Youths drilled on recycling plastic waste

Some 120 youths in the cities of Yaounde and Douala will this holiday be involved in the collection of abandoned used plastic containers that will be later transformed into pavements.

This is within the project; Plastic Recup Holiday, an initiative of Les Brasseries du Cameroon and Hysacam, to collect and clean Cameroon’s Yaounde city of plastic containers.

While launching the campaign yesterday July 25, 2016, at the Cité Verte neighbourhood in Yaounde, the Deputy Director General of Les Brasseries du Cameroon, Patricia Berthelot, lauded the collaboration of the President of the Foundation; Coeur d’Afrique, Ambassador Roger Milla, who did not only contribute in the conceptualisation of the project but also ensured that youths spend useful time during holidays while preserving the environment from waste plastic containers which are a source of pollution.

Yesterday morning, some 60 youths received theoretical lessons on plastic waste at the Lycée Leclere General in Yaounde and were later taken to the Cité Verte neighbourhood where they got into a practical phase of picking bottles from blocked gutters and other corners in the neighbourhood.

In a bid to be effective in the project, Les Brasseries du Cameroon and Hysacam are working with two NGOs; ANPD Environment and Coeur d’Afrique who will continue with the processing of the plastic containers into road pavement.

For four days participants will move around the nooks and crannies of the capital city, picking plastic bottles.