Meeting at Waste Treatment Plant Main

Main (previously APS) Executive Director Robert Kruijff talks to Trafigura drivers Doumbia Siaka and Amado Bakayoko, the interpreter and Greenpeace campaigner Marietta Harjono. Doumbia Siaka and Amado Bakayoko visited Amsterdam (Netherlands) for several starting September 5th. The Ivorian chauffeurs were hired in 2006 by Trafigura to dispose of toxic waste from the ship Probo Koala in the Ivorian capital of Abidjan. They were two of the nine truck drivers who dumped the waste in many different sites in and around the city. Doumbia and Amado went twice to the Amsterdam headquarters of Trafigura to demand apologies from the company for not disclosing the toxic nature of the waste that they were asked to dispose of. Both times they were told that the management of Trafigura could and would not hear their story. They also paid a visit to the waste treatment plant Main (previously APS) which obtained the toxic waste but were not allowed to process it.