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Uganda’s bamboo bikes: ‘A sustainable luxury’
Meet Kasoma Noordin, from Kampala in Uganda, who makes high-end bicycles with a difference.
Rather than using metal or carbon, he makes his frames from a naturally strong and lightweight material that he grows himself: bamboo.
BBC Smart Money went to meet him.
Video producers: Jason Dunford and Jewel Kiriungi
Refugee women and their host community in Maban county are turning agricultural waste into clean-burning briquettes in a pilot project that saves trees.
By Ampurire Aryampa and Mary-Sanyu Osire in Maban, South Sudan  |  18 May 2022
see whole UNHCR article at
https://www.unhcr.org/afr/news/stories/2022/5/6284c4a94/turning-trash-into-clean-fuel-refugees-aid-environment-in-south-sudan.html
The teams gather dried biomass waste including charcoal dust, dried leaves, grass, shrubs, lalop seeds and agricultural trash, such as sorghum and maize stalks, from around the two camps. After being given training, they are provided with briquette making machines that crush, mix, press and extrude a mixture, which is dried into rock-hard combustible briquettes under shade.
They then sell the briquettes at US$1 per kilogramme, making it an income-generating activity in addition to acquiring new greener skills. In March alone, the Gendrassa based group produced over 2,000 kilogrammes and earned up to US$2,000 from the sale of the briquettes
From the BBC:
Recycled plastic has been used to resurface a road in Flintshire as part of a trial scheme. Pellets made from the waste material were added to the asphalt laid at a junction in Connah’s Quay, UK. Flintshire County Council wants to reuse items from residents’ bins which are difficult to recycle and would otherwise go to landfill sites.
Officers have been working with a Scottish firm which produces plastic pellets from bottles and bags to be melted into the asphalt as a binding agent in place of bitumen.
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