Pollution
Environment & Climate
Recycling à la Camerounaise: Necessity and Improvisation
A wry account of how ordinary Cameroonians have become inadvertent recyclers, repurposing everything from plastic bottles to cement bags and car tires out of practical need rather than environmental ideology. The piece catalogs these everyday acts of material reuse with humorous precision, suggesting that real sustainability emerges not from summit rhetoric but from the ground.
Shithole Recycling à la Camerounaise
A sardonic inventory of how ordinary Cameroonians repurpose waste materials out of necessity and ingenuity, even as the state fails to enforce its climate commitments. The piece catalogs everything from plastic bottles becoming oil decanters to exercise books wrapping street food, suggesting that grassroots resourcefulness has become de facto environmental policy.