RECYCLING BOOM: Cape Town students are turning trash into cash to improve their schools and clean up their neighborhoods

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A local and national government initiative is using the circular economy model to slowly transform under-resourced communities in Cape Town, where illegal dumping and waste accumulation is a perpetual problem, and change the relationship that children and the residents have with the waste. Called the iThemba Phakama 4Ps (People, Public, Private, Partnership) project, it incentivizes … Read more