Part of an International Labour Office (ILO) and Lay Volunteers International Association (LVIA), Piemonte, a non-governmental organization (NGO), project, the film illustrates how Burkina Faso's first plastic recycling centre is paving the way for a new kind of development project that provides a money earner to the poor of Ouagadougou, while tackling a major environmental pollution problem affecting many African cities. Even local industry benefits: the recycled plastic granules cost half the price of new plastic imported from abroad.
Burkina Faso: protezione dell'ambiente e riciclo
Localized Title
[Protecting the environment and Profiting from garbage in burkina Faso]
Genre
Documentary
Country
Switzerland
Year
2006
Duration
7'
Sandra Cole
Production Companies
ILO
Director's Notes
Director's Notes
«The ILO Training Center in Turin teaches, among other courses, how to conceive and implement development projects. Andrea Micconi had an original idea: to provide a source of employment for the Burkinabe people and solve a major pollution problem at the same time. So, the ILO asked me to go to Ouagadougou and have Micconi show me how the project was working: a self-run plastic recycling center in one of the world's poorest areas. Often, environmental problems perpetrate under-development: plastic waste, for instance, severely reduces agricultural productivity and kills cattle that accidentally ingest it, representing a real damage to the few local resources».
Sostenibility
Sostenibility
The goal of numerous environmental struggles, now part of the UN Agenda, has been diminished and outlined in its multiple, potential areas of implementation: development, economy, food, agriculture, fishing, transportation, tourism...
Food on Film project
Partners
With the contribution
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Creative Europe Media Program. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.