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Waste to Wealth

Gudfala Fly: The Norman Family Foundation Supports Composting, Livelihoods and Community Resilience in the Solomon Islands

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In island communities, waste is not just an environmental issue. It affects public health, local livelihoods, food systems, coastal waters and the reefs that communities rely on every day. In the Western Province, Solomon Islands, Positive Change for Marine Life’s Waste to Wealth (W2W) program is working to strengthen locally led circular waste systems that

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Turning Waste into Soil: Intrepid Impact Grant Supports Community Composting in Kerala

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Positive Change for Marine Life’s Waste to Wealth program in Kerala is already seeing strong early results from support provided through The Intrepid Foundation’s Impact Grant. In Vizhinjam, our India team has been working with local families to strengthen community composting and reduce the amount of organic waste entering streets, drains, waterways, and coastal ecosystems.

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When Plastic Policy Fails, Coastal Communities Pay

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No Treaty in Sight, But Kerala’s Coast Is Still Paying the Price While negotiators in Geneva walked away without a plastics treaty—’deadlocked’ over production limits and toxics—Kerala’s beaches kept telling the story for us: plastic nurdles and mixed waste washing ashore, pellets showing up in nets (and sometimes in fish), and families asking the same

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Climate Resilience, Ocean Health & Governance, Waste to Wealth

USAID Funding Cuts – What This Means for Our Communities.

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After years of building a grassroots waste management program with local communities in the Solomon Islands, our USAID funding has officially been cancelled. This has placed the future of our Waste to Wealth program, and the livelihoods of the local team behind it, at immediate risk. One of those team members is Jerold Bruno. The

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