Guyana: The Need to Go Green

Posted 20 January 2011 17:34 GMT

“I wonder if it is true, that there is a link between Styrofoam and cancer. And if there is, then why we still using it in green land of Guyana?”: Guyana-Gyal is beginning to think that “nobody don’t give a damn.”

Written byJanine Mendes-Franco

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