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Klin Bo Services uses motorised three-wheelers to collect rubbish.

Urban rubbish

The cleanest city in Sierra Leone

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by Jochen Moninger
by Raphael Thurn-Valsassina
Plastic bottles are turned into paving stones: these stones are a mixture of PET plastic and sand.

Value chains

Promoting the recycling economy

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by Jochen Moninger
by Raphael Thurn-Valsassina
Kathmandu’s rivers are affected badly.

Waste management

Living amidst filth

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by Roshan Sharma
Plastic bottles sorted for recycling in Essen, Germany.

Waste management

Part of a system

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by Roshan Sharma
Local waste pickers collect plastic waste in Mumbai, which will then be recycled.

Recycling

A system for collecting waste

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by Oliver Möllenstädt
Jin Liqun, AIIB president, with his ADB counterpart, Takehiko Nakao.

Asia

Multilateral banks honeymoon

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by Hans Dembowski
In front of the ADB headquarters, Greenpeace protesters expressed discontent with funding for coal-based power infrastructure in 2012.

Social and environmental standards

Let’s race to the top

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by Hans Dembowski
Homo economicus

International cooperation

Monkey business

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by Hans Dembowski
Tensions between established and emerging powers do not explain everything: finance ministers and central bankers from the G20 with IMF head Christine Lagarde (centre) in Shanghai in February.

Global governance

Understanding the human factor

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by Hans Dembowski
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