Nigeria parents pay school bills with recyclable waste Posted My Dream Stead school is one of 40 low-cost schools in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos that accept recyclable waste as payment.

Dailymotion Nigeria: Using plastic waste for school fees Although education is a fundamental human right, it’s often out of reach for women, girls, and people living in low-income communities ...

The Food and Beverage Recycling Alliance (FBRA), in partnership with the Lagos State Government, recently held a two-day workshop, ‘Trash Talk’, aimed at addressing the issue of packaging waste ...

The Universal Basic Education Commission has revealed that Nigeria needs an additional 20,000 schools and 907,769 classrooms to be able to absorb the growing number of out-of-school children in ...

This research only includes recyclable waste, since it has a value and therefore generates money when sold. This mainly applies to thermoplastics, which soften when heated, e.g. packaging materials.

Nigeria says it wants primary school teachers to conduct lessons in local languages instead of English, which is currently used. But how practical is that in a country where more than 600 ...

Students in the Poway Unified School District are beginning to see new recycling carts at their lunch courts. The labels on the carts ask students to sort their breakfast and lunch leftovers into ...

Legislators, regulators and private industry have put a greater emphasis on reducing and recycling food scraps in recent years. While laws and initiatives surrounding food waste may be more aggressive ...

While recycling campaigns can help limit what heads to the landfill, scientists are now saying that it's masked the glaring problem of over-production and de-emphasized other waste reduction ...

Reducing, reusing and recycling our solid waste at William & Mary generates significant environmental and economic benefits. Waste and Recycling Services supports the campus goal to reduce the amount ...

Kareem Abiodun Habeebullah, whose mother tongue is Yoruba, was just a secondary school student when he was whipped in class for not speaking in English. "When I was growing up, I was struggling to ...