River Plastic Waste Capture Device

Chemolex Company have designed, manufactured and installed 10 river waste plastic capture devices along River Athi and its 4 major tributaries that have arrested up to 10,000 metric tons of the plastic wastes from flowing into marine environment. The removal of the plastic wastes flowing along the major urban rivers is accompanied by implementing effective strategies that address the existing poor waste management regimes and promote principles of circular economy geared towards optimum resource recovery from plastic and other wastes generated from the households. Over the last 5 years, Chemolex organization have achieved significant success in trapping and removing 125,000 metric tons of plastic wastes that would have ended in the marine environment. Chemolex organization established 1650 strategic waste collection points within the major informal settlements where there were no single waste management infrastucture. The strategic waste collection points have eliminated poor solid waste disposal and have significantly improved solid waste management in low-income informal settlements in Kenya. Our organization trained and empowered 50,000 women to start and operate sustainable waste management businesses. We designed and constructed 2 Community Cooker technologies (waste to energy technology) that has enabled more than 100 women in informal settlements to engage in commercial baking and run sustainable hotel businesses by utilizing the non-plastic segments of the wastes trapped and removed from various river sections to produce clean heat energy.