See text below the photos. Photos were provided by Dr. Asi Quiggle Atud, professor of Urban Wastewater Management, at the University of Yaounde. His plan and project were funded by a measely $1500 grant from World Reuse Repair and Recycling Association Go Fund Me campaign - which honestly had not expected it to fund even the initial 40+ page plan report.
This will be a two or three part blog... this weekend, Dr Asi's ENPROSA Action Team did a third exercise at the beach in Buea, Cameroon, to compare the labor hours to collect plastic already washed to sea and washed back onto beaches - to the Kg per hour they collected in cities in the EARLY rainy season, when stormwater monsoon rains consolidated it in canals but not yet to the ocean.
While we began doing this to promote it as an alternative to other plastic litter offset measures, we are also reflecting on greenwashing, and possible perverse consequences to making litter a "commodity". We also have yet to fully investigate the plastic brick manufacturing plants which buy or accept the litter this, and other teams like WasteAid doing similar work.
In a social media post on Facebook, another Returned Cameroon Peace Corp Volunteer, remarked that education of African children - future citizens - is also vital.
Gail SpenceTrue. Teaching young people as part of school curriculum not to litter or pollute also creates new and future generations new behavior and how pollution and littering hurts them and their communities. America did it in the 70’s in many cities and it made a big differences along with putting out more public garbage cans.
So the rest of this post, below the photos and "see more", outlines a proposal for a PSA loosely based upon the flawed but effective "Crying Indian" PSA by Keep America Beautiful in the 1970s. Send your thoughts.
Below is the proposal we'll be making based on the "Keep America Beautiful" anti-litter campaign of the 1970s. We are aware that the funding of the KAB was in part to promote an alternative to more successful container deposit laws, but the promotion of doing the right thing out of conscience is not at all inconsistent with promotion of doing the right thing for a nickel deposit compensation.
How might "Keep Atlantic Beautiful" work in Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana and other nations with large cities on the coast?
