Caring for the environment in exchange for knowledge: in Nigerian schools, plastic has become a pay for education

2019-07-14T15:09:49.084Z

In Nigeria, a non-profit environmental organization launched the project Recycles Pay. According to his program, more than a thousand children in low-income communities in Lagos were able to pay for their education with plastic bottles. A school year in a Nigerian school costs a little less than $ 50, which equates to approximately 870 kg of plastic. The head of the environmental organization hopes that the proposed system will help to simultaneously increase the level of literacy in the country and teach Nigerians to recycle plastic waste.