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From cars to playgrounds

Emmauelle Landais, Dakar August 31, 2017

Discarded car tires littering the streets of Senegal's capital Dakar often become breeding grounds for disease-spreading mosquitoes. If they end up in landfills, their toxic components can break down and seep into waterways. One young entrepreneur, sick of seeing the black tubes polluting her country, decided to give them new life as shoe soles or synthetic turf in playgrounds and courtyards.

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