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Flip-flops to building blocks: Ivory Coast uses plastic waste to build classrooms

Ivory Coast school

Yaounde, CameroonThomson Reuters Foundation Too much plastic and not enough schools are scourges of modern life many countries face. Now a factory in West Africa will try to tackle both by transforming old flip-flops and car tyres into bricks to build classrooms. The factory in Ivory Coast will be the first of its kind in […]