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Athens Repair Café Tackles Climate Change By Repairing Items, Attitudes

Anna Chapman Clara Kiker Malcolm Montgomery Justin Morris

April 17, 2023 |

Grady Newsource |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Athens, Georgia

The Athens Repair Café allows locals to bring in their broken items — like bikes and appliances — to be repaired by skilled volunteers in an effort to utilize a reuse model that extends the life of the items, preventing the need for purchasing replacements. The Athens Repair Café is one of 2,664 Repair Cafés worldwide registered under Repair Café International and over the past year, about 100 items have been successfully repaired.

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‘It's about Healing the Earth:' How Nebraskans are Building Sustainable Farms Through Biodynamics

Ellie Kuckelman

April 17, 2023 |

The Reader |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Nebraska

Biodynamic farming is slowly spreading across the United States as a practice that improves the health of a farm’s ecosystem by creating a sustainable system that uses its waste to generate its energy. This way of farming also involves practices like crop rotation, cover cropping, and eliminating the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

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How Recycling Wastewater Could Help Quench the West's Thirst

Alexandra Ossola

April 14, 2023 |

Wall Street Journal |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

Drought-stricken cities in California are turning to direct potable reuse of water to combat drinking water shortages. This process involves treating wastewater and returning it to the drinking water supply.

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Cleaning the city to breathe easier

Alastair Macdonald

April 14, 2023 |

WoW! News |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: India, Delhi

One Step Greener collects trash from residents of Delhi, India, and sorts the recyclables to be sold to recyclers. This practice keeps trash out of landfills and improves the air quality of the city.

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Shred Up Halabja: Glimpse of Hope Amid Plastic Bombardment

Salam Omer

April 10, 2023 |

KirkukNow |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Iraq, Halabja

The Shred Up Halabja Recycling Center is the first successful plastic collection and recycling system in Halabja, Iraq. The project collects plastics from schools, homes, and public places to recycle and turn into usable products. It also educates students about the importance of recycling to encourage understanding and innovation.

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Want to Help Rid the Ocean of Plastic? Grab an Oar

Alexander Turner

March 27, 2023 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: England, Cornwall

Clean Ocean Sailing is a volunteer-based organization that boats to largely inaccessible parts of Cornwall’s coasts to pull plastic pollution out of the ocean and off the beaches using kayaks, rowboats, and physical labor.

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How this Nigerian state is minimising the risk of flooding

Muhammad Auwal Ibrahim

March 25, 2023 |

Halal Reporters |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Gombe

The Gombe State Environmental and Protection Agency in Nigeria cleared waste from waterways in metropolitan areas to increase the flow of water and mitigate flood risk.

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The Enduring Power of the Garbage Strike

Feargus O'Sullivan

March 17, 2023 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Memphis, Tennessee

A sanitation strike in Memphis in 1968 led to wage increases and union protections for sanitation workers and also played a role in significant shifts in the local political landscape. The strike and others like it have inspired a long line of similar efforts, including an ongoing sanitation strike protesting French President Emmanuel Macron's decision to raise the country's retirement age.

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In these NH communities, you pay for how much trash you send to the landfill

Hadley Barndollar

March 13, 2023 |

New Hampshire Bulletin |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Concord, New Hampshire

Communities across New Hampshire are implementing “pay as you throw” trash-collection systems to reduce the garbage sent to landfills and increase the use of alternative options like recycling. The programs use several different methods like special bags, stickers, or punch cards, but all require some form of payment per collected trash bag.

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Can plastic bricks pave a road out of Kenya's plastic waste problem?

Kimani Chege

March 10, 2023 |

Unbias The News |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

The Kenyan start-up Gjenge Makers creates pavers that are stronger and cheaper than typical concrete by heating a mixture of shredded plastic waste and sand and then compressing it to form the blocks.

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