The Global Garbage Economy Begins (And Ends) In This Senegalese Dump | The Nation
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The polypropylene container, or jerrycan, is a familiar sight across Senegal. Savvy businessmen sell pilfered petrol from it, hawking it to drivers waiting in long queues for fuel. The women who run salons carry it to their businesses, ensuring they can still run their generators should the electricity go. It can be a vessel for water or palm oil; a child can use it as a makeshift chair. So can a saleswoman, as a weight to hold down the plastic tarp that threatens to take-off. The swimming instructor ties one around his pupils; an empty jerrycan makes a pretty good makeshift flotation device.