It's just plastic waste and sand. Tšehla Kata, a former student of the National University of Lesotho (NUL), recycles plastic waste into pavement bricks. He calls himself Ralitoti-oa-Setene.

This innovation creates strong and durable construction products that are made from cement and polymer concrete while also tackling plastic waste pollution in Kenya.

Gjenge Makers, a Kenyan enterprise, shreds household and industrial plastic into colourful flakes that are mixed with sand, subjected to extreme heat, and moulded into sustainable bricks and pavers.

In 2017, Matee opened a factory in Nairobi called Gjenge Makers, where workers take plastic waste, mix it with sand, and heat it up, with the resulting brick being five to seven times stronger ...

Alarmed by the mountains of plastic waste leaching into Indonesia’s waters, two best friends are taking on the environmental menace by turning crisp bags and shampoo packets into paving bricks ...

It is even practicable in some cases for the two classes of products to be made side by side, the sand frequently found overlying the brick clays being beneficially utilised for the production of ...

Photo/Bird Boateng can usually be found at the Nelplast site, overseeing his employees as they mix plastic waste with sand to create a paste which is then compressed into bricks.

The plastic waste is mixed with sand, heated and then compressed into bricks, which are sold at varying prices, depending on thickness and colour.

NAIROBI: Plastic still has value, said Nzambi Matee of the mountains of discarded oil drums, laundry buckets, yoghurt tubs and other trash being shredded into colourful flakes at her Nairobi ...