On March 23 each year, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), an international conservation and sustainable development NGO, organized Earth hour. It is in this context that the Gabonese branch of the organization joined forces with various local partners, with a view to marking the event through a citizen operation to collect plastic waste in different corners of Libreville.
More than 200 participants committed to the fight against environmental pollution joined WWF Gabon teams on March 23, as part of an ecorunning walk with the aim of extracting several dozen from nature kilos of plastic waste. An action which aimed to mark the 2024 edition of Earth Hour, but also to renew their commitments to environmental preservation.
The surroundings of the National Assembly and Plaine Orety scoured by the WWF and its partners
It was from 8 a.m. on March 23 that the teams were deployed on the ground, equipped with protective and waste transport equipment. In fact, they invested hours for hours in the Plaine Orety sector, as well as that of the National Assembly in the first district of Libreville, thus scouring the canal known as “River of Arambo”. During the operations, the Director of WWF Gabon, Nathalie Nyare Essima recalled the targeted objectives
From the start of the operation, the Director of WWF Gabon, Nathalie Nyare Essima defined the objectives of the day « With our partners and all these mobilized volunteers, we aim to clean the surroundings of the National Assembly, which is an important sector of the Capital. We hope to be able to remove as much plastic waste as possible from nature, in order to give it a second life,” she insisted. At the end of this operation, more than a hundred bags filled with plastic waste were removed from nature.
A civic act for which certain partners did not fail to show their pride “We are supporting the WWF as part of this day in our capacity as an organization fighting for the preservation of the environment and sustainable development. Today, we mobilized our young people to collect waste in the form of sorting and we are particularly proud of the result,” indicated Afane Edou, Executive Secretary of the Gabonese Network for the Environment and Sustainable Development (RGEDD).
At the end of the operation, the partner in charge of recycling, Namé Recycling, carried out its collection tour. Opportunity for the General Director of this structure to explain the next stages of the process “Our presence here aims to collect this plastic which, at the end of a transformation process, will make it possible to produce traps, which are used for packaging packages , as well as plastic pallets. This is our contribution to preserving the environment,” said Sylvana Abore Bekale.
Note that several other partners accompanied the WWF during this day. Namely the Ministry of Water and Forests, Sobraga, One Forest, Ecolo Gabon, AIESEC and Regard.
