plastic-waste

  • Kiven Brenda

    Children In Cameroon Transform Bottles Into Brooms To Save Environment

    Loba Ewalla, 11, and nine-year-old Nkongo Ewalla are on their school summer holidays, but their grandfather has kept them busy turning bottles into brooms. They learnt the art of this transformation living with their grandfather in Nkongsamba, Littoral region of Cameroon. Plastic bottles were spoiling Ewalla Ntouba’s farm, drifting into his fields on the wind, […]

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  • Zubaida Baba Ibrahim

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

    “The best thing to have ever happened to me” was how Onuka Blessing described her ability to pay her children’s fees with empty plastic bottles through the ‘Recycles Pay’ Educational Project. When Blessing isn’t trading in Tejuosho market or frying akara (bean cakes) for sale by the roadside, she picks discarded polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles […]

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