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.

Transnational Corporation Plc (Transcorp), Nigeria’s largest listed diversified conglomerate renowned for its investments in the power, hospitality and energy sectors, has embarked on a ...

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.

In addition, the recycling of those bottles and cans has resulted in a reduction of millions of tons of waste taking up space in landfills and has reduced greenhouse gas emissions equal to taking ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sep. 27, 2023 — Plastic waste that accumulates on land eventually ends up in the ocean as microplastics. However, it is now speculated that microplastics are also present in the atmosphere ...

Sep. 19—Keep Golden Isles Beautiful will soon offer an opportunity for the community to support local schools as well as reduce landfill waste in the area, with the return of its annual School ...

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 ...