Poverty and Hunger

From Trash to Treasure: Korogocho’s Food Waste Champions

By |2024-01-29T10:46:20+01:00December 28th 2023|

Explore Nairobi's dynamic markets with Joy Carey and Sam Ikua, where waste undergoes a remarkable transformation. These champions not only reshape the narrative around waste but also address issues of food and hunger, driving innovation and leaving a lasting impact on the community.

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A School with a Soul: Eco-Friendly and Community-Driven Building in Cape Town

By |2024-01-04T16:32:15+01:00November 3rd 2022|

Sustainable building approaches are not only more environmentally friendly than conventional building methods – but they may also teach people how to avoid waste. Peter McIntosh, the founder of the Natural Building Collective, highlights the advantages through the example of Ulwazi Educare in Cape Town.

Sustainable Integrated Waste Management: Aiming at the Source Rather than the End

By |2024-01-03T16:13:13+01:00April 25th 2019|

To achieve sustainable integrated waste management, municipalities need to move away from end-of-pipe approaches. What is rather needed are softer approaches that set incentives for sustainable waste management at an early stage of waste handling.

Sustainable Development from Electronic Waste in Lomé, Togo

By |2024-01-03T16:17:17+01:00April 24th 2019|

The large amount of electronic waste is a serious challenge in Lomé, Togo. At WoeLab, tech-savvy young people come up with solutions that clean the environment, ensure recycling of electronic waste, and educate residents on how to manage and valorise their electronic waste.

Importing Used Electronics from Developed Countries to Nigeria: Problems and Solutions

By |2024-01-03T16:18:48+01:00April 17th 2019|

While Nigeria has made a leap in access to information communication technology (ICT) and the Internet in the past two decades, many of its residents still depend on imported used electrical and electronic equipment (UEEE). Since many of them turn out to be waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), they worsen the challenge of electronic waste management. Prof. Oladele Osibanjo and Dr. Innocent Nnorom discuss this trade along with its environmental and human health implications.

Through the Gender Lens: Recommendations for Municipal Waste Management

By |2024-01-03T16:19:06+01:00April 16th 2019|

In Bamenda, Cameroon, municipal waste management remains blind to how gender roles shape waste generation. Hedwig K. Ngwa Akum analyses how bridging the gender gap between waste generation and waste management would improve sanitation in the city.

Sao Paulo’s Strategy for Organic Waste Management

By |2024-01-03T16:19:21+01:00April 11th 2019|

In Brazil, Latin America’s largest country in terms of population, the City of Sao Paulo is committed to recycle organics. In 2015, the City embarked on a journey towards separate collection of organics, thus enabling the production of high-quality compost.

From Plastic Waste Trade War to Circular Economy

By |2024-01-03T10:22:24+01:00April 9th 2019|

Plastic pollution is an enormous environmental problem around the globe. It is only through the creation of functioning local and global circular economies that the problem can be solved. Doug Woodring, founder of Plasticity Forum and Trish Hyde, founder of The Plastics Circle, suggest a 5-point-plan to optimise plastic's Second Life potential.

Waste Prevention Strategies for Sustainable Urban Development

By |2024-01-03T10:22:43+01:00April 4th 2019|

In order to save energy and resources, and to prevent waste from harming the environment, recycling is not enough. Cities should try to avoid waste production altogether, argue URBANET authors Carina Koop, Jennifer Schinkel, and Henning Wilts.

How Can Cities in Digital India Contribute to Building a Circular Economy?

By |2024-01-02T15:36:44+01:00July 5th 2018|

India has embarked on a Smart Cities Mission. But what do “smart” or “digital” cities actually have to deliver if they are to be a new model for sustainable urbanism? Urvashi Aneja analyses opportunities and risks of technological innovation and digital inclusion.

Creating Decent Jobs Through Waste Pickers Cooperatives

By |2024-01-02T15:02:41+01:00May 2nd 2018|

In precarious working environments, cooperatives hold an immense potential to increase social and economic inclusion of marginalized groups. Sonia Dias uses the examples of waste pickers cooperatives to illustrate how the concept of cooperatives helps implement the four pillars of the International Labor Organisation’s Decent Work Agenda—and calls on policy makers to create a favourable environment for this organisational form.

“There are huge health risks in not dealing with solid waste” – An interview with Graham Alabaster from UN-Habitat (video)

By |2024-01-02T15:06:33+01:00April 6th 2018|

What are the linkages between solid waste management and urban health? And how can city governments improve waste management systems to reduce health risks? On the occasion of World Health Day, URBANET talked to Graham Alabaster, Chief of Sanitation and Waste Management at UN-Habitat.

How Tangerang City Revamps its Solid Waste Management

By |2023-12-19T15:16:53+01:00September 12th 2017|

Tangerang City in Indonesia has made a big leap from polluted to award winning green city. Watch the video and read the report by the Cities Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA) to find out how the city improved its solid waste management.

Urban Mining – recovering materials in metropolitan regions

By |2023-12-19T14:53:08+01:00February 2nd 2017|

To what extent can cities be used as ‘anthropogenic material stocks’? How can international cooperation contribute? In the following interview, Professor Liselotte Schebek from Darmstadt’s Technical University and Uwe Becker, who manages a GIZ-run project in India, share their views on these issues.

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