{"id":250605,"date":"2024-11-14T07:21:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T07:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/14\/from-landfill-to-limelight-ghana-waste-entrepreneurs-win-earthshot-prize\/"},"modified":"2024-11-14T07:21:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T07:21:55","slug":"from-landfill-to-limelight-ghana-waste-entrepreneurs-win-earthshot-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/14\/from-landfill-to-limelight-ghana-waste-entrepreneurs-win-earthshot-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"From landfill to limelight, Ghana waste entrepreneurs win Earthshot Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-290089\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bulletpoints-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"bulletpoints\">\n<ul>\n<li><em>Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO), a Ghanaian waste management entrepreneur, was one of the five winners at the recent Earthshot Prize awards in Cape Town.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Earthshot Prize recognizes and supports people and organizsations offering solutions to environmental problems. Winners and finalists receive funding and support from the Earthshot network.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>GAYO, whose work recycles waste that would otherwise be burned and advocatinges for better conditions for the people who sort waste, and, along with the other four winners, will each receive a million pounds to expand their work.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><button class=\"content-expander\"><span>See All Key Ideas<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>When Desmond Alugnoa and Jacob Attakpah stepped onto a celebrity-studded green carpet at the Earthshot Prize awards in Cape Town last week, they had a good feeling. \u201cNot if we win,\u201d said Attakpah, a project manager for the Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO), which is working to change waste management practices in Ghana, \u201cwhen we win.\u201d Soon after, he and GAYO co-founder Alugnoa walked onto the stage as one of five winners to receive 1 million pounds ($1.2 million) to accelerate and scale up the impact\u00a0of their work.<\/p>\n<p>The Earthshot Prize supports selected people and organisations that work to improve environmental problems. From thousands of nominated applicants, one1 million- pound prizes are awarded to five winners in five categories: protecting and restoring nature, cleaning air, reviving oceans, reducing waste, fixing the climate. Fifty winners will be awarded over 10 years. Over and above the prize money, an additional $90 million to protect African landscapes was also announced.<\/p>\n<p>This year, 15 finalists \u2014 from Kazakhstan, Cost Rica, Ecuador, Nepal, Australia, France, Kenya, the U.K., Indonesia, Uganda and the United States \u2014 traveled to Cape Town, South Africa, for the award ceremony Nov. 7. It was the culmination of a week of events that saw Table Mountain lit up in green and the city\u2019s mayor, Geordin Hill-Lewis, symbolically reintroducing the locally extinct Cape water lily (Nymphaea nouchali var. caerulea) to the False Bay Nature Reserve, a Ramsar site and wetland of international importance that is threatened by contamination from the city\u2019s sewage and the invasive water hyacinth.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_290091\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-290091\" src=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/11\/14065518\/GAYORecycling_Ghana_EarthshotPrize.jpg\" alt=\"Five people wearing masks and hi-viz tabards contemplate massive bags of empty plastic bottles. Image courtesy Earthshot Prize.\" width=\"1536\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/11\/14065518\/GAYORecycling_Ghana_EarthshotPrize.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/11\/14065518\/GAYORecycling_Ghana_EarthshotPrize-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/11\/14065518\/GAYORecycling_Ghana_EarthshotPrize-610x343.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Green Africa Youth Organization\u2019s work is aimed at reducing incineration of waste in Ghana, supporting waste pickers and recycling plastic, metal and organic material for reuse and recycling. Image courtesy Earthshot Prize.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Making use of the limelight<\/h3>\n<p>The prize ceremony saw an unusual mix of \u201ccelebrities\u201d in attendance. Nominees, put forward for their work in waste management (GAYO), growing algae to feed farmed fish instead of using commonly used wild-caught fish (MiAlgae), the fermentation of wasted food (Ferment\u2019Up), and sustainable brick production (Build up Nepal), mingled with Earthshot prize founder Prince William, South African television presenter Bonang Matheba, model Heidi Klum, actor Billy Porter and actor and activist Nomzamo Mbatha.<\/p>\n<p>The glamor allows people working on environmental solutions attention they don\u2019t otherwise have access to, said Nicholas Hill, co-founder and CEO of prize nominee Coast 4C (which focuses on regenerative seaweed farming), as he stopped for questions on the green carpet.<\/p>\n<p>Ronald Pfende, chief financial officer for Kenya-based nominee d.light, agreed. \u201cOur mission,\u201d he said, is to give access to clean energy to a billion people by 2030, moving them from using kerosene as a light source to renewable solar energy instead.\u201d Though they did not win, Pfende said the connections they made during the week would have taken years otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Choosing the winners from among the 15 exceptional nominees was difficult, said Hindou Ibrahim, Earthshot Prize council member. But they stood out for their combination of scientific innovation and traditional ecological knowledge while emphasizing long-term environmental protection. And among them this year were two nominees from Africa.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_290090\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-290090\" src=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/11\/14065513\/KeepITCoolBox_Kenya_EarthshotPrize.jpg\" alt=\"Two men in blue work coats and white rubber boots maneuver a large yellow cool-box into a white truck on a gravel causeway at a flooded fisheries landing site in Kenya. Image courtesy Earthshot Prize.\" width=\"1531\" height=\"1021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/11\/14065513\/KeepITCoolBox_Kenya_EarthshotPrize.jpg 1531w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/11\/14065513\/KeepITCoolBox_Kenya_EarthshotPrize-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/11\/14065513\/KeepITCoolBox_Kenya_EarthshotPrize-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/11\/14065513\/KeepITCoolBox_Kenya_EarthshotPrize-610x407.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1531px) 100vw, 1531px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keep IT Cool provides refrigeration options to help fishers and small farmers preserve catches and produce. Image courtesy Earthshot Prize.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Two African winners<\/h3>\n<p>Kenya-based Keep IT Cool (KIC) won in the category to build a waste-free world. They offer affordable, refrigerated cooling boxes and transport solutions to smallholder fishers, fish farmers and poultry farmers across East Africa. In this way, they contribute to reducing food loss before it reaches the consumer.<\/p>\n<p>GAYO won the category of cleaning our air. From small beginnings in 2014, when Alugnoa was an environmental science student at the University of Cape Coast and organized beach cleanups, GAYO is now a recognized waste management organization that advocates a zero-waste strategy and for fair employment of waste pickers. Their work reduces open- air burning and waste incineration of waste.<\/p>\n<p>While funding has been an obstacle, Alugnoa, said their main challenge in every new city they have expanded to is changing the culture of how people see and handle waste. However, Alugnoa said that once people understand the impact of pollution on their health and their lives and that there are solutions, they are willing to change and help. With the exposure and funding from Earthshot, they want further to expand their work beyond the borders of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>For Alugnoa, winning the Earthshot Prize is a message to youth everywhere. \u201cIf our solutions can go this far, then anybody\u2019s innovation also has the potential,\u201d he said, adding that he hopes the event will help to highlight homegrown solutions in Africa to the continent\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"YvzNE7nArg\">\n<p>Can the circular economy help the Caribbean win its war against waste?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cCan the circular economy help the Caribbean win its war against waste?\u201d \u2014 Conservation news\" src=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2024\/05\/can-the-circular-economy-help-the-caribbean-win-its-war-against-waste\/embed\/#?secret=resrvZMy4j#?secret=YvzNE7nArg\" data-secret=\"YvzNE7nArg\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Banner image: Green Africa Youth Organization co-founder Desmond Alugnoa and project manager Jakob Attakpah at the Earthshot Prize ceremony in Cape Town on Nov. 7. 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