{"id":126808,"date":"2024-03-08T07:54:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T05:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/marine-plastic-waste-turned-into-school-desks-and-chairs-in-kenya\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T07:54:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T05:54:41","slug":"marine-plastic-waste-turned-into-school-desks-and-chairs-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/marine-plastic-waste-turned-into-school-desks-and-chairs-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine plastic waste turned into school desks and chairs in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126808\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Twende Green Ecocycle is buying plastic waste, collects plastic on beaches, and recycles it into sustainable school furniture. &#8220;In Mombasa alone, everyday over 80 tonnes of waste is released. Out of this, 20 per cent is plastic of which only 5 per cent is recycled. So we have this 95 per cent which ends up in the beautiful ocean and ends up polluting the marine life,\u201d says co-founder Churchill Muriuki.<\/p>\n<p>Muriuki, together with Lawrence Kosgei, Zainab Mahmoud, and Faraj Ramadhan formed the social enterprise in January 2023 in a bid to solve the problem of plastic waste on the coastline in Mombasa and promote sustainable education. After collection, the plastic is shredded and washed, then mixed with tetra pack waste, before being compressed under high heat to make boards. These are then used to make relatively cheap school desks and chairs that do not chip compared to traditional wooden furniture.<\/p>\n<p>He says that repurposing the plastic waste into school furniture is making something useful that will serve a purpose in the community. At Mvita Primary School in Mombasa, the students are happy to receive their new eco-desks and chairs. Marine plastics threaten marine species and coastal tourism, and contributes to climate change. When plastics get into oceans, they break down into microplastics which are consumed by marine animals.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2024\/03\/07\/marine-plastic-waste-turned-into-school-desks-and-chairs-in-kenya\/\">Africa News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/7-491\/\">Marine plastic waste turned into school desks and chairs in Kenya<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[575,1190,13713],"class_list":["post-126808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-kenya","tag-marine-waste"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}