Tag: waste
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Nosh Food Rescue’s fight against food waste
In an attempt to address food insecurity in South Africa, Hanneke van Linge set up Nosh, a non-profit enterprise that rescues food from retailers and elsewhere to pass it on to feeding schemes, soup kitchens and shelters.
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Shampoo bar: How one small change is making a big difference
Entrepreneur Bruce Turner has come up with an environmentally friendly alternative to plastic packaging – a shampoo bar for your hair.
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How to make your own compost
Compost is a garden fertiliser that you can make yourself by using vegetable material and other garden waste. Here’s how to do it.
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Turning used textiles into opportunities in Nigeria, Kenya
Fashion is not an industry known for its conscience – but Elmar Stroomer and Alex Musembi are turning this around with Africa Collect Textiles.
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Reduce, reuse, Regenize
In 2016 Chad Robertson and Nkazi Miti thought up a new approach to recycling. By combining smartphones and voucher systems they were hoping to create incentives to encourage recycling. We spoke to Chad.
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Green revolution needed to feed the world, says UN
Changing the ways in which food is produced, handled and disposed of can both feed the world’s rising population and help the environment.
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How to be a predator-friendly carnivore and other news briefs
Guide to leopard-friendly farming: Sharing is caring, but when it comes to livestock farming, we humans tend to prefer not to share our sheep and cows with other meat-lovers like leopards, caracals, jackals, eagles and vultures. In fact, farmers have been known to use pretty brutal ways to keep these other predators off their property, […]
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UK may join crack down on free plastic bags
Britain looks like it’s about to join the list of country’s trying to restrict the use of plastic bags. The country’s prime minister wants retailers to start charging their customers for the plastic bags that they currently get for free in an attempt to cut back on the number of bags that end up in […]