A Nigerian museum turns waste into art
A museum in Nigeria is attracting visitors with decoration and works of art made from upcycled materials. The museum wants to encourage recycling to protect the environment and teach young people how…
Making art from coconut shell
The Lagos State Coconut Development Authority, LASCODA, is changing how coconut waste is managed by training people to turn it into arts and crafts.…
Tonnes of waste pollutes dam in Bosnia
A large quantity of waste, estimated at between 4,000 and 5,000 cubic metres, invades the dam of a hydroelectric power station on the Drina river in eastern Bosnia. One of Bosnia's five…
Saving lives with plastic waste: Ugandan company recycles plastics into PPE for hospitals
It's Christmas Day and following a year which has been harrowing for so many, we've decided to look back at the good news of 2020. We begin in Uganda, where a plastics…
Waste To Wealth: Plastic often recycled into pillows, mattresses
Waste To Wealth: Plastic often recycled into pillows, mattresses…
Rowing while dredging waste: Hungarian race in green mode
The 150 competitors meeting on the shores of Hungary's second largest river carry somewhat unusual equipment for a boat race -- protective gloves, rubber boots and large plastic bags, to collect as…
Salvaging raw materials from car batteries
Waste car batteries usually end up on the scrapheap. But a German engineer has made it his mission to recycle them - by extracting the valuable raw materials they contain.…
Doing Your Bit: Weaving waste into fashion
An organization in Nigeria is combining environmental action with female empowerment. It trains women to recycle waste plastic by weaving it into fashion accessories - which they can sell for a profit.…
Germany produces record amount of packaging waste
Despite good recycling habits, Germans get through a quarter ton of packaging per person each year. A new law is supposed to boost industrial-scale recycling and reusable wrapping and containers.…
War waste: A never-ending battle
War waste: A never-ending battle…
In Philadelphia, recycling efforts go to waste
In Philadelphia, recycling efforts go to waste…