In Johannesburg, clerics and worshippers say their conscience is torn between illegal money and seeing their churches impoverished, because they fund their churches with illegal mining.

In Ghana, many rural, poor women are left with no option but to take up labour-intensive blue-collar jobs, such as carrying heavy loads with pans on their heads.

Destructive mining practice led to extensive deforestation, water pollution and land degradation, causing substantial irreversible damage to Ghana’s natural resources and threatening the livelihoods of rural dwellers.

For farmers the birds are a pest, for some women they serve as a livelihood

Kenya’s capital and metropolitan area are engaged in an internal battle against waste. There is hope that the struggle will eventually be won

Producing sal-leaf tableware is no longer only an informal micro-scale business in India

Organised crime controls informal waste management in Mexico

We must transition fast to fair circular economies, either recycling or avoiding waste

Transitioning to a circular economy is a key strategy to improve living conditions for people worldwide

In the north of Zimbabwe, former miner and their families stay in abandoned towns living in poverty and hoping that mining will resume some day