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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The New School generates around two and a half million pounds of waste each year. Forty-five percent of that waste is directly diverted from a landfill through recycling and composting. Our generation ...

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 ...

Drexel University implemented its first recycling program in 1997. Today, more than 30 percent of the University's waste stream – over 900 tons – is recycled annually. Drexel practices single-stream ...

UMass Lowell has well-developed Recycling & Waste Diversion programs in place. As these programs continue to evolve, they reduce solid waste and increase recycling efforts across all corners of campus ...