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i found this aricle really interesting. i for one never knew there was recycling in Senegal> Gidd thing to know though. It is sad that people however aren't only recycling for the environment but because that is the only way they can get something that mimics an income. I find that bit sad. But i also enjoy the fact that people are using their creativvity skills and creating other stuff under what we generally categorize as junk. My fave tho was the amplifier. However that guy did i t is beyond me but it would be interesting to know. I was thinking that maybe Senegal could have a recycling day. A day Maybe once every 2 months when people take 1 hour to gather their'junk' and recycle. In Rwanda they have a similar thing like that. Every 31st day of the month for 2 hours people have toclean the streets or the yards/ If u r caught driving during that time u r usually fined. so maybe senegal can implement a similar regime. It really worked in rwanda , it was mission impossible to try and find rubbish on the ground.So maybe a strategy like that would work here.
I find the different ways that the Senegalese recycle very interesting. Before today I had only heard of (in Senegal) the recycling of tin cans. I have seen shelfs and lamps made of soda cans. I also knew that some of those cans could be used in making pots. Other than that I had not noticed anything really recycled here.
An idea of something the Senegalese government could do to recycle is by creating a different system of picking up trash. They could make one trash can for plastic, one for paper, one for cans…etc. This way it will be easier for those who want to recycle to gather reusable material without digging through trash.
Before reading this article, I thought "recycling in Senegal? Yeah...not much..." But as I read this article I kept remembering and noticing ways people here actually do recycle: making pieces of art with cans, refilling bottles to wash cars on the streets, the bissap thing etc. I see these regularly, but it doesn't pop out as significant or anything. But when everyone does it, it surely adds up. I was impressed by the guy who made the amp with junk.
The most basic thing we could do here is just to separate our trash. Almost everywhere else I've been to does that, but not here. I mean even at our school, we just throw away EVERYTHING together--cans, food, plastic, paper, leaves....
If we separate bottles and stuff and they're clean, then we could be able to donate them to poorer areas where they can use them for their own purposes, making the place cleaner and making the people's lives easier.
*SNAPS* for Faith for talking about the effectiveness of me country.
I find it really interesting how the bujuman see value in everything, but also sad, because this shows that for people to realise the value of things around them they have to be in despair.
i really like the things that people manage to come up with everyday waste, and how they can actualy make a living on this. my idea was the same as faith's, but i think that it would be alot harder to accomplish here, because the city is SO BIG compared to kigali. i think that the bigger the place and the more populated it is, the harder it gets to synchronise such action. however, its still worth a try.
How is this recycling? These people must be joking. they are trying to make, these poor fools dirty jobs are made to look like a something cool and a very good thing. These people do it because they must and because they are poor and uneducated. Dont make it more than it is. If dakar calls this its "recycling plan" then Dakar, this is a worse excuse then my dog ate my hw. I will belieive that Africa has recycling plans when i see them making an effort, but for now all i can say is "ya right mac."
The part of this article that i find the most interesting is that they use recycled materials to make musical instruments like a drum. They also dont throw away technology, they use it to repair something else.
They should make recylcing in Dakar like they do in the U.S.A. When I lived on the East Coast three years ago and at my home in the West Coast, along with your garbage can you have a recycling bin. In that you can put bottles, aluminum cans, paper, newspaper, and plastics. Then on Tuesday morning in the US, but i guess it could be they come to pick up the trash,they collect your recycle and trash. They should do this system in dakar, and it would be even more effective because not only the poor people would recycle.
I was amazed at the title of this article because before reading it, i was completly unaware that there were people that recycled in Dakar. I see it as a goodt thing that some people do try to take care of the polution problem. However the site did say that, it wasn't done for an environmental reason but just because of need. I found it cool that some people use the litle tin cans to make toys for the less advantaged kids. Rolling your litle toy car is as much fun as playing pokemon or any other litle kids game. I beleive that the polution level would go alot lower if they were trucks that came to collect the garbage of the houses like once a week or something and burnt it somehwere far away. It would make a lot less of a mess in the neighboorhoods and stuff.
Lol, that guy "Grab a Woody" is mean. I do think he is right but it isn't a recycling plan, it is just "recycling" Re-using things that others threw away or whose main need has been consumed. Like the bottles main purpose was to hold water, I.e. Kirene bottles, but they tkae them and sell their juice in them. The barrels held i dunno....somehting.. and now they use it to make a drum, all sorts of things, and anything of that soirt is recycling.
My idea for recycling isnt half as cool as what the Bujuman are doing but i guess if we collected things and gave it to the bujumen we would be helping out, but hey, those bujumen tend to be a little crazy.
I see the small toys and souvenirs being sold everywhere, but never actually thought about the fact that it is recycled. If someone had asked, i would have said i thought it was, but i never actually stopped and thought about it. I think it is great that people here recycle, even though it is not out of concern for the environment. I think we could learn from these people. Before we throw something in the trash, we should think about whether it might still be useful to us in some way. I think that a good recycling idea here would be to do some composting. Since this country lacks fertile soil, we could make our own fertilizer simply by putting our organic waste in one spot, and putting a layer of dirt over it once in a while. It would reduce the waste that we see next to the roads, and create some fertile dirt to use in gardens.
The article was very interesting. It is funny because not long ago my mom and I were downtown and we started talking about how people recycle here. Example, they will use the same plastic glass for a long time. And yeah we were basically comparing Canada to Senegal and it is crazy how people don’t care in Canada, when they through something in the trash they don’t think that somebody needs it or will use it. But Canada still tries to recycle, they give free green containers to everyone and we all put recyclable stuffs in them. From this I think that we should do the same here in Senegal.
I think it's pretty sick that people can actually make something better out of things that are actually used. I knew of many of the recycling methods beforehand, but I found the speaker and musical instruments to be a newfound knowledge. Recycling bottles is an awesome way to recycle because it takes a lot of money, electrical power from factories, and plastic to make them, and if you throw away one plastic bottle after drinking it, you waste all three of those precious resources. Also, making stuff out of tin cans conserves much of Senegal's trash. I think that Senegal should have recycling containers to throw all the recyclable things in just like they have trash containers. Then they should give them to the bujuman and maybe also local artists to make interesting material out of them. Also, I don't know exactly how this will happen, but Senegal needs a way to stop people from burning trash because where it might be a way of getting rid of things, it wastes gasoline and also pollutes the ozone layer.
good thing their recycling, we really need that in Dakar. I believe we need more of the recycling that takes the raw stuff like paper and muches it down and creates new paper. Takes old chunks of metal, melts it down, and creates new cars or somethin. OR maybe a powerplants that burns garbage and turns it into energy. Also i'd be great if we could have some bins by the sidewalks and fine for illegal and unacceptable garbage dumping in the ocean. Some law enforcement would be nice in this country...
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