Waste Recovery for Energy and Agriculture

Initiative
Location
Abomey-Calavi, Benin 🇧🇯, AF
Scale
City
Led by
Individual
Background

Operating as a waste recovery initiative, the aim is to eradicate the acts of waste incineration, deforestation and the anarchic dumping of waste into nature. The main activities were waste collection for biodegradable waste, the second for plastic waste, and the third, for other types of waste. Positive results have included the prevention of 276 tons of CO2 and the reduction of diseases resulting from the misuse of chemical fertilizers.

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