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Recycling hotel toiletries
Every day millions of hotel toiletries are being sent to landfill around the world. Meantime poor sanitation is killing millions of people in the developing world. CleantheWorld now collects these toiletries and has distributed more than 40 million bars of soap to impoverished people in 115 countries. http://www.traveller.com.au/the-shameful-truth-about-what-happens-to-your-hotel-toiletries-gw4uge#ixzz4hI0rF0U0
17 May 2017 by lynnwood

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Conserving sea turtles
All species of sea turtle are now classed as endangered. In Sri Lanka you can visit a hatchery that increases the baby turtle survival rate from 1% to 10%. Eggs are gathered from the beach and buried in a protected area. When the baby turtles are hatched they are kept for two days then released at night on the beach. You can see and hold them at the hatchery with older examples of different turtles. http://www.srilankaseaturtles.com/
8 May 2017 by lynnwood

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https://www.fastcompany.com/3069166/i-built-a-bot-to-apply-to-thousands-of-jobs-at-once-heres-what-i-learned


 
21 April 2017 by robert

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A laundromat for the homeless provided by the Pope
Pope Francis has opened a new laundromat for the homeless to wash and dry their clothing. The laundromat, near the Vatican, has six washing machines and dryers donated by Whirlpool. It will remain open four days a week and services are free. http://bigstory.ap.org/article/1f6c5814a3df4dc29534fd85ca83e6e5/pope-francis-opens-free-laundromat-homeless
14 April 2017 by oliver

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School desks from recycled cardboard boxes
Aarambh is using discarded cardboard waste to create school bags which unpack into small desks ? designed to improve the posture of children who are used to sitting and writing on the floor. https://www.springwise.com/india-cardboard-boxes-create-school-bags-transform-desks/
12 April 2017 by oliver

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""http://volunteertaskforce.org.au/services/gardening/" Idea here is to match Volunteers to the Elderly ?so that their gardens can produce home grown food (fruit and veg) which can then be consumed by the resident and/or sold at markets (for a share of the proceeds). The additional labour here could be schools and/or scouts with their incentives being (i) helping the elderly (ii) creating better, cleaner food and (iii) raising funds by selling produce


 
28 March 2017 by rod