Reusing waste automobile tyres to produce household furniture as an alternative to domestic timber and burning or dumping them.
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Our project is aimed at training young people to remove waste automobile tyres dumped in rivers, gutters, farmlands and landfills and transfrom them into household furniture such as coffee tables, center tables, reading tables, chairs and side stools, cupboards and flower jars.
The purpose of the project is to contribute to combat environmental pollution and climate change caused by massive deumping of waste automobile tires on river bodies, farmlands and streets which degenerates to cause serious water and land pollution or the burning of automobile tyres in open spaces that cause serious air pollution. The project also contributes to reduce the human pressure on the Tubah Upland Forest (a lone watershed in the area and a habitat to the critically endangered Cameroon-Nigeria Chimpanzee) in Bamenda Town in the North West Region of Cameroon for furniture wood. The High demand for furniture wood is one of the main causes of deforestation in the Tubah Upland Forest in Bamenda.
Our project is therefore looking at the economic and environmental leverage that waste automobile tires can provide as raw material for household furniture over burning them or dumping on landfills and water bodies causing more environmental damage and also as leverage over domestic timber demand as raw material for household furniture which increases pressure on natural forest-increasing deforestation and reducing our resiliency to climate change issues.
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