to Philly to recycle clothing waste across the Mid-Atlantic

Kathleen Nicholson Webber

November 15, 2021 |

The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Textile and fashion companies can now recycle their excess fabric with Fabscrap. The group opened its second location and has worked with hundreds of brands, saving about 1 million pounds of textiles from ending up in landfills.

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'It's our stuff': consumers wage right-to-repair revolution

Carey L. Biron Umberto Bacchi

October 14, 2021 |

Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States

In the recent years, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission voted to restore consumers' "right to repair" their products and 27 states have introduced repair bills. This policy push has encouraged a growing number of independent repair shops and workshops that enable consumers to fix their products safely and effectively. Together, they're leading to a reduction in both electronic waste and greenhouse gas emissions.

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Reducing Recidivism and Building Green Industry Skills in Detroit

Nina Ignaczak

September 10, 2021 |

Belt Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Michigan

Between 2012 and 2017, the rate of recidivism, the number of people who return to prison after being released, was 71 percent across 34 states. An industrial recycling program called Greenworks is aimed at job training, access to resources, and jobs to formerly incarcerated people. Part of the green economy, these programs offer jobs to people most impacted by climate change, and Greenworks could be a model for other similar programs. The recidivism rate of Greenworks hovers around four and ten percent each year.

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Fridge detectives

Jo Mathys Tom Heap

August 31, 2021 |

BBC |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Guatemala

In the first half of this episode, the producers discuss "Tradewaters," an organization that disposes of canisters inside refrigerators. These canisters hold potent greenhouse gases. One 30-pound canister can leak up to 131 tons of Co2, or a year's worth of driving for 54 cars. The organization disposes of thousands of canisters across Central America, Chile, South Africa, and India. The practice of disposing of these canisters saves between one to two percent of global Co2 emissions, according to estimates.

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France's 'Peevolution' Is Irrigating Farms With Liquid Gold

Peter Yeung

August 31, 2021 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: France, Bordeaux

Getting rid of urine is very wasteful, in the European Union alone almost 6,000 billion liters of water are used to flush urine. TOOPI Organics is using urine as a resource. Founded in 2019, the biotech company collects urine and using a fermentation process transforms it so it can be used as a fertilizer. Its urine fertilizer helped plants grow 60 to 110 percent more than a traditional mineral fertilizer. Its factory in the city of Bordeaux is able to produce 2,500 liters of organic fertilizer per day.

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Beirut Is Greening the Aftermath of Disaster

Laure Delacloche

August 03, 2021 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Lebanon, Beirut

In 2020, a devastating explosion in Beirut that came from a warehouse released 800,000 and one million tons of construction and demolition waste and 20,000 tons of shattered glass into the city. The waste was being thrown into landfills. However, landfills are notoriously bad for the environment. Out of that rubble an idea was created; disposing waste sustainably. Rubble Mountains was created specifically to do this. They've been able to restore four quarries, use materials to create public amenities, and diverting up to 50 tons of demolition waste from landfills.

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This German startup offers a simpler way to recycle your coffee cup

Marianne Dhenin

August 03, 2021 |

Grist |

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Response Location: Germany

About 16 billion paper cups are used every day for coffee consumption. In small towns in England, and in the countries like New Zealand and Germany, a deposit-based reusable cup system is being used to create less waste. Under this program consumers pay a small fee to use a reusable cap and get their cashback once they return it. One such program in Germany called "RECUP" estimates its saved 43,000 trees every year.

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Fighting plastic waste: a double-edged sword

Justice Nwafor

July 26, 2021 |

SciDev.Net |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

Teams of recyclers in Nigeria gather plastic bottles from the streets and landfills and brings them to recycling plants where they can exchange the waste for money. HISL Recyclers collects this waste — which usually contains polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, a dangerous chemical — as a way to remove the waste from the environment. However, more work needs to be done to get more people to participate in the program and to scale the operations. So far, they’ve been able to recycle up to 20 tonnes of plastic waste a month.

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