{"id":4492,"date":"2019-08-13T09:53:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T06:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4492"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","slug":"plastic-plastic-everywhere-but-not-for-african-recyclers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/13\/plastic-plastic-everywhere-but-not-for-african-recyclers\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic, Plastic Everywhere But Not For African Recyclers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Thomson Reuters<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A sea of crumpled bottles spills across the\ncourtyard of Lucy Luo Minghui\u2019s new $44 million plastic recycling factory in\nNairobi, where plastic waste litters roadsides and clogs rivers. Yet, she can\u2019t\nget enough to sustain her business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like many developing nations, Kenya has no\nrecycling infrastructure; private companies collect unsorted household rubbish\nand truck it to enormous dumps. Waste pickers scavenge through trash bags\noutside homes and stinking mounds of refuse at dumps to recover the plastic\nthat Minghui needs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-africa-plastics\/plastic-plastic-everywhere-but-not-for-african-recyclers-idUSKCN1UZ0VK\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thomson Reuters A sea of crumpled bottles spills across the courtyard of Lucy Luo Minghui\u2019s new $44 million plastic recycling factory in Nairobi, where plastic waste litters roadsides and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4493,"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-4492","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\/4492","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=4492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}