« Trash is Cash” est la dernier buzz de la blogosphère écologique.

Ce groupe de jeunes chanteurs hip-hop, qui ont tous grandi dans les bidonvilles de Nairobi, met en exergue le disastre écologique des décharges communes (comme celle de Dandora, une des plus grandes d’Afrique) et nous rappelle que le recyclage (qui fait parti des 3R – Réduction, réutilisation, recyclage), est un élément essentiel pour créer des métiers « vert » et promouvoir une économie « verte »

Et ci-dessous, les textes de la chanson pour ceux qui ont l’oreille dure ainsi que quatre vidéos de Cultural Video Foundation sur Dandora évoquant les problèmes et les solutions.

[On peut voir sur ces vidéos le Père Daniel Moschetti (mentionné dans mon article sur Dandora), missionaire à Korogocho et coordinateur de Kutoka/Exodus, une association qui aide les enfants à quitter la décharge. Voir le document et leur site Korogocho.org que je vous invite vivement à visiter car il est très complet et bien réalisé]

TITRE

Chanson: Trash is Cash.
Artiste: Wafalme.
Producteur: Homeboyz, Slum Talent Trust.
Vidéo: Cultural Video Foundation.

INTRODUCTION

Yeah-ee-yeah, no more pollution / This my solution / Make it clean, make it clean

VERSE

Millions living here / The litter they call dear / They weren’t born here / It’s survival for revival / Air filled with polluted bubbles / Sky’s the limit every day hustle / Conserving the slum building up muscle / Clean up the streets, recycling the trash / Save the environment and make some cash / People wake up and wander right about outside / The narrow dirty streets shanty built muddy shacks / Discarded garbage kids playing on filthy paths / Within the atmosphere of alcohol, violence, and drugs / Education, medication, a distant hope in them

REFRAIN

No more pollution, trash is cash / This my solution, trash is cash / No more pollution, trash is cash / This my solution, trash is cash / Make a town a green town, make a town a green town / Make a town a green town, make a town a green town / Climate change, environment, make a town a green town / Climate change, environment, make a town a green town

VERSE

Community groups, micro entrepreneurs / Selling to farmers asset compost manure / Irrigation from the river / Eco sandals, handbags, jewelry made from the trashy granular / Mattress, pillow baskets, roof tiles from the trash plastic / Sold to local and foreign market / Metals sold to scrap dealers in a rampage / Cheap cookers made using dumped coffee seeds and paper as fuel / Feed the poor, the price not cruel / Millions of people trying to save the world / While make a living with the strong unemployment / And pollution solution, innovative lesson to the world my conclusion / Starved women bathing in dirty rivers, planting veggies along rivers / Kids forage in waste, drinking water from pipes, covered in garbage / Raw sewers overflowing, open sewage, eyes can’t bandage / Improper sanitation, no latrine variation, garbage mountains, can’t manage

REFRAIN

No more pollution, trash is cash / This my solution, trash is cash / No more pollution, trash is cash / This my solution, trash is cash / Make a town a green town, make a town a green town / Make a town a green town, make a town a green town / Climate change, environment, make a town a green town / Climate change, environment, make a town a green town

VERSE

So when I sit back and reminisce about the future / Things the way they were, wishing they wouldn’t last / My thoughts about conservation run inside of me / Now I can get the best life I wanted to achieve / The ozone layer depletion, mankind threat I mention / The planet getting warmer, resource scarcity informer / Slums overpopulated, people starving, some don’t make it / No trees around the slum / This can’t be a greener ground environment surround / Charcoal and biogas production / Youth employed for garbage collection, an ideal correction / Water purifiers, ceramic material / Fine art sculptures made from trash / Youth to generate some cash / Fire stutter by the roadside, spreading acrid smoke near food kiosks in the air / It’s pollution here, pollution there, pollution everywhere, beware.

REFRAIN

No more pollution, trash is cash / This my solution, trash is cash / No more pollution, trash is cash / This my solution, trash is cash / Make a town a green town, make a town a green town / Make a town a green town, make a town a green town / Climate change, environment, make a town a green town / Climate change, environment, make a town a green town

Trash is cash 1 part – intro and problems

Trash is cash 2part -. the solutions

Trash is cash 3part – the solutions

Trash is cash 4part – the research