Great Green News!
A member of the community just gave us a piece of land for our Plastic Bottle Recycling and One Million Trees Project. The piece of land is located about 10metres from @mr-greens residence and was given by Mr. Tanyi Jaila Marcel, a member of the Teken New-Layout Community in Mile 4 Nkwen, Bamenda - Cameroon.
The Plastic Bottle Recycling and One Million Trees Project strives to upcycle 500,000 Plastic Bottles into One Million UPB Tree Nursery Pots to nurse and grow one million trees (fruit trees, agroforestry trees, medicinal trees, ornamental trees) which will be planted in the Bamenda Highlands of the North West Region of Cameroon inorder to promote food and fruit security, alleviate poverty and youth unemployment, STOP Plastic Bottle Pollution and fight climate change.
The principal objectives of the project are;
- Remove 500, 000 Plastic Bottles from the environment and train young people to upcycle them into one million UPB Plant Nursery Pots; hence stop plastic pollution.
- Nurse one million and plant one million trees comprising of 500,000 fruit/medicinal trees, 200,000 indigenous forest tree species, 150,000 agroforestry tree species, 100,000 ornamental trees and 50,000 other eco-tree species; hence promote reforestation.
- Train and engage 50 Youths in arboriculture and the upcycling of plastic bottles into UPB Tree Nursery Pots and UPB Vertical Gardens.
The Role of the Earth Rangers in the Project
This summer Holiday, Earth Rangers of @thegreens will be trained to go around educate inhabitants of their communities about plastic pollution and collect plastic bottles from their communities for the project. Their principal goal will be to #ZeroPlasticBottlePollution in their communities.
At the project site, they will be trained on arboriculture and how to upcycle the plastic bottles into UPB Plant Nursery Pots and UPB Vertical Gardens.
We look forward to launching the project tomorrow June 17, which is World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought.
You will able to support our project on @fundition and we are really excited to go on this exciting journey with You!
#Call2Action
The Greens is a grassroots environmental organization that strives to educate, inspire and engage young people to take action to combat climate change and be at the forefront of biodiversity conservation and waste management.
Founded in 2010, @thegreens have been able to use arts, sports, media and ICT to educate and engage more than 10,000 young people in Green Poetry, Green Music, Green Arts, Green Radio, and Conservation Champions League.
Her tree planting programs have seen the organization create 04 Community Tree Nurseries, planted more than 300,000 trees and together with @kedjom-keku we have acquired 1000 hectares of afromontane forest in Kedjom-Keku Village of the Bamenda Highlands of the North West Region of Cameroon for the creation and conservation of Kedjom-Keku Community Forest
@thegreens is currently engaged in Waste Management (Waste Business Hub); Plastic Waste Upcycling, Tire Upcycling and Textile Waste Recycling via @ecodesigns.
Her #EndPlasticPollution Campaign has seen the organization sensitize more than 100,000 people about plastic pollution, upcycled more than 10,000 plastic bottles to create UPB Vertical Gardens, UPB Tree Nursery Pots, etc.
Her Textile Recycling Project (@ecodesigns) is currently training 13 young girls for free in textile recycling and fashion designing and has recycled more than 5000 pounds of textile waste.
Her Tire Upcycling Project is educating and engaging young people in schools and communities to #StopBurningTires and upcycle them to create Mushroom Tire Seats, Tire Flower Pots, etc
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