Kenya’s FlipFlop Recycling Company turns Ocean’s Trash to Treasure
While doing marine conservation projects at the Kenyan coast several years ago, one woman observed children making toys out of flip-flops that were washing up on shore. So she started a business to make colorful, fashionable products from flip-flops – while creating jobs and cleaning up the waterways. Jill Craig has more from Nairobi.
Post Series: Kenya
- 1.Menstruation in Kenya
- 2.Maasai Life Through A Child’s Eyes
- 3.The Land of No Men: Inside Kenya’s Women-Only Village
- 4.Why outlawing female genital mutilation is not enough: the cutter’s story
- 5.Northern white rhino at brink of extinction after last male died
- 6.Meet the Heroes Who Protect the Last Northern White Rhinos in the World | Short Film Showcase
- 7.Dancing on Water: Sand Dams in Kenya
- 8.Nairobi Company Developes Innovative Technique for Waste Management
- 9.A Boat Made From Plastic Waste is One of Kenya’s Solutions to a Global Problem | Short Film Showcase
- 10.Kenya recycling activists turn ocean plastics into dhow
- 11.Kenya’s FlipFlop Recycling Company turns Ocean’s Trash to Treasure
- 12.Inspirational! Creating art from washed up flip flops – Indian Ocean with Simon Reeve – BBC
- 13.Local environmental activists in Kenya | Business
- 14.This country banned plastic bags – should we all do the same? – BBC News
- 15.Kenya plastic bag ban – how effective has it been?
- 16.Poverty vs climate change | A New Climate
- 17.Flamingos of Bogoria | National Geographic
- 18.Headstone of Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, unveiled in Kenya
- 19.Rhino caregiver, James Mwenda Remembers Sudan
- 20.Kenyan Vets Turn to IVF to Save White Rhino From Extinction
- 21.Wanted Surrogate Moms to Save Northern White Rhinos
- 22.Fighting a locust plague amid Covid-19 in east Africa
- 23.Second wave of locusts in Africa expected to be 20 times worse | DW News