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Episode: Turning the tide on plastic waste: Kenya’s Lamu Islanders upcycled washed up litter into boats
Description: On the coastal island of Lamu, off Kenya’s east coast, workers are turning plastic waste into furniture, even boats.
Lamu is contending with mounds of plastic waste—some washed up on its beaches, others created by its own population.
“We are collecting the waste plastic around Lamu archipelago, and we process those ones to make boats, furniture, and also doing a lot of research on what we can do with the plastic,” explains Ali Skanda, co-founder of the Flipflopi Project, an NGO founded in 2016.
The Flipflopi Project receives grants from other NGOs which they then use to buy plastic waste fr...