Women from Ivory Cost turn plastic into classrooms
Every day, Côte d’Ivoire’s economic capital of Abidjan produces 288 tonnes of plastic waste, most of which ends up in landfills in low-income communities like Gonzagueville, polluting the air, land, sea and children’s playgrounds. Only about 5% is recycled, mostly informally by women who take it from landfills and sell it at very low prices.…