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BETTY GUCHU - The Scourge of the Disposable Diaper in Rural Kenya

By incentivizing manufacturers of disposable diapers, the government has sacrificed the gains made with the banning of plastic carrier bags in 2017 and worsened the problem of plastic pollution throughout the country.

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EIT Climate-KIC and Irish Aid partnership supporting start-ups across Africa, Asia and South America

EIT Climate-KIC and Irish Aid partnership supporting start-ups across Africa, Asia and South America
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We need more sustainability solutions — can global innovation competitions help unearth them?

This article originally was published on Ensia. Smoke rises between houses from fuels being burned for cooking, threatening both the environment and human health through carbon dioxide emissions and indoor air pollution. Meanwhile, diapers that have not been properly disposed of are polluting waterways and sewage systems and become a potential source of disease. What do these two seemingly distinct problems have to do with one another? For starters, they are two of many hazards that the residents of Kibera an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, and one of the largest such settlements in Africa have to live with every day. But both also were seen as an opportunity by the founders of a Nairobi start-up called LeafyLife that aims to recycle used diapers to produce a cheap, sustainable and clean fuel.

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Global innovation competitions and the next sustainability solution?

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