Empowering Plastic Waste Pickers for Sustainable Growth
In the bustling heart of rural/urban centres across developing nations, an often-overlooked workforce diligently labours to manage the plastic waste that society discards.
In the bustling heart of rural/urban centres across developing nations, an often-overlooked workforce diligently labours to manage the plastic waste that society discards.
In many developing countries, plastic waste pickers play a crucial yet often under-appreciated role in managing waste and recycling materials.
Learn how the three R’s of recycling—reduce, reuse, and recycle—help cut waste, support a circular economy, and make everyday life more sustainable.
The plastic recycling value chain shows how collection, sorting, flaking, recycling, and manufacturing turn plastic waste into new products in a circular economy.
Will a plastic free Ghana increase poverty? This article explores how innovation, sachet bans, and green skills affect informal waste workers and their livelihoods.
Seven years ago, Environment360 started Evolve, Ghana’s first successful plastic collection scheme, but collection alone will not create a circular economy in Ghana.
The Circular Innovation Hub graduated the inaugural Empower Up ’N’ Around class of seven women waste pickers on 16 September 2022.