Mauritania’s Women Demonstrate Practical Zero-Waste Strategies

In Aleg, Mauritania, a women’s cooperative is redefining sustainability by transforming desert dates into eco-friendly soap, while ensuring nothing goes to waste. These women extract seeds by hand, a laborious process yielding just 25–30 kg monthly. The seeds are then cold-pressed into oil in Nouakchott and turned into all-natural soap. Even the shells are repurposed as fertilizer […]