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  • In these NH communities, you pay for how much trash you send to the landfill

    Hadley Barndollar

    March 13, 2023 |

    New Hampshire Bulletin |

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    Response Location: United States, Concord, New Hampshire

    Communities across New Hampshire are implementing “pay as you throw” trash-collection systems to reduce the garbage sent to landfills and increase the use of alternative options like recycling. The programs use several different methods like special bags, stickers, or punch cards, but all require some form of payment per collected trash bag.

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  • Kisumu farmers adopt use of worms to improve yields, save soil

    Kevine Omollo

    March 10, 2023 |

    Lake Region Bulletin |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Kisumu

    Farmers in Kisumu, Kenya, are restoring the health of their soil by using compost as manure instead of chemical fertilizers. To make the compost, food scraps and other waste are placed in a bin with earthworms and water. The worms break down the organic material and deposit their own waste that is full of nutrients.

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  • Can plastic bricks pave a road out of Kenya's plastic waste problem?

    Kimani Chege

    March 10, 2023 |

    Unbias The News |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

    The Kenyan start-up Gjenge Makers creates pavers that are stronger and cheaper than typical concrete by heating a mixture of shredded plastic waste and sand and then compressing it to form the blocks.

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  • Ibadan Has a Waste Problem: This Firm Shows How to Make Money, Create Jobs and Fashion Out of It

    Nurudeen Lawal

    March 08, 2023 |

    Legit.ng |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Ibadan, Oyo State

    Planet 3R is putting a dent in the amount of waste on the streets of Ibadan, Nigeria, by collecting waste from residents and turning it into usable products like clothes, accessories, and home decor. After collection, the waste is sorted, washed, dried, shredded, and woven together to create something similar to fabric.

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  • Detroit group reduces waste and improves education by merging art and science

    Genevieve Fox

    March 07, 2023 |

    Great Lakes Echo |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    The Detroit nonprofit Arts and Scraps reuses donated materials like yarn and fabric to teach kids to create art and take care of the environment with free programs.

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  • Composting Pickup Service

    Anna Lionas

    February 28, 2023 |

    The Food Fix |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    In Philadelphia, subscribers pay a monthly fee to Bennett Compost to have the company collect their food waste weekly and compost it so it doesn’t wind up producing greenhouse gases in the landfill.

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  • A Wyoming group moves homes to save affordable housing and preserve history

    Mary Steurer

    February 26, 2023 |

    Casper Star-Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Wyoming

    Shacks on Racks relocates houses and works to make homeownership more accessible to area workers. Since starting in 2016, the non-profit has relocated 21 houses. For those 21 saved houses, Shacks on Racks estimates they’ve spared landfills more than 1.2 million pounds of waste.

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  • Weed once chocking Lake Victoria is now our main source of fuel

    Austine Ogalo

    January 27, 2023 |

    Lake Region Bulletin |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Dunga, Kisumu

    A biogas facility in Dunga, Kenya, takes in the invasive water hyacinth plant and other organic waste, shreds the material, breaks it down with bacteria in an anaerobic digester, and uses the gas produced to provide cooking fuel to locals. The biogas is a cheaper, cleaner alternative to other fuels like wood and charcoal.

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  • A California town's wastewater is helping it battle drought

    Naoki Nitta

    January 23, 2023 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, Healdsburg, California

    To comply with federal environmental wastewater discharge regulations, Healdsburg, California, upgraded its wastewater-reclamation facility to purify water enough for reuse. In order to reduce the amount of water discharged into the local river, the city made the purified water free to use for pastures, agriculture, residential use, and non-dairy livestock.

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  • Is plastic waste the building material of the future?

    Désiree Schneider

    January 16, 2023 |

    Unbias The News |

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    Response Location: Indonesia, Bukit Lawang

    The use of plastic waste as an affordable building material is rising in popularity. One option is turning the waste into “Ecobricks” by tightly packing it into a bottle with a stick. A German organization called Project Wings pays locals in Bukit Lawang, Indonesia, to collect plastic and make bricks to be used for buildings.

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