Senegal awash in plastic from popular water sachets


By AGENCY
  • Living
  • Wednesday, 22 Nov 2023

A vendor selling plastic sachets filled with drinkable water in Dakar. Photos: Seyllou/AFP

Moussa Ndoye, a 28-year-old beachgoer in Senegal's capital Dakar, gulps down the water from two plastic sachets in quick succession and throws them in the sand.

"This is our rubbish bin," he says with a laugh, sitting with friends in the shade of a large wooden fishing boat.

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