Scrap hunt for sanitation and recycling
Yaoundé has become a real building site for the scrap metal collette. The neighborhood Etoudi locality "Fokou Etoudi" for example, has become an esplanade for the purchase of iron. There, many find themselves as in the periodic markets to sell and buy iron. In passing, we hear hammer blows to scrap the scrap in order to put it on the scale to determine the number of kilograms. As if to say that the purchase is made per kilogram. To get to this point, young boys stir up places such as garbage cans, streams and other rubble to extract bits of buried iron. Gathered in small groups, these gather this scrap in pile, load it in a door all and will sell it. "When you pick up the iron, you sell it in kilograms in some places to get money," says one of the young people who practice this activity. And the goal is to collect a large amount to have full pockets for these. The purpose of the movement is the manufacture of building materials. But for what quality and at what price? It is intended to say that this contributes to the poor quality of the buildings.
