Ever wondered where that piece of inorganic plastic water-bottle you throw out of the moving-car window goes? In the slum neighbourhood are diligent men and women who wake up early to sweep the city streets for us. They pick the used plastic bottles and pack them in huge sacks in their backyards, away from the ‘clean’ city dwellers, ready for re-cycling! This explains why Dar-es Salaam city in relatively cleaner than most East African cities. Good job there, isn’t it? We can’t live without plastics, but how can we lessen the plastic menace after we take the Machinga’s water? Should we just drop the bottles anywhere for cleaners to pick for recycling?
