Yet one more example of a group that has accomplished a great deal with seemingly nothing. Every day 1,500 tons of solid waste are dumped in a landfill near Bañado Sur, in Paraguay. About 2,500 families make their living sorting the garbage for recycling and reselling, according to UNICEF. “Children are often the ones with the onerous […]
A group of Belmont University students in Nashville, Tennessee, recently took on two tough social issues: the millions of mattresses that end up in landfills and the likelihood that former inmates will return to prison. In 2011 the students teamed up with Belmont Church to create Spring Back Recycling, a nonprofit that’s already getting a lot […]
