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Latest from Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO)

📰 Update · Aug 11

How a Nationwide Movement Is Transforming Ghana’s Fight for Clean Air

📰 Update · Apr 14

Accra Named a UN-Recognized Zero Waste City

Accra's Informal Waste Workers Are Paid to Collect the Rubbish That Used to Be Burned

Clean Air

🇬🇭 Ghana

Where Accra households once burned their rubbish because nobody collected it, more than 500 informal waste workers now collect it for a small fee instead.

1,072tonnesWaste diverted from landfill and open burning (Ghana, Uganda and Botswana combined)
14.3ktonnes CO2eEmissions avoided (GAYO estimate)
500workersInformal workers providing affordable waste disposal in Accra communities ('more than')
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