By Gayle Pescud, on July 24th, 2010%
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!
By Gayle Pescud, on July 23rd, 2010%
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
By Gayle Pescud, on July 21st, 2010%
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
By Gayle Pescud, on July 19th, 2010%
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…
By Gayle Pescud, on March 8th, 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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