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  • How a Community in Vieques is Responding to the Landfill Crisis in Puerto Rico

    Camille Padilla Dalmau María E. Ocasio Torres

    October 21, 2022 |

    9 Millones |

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    Response Location: Puerto Rico, Vieques

    The island of Vieques’ community composting program, Isla Nena Composta, collects vegetative debris after hurricanes, processes it, and composts it to reduce the strain on local landfills.

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  • Disaster debris is pushing Puerto Rico's landfills to the brink

    Camille Padilla Dalmau María E. Ocasio Torres

    October 21, 2022 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States Minor Outlying Islands, Puerto Rico

    Puerto Rico’s landfills are filling up quickly, but a nonprofit composting program in Vieques called Isla Nena Composta collects, processes, and composts organic materials from hurricane debris to help ease pressure on the landfills.

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  • A street lit by rotten onions? An Indian market embraces biogas.

    Kavitha Yarlagadda

    October 13, 2022 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: India, Hyderabad

    At a vegetable market in Hyderabad, India, food waste is collected and converted into biogas to provide gas and electricity for buildings and streetlights. The process keeps the waste from emitting methane in a landfill and reduces reliance on fossil fuels and coal.

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

    Emiene Erameh

    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

    Jhesset Enano

    October 11, 2022 |

    Rappler |

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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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  • With Recycled Wastes, This Non-profit organization is Reducing Drop-outs in Ogun

    Mohammed Taoheed

    October 06, 2022 |

    BONews |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Ogun State

    Securecycle is a nonprofit working to reduce the number of young students not attending school in Ogun State, Nigeria. The organization collects old jeans to turn into bags and finds students who are, or will likely, drop out of school to teach them bag production and give them a scholarship to finish primary school.

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  • Making Money While Recycling in Nigeria

    Ahmad Adedimeji Amobi

    September 28, 2022 |

    Instick |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Osogbo, Osun

    Mygbolat Waste Management is a wholesale waste collection business in Osogbo, Nigeria, that is working to combat unemployment and create wealth for its employees while helping the environment by cleaning and selling recyclables.

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  • Recycling: Abuja residents shift waste into wealth, as economic hardship bites

    Lama Queen Godoz

    September 24, 2022 |

    International Centre for Investigative Reporting |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja, Abuja

    In an effort to involve more residents in recycling, the Cash for Trash initiative places drop-off hubs close to households in Abuja, Nigeria. Anyone can drop off recyclables and get paid to do so.

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  • Making a Desk with 10,000 Recycled Chopsticks

    Michaela Haas

    September 22, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia

    ChopValue is a B Corp. that sells furniture and other household items made of used, bamboo chopsticks collected from local restaurants. This process keeps chopsticks out of landfills while offering a sustainable alternative to harvesting virgin materials.

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  • Japan's 'Zero Waste' Village Is a Model for Small-Town Sustainability

    Peter Yeung

    September 16, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Japan, Kamikatsu

    Residents of Kamikatsu, Japan, deposit, and sort 45 different categories of waste into designated bins to be recycled at the Zero Waste Center. The center is a part of the town’s effort to meet its Zero Waste declaration and reuse or recycle everything produced there.

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