Inter Press ServiceLagos Children Benefit from Plastic Waste Schools https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/10/turning-trash-education-lagos-children-benefit-plastic-waste-school/ News and Views from the Global South Fri, 15 May 2026 17:16:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 Turning Trash into Education: Lagos Children Benefit from Plastic Waste School https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/10/turning-trash-education-lagos-children-benefit-plastic-waste-school/ https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/10/turning-trash-education-lagos-children-benefit-plastic-waste-school/#respond Thu, 12 Oct 2023 10:24:11 +0000 Sam Olukoya https://www.ipsnews.net/?p=182602

By Sam Olukoya
LAGOS, Oct 12 2023 (IPS-Partners)

Ijora Badia, a slum in Lagos, was swimming in plastic waste. Now children pay their school fees in plastic bottles, and these are used to build classrooms.

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