A Kenyan woman and owner of a Nairobi-based factory has invented a brick stronger than concrete from recycled plastics.
Nzambi Matee, a 29-year-old materials engineer, is the founder of Gjenge Makers, a manufacturing company based in the Kenyan Capital that produces alternative, affordable building materials from recycled plastics.
“Our product is almost five to seven times stronger than concrete,” said Matee, who selected as a 2020 regional winner in the United Nations’ Young Champions of the Earth Program. She designed the machines that produce the bricks.
Matee said her company converts waste that cannot usually be processed or recycled into alternative building products. She hopes to expand across the African continent.
»Children of Liberalisation: An Environmentalist Explains Why the Budget Needs to Focus on Tech R&D
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Children of Liberalisation: An Environmentalist Explains Why the Budget Needs to Focus on Tech R&D
Vidyut Mohan, a 30-year-old environmentalist, pointed out that Liberalisation was that necessary evil that polluted our rivers with industrial waste and corrupted our air quality with unregulated smoke emissions. (News18)
Vidyut Mohan, a 30-year-old environmentalist, pointed out that Liberalisation was that necessary evil that polluted our rivers with industrial waste and corrupted our air quality with unregulated smoke emissions.
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In the last 30 years of India s Liberalisation, while we have experienced economic growth, industrial boom, and enhanced foreign exchange, the country s environment has suffered greatly. Vidyut Mohan, a 30-year-old environmentalist from an engineering background, pointed out that Liberalisation in India has largely been unregulate
Young Greek mobilizes fishermen to clean up the Mediterranean 1 minute read
By Alberto Borreguero
Athens, Dec 23 (efe-epa).- In a corner of the port in Piraeus near Athens, Lefteris Arapakis looks at a floating glass bottle on the sea as he rifles through several recycling bags. Over the four years he has spent cleaning the Mediterranean; his eyes have always fixed on the bottle he could not collect.
“Sometimes it is very difficult to know if our work has an impact,” Arapakis, the United Nations’ Young Champions of the Earth, tells Efe.
Receiving the prize represents a huge responsibility, but also a huge motivation, as it recognizes the work done by him and the Enaleia social enterprise the 26-year-old co-founded with his friend in 2016, he says.