FOTOSTORY - burntrash and the childs of porto novo -

our simidjan-guide broght us to the right place:
the official dump site of a district of porto-novo / benin
(sheeps and goats, our old trashy friends.)


children pass by with short disturbance of everydays air pollution..

ibrahim - lives as a neighbour and gardian of the dump site. he regularly burnes the waste down, no matter what it contains..

"it´s my job to clean up this area and before the pest comes to us, i burn it down, whatever it is.."

ibrahim, 52.
(is there any connnection between voodoo and waste, i ask myself once again)

wastefire vs. burntrash in the palm grove..

..meanwhile..

..a schoolclass in the background is learning about botany, ecology, sustainability, and how not to deal with waste..

"don´t burn trash!"

"the air pollution harms you and all the people around you!" underlines the teacher.

but they burn..
..and burn..
..and burn all the waste, not knowing about the value and the toxic of it..

ibrahim is going home to watch his granddoughter playing with plastik toys from china.
..till the job is finished and the waste gone with the wind.



but:

there are a lot of possibilities to make jobs, make money, make sustainable developments for the society - out of trash of your society. the lack of information transFair to these people is leaving them not knowing better. the lack of financial transFair is not even offering alternatives.
we where the first speaking with this people about the global value of waste.
so there is a lot of potential for T.O.Y.S. company limited by waste to develope an ongoing global business with secondary raw material from africa.
our sustainable trash stocks are still available.
invest in global fairness for global waste.

for the better future..