Awesome!!Cameroonian makes canoes from wasted plastic bottles for fishermen in need

YAOUNDE-(MaraviPost)-An innovative young man from Cameroon has been cleaning up pollution in his city by turning plastic bottles into boats.

Ismaël Essome Ebone was first inspired to build his “EcoBoats” as a student back in 2011.

He had just taken shelter from a thunderstorm blowing through his neighborhood when he saw several plastic bottles floating by on some passing floodwaters.

He then built a boat from plastic bottles collected from around the town and waited to test it until another storm blew in.

To the astonishment of the fishermen watching from the shore, Ebone’s boat worked like a dream.

He then invested all of his money into launching his nonprofit Madiba & Nature: a charity dedicated to collecting plastic waste from around the region and turning it into boats for ecotourism and fishermen in need.

Thanks to the success of his venture, the Cameroonian organization recently 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!” reads the nonprofit’s Facebook page.

“From plastic waste to EcoBoat and EcoBin, the revolution is on the way.”

Source: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/

Lloyd M’bwana

I’m a Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resource (LUANAR)’s Environmental Science graduate (Malawi) and UK’s ICM Journalism and Media studies scholar. Also University of Malawi (UNIMA) Library Science Scholar. I have been The Malawi Country Manager and duty editor for the Maravi Post since 2019. My duty editor’s job is to ensure that the news is covered properly, that it is delivered on time, and that it is created to the standards set out in the editorial guidelines of the Maravi Post.