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  • Inside Africa's Trailblazing Solar Repair Movement

    January 27, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Zambia

    Nonprofit SolarAid trains repair technicians who can fix solar energy kits. In the 2023-24 financial year, SolarAid’s teams across Zambia and Malawi repaired 2,422 solar products, reducing electronic waste, increasing the lifespan of products, and improving access to solar lights, as well as creating job opportunities

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  • How Mexico's waste pickers are getting decent, green economy jobs

    December 19, 2024 |

    Pioneers Post |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Mexico, San Lorenzo Cacaotepec, Oaxaca

    GO SiKanda supports informal waste pickers in their efforts to professionalize, set up enterprises, and improve their communities’ waste management. To date, health and safety policies have developed, respect has grown, and wages have increased.

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  • Oriente Recicla: un referente de reciclaje en El Salvador

    November 27, 2024 |

    Distintas Latitudes |

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    Response Location: El Salvador, San Miguel

    La iniciativa Oriente Recicla, liderada por ciudadanos comprometidos y recicladores locales, ha logrado recuperar más de 246 toneladas de residuos desde su fundación en 2021.

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  • Is giving old papers new life a sustainable solution for the environment?

    November 22, 2024 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory

    Joebliss Enterprise purchases and collects paper waste from homes, businesses, and collection agents in Abuja, Nigeria, and processes it for recycling, reducing the amount that produces methane emissions in landfills.

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  • Residuos Sólidos Orgánicos: Crisis y Oportunidad

    November 05, 2024 |

    Santa Teresa Hoy |

    Documentary |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Costa Rica

    Varios actores y organizaciones han empezado proyectos que reciclan los Residuos Sólidos Orgánicos, ayundando desviar y reciclar un gran porcentaje del total de los residuos que se generan en los hogares de Costa Rica.

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  • Cities Look to AI to Flag Residents' Trash and Recycling Mistakes

    October 17, 2024 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, East Lansing, Michigan

    Michigan cities are using AI to identify non-recyclable items in household recycling bins and then send the geotagged photo on a postcard to the homeowner with recycling tips. Over a 24-week period in East Lansing, more than 5,000 postcards were mailed and recycling stream contamination decreased by more than a fifth.

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  • Europe's plan to fix its massive e-waste problem

    October 11, 2024 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Germany, Berlin

    Repair bonuses pay for part of the repairs necessary to keep electronics working as a way to reduce e-waste. Research calculates that the repair program in Berlin helped prevent more than 400 tons of electronic waste from entering landfills from 2021-2023.

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  • Across California, jurisdictions work collaboratively to comply with regulations put in place by the state's food recovery legislation

    August 27, 2024 |

    Waste Today |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    In 2016, California adopted a law to reduce the amount of organic waste in state landfills by 75 percent, which led cities and counties to develop their own organic waste diversion programs, such as organic waste collection and edible food recovery. In 2022, 11.2 million tons of organic waste were diverted, while 201,000 tons of edible food were recovered that year.

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  • 2 Oregon companies forge sustainable path for beer and wine

    August 24, 2024 |

    Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) |

    Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    A brewery and a winery in Oregon are setting the standards and building the infrastructure for a reusable glass bottles system to reduce their environmental impacts. They sell their products in bottles that customers are incentivized to return so they can be cleaned, refilled, and sold again.

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  • From Failed Assignment to Global Impact: How One Haitian Immigrant Transformed Paint Waste into Colorful Communities Worldwide

    June 17, 2024 |

    Grady Newsource |

    Multi-Media |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Athens, Georgia

    Global Paint donates recycled paint to 44 countries and also sells it at a discounted rate to artists in the states to avoid paint waste harming the environment. Global Paint takes paint from homes, construction sites and donations, having since collected and reused nearly 360,000 gallons of paint over the past decade that would have otherwise wound up in a landfill.

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