Eddy's Good News: Recycling is changing in Greece and great farming news from Bangladesh!

Virgin Radio

2 Dec 2022, 10:36

Every day during his show on Virgin Radio, Eddy Temple-Morris brings you Good News stories from around the world, to help inject a bit of positivity into your day!Be sure to listen each day between 10am and 1pm (Monday - Friday) to hear Eddy's Good News stories (amongst the finest music of course), but if you miss any of them you can catch up on the transcripts of Eddy's most recent stories below:

Friday 2nd December 2022

Inspiring news from Greece and island that’s gone fully circular, not in terms of their shape but the way they deal with rubbish, it’s all recycled or upcycled now!

Say ‘Yassou’ to Tilos, which used to deal with its rubbish in the traditional way, big stinky public bins and a big landfill tip. Now, to keep their beautiful Aegean island beautiful, they’ve got rid of the landfill and built a recycling centre where it used to be. They’ve educated the islanders to separate their rubbish into different bags, then it's collected once a week and taken to the new centre where all the organic rubbish is composted and turned into natural soil treatment, all glass, metal and most plastics are recycled and here’s the cleverest bit, there’s even an upcycling section, where electronics are fixed, stuff is repaired to be re-used and the small amount of unrecyclable stuff becomes material for art.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org

Amazing news from Bangladesh where ingenuity from farmers has turned an arid basin into one of the lushest and richest rice cultivation places in the world.

Say namaste to the farmers of the Bengal Basin,  who over the past 40 years, have dug a system of wells which capture monsoon rains and keep the water to irrigate their fields in the dry season, which is getting longer and dryer.

The now 300 wells connect to an underground lake called “the Bengal Water Machine”,  which holds, at full capacity at the end of the monsoon, between three and four times the volume of lake Windermere. What they’ve done will inspire farmers all over the world in hot places, that they don’t necessarily need modern technology to protect their crops and livelihoods from the ravages of global heating.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org