Waste & recycling

 

Here's a story of how one Changemaker is turning trash into treasure:

Bangladesh has a garbage problem. Dhaka, a city of about 10 million has a particularly big garbage problem.  Of the 3,500 tons of trash dumped each day, only half is picked up by the city. The rest is left to lie in the open streets of slums, marketplaces, vacant lots and riverbanks, attracting rats, clogging drains and threatening serious disease.

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