Every day tonnes of disposable plastic ends up in the ocean, suffocating the marine life, clogging up rivers and oceans around the world, endangering wildlife, poisoning the food chain, and causing the climate crisis. In Kenya, a company has taken up the daunting task of putting all this plastic to good use. The start-up called Noma Green Plastic is giving approximately 30 tonnes of ocean plastic a new shape: that of trendy furniture. It collects almost 30 tonnes of plastic each month from various landfills, sifts, and warms them via moulds using thermo-regulated gear.
Each month, Noma Green Plastic Limited salvages 40 tons of the plastic discarded in landfills and molds it into chairs, tables and poles used in fencing.