by Abriel | Jun 24, 2017 | 2017, Impact Journalism Day
In 1997, a group of 14 women got together to open a plastic waste processing facility in Thies, 70km east of Dakar, under the supervision of an Italian non-governmental organisation. The rise in recycling activity led to the creation of the company Proplast in March...
by Abriel | Jun 24, 2017 | 2017, Impact Journalism Day
If the banana trees at Zoo Zurich are particularly lush, it is thanks to a fertiliser with an unusual ingredient: human waste. During spring in 2016, zoo employees cleared a bamboo grove in Zurich’s Masoala Rainforest to plant the trees. Within a few months, the...
by Abriel | Jun 24, 2017 | 2017, Impact Journalism Day
Wasting food is far from being a negligible problem, both in Brazil and worldwide. According to United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization, global food loss and waste amounts to about one-third of all food produced. Brazil is among the top ten food-wasting...
by Abriel | Jun 24, 2017 | 2017, Impact Journalism Day
Kutumbita is a tech start-up that aims to empower workers in the garment industry through an application designed to foster clear and equitable communication between employer and employee in firms which are too large for traditional communication channels. Using...
by Abriel | Jun 24, 2017 | 2017, Impact Journalism Day
Mr Michihiko Iwamoto worked for a textile trading house that produced work clothes with threads made from PET bottles. This gave him the idea that one could “circulate everything” by returning all used items to their original state and putting them into...
by Abriel | Jun 24, 2017 | 2017, Impact Journalism Day
For six years, a married homeless couple were separated and forced to live apart in Delhi, India. The husband was in one gender-segregated communal shelter and the wife in another. Last year, for the first time, they were able to move into their own “home”. Their new...
