So I was walking from a meeting and about to get a taxi at Veterinary Junction, when I saw a Toyota Hilux pickup truck, On the side in big letters was "Paradise on Earth Wate Disposal". I immedately thought of my friend, ,who runs a waste disposal business in Grand Forks and decided to take a picture. As I was doing so, the owner came out of the yard and we started chatting.
Atanga Martin is a fascinating guy. He had won $5,000 from a British NGO in a competition promoting enviromental consciousness in Africa. With the money, he bought the truck, rented a piece of land and started a recycling business. This is unusual in Cameroon, where there is absolutely no formal waste disposal system. Anyway, we became friends and spent a couple of hours going to his composting facilty and seeing how he recycles glass into concrete products. This is a fascinating country.
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