Group aims to end pollution by reusing plastic to make baskets

Regina Nzuki, a member of Mama Watoto Self Help Group in Machakos, weaves a basket from recycled plastic waste. [Philip Muasya, Standard]

Inside a one-roomed house at Konza market in Machakos County, a team of women is busy, their fingers methodically weaving the baskets sitting on their laps as they engage in lively banter.

Ordinarily, in this part of the country, the baskets would be made from sisal threads. But here, the women belonging to Mama Watoto Self Help Group are using plastic yarns made from waste plastics collected at Dandora dumpsite in Nairobi county.