Accra has been picked by a World Bank bond to end the waste crisis. But for informal recyclers, it is a false solution.


Jess Staufenberg is an investigative journalist with SourceMaterial, which focuses on climate, corruption and democracy. She joined in 2023 from Schoo... ls Week and FE Week, two digital investigative newspapers. She has also reported for BBC Inside Out, The Guardian, The Independent and Eastern Daily Press.
Accra has been picked by a World Bank bond to end the waste crisis. But for informal recyclers, it is a false solution.

As UN meets to negotiate an international treaty to curb plastic pollution, many favour carbon credit-like offsetting.

At the Liniere refugee camp in France, teachers struggle to hold on to Kurdish pupils, whose sights are set on the UK.
