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Gloria Majiga-Kamoto says she owes winning the Goldman Environmental Prize to goats eating plastics. The 30-year-old native of Malawi was working for a local environmental NGO to give goats to farmers in rural areas so they could use their dung to produce organic fertilizer. Unfortunately, she discovered the goats had been ingesting large quantities of plastic trash causing deaths and a breakdown of the group's efforts. Majiga-Kamoto took matters into her own hands and rallied a group of community environmental activists to ban single-use thin plastics. "She mustered the troops, the grassroots communities, to take on the government and big industry and won several times. She not only won the ban in law but is now holding the government's feet to the fire to enforce it," Michael Sutton, executive director of the Goldman Environmental Foundation told NPR.
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