Recycled Bolga baskets

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Ghana Recycled Bags

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Dirty Ghana Video!

This is what CNN had to show about Trashy Bags (hint, click the link for brilliant images about the problem): When British entrepreneur Stuart Gold saw Accra’s plastic problem he recognized an opportunity for a business venture — an NGO that could clean up the streets and create jobs in the community. . . . → Read More: Dirty Ghana Video!

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Trashy in Name Only

Bolga Baskets: Each basket uses 170 pure water plastic bags on average, and about 1.7 yards of recycled cloth, that would otherwise be burnt along with the plastic. . . . → Read More: Trashy in Name Only

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My Silent Goaty Oaty Oaty Oaty Oaty

If you would rather enjoy your plastic on the outside, then take a twenty minute trip to Trashy Bags in Accra where plastic is recycled into brilliant, handmade bags and purses. . . . → Read More: My Silent Goaty Oaty Oaty Oaty Oaty

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A Plastic Bag, by Any Other Name…

A stroll along any road in virtually any city or village in Ghana invites ugly scenes: plastic rubbish virtually everywhere. It’s one of the major complaints tourists have about traveling in Ghana. . . . → Read More: A Plastic Bag, by Any Other Name…

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In Honour of Wangari Maathai on International Women’s Day 2010

Today I published a post at our other blog, This is Ghana, in honour of Africa’s greatest living woman, Wangari Maathai, and partly to urge Ghanaian women to question the status quo in Ghana from a female and environmental perspective. Check it out and let us know what you think. Do you know Ghana’s Wangari Maathai? . . . → Read More: In Honour of Wangari Maathai on International Women’s Day 2010

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