Rwanda mostly known as the land of a thousand hills residing in the great lakes rift valley has recently banned the use of single use plastics, may it be any kind of plastic that has a guarantee of only being used once and then can't be recycled. Rwanda has banned that.

After banning the production and importation of single used plastics in the country, a local firm in Rwanda came up with a plan of transforming  harmful plastics into construction materials for the sake of the environment laws and other tough laws on the use of plastic and waste management.

In Rwanda, an individual caught dumping wastes in public space was charged a fine of 50,000 Rwandan Francs and also 5 Million Rwandan Francs for an industry not capable of adapting to the proper waste management.

These were really tough laws, and to help other companies to cope with these tough laws, one company named COPED developed this plan of recycling these plastic wastes. 

And also to overcome some different environmental problems caused by plastics especially plastic bottles, this local firm in Rwanda came up with a plan of making tiles and paves from harmful wastes such as plastic bottles.

In their process, they firstly had to know where to collect these plastic wastes, and they collected them and they also went to deal on how to manufacture these tiles from these plastics which needed a machine and this machine was roughly worth $2 Million. And after buying it then the production process started.

They used plastic bottles which are collected from different beverage companies and they could turn them into floor tiles, roof tiles and paves of different shapes, whereby they also had a plan of recycling plastic bottles into new bottles but with greater standards.

But not only these plastic bottles can be recycled, but other plastic pipes, plastic jugs, plastic Jerry cans and other plastic basins, etc. These also can be recycled and this machine is helping in all this just only that the e-wastes can't be recycled by this but also there are other different companies in Rwanda including wastezon that are also dealing with the recycling of e-wastes.

This firm is really doing a great and promising work, that even in some months to come, the amount of dumped garbage will have to reduce as long as this recycling is instilled and hardened. then vast quantities of garbage will now be nowhere to be found.

And this will also be contributing to Rwanda's aim of at least reducing the gas emissions by 16% in 2030, because a proper waste management plan always contribute to the positivism of climate change issues and ensure also the clean air by reducing the amount of carbon emissions.

Thank you, this was all about the recycling of plastic bottles into useful construction materials such as tiles and paves, which later on also helps in the positivism of climate change in Rwanda.

Green cheers!!!