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Cambodian entrepreneur Has Kea, 41, wants to reduce plastic pollution in his community

For the past 11 months, a group of workers have transformed around 40 tonnes of discarded plastic bottles into brooms..Envioronment. climate. climate change. Carbon emission. ozone. plastic waste. plastic menace. conservation

In a small warehouse in Cambodia's capital, a group of workers sit and spin waste plastic bottles into strips, turning them into bristles for brooms, of which they churn out 500 each day. For the past 11 months they have transformed around 40 tonnes of discarded plastic bottles, about 5,000 bottles per day, by "upcycling" them into brooms they say are more robust than regular brushes. Plastic strips from the empty bottles are collected into a bundle on a machine, before being softened in hot water and sliced evenly to be sewn with metal wires into the ends of a bamboo stick.