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Surfer Launches Dakar's First Zero-Waste Restaurant

Annika Hammerschlag

   DAKAR, SENEGAL - Plastic bags, bottles, cigarette butts and other
   debris lap against the shore of Virage Beach in northwest Dakar,
   Senegal. Workers from beachside restaurants and surf shops rake the
   sand to try to capture the waste, but the garbage always returns.

   A lack of infrastructure and education surrounding proper waste
   disposal in the Senegalese capital has resulted in piles of litter
   inundating the city's streets and beaches. Babacar Thiaw, owner of
   Copacabana Surf Village, a surf shop and restaurant on Virage Beach
   that was opened in 1970 by Thiaw's father, is taking matters into his
   own hands by turning his restaurant into a waste-free haven. It's the
   first of its kind in the region.

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