“Waste
is Wealth “ Part I Was on Mayor Tanjong Martin and the Tubah Council Plastic Waste
Recycling Unit.
The Plastic
Waste Recycling Unit and management center for years in Cameroon is known reputed
for making gains out of garbage as the Counil intensify her hygiene and
sanitation program in the Municipality. The center of late has moved onto training
of plastic Waste recyclers and is soon embarking on the building of cheap and affordable
Eco friendly class rooms out of plastic in Tubah Sub-Division.
Coming
back to our Plastic recycling actor of the day, sad to hear but happy to know
and educative as Pa Gentile shares his Wows and joy earning a living out of the
“bread basket” of plastic collection and selling in Bamenda.
Hear
him as he nurses ambitions to one day become a rich man from the dustbins of
the rich while keeping Bamenda clean “I have no other pleasure and passion other
than picking my plastic bottles while keeping Bamenda clean to earn a living after
serving as night watch for over 20 years with nothing to ride home”.
what
we must note in addition is that the said Pa from the West Region precisely from
Bangang village of age 60 after over 25 years of night watch with nothing to
ride home, voluntarily offered himself to clean the environment and to earn a living
out of it.
The
elated plastic waste supplier in Bamenda town, happily recounted that
"after washing and disinfecting the plastic containers, “I sell five for
100frs CFA”. The amount and the pains to get one plastic container before
washing and disinfecting from horrible areas after going distance is so telling
of the enormous sacrifice and the selfless services the said individual better still
a “ Plastic hero” has decided to put in life to blast plastic pollution and
manage plastic for gains.
A
father of One son, with a wife resident in the West Region, Pa Gentile funly called
at veterinary junction, is happily managing his plastic waste management bin or
lot as he calls it, where he earns his daily living or bread.
Not without
nursing fear also that one day he may be kicked out of business by recycling companies
coming up, or may be short of strength to go picking. In addition, the People
of hygiene and sanitation plus taxation may come in to say he is doing a shady,
nasty and why not a clandestine business.
Not
also waving out the risk involved and insults that accompany the whole picking exercise,.
Some of his costumers who buy clean and made affordable plastic containers make
him to go and come several times just to get a 100 francs. Yet Pa is Not out of
business. Some even end up not paying him throwing slangs, yet make use and
capital gains out of the sweat of Pa Gentile a Man who have directly offered himself
to nature and to indirectly clear garbage (Plastic Waste) off the streets, the gutters
and swamps of Bamenda for daily bread.
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