African city escapes a plastic nightmare, one paving stone at a time
In a DRC town with no dump for its residents, an entrepreneur is creating jobs by turning plastic waste into pavers
07 April 2022 - 20:35
In Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the thousands of plastic bottles thrown into the Ruzizi River routinely clog the hydropower station’s turbines, shutting it down for months at a time and plunging the city into darkness...
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