Youth help turn society’s wheels with old tyres and new ideas
Young people in Nigeria and Egypt are finding business solutions for various problems
22 October 2019 - 17:07
When Olamide Ayeni-Babajide discovered an expensive ornament she bought on a trip abroad was made of old corn husk, it opened her eyes to the potential of Nigeria’s own waste problem.
In 2016 she founded Pearl Recycling, which remodels solid waste such as old tyres into furniture in Lagos, Africa’s most populous city with 21-million people and home to one of the world’s largest garbage sites...
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