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Author : frog
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05 Mar 2022 10:19 PM

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Hi all

Oh how the news is getting me down atm. Anyone with some positive stories, please post!

I read about an heap of creative solutions to plastic pollution in Africa:

People are turning the stuff into house bricks, designer textiles, cooking fuel and more. Such innovations are being celebrated by the Afri-Plastic Challenge, which announced its shortlist this week. The prize was launched to help entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa scale up their response to plastic pollution.

In the running is a Nigerian project that turns plastic waste into designer textiles; a buy-back scheme in Kenya that helps women earn money through plastic recycling; and a Rwandan project that turns plastic waste into school benches. The prize will also offer dozens of grants to startups with scalable ideas.

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