Enterprising Kenyan Engineer Finds An Innovative Solution To Use Plastic Waste

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Nzambi Matee's bricks are made using plastic that cannot be recycled (Credit: Gjenge Makers)

The East African country of Kenya has been at the forefront of the global war on plastic since 2017, when officials outlawed plastic bags. In June 2020, the government upped the ante with a ban on single-use plastics in protected areas. Unfortunately, the preemptive measures have barely made a dent. Hundreds of tons of industrial and consumer polymer waste continue to get dumped into landfills daily. However, if 29-year-old Nzambi Matee has her way, the unsightly plastic heaps will soon be transformed into colorful bricks.

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  • animereina2021
    animereina20214년 이상
    Nzambi is awesome! I feel like more people should take more thought on what they are doing to our earth. Most people don't pay attention to the sky much, and what I mean by this is that people don't really think about our planet much, or even the fact that we live on earth either. Fossil fuels and the use of cars is giving a lot of pollution to our air, and the last thing we want happening to earth is it ending. And I get it, some plastics would take more than 100 years to decompose. This pandemic had given us a lot of opportunities to be more creative, and this impresses me. This is very awesome!
    • howls
      howls4년 이상
      So cool I can imagine living in a house made of colorful bricks and walking down a sidewalk made of them to it would make the world so mush more colorful!!! :-) :-D :-D
      • octopus1234
        octopus12344년 이상
        Whoa, so cool! I would want a house made of those colorful bricks!
        • connie2009
          connie20094년 이상
          That is SUCH a good way to conserve the planet! I think that is a interesting, creative, awsome way to recycle plastics that can not be recycled! So cool! :D
          • purplepearls
            purplepearls4년 이상
            I want to live in a house made of those colorful bricks lol
            • dadima101
              dadima1014년 이상
              wow thats so awesome that she is doing. this really inspires me What about u?
              • misspuff_cat
                misspuff_cat4년 이상
                This does truly inspire me too take a minute and see what I should recycle before throwing it out... I usually just throw styrophoam in recycle cause that's what it says, but it turns out you DO NOT RECYCLE STYROPHOAM!!! Lol, but TOTALLY yes it definitely inspired me and made the world an even more awesome place!!!!! 🌎🌍🏺
                • funguy83273837
                  funguy832738374년 이상
                  makes my very happy :)
                • jazmine2008
                  jazmine20084년 이상
                  wow sounds so cool!!!
                  • love-art
                    love-art4년 이상
                    Wow, I am really impressed!Continue making the best of of it!
                    • kiki16
                      kiki164년 이상
                      Cool and wooooooooow!!!!
                      • angelachang
                        angelachang4년 이상
                        I love this news

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