Saturday, August 27, 2005

Green Economics at Work in Dhaka Dump

In Bangladesh, an innovative Dhaka-based nonprofit has a plan to solve both the city's mounting garbage problem and the crisis of rural soil depletion. Through community composting, trash is converted into organic fertilizer that rural farmers can use to revitalize soil. The program, funded in part through the Kyoto Protocol's carbon credit scheme, also aims to generate electricity from gas emissions in Dhaka's dump.

More at: Wired News: Power Supply Is Down in the Dumps

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