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Youth should embrace collecting, sorting, reusing and recycling waste to create jobs

By Bornventure Kinoti | 2yrs ago
Victor Ooko mixing different plastic material and recycled waste to detect metals so that they can be removed from that waste the process of converting the waste into Eco posts. [Silas Otieno, Standard]

Young people should embrace collecting, sorting, reusing and recycling all forms of waste to create jobs

About 39 per cent of the Kenyan youth are unemployed, yet each year over a million university students enter the job market.

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