A backyard lab that turns Nairobi's plastic into paving stones
Kenyan engineer Nzambi Matee left her job, set up a lab in her mother's back yard and developed paving blocks made from waste plastic mixed with sand.
Topic
Circular economy
6 stories tagged circular economy.
A mountain town that sorts its rubbish into 45 categories
Kamikatsu, a small town in Tokushima, declared Japan's first zero-waste goal in 2003; residents wash, sort and bring their waste to a central station.
Bogotá's waste pickers organise to be paid for recycling
A third-generation waste picker, Nohra Padilla helped organise Bogotá's recyclers and won legal recognition and payment for their work in the city's waste system.
Cargo bikes and reward points for recycling in Lagos
Wecyclers sends riders on cargo tricycles into low-income Lagos neighbourhoods to collect recyclables, rewarding households with points they can swap for food, goods or cash.
The Amsterdam meet-up that made repair social again
In 2009 Martine Postma held a free repair meet-up in Amsterdam. The idea of volunteers helping neighbours fix broken things has since spread to thousands of Repair Cafés worldwide.
The women of N'jau who turned plastic bags into purses
In a Gambian village with no rubbish collection, Isatou Ceesay and a handful of women began crocheting discarded plastic bags into purses to sell, creating income and cleaner streets.