- 08-Feb-2016
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Green
Transforming waste to Wealth
Abstract
We recycle plastic garbage and transform them into strong and durable plastic lumbers. Plastic lumber is an affordable alternative to timber, which reduces the need for building material manufactured from wood, helping to preserve forests and cut down on deforestation and effects of climate change. Unlike timber plastic lumbers do not rot, are termite resistant, outlast timber in application and can be cut, drilled and nailed as easily as timber.
As a green business our goal is triple fold; to recycle waste plastic and thus provide an alternative waste management solution to the plastic menace, to provide an affordable alternative to timber (To curb deforestation and reduce the effects of climate change) and to provide employment and thus a source of living to many unemployed youths.
Our Plan is for coming three years to withdraw over 1 million kilograms of plastic from the environment and use them to manufacture plastic lumber and save an estimated 250 acres of forest that would have been cut down, with the fact that plastic recycling also saves 2.5 kg CO2/kg plastic hence we will be preventing 2,500,000 kg of CO2 emissions further mitigating climate change.