Turning trash into treasure with an app
By DW
28 January 2023 |
3:04 pm
A Nigerian mobile app called Trashcoin connects waste producers to recyclers in real time. Plus it gives users direct incentives like the ability to pay utilities with points gathered from their plastic waste.
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