ROMA – His bricks are not made of cement or crushed stone. Not even water. It's just plastic waste and sand. Tšehla Kata, a former student of the National University of Lesotho (NUL), recycles plastic ...

A Kenyan woman invented a brick stronger than concrete that’s made entirely of recycled materials like plastic. “Plastic waste is not just a Kenya problem, but it’s a worldwide problem,” Matee told ...

A Kenyan woman is harnessing her country’s mounds of plastic waste to create both new jobs and bricks that are stronger than concrete. Close-up of the sturdy recycled bricks being produced by Kenyan ...

Across the world there are about 6.3 billion metric tons of plastic waste. It’s in our water, our air, the fish we eat and the soil our vegetables grow in. In fact only 21% of all the plastic ever ...

"I believe that plastic is one of the misunderstood materials." The 30-year-old Kenyan engineer and inventor would know: her start-up recycles tonnes of plastic destined for landfill into eco-friendly ...

Ovy Sabrina fights plastic waste in Indonesia by spreading noodle packets, coffee sachets, straws and other trash around the sprawling archipelago — entombed in eco-friendly bricks. Her family knows ...

AS intimated by the author in the preface, this book is intended: “ (a) to supply reliable and unbiased information to those firms and individuals who contemplate making or buying bricks and ...

Using her ingenuity and engineering skills, Nzambi Matee found a way to help the environment by converting plastic waste into building materials. In 2017, Matee opened a factory in Nairobi called ...

Plastic pollution is a worldwide problem. In Nairobi alone, about 500 metric tons of plastic waste are generated every single day. Only a fraction of this number is recycled. In true innovation ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Nzambi Matee hurls a brick hard against a school footpath constructed from bricks made of recycled plastic that her factory turns out in the Kenyan capital. It makes a loud bang, ...

These days, Nelson Boateng calls himself a “reformed plastic bag manufacturer”. The 36-year-old entrepreneur, who at one time recycled tons of discarded plastic sachets into pellets to make plastic ...

The glut of plastic waste in Accra, Ghana’s capital, is evident along the side of the road, with discarded bottles, plastic bags and the like. This same plastic wave has also affected the country’s ...