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.

The OANDO Foundation has advised that environmental education will help address Nigeria’s waste problems. A statement by the foundation explained that through its Clean Our World project, which ...

The Greenhill Recycling founder,\xa0 Lawani, added that the waste-to-wealth initiative had become a generic motivation for people to continue to collect and recycle plastic waste for different ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oscar Ekponimo is the entrepreneur behind Nigerian mobile app Chowberry. It connects people to supermarket food that would ordinarily end up in the bin. This BBC series was produced with funding ...

This news article was written by Cassie Miller of Pennsylvania Capital-Star, where it originally appeared. It is republished here with permission. Lawmakers in Harrisburg on Monday heard feedback on a ...

Drexel's Equipment Surplus Program diverts office and lab equipment, furniture, and other items from the waste stream by offering these items for sale to the general public. This program produces $150 ...

Environmental Health and Safety is responsible for managing regulated waste streams that could harm the environment, including hazardous chemicals, mercury-containing lamps and equipment, batteries, ...