Plastic Bag Recycling in Kenya
April 4th, 2010
Rocketboom Field Correspondent Ruud Elmendorp reports on a local, Nairobi, Kenya-based effort to recycle plastic bags into fencing poles.
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Tags: environmentalism, evansgithinji, greenafrica, plastic, Recycling, sustainability
Wow! What a great example of recycling. The world should see this as an example of a thoughtful reuse of plastic bags. Plastic bag recycling is happening everywhere.
True that he creates employment and local start-ups are needed. BUT I was born and raised in Kenya and I have never seen anybody who is born with HIV and who is malnourshed, except on TV just like you. Saying that almost all Kenyans are born with HIV and are malnousrished is simply not true. Many children are born with HIV and some areas suffer from famine when it doesnt rain but it is far from being “almost all of them”…
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Every time degradable products end up in landfill, they give off methane as they decompose….this is about 20 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas
@pegobuilders
And we collect that gas and use it as energy. A landfill isn’t a pile of shit it’s basically a green grassy field with pipes coming out of it. once it’s finished of course.
blame the whiteman for all this polution and garbage in africa with their products. Also blame kenyan for buying this shit and not cleaning up after themselves but even if theydid they would still have white mans polution on their precious soil
your great man! i hope your technology would reach many countries to reduce the non-biodegradable plastic bags that sucks our planet. Mabuhay ka! From the Philippines
a m a z i n g !
he deserves that car. look at the positve side hes doing something good for the earth whos cares what he spends his money on its his money that he earned himself.
i just think its bad bussiness, i would perfer he bulit more factories till every bag in his country got recycled and he could then buy a jet for all i care, its all about the money, then jobs, then enviornment
Why don’t you go over there and do that?
Why does he have to sacrifice his comfort (that he earned) while you sit at a COMPUTER with INTERNET?
Without him doing that there would be more waste, less jobs, and those people wouldn’t have the good that he supplies.
That is a win-win-win situation.
its his idea, he should buld more factories not me
How are you gonna blame him for doing something when you won’t do it yourself.
You can’t hold others to higher standards than you hold yourself.
It makes you a hypocrite, and a bitch.
how do you know my standards
Because that man is living without a computer and internet but yet you are.
And I seriously doubt that you are there building the factories your telling him to build.
I know you live beyond what you need to live.
Your spending money paying for internet when you could give that to a family without income.
He is not telling you that you can’t use the money that you earn how you want, I’m not telling you that you can’t.
So don’t tell him that he can’t.
like i proved i dont want him as a business partner, my original statement.
the other man who i would have as a business partner will soon drive him out of business or pay a corrupt policeman to end his business. that is Africa that is the way it is. and yes i live a thousand fold beyond my needs, such is life. my bed room is bigger than your house. Not bragging but by your logic he was doing fine without the new car.
how do you know how big my house is?
i gotz a big house…
and idk about him being driven out of business.
he already has more business than he can handle.
i think there is some room for competetion
no businessman has more business than he can handle, the only way that is possible is if he has run out of people to hire, you must be joking.
you have obviously never owned a successful business.
he has more orders than he has equipment to produce.
he had the money for a new car pay attention please.
yeah he earned enough money to buy a car.
what’s your point?
im saying he doesnt have enough machinery to make more posts.
im not saying he isnt earning enough money.
He has to be careful not to get his plastic too hot, for the fumes, but he’s also employing a lot of kids collecting the stuff, and a lot of people who would otherwise have to wait to buy lumber to build with. Ideas!!! not having $10k hanging about, I am trying to think how to do something like that with a press for wagon beds – please help me connect the dots!
From just reading your comments, you are a fucking nut man! what a disgrace!
@VolkgartenBySquirrel Damn man, i been thinking I’d like to do something like this, to help people in other countries, and make just enough money to be self sufficient. Don’t really know where to start either. We should go in on a machine together!
@Jordainio Hello, some more –
Jordainio, there are people to help in other countries all over the place here, and if I get careless..! The biggest expense seems to be the hot press, which can be reduced to a roller assembly, and the hydraulics. Suddenly, I smell Harbor Freight…! Connect in about 6 weeks and we’ll see what happened!