{"id":31610,"date":"2022-10-27T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/10\/27\/cameroon-tackles-plastic-pollution-recycling-startups-turn-trash-into-treasure\/"},"modified":"2022-10-27T12:00:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T16:00:25","slug":"cameroon-tackles-plastic-pollution-recycling-startups-turn-trash-into-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/10\/27\/cameroon-tackles-plastic-pollution-recycling-startups-turn-trash-into-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon tackles plastic pollution: Recycling startups turn trash into treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Cameroon produces 600,000 tonnes of plastic waste every year, an\u00a0environmental liability for the country&rsquo;s main urban centres.\u00a0To reduce pollution and help protect the environment,\u00a0several local entrepreneurs have turned to\u00a0the collection, recycling\u00a0and transformation of plastic waste. The applications are vast \u2013 from\u00a0roof tiles to furniture and decorative objects and even fuel \u2013 and can provide cheaper alternatives to many industries. Our correspondents report.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameroon produces 600,000 tonnes of plastic waste every year, an\u00a0environmental liability for the country&rsquo;s main urban centres.\u00a0To reduce pollution and help protect the environment,\u00a0several local entrepreneurs have turned to\u00a0the collection, recycling\u00a0and transformation of plastic waste. The applications are vast \u2013 from\u00a0roof tiles to furniture and decorative objects and even fuel \u2013 and can provide cheaper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,3],"class_list":["post-31610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afriqueune","tag-africa","tag-afrique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}