Innovators win awards at recycling showcase

Team Twende Green Ecocycle innovators showcase their plastic-made desk and chair to the Mombasa Plastic Prize International Development Director, Jonathan Slater during the MPP awards held in Mombasa on May 18, 2023. [Robert Menza, Standard]

In a clear case of killing two birds with one stone, four youths in Mombasa have invented ways to produce school furniture using plastic waste, thereby saving the marine environment and trees.

The four emerged top in the Mombasa Plastics Prize awards, beating 140 participants in the competition on creating the most innovative ideas to end plastic pollution in the environment and ocean.