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Cameroon environmentalists tackle plastic pollution in Wouri River

FRANCE24, 05 Jun 2021
Cameroon produces 6 million tonnes of waste every year, including 600,000 tonnes of plastic waste. Piles of plastic have ended up in the Wouri River in Douala, one of the most polluted rivers in Africa after the Nile and the Niger, where environmental activists have been collecting it and taking it to be recycled.

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