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Hello, I'm Dashiani Navanayagam and welcome to The Conversation from the BBC World Service.
This is the programme which amplifies women's voices from around the world,
allowing us to hear the extraordinary things women are achieving.
Today,
my two guests both work to mitigate the effects of something that every single human contributes to –
rubbish.
The United Nations Global Waste Management Outlook predicts that the amount of stuff we throw away will increase from 2.3 billion tonnes in 2023 to 3.8 billion by 2050.
So what do we do with it all?
And can anything stem the rising tide of waste that humans are creating?
Esther Fagbo is a partner at Recyclers in Nigeria,
a for-profit social enterprise that pays waste pickers and households for their recycled rubbish in Lagos.
She's also involved with Fair Plastic Alliance,
a NGO which ensures that people picking waste are fairly paid and looked after.
And Maxine Mayhew is a Chief Operating Officer at BIFA,
one of the UK's largest waste management companies.
She oversees collections and sorting of household commercial and industrial waste.