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      <title>The VIPRO app: request a pickup from your phone</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Programme</category>
      <description>The app connects people in Kinshasa with the programme's collectors and follows every kilo through to payment. It is not published yet: the pilot will start in one commune.</description>
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      <title>Green Attitude: three actions to make sorting a habit</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>On the ground</category>
      <description>VIPRO's campaign starts from the people of Kinshasa who already sort. It moves commune by commune, with the city's schools, markets and artists.</description>
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      <title>Pre-collection: collectors paid by the kilo, right into the alleys</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>On the ground</category>
      <description>Drop-off points in every neighbourhood, tricycles and motorbikes to reach where trucks cannot, and a payment after every weighing.</description>
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      <title>Operation O2: pavers, bricks and benches made from waste</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>What remains at the end of the chain will be able to come back into the city as building materials. Orders will also go to Kinshasa's makers.</description>
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      <title>Kinshasa, 12,000 tonnes of waste a day</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>What the public figures say about the capital's waste, and who already deals with it.</description>
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      <title>VIPRO presents its programme to clean up Kinshasa</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>The programme follows waste from the street to its second life. It starts in the capital, commune by commune.</description>
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