Thursday, April 09, 2009

Plastic Bag Paving Stones

François-Xavier Freland of France 24 reports:
Mopti - a town known for its mosque, its port - and its plastic bags. Nicknamed the 'Venice of Mali,' the town has decided to have a clean-up. The idea has come from Niger and is spreading across Africa: to collect the rubbish left over from modern civilization, and turn it into something else, in this case traditional-look paving stones...[continue reading]

via Sociolingo
See related story on plastic recycling in Aboransa Ghana.

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