Cameroon Activist Uses Plastic Bottles to Create Boats For His Community
Thursday, December 5, 2019 IST
To reduce the prevalence of plastic in the environment, a young man in Cameroon is transforming the littered bottles into “EcoBoats.”
Ismaël Essome Ebone was inspired to develop the boats after watching plastic bottles float on passing floodwaters during a storm in 2011. After collecting plastic bottles from around town, he began to develop an “EcoBoat.” When another storm blew in, he tested the concept. To the astonishment of the fisherman washing from the shore, Ebone’s boat worked splendidly.
Ebone was so inspired by the EcoBoat, he invested all of his money into launching the nonprofit Madiba & Nature: a charity dedicated to collecting plastic waste from around the region and repurposing it into boats for ecotourism and fisherman.
The venture has been quite the success. In recent months, the Cameroonian organization installed the nation’s first-ever EcoBin for collecting, sorting, and recycling waste materials.
“The EcoBin makes it easier to collect plastic bottles in a smart way and avoid polluting rivers and the ocean in Kribi and Douala!” says the nonprofit’s Facebook page. “From plastic waste to EcoBoat and EcoBin, the revolution is on the way.”
VIDEO
Related Topics
Trending News & Articles
ALMATY: Hour upon hour, day upon day, Omir Bekali and other detainees in far western China's new indoctrination camps had to disavow the...
Recently posted . 228K views . 1 min read
If you have payed attention to the belly buttons of people on the beach or the members of your family, you have probably noticed that they have different shapes and...
Recently posted . 10K views . 2 min read
The Langya henipavirus has a place with a similar group of infections, including Nipah, which is known to kill up to 3/4 of people in extreme cases.
Recently posted . 7K views . 1 min read
The UK is 6th with admittance to 187 nations, while the US is seventh with a score of 186, China was set 69th with admittance to 80 nations, the most recent positio...
Recently posted . 6K views . 1 min read
More in Global
Ancient fish died within the first minutes or hours after the asteroid hit, according to a paper published Friday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Scienc...
Recently posted. 1K views . 1 min read
The neural network model that directly analysed the ECG signals was found to be superior for predicting one-year risk of death.
Recently posted. 1K views . 0 min read
With NASA launching a historic Parker Solar Probe deeper into the solar atmosphere than any mission before it, the question arises: Why won't it melt?
Recently posted. 914 views . 1 min read
Recently posted . 1K views
Recently posted . 1K views
Recently posted . 3K views
Recently posted . 3K views
Recently posted . 4K views . 140 min read
Recently posted . 1K views . 49 min read
Pakistan’s animosity toward India is so deep-rooted that it continues to trample on its own law and impair its institutions. In a latest move, the interior mi...
Recently posted. 879 views . 2 min read
HIGHLIGHTS
*The princes, grandsons of Queen Elizabeth II, are expected to create separate &...
Recently posted. 1K views . 3 min read