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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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| James Fennings Stern entered the green recycling machine in this competition. - 2 days ago |
| funky1 entered Fresh Food Explained in this competition. - 3 days ago |
| Recycleopedia entered Recycleopedia.com - helping everyone recycle everything in this competition. - 4 days ago |
| Rothar entered Bicycles for the community! in this competition. - 8 days ago |
| Emma Higgins entered Vegetarian Restaurant Chain in this competition. - 8 days ago |
| Nils Engvall entered Water efficient agriculture in this competition. - 8 days ago |
| waywardplants entered Unwanted Plant Recycling Programme in this competition. - 9 days ago |
| ConnorPeters entered Raising Awarness in this competition. - 11 days ago |
| Washington Bati... entered a nomination for Cidade limpa. - 20 days ago |
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