Trash is Cash is not just a film documentary, it is also an international co-opertion project that CVF is promoting. The aim of the project is to develop a cultural exchange between youngsters groups from the North and the South of the world to support the development of a global socio political consciousness around the following issues: environment, recycling, health and social justice. The concepts of Development and Media are at the centre of the whole project. To develop this kind of consciousness youngsters from different regions of the world will have to produce and share between one another video documentaries about their own communities, the problems they are confronting and the solutions they have identified to resolve those problems. In the last decade, as consumption patterns have escalated and world population rates have mushroomed the issue of waste management has become a critical issue within any discussion regarding sustainable development. Furthermore, as this is the first year in which the world’s urban population will exceed its rural population, the issue of waste management in the context of climate change, economic development and the future of our global environment is rapidly becoming an essential concern for local authorities and communities around the globe. Any number of examples can be sited to illustrate the challenges confronting urban communities. One the one hand, on the part of developing countries, we are seeing the emergence of a new informal economy based on waste management and recycling economical activities, however this economy is not supported by the latest technologies, is not supported by the government and it is not regulated by laws, and it does not meet the basic standards to ensure an healthy and secure life to the people involved in the business and the whole community living and working around the dumping site areas. On the other hand, on the part of developed countries, we are witnessing a different set of problems. Most countries have the technology but in certain cases they have not yet developed a market for small and medium enterprises, there the bureaucracy is often too complex and obsolete to solve these problems by developing a new approach which can be able to face the environmental and the economical crises at the same time. This project aims to bring together youngsters from the Western countries and Africa to share their perspectives and develop a common approach based on their local experiences. At the same time they will recognise that this is a global issue and not just a local challenge, and that it can be solved by approaching the problems together, sharing their experience and the solutions they have identified..

CVF is looking for partners and sponsors interested to get involved in the development of the project.

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