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Episode 38
With millions of tonnes of plastic waste produced each year on the continent, Africa Science Focus investigates how communities are managing this plastic tsunami.
This week, we speak to a team who set sail across Lake Victoria in a dhow made of recycled plastics and flip flops, and our reporter Michael Kaloki meets with activist James Wakibia, who’s taking his campaign against single-use plastics Africa-wide. Carole Excell from the World Resources Institute tells us what more governments and communities can do to protect people and the environment from plastic waste.
And in this week’s Q&A segment, Kent Chizu from Highland Secondary School in Zambia has a question about COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories.
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Africa Science Focus, with Selly Amutabi.
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