“Waste is wealth” As Tubah Council Graduate 1st Batch of Trainees from Waste Recycling Unit

 

According to Mayor Tanjong Martin of Tubah Council, much can be done out of Waste Management while saving lives and cleaning the environment. 

Changing times requires a lot of hygiene and sanitation given the growing need to fight pollution in all it’s forms and waste disposable.

It is as a result that Mayor Tanjong Martin has since championed the course to win war against plastic pollution, waste management and recycling to secure a safe living environment for indigenes of his municipality.

Tubah as a result in Cameroon of late has become the center of biodiversity management and conservation thanks to the mayor’s diverse initiatives to make wealth out of waste.

It is working in that direction and against the backdrop of waste management resilience that the Mayor of Tubah has since set up a plastic Waste Management center that is into the collection, production of pavement bricks and training.

The center, call it unit, uses modern techniques to recycle waste collected from all over the council area by specialized staffs and at times by students on holidays temporary recruited for the purpose.

The center it most be noted,  in it’s ninth year graduated some eight staffs of the Nkor Council on Friday the 30th of June 2023 who had received some eight months effective training to in turn use in their own council area to save nature and Environment from plastic Waste pollution.

On the occasion which brought in high placed authorities presided by DO Metouge NARCISSE of Tubah Sub-Division, the trainees showed and demonstrated  their mastery of the subject matter from the beginning right up to the end of the fabrication of pavement bricks out of plastic recycled.

Moved on the occasion, the DO of Tubah, while encouraging Nkor Council and staffs who took the pain to come for the drilling and training program in his Sub-Division, he challenged all other councils all over the Republic to cease such a golden opportunity to come acquire the same knowledge in Tubah on how to go about enhancing and sustaining plastic Waste Management through recycling for money and the offering of gainful employment.

The Mayor of Tubah, after the handing over of certificates to graduates,  called on all to be good ambassadors and to champion the course against plastic Waste Management in their council area. Saying, it is only through such initiatives that the war against plastic pollution can be won. Adding to the press that, Tubah will soon go beyond just plastic Waste recycling for pavement bricks into building class rooms out of plastics. That he said will be done in collaboration with some of his German partners who have ambitions to carry out and subsidize the building of some class rooms in Tubah using plastic.

The Mayor of Nkor Kongyuy Francis on his part, thanked Tubah Council, a partner in development for showing them the light to plastic Waste Management and sanitation. He took commitment to sell and promote the idea on proper waste management for economic and financial gains to other Council.

This initiative must be commended because it falls in line with this year’s 2023 UN World Environment Day theme “blast plastic pollution” and falls conveniently within  the ambit of “End Plastic Pollution” campaigns which EARTH DAY.org has just kick started world wide.