Sierra Leone: Where Some See Waste, Others See Opportunity - Young Sierra Leoneans Fight Against Electronic Waste, Plastic Pollution
The youth-led ventures have supported more than 400 schoolchildren while turning waste into products that create income and reduce pollution.
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Sierra Leone: Where Some See Waste, Others See Opportunity - Young Sierra Leoneans Fight Against Electronic Waste, Plastic Pollution
Freetown -- Growing up, Peter George, a young innovator in Bo District in Southern Region, Sierra Leone, watched people dump electronic waste near the farmland where his grandmother cultivated crops.
Where Some See Waste, Others See Opportunity: Young Sierra Leoneans Fight Against Electronic Waste, Plastic Pollution
Growing up, Peter George, a young innovator in Bo District in Southern Region, Sierra Leone, watched people dump electronic waste near the farmland where his grandmother cultivated crops. He told IPS that people would dump electronic waste, such as discarded batteries and other damaged electronic components, near the area where she grew crops, and the […]
FREETOWN – During his childhood, Peter George, a young innovator from Bo district, in southern Sierra Leone, saw people throwing electronic waste near the fields where his grandmother grew. He told IPS that people were dumping electronic waste, such as used batteries and other damaged electronic components, near [...]
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