GOOD FIGURES

Where statistics and optimism meet

29% The drop in cancer death rates in the US between 1991 and 2017 – this equates to 2.9 million fewer deaths. In fact, in 2017 alone, the cancer death rate fell by 2.2%, which is the largest single-year drop ever to be recorded. 0 The cost of a meal at the Garbage Café in Ambikapur, India. Instead, customers pay with plastic waste. Run by the Ambikapur Municipal Corporation, it then sells the rubbish on to private companies, who reuse it. 2021 The year by which Colombia expects to be declared free of landmines. In November, 38 municipalities were declared free of landmines, bringing the total to 391 out of the 700 that were once affected. *These articles have been written by our friends at Positive News, the magazine for good journalism about…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2020

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