The problem with our dwindling sand reserves – UN Environment Programme
![Sand mining operation on the Red River, near Danan Village in Yunnan Province, China (by Vmenkov, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia).](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Red_River_valley_between_Manhao_and_Lianhuatan_-_P1380201-798x599.jpeg)
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has partnered with Kenyan spoken word poet Beatrice Kariuki to shed light on the problems associated with sand mining, part of a wider push towards a zero waste world.
“We must redouble our efforts to build a circular economy, and take rubble to build structures anew,” Kariuki says in a new video. “Because without new thinking, the sands of time will run out…”