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You Gonna Throw That Away? Recycling Refuse in Kigali and Binh Tuan
Posted on September 15, 2008
Kigali, Rwanda, is site of one of the latest crossroads of people, planet and profit, with a recycling project as a catalyst for profit, employment and solidarity for HIV+ women. The project is run by ACEN (Association for the Conservation of the Environment), a local cooperative with funding from UNDP and the Global Environment Facility (GEF). ACEN members are now charging 12,000 families in Kigali between US$1 and US$37 to collect their trash, which they bring to a central facility for the waste to be sorted, dried and pressed into fuel briquettes. These fuel-blocks are cleaner-burning...
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