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00:00 In Cameroon, waterways in most public places are blocked by plastic later.
00:05 It's this kind of environmental pollution that non-governmental organizations like Game Changers are determined to eradicate.
00:13 Patun Dangor leads a group of about 30 young volunteers.
00:18 She takes them through a campaign dubbed "Walk and Clean."
00:21 They pick plastic waste off the streets of Cameroon's capital, Yaoundé.
00:26 It is important to make people realize how damaging our everyday consumption habits are
00:31 and the fact that we need to start making the right decisions to refuse to even use this plastic in the first place.
00:38 A few kilometers further, at Denfoun-Di-River, which cuts across the city of Yaoundé, there is a thick carpet of plastic bottles.
00:47 Members of Jeune Volontaire pour l'Environnement are involved in another environmentally-friendly project, Trash Challenge.
00:55 They're collecting as many plastic bottles as they can.
00:59 Cameroon's youth accounts for 70% of the population.
01:02 Young people buy fizzy drinks in plastic bottles.
01:05 They buy plastic water baths.
01:07 So they are major contributors.
01:10 But they're also the best way to get the message across.
01:13 Created in 2014, NAME Recycling set up this factory to recycle plastic waste in Cameroon's economic capital, Douala.
01:23 About 600 tons of waste from around the country are processed here.
01:28 After treatment, these bottles will be used again.
01:31 The secular economy can return value to what was once rubbish.
01:36 By giving value to plastic waste, we'll get more people to take interest in recycling.
01:42 When they see a plastic bottle, they'll understand its importance, its economic value.
01:51 Despite collecting 10,000 tons of plastic waste, NAME Recycling still has a long way to go.
01:58 Only about 10% of the 600 tons of plastic waste produced annually in Cameroon is currently recycled.