内容摘要：In Wales, more than 2,000 people are diagnosed with breast cancer every year.

In Wales, more than 2,000 people are diagnosed with breast cancer every year.

Improperly discarded, it can also have a massive detrimental impact on the environment.If it is drained down the sink, it can damage pipes and contaminate groundwater, and when it is tossed by the side of the road, it can contaminate freshwater and crops many communities rely on.

Faced with these health and environmental hazards, the young green entrepreneurs behind Sustenta tried to come up with a solution which would not only give businesses an incentive to dispose of their oil and grease properly, but also turn these waste products into something useful.The NGO's executive director, Ricardo Pineda, explains that their idea originated from earlier efforts by different companies and organisations to transform used cooking oil into biodiesel. "But in Honduras, we don't have a market for biodiesel," he says."So we decided to produce products that can do well in our domestic markets [such as soap and dog food]."

In order to make it more attractive to people to get rid of the oil legally rather than sell it to unscrupulous buyers, Sustenta offers to buy the used cooking oil and pick it up regularly from the shops that participate in their project.Their efforts have gained international recognition, most notably when they were awarded a $20,000-prize as one of the winners of the 2023 Youth4Climate Energy Challenge, a global initiative co-led by the Italian government and the United Nations Development Programme.

Sustenta also receives funding from the embassy of the The Netherlands in the region, which told the BBC that it chose Sustenta because "their project offered an innovative and viable solution, using an enterprising approach which has a social impact".

"It [their project] not only contributes to lessening the environmental impact through an emphasis on creating a circular economy, but also empowers young people and women - the groups most affected by climate change - and generates green jobs."It is not clear whether the contaminated products are genuine Haribo bags or fake.

Haribo said the safety of its consumers was its highest priority, adding that it was taking the incident "very seriously".The confectionery giant said the recall was only in place in the Netherlands, with other regions unaffected.

All other products are safe to consume, the company says.Emmy winning actress Valerie Mahaffey has died at age 71, her family has confirmed.