In Brazil favela, skateboards made of bottle caps promote recycling

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RIO DE JANEIRO : In Brazil's largest favela of Rocinha, on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, a local project aims to promote recycling by donating food in exchange for bottle caps that are used to build skateboards.Each colorful skateboard is made of some 500 plastic bottle caps that are crushed, melted, p

Arian Rayegani, a 28-year-old Canadian, the founder of "Na Laje Designs" project, makes a skateboard using recycled plastic waste that helps garbage collectors earn food donated in the Rocinha slum, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil October 22, 2021. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

Wallace Mezquita works in the production of a skateboard for "Na Laje Designs" project, using recycled plastic waste that helps garbage collectors earn donated food in the Rocinha slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil October 22, 2021. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares Wallace Mezquita works in the production of a skateboard for "Na Laje Designs" project, using recycled plastic waste that helps garbage collectors earn donated food in the Rocinha slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil October 22, 2021. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

Arian Rayegani, a 28-year-old Canadian, the founder of "Na Laje Designs" project, selects plastic bottle caps to make skateboards from recycled plastic waste collected by garbage collectors in the Rochinha slum in exchange for food, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil October 22, 2021. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares Arian Rayegani, a 28-year-old Canadian, the founder of "Na Laje Designs" project, makes a skateboard using recycled plastic waste that helps garbage collectors earn food donated in the Rocinha slum, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil October 22, 2021. Picture taken October 22, 2021. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

 

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