#composting

🇮🇩 Indonesia · Masjid Al-Muharram Brajan

After blackouts sometimes silenced the call to prayer, a village mosque near Yogyakarta raised tens of millions of rupiah in 'energy alms' from thousands of small donors and switched to the sun.

🌍 Global · Sistema.bio

A Mexico-founded biodigester company turns farm and livestock waste into clean cooking gas and fertilizer for smallholder farmers across Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

🇦🇺 Australia · CERES (Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies)

A former quarry and rubbish tip beside Melbourne's Merri Creek is now an 11-acre free public urban farm, nursery and environmental education hub.

🇹🇿 Tanzania · Nipe Fagio

In one Dar es Salaam ward, waste picker cooperatives run door-to-door collection that diverts 95% of waste from disposal, and the NGO behind it helped launch a national waste pickers' association.

🇯🇵 Japan · Zero Waste Academy (Kamikatsu)

A mountain town of 1,500 people sorts every scrap of trash into 45 categories at a communal station, recycling more waste than almost anywhere on Earth.

🇲🇳 Mongolia · Local Solutions

Where winter drops below -30C and the Mongolian word for toilet is itself taboo, Local Solutions has helped install 1,150 dry toilets and opened the country's first Toilet Education Center on World Toilet Day 2025.

🇩🇿 Algeria · Association pour la Protection de l'Environnement de Béni-Isguen (APEB)

In a Saharan oasis founded on ancestral water and palm-grove wisdom, a local association is training a new generation in agroecology and composting.

🇭🇹 Haiti · SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods)

Household container toilets in urban Haiti turn human waste into rich agricultural compost through a circular sanitation economy.

🇰🇪 Kenya · Sanergy

Social enterprise converting fecal sludge from Nairobi's informal settlements into organic fertilizer, insect protein and biogas.

🇵🇭 Philippines · EcoWaste Coalition

Grown out of the campaign that won the Philippines' Clean Air Act, this coalition now battles the backyard trash fires that keep filling Filipino neighborhoods with toxic smoke.