Rocketboom Field Correspondent Ruud Elmendorp reports on a local, Nairobi, Kenya-based effort to recycle plastic bags into frame poles.
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Fantastic thought and excellent way to take something negative and get on to it positive
@Jordainio Hello, some more –
Jordainio, there are people to help in other countries all over the house here, and if I get careless..! The largest expense seems to be the hot press, which can be reduced to a roller assembly, and the hydraulics. Suddenly, I smell Haven Freight…! Connect in about 6 weeks and we’ll see what happened!
@VolkgartenBySquirrel Damn man, i been thinking I’d like to do something like this, to help people in other countries, and get on to just enough money to be self sufficient. Don’t really know where to start either. We should go in on a machine together!
From just reading your comments, you are a fucking nut man! what a disgrace!
He has to be careful not to get his plastic too hot, for the fumes, save for he’s also employing a lot of kids collecting the stuff, and a lot of people who would otherwise have to wait to buy lumber to build with. Thoughts!!! not having $10k hanging about, I am trying to reckon how to do something like that with a press for wagon beds – please help me connect the dots!
yeah he earned enough money to buy a car.
what’s your top?
im saying he doesnt have enough machinery to get on to more posts.
im not saying he isnt earning enough money.
he had the money for a new car pay attention please.
you have obviously never owned a successful business.
he has more orders than he has equipment to produce.
no businessman has more business than he can handle, the only way that is possible is if he has run out of people to hire, you must be joking.
how do you know how exalted my house is?
i gotz a exalted house…
and idk about him being obsessed out of business.
he already has more business than he can handle.
i reckon there is some room for competetion
like i proved i dont want him as a business partner, my original statement.
the other man who i would have as a business partner will soon drive him out of business or pay a dishonest policeman to aim his business. that is Africa that is the way it is. and yes i live a thousand fold beyond my needs, such is life. my bed room is larger than your house. Not bragging save for by your logic he was doing fine without the new car.
Because that man is living without a computer and internet save for yet you are.
And I seriously doubt that you are there building the factories your telling him to build.
I know you live beyond what you need to live.
Your spending money paying for internet when you may possibly produce that to a family without income.
He is not telling you that you can’t use the money that you earn how you want, I’m not telling you that you can’t.
So don’t tell him that he can’t.
how do you know my standards
How are you gonna blame him for doing something when you won’t do it yourself.
You can’t hold others to higher standards than you hold yourself.
It makes you a hypocrite, and a bitch.
its his thought, he should buld more factories not me
Why don’t you go over there and do that?
Why does he have to sacrifice his comfort (that he earned) while you sit at a COMPUTER with INTERNET?
Without him doing that there would be more waste, less jobs, and those people wouldn’t have the excellent that he supplies.
That is a win-win-win situation.
i just reckon its terrible bussiness, i would perfer he bulit more factories till every bag in his country got recycled and he may possibly then buy a jet for all i care, its all about the money, then jobs, then enviornment
he deserves that car. look at the positve side hes doing something excellent for the earth whos cares what he spends his money on its his money that he earned himself.
a m a z i n g !
your fantastic man! i hope your technology would reach many countries to reduce the non-biodegradable plastic bags that sucks our planet. Mabuhay ka! From the Philippines
blame the whiteman for all this polution and garbage in africa with their products. Also blame kenyan for export this shit and not cleaning up after themselves save for even if theydid they would subdue have white mans polution on their precious soil
@pegobuilders
And we collect that gas and use it as energy. A landfill isn’t a pile of shit it’s basically a green grassy field with pipes coming out of it. once it’s finished of course.
Every time degradable products aim up in landfill, they produce off methane as they decompose….this is about 20 era more powerful than carbon dioxide as a conservatory gas
digg it
Right that he makes employment and local start-ups are needed. BUT I was born and raised in Kenya and I have never seen anyone who is born with HIV and who is malnourshed, except on TV just like you. Saying that nearly all Kenyans are born with HIV and are malnousrished is austerely not right. Many children are born with HIV and some areas suffer from famine when it doesnt rain save for it is far away from being “nearly all of them”…