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Cabins made of plastic helping keep Kenya’s Masai Mara clean.

Cabins made of plastic helping keep Kenya’s Masai Mara clean.

Update: 2024-01-30
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In today's episode, we meet Isaac Macharia, a Kenyan social entrepreneur who makes cabins out of plastic to keep Kenya’s Masai Mara clean. In 2015, Macharia was on his usual tour-guiding routine at the Masai Mara in Kenya. It bothered him. He decided to construct cabins using not only plastic bottles, but also stashing and hiding every non-biodegradable waste you can think of—straws, broken glass bottles, clothes, beer cans, to name just a few—right in there during construction. To harden and convert the plastic bottle into a smaller brick, they add dry sand. The contractors used plastic to make the cabin roof. Contracted local women collect these bottles and fill them with sand or paper.

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Cabins made of plastic helping keep Kenya’s Masai Mara clean.

Cabins made of plastic helping keep Kenya’s Masai Mara clean.

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