Earth Rangers of Teken Community on Monday learned how to produce powder detergents in a bid to promote local production and consumption, hence improve on their local economy as well as reduce the plastic pollution that results from the powder detergents industry.
Powder detergents popularly known as Omo here in Cameroon are very popular and are packaged in small plastic papers which after use, end up on the streets, in streams and some in the landfills.
The plastic wrappings are greatly contributing to the littering in the community and this explains why, @mr-greens and some members of @thegreens took out time to teach the young environmental defenders on how to produce their own powder detergents.

Earth Rangers with wrappings of different powder detergents they picked up from the streets
Besides promoting local production and consumption and reducing the plastic pollution, the initiative is also green business which can serve as an alternative source of income for the young environmental defenders. The initiative also contributes in reducing the green house gas emissions that result from the detergents production industries as well as the emissions that result from the transportation of the detergents.
If young people produce their own detergents locally, there will be no need for machines as well as no need to transport the detergents and this implies, a significant decrease in green house gas emissions.

Earth Rangers say NO to plastic pollution from powder detergents plastic wrappings
At the end of the training, the young people pledged to start producing their own local detergents and stop consuming foreign detergents that are greatly contributing to plastic pollution in their community.

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