RecycleRight

Recycling plastics into carbo blocks and good quality school furniture.

To create sustainable cities for the future, the problem of waste management is a key area that needs to be addressed especially how to handle plastic waste that doesn’t easily decompose. In view of this, the project aims at utilising recycled plastics to create plastic cabro blocks that can be used in laying pavements and good quality school furniture for underdeveloped schools in rural areas.

To create sustainable cities for the future, the problem of waste management is a key area that needs to be addressed especially how to handle plastic waste that doesn’t easily decompose. In view of this, the project aims at utilising recycled plastics to create plastic cabro blocks that can be used in laying pavements and good quality school furniture for underdeveloped schools in rural areas.

The project aims at using locally available materials (plastics) to improve the school experience for students. In many countries, recycling has not been fully utilised yet it can be a rich source of investment.

The social enterprise created by the project will benefit the society by providing a clean and sustainable environment while generating employment for those involved in the collection/sorting of the waste and the production process in the factory . Since the project is geared towards improving the learning experience of students in schools, it would be ideal to involve them with the guidance of experts in encouraging people to dispose the plastic waste in the designated bins, choosing the colour designs for their furniture, providing landscaping designs of how the plastic cabro pavements will be implemented in the school etc.

The number of people engaged in the project. - Employment opportunities

Tracking the amount of plastic waste collected - Waste collection

Tracking the number of blocks and furniture produced. - Carbo blocks and furniture

The project viability lies in easy access to the raw materials (plastic waste) considering the amount of plastic waste towns produce per day and hence make the production stream cheaper in the long run. To fully maximise on plastic waste collection, the project aims at utilising technology to monitor collection of garbage. The plastic waste collection bins will be installed with sensors so that those involved in collection can get alerts of which bins are full instead of collecting/checking from all bins yet some have nothing.

The social enterprise created by the project will benefit the society by providing a clean and sustainable environment while generating employment for those involved in the collection and sorting of the waste and the production process in the factory. 

The project will be affordable for the community as it will deploy its own trucks to serve a larger community area as opposed to the current model which serves garbage collection at residential estate level and hence is expensive.

The project implementation stage will involve; installation of bins and the sensor technology,purchase of collection trucks, production factory set-up.

Since the project involves many stakeholders,we plan to partner with corporations that handle various aspects of the project currently individually in a bid to get the resources to bring the project to fulfillment.We hope in the long run the government will recognize our initiative and agree to partner to make it more scalable.

Though the project is still at its initial stages,the funds needed to implement the project long term goals will be a challenge as the equipment to be used in the factory process, installation of sensors,waste collections bins,trucks are costly.

I believe through Solve I will be able to further my technical skills in the given domain by interacting with like-minded individuals and narrow this information gap on how to properly implement plastic recycling projects. Also, I hope that through Solve I will get a platform to communicate the benefits of the project to societies and countries.

Currently am working as an individual to better understand the project before I engage stakeholders to help build and develop various aspects of the project.

Our current competition comes in indirectly and they are Ecopost Kenya.