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Plastic bricks in Kenya – Nzambi Matee - Young Champion of the Earth 2020
Nzambi Matee is a Kenyan engineer and head of Gjenge Makers Ltd., a social enterprise that produces sustainable low-cost construction materials made of recycled plastic waste. Because of her contribution and mission, she was awarded with the UN Environment Programme's Young Champions of the Earth prize.
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Not fantastic when it is plastic
The UN Conference on Trade and Development looks at plastic pollution and how the world is drowning in it with David Vivas, an UNCTAD legal officer working on trade and environmental issues.
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Unlock the Recycling Potential of Ocean Plastics
A team of undergraduate students from Western Washington University is working to understand how the world could best use discarded plastics in the hope that proving their commercial viability could create a robust market for them that, at least as of now, does not exist.
In India, a circular economy creates value from plastic waste
Little do the locals and tourists visiting the parks of Indore — the largest metropolitan city in central India — know that the chairs and benches that they are sitting on are made out of plastic boards generated from plastic waste, collected door to door, sorted and then shredded. But that is not the only surprise…
Catching the wave
Víctor turned to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to find a partner to promote surfing and environmental protection. There, he learned about the initiative to eliminate single-use plastics. He made it his own. ACOS is now the leading organization that has turned Garabito into the first township in Costa Rica to create a network to monitor contamination from microplastics.