Let’s Connect In Bamenda, Plastic Revolution Upcycling brings young people together to respond to plastic pollution through education, clean-ups and practical reuse.
Community clean-upsAll initiatives
Waste affects neighbourhoods as well as the wider environment. PRUC links the immediate work of collecting and sorting plastic with learning, creativity and the possibility of local enterprise.
The local group organises clean-ups and environmental education with young participants. Its proposal describes developing equipment and skills for turning recovered plastic into useful products such as containers, tiles and other items.
Upcycling production is a planned next step, supported by equipment and skills development.
PRUC brings together environmental awareness, community clean-ups and skills development, with plans to build local upcycling capacity.
Environmental education and awareness campaigns bring the waste problem into everyday conversation. Young people are central to PRUC’s local approach.
Focus: understanding the problem and encouraging community participation.
Neighbourhood clean-ups bring people together to collect plastic from public spaces. The project photographs document this community action in Bamenda.
Focus: collection, participation and care for shared places.
The proposal describes sorting recovered plastic and building skills to transform it into useful objects. Training and safe handling are part of the intended approach.
Development aim: build local capability for practical reuse and upcycling.
Shredding, controlled heating and moulding equipment are proposed for making items such as tiles, containers and decorative products.
Production remains a proposed next stage, dependent on equipment and skills development.
Community clean-ups are under way. Equipment and skills development are the next steps towards local production.
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Clinton shares how young people in Bamenda are responding to plastic waste in their own community.
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