{"id":3507,"date":"2019-07-02T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3507"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:23","slug":"investors-seek-to-produce-tiles-pavers-roof-tiles-by-recycling-single-use-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/02\/investors-seek-to-produce-tiles-pavers-roof-tiles-by-recycling-single-use-plastics\/","title":{"rendered":"Investors Seek to Produce Tiles, Pavers, Roof Tiles By Recycling Single-Use Plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/node\/861377\"><strong><em>Michel Nkurunziza<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investors running a firm\nrecycling plastic bags and other plastic items into different usable materials\nused in agricultural and construction, are looking forward to recycling large\nquantities of single use plastic bottles following the recent ban on them in\nRwanda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>L\u00e9on Nduwayezu, the owner of\nAgroplast Ltd came up with the idea to recycle plastic items in 2007 when\nRwanda issued a ban on plastic bags use is a threat to the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe realized that without\nrecycling, the plastic bags would be gathered and be burnt yet burning them is\nalso part of polluting environment. This emerged as an opportunity. We work\nwith Rwanda Environmental Management Authority to reduce the threats,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said they recycle over 1\ntonne of plastic items per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are now working together\non how to manage single-use plastic items such as water bottles, straws and\nothers. We have already found a solution on the table and we only remain with\nimporting suitable machinery from China to start massive production in August.\nBy mixing water plastic bottles and other types of plastic items, we have\nalready produced a sample of pavers for construction and tiles. We are also\nlooking at producing roofing tiles from plastic items,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parliament recently passed a\ndraft law prohibiting the manufacture, importation, use and sale of single-use\nplastic items in Rwanda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Single-use plastics are\nplastics that are used only once before they are thrown away or recycled, which\npollutes the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These include plastic bags,\ncups, straws, coffee stirrers, soda and water bottles, and most food packaging\nmaterials\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/business\/investors-seek-produce-tiles-pavers-roof-tiles-recycling-single-use-plastics\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Michel Nkurunziza Investors running a firm recycling plastic bags and other plastic items into different usable materials used in agricultural and construction, are looking forward to recycling large quantities of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}