Plastic, plastic everywhere but not for African recyclers
An employee sorts plastic bottles at the Weeco plastic recycling factory at the Athi River industrial zone near Nairobi, Kenya, on May 15, 2019. PHOTO | REUTERS
A sea of crumpled bottles spills across the courtyard of Lucy Luo Minghui’s new $44 million plastic recycling factory in Nairobi, where plastic waste litters roadsides and clogs rivers. Yet, she can’t get enough to sustain her business.
Her Weeco facility, which opened in April, is one of a slew of regional initiatives to tackle the world’s spiralling plastic waste crisis.
