CONTROLLING CLIMATE THROUGH UTILIZATION OF PLATIC WASTE
Controlling plastic waste to turn them into a more useful end product that doesn't have negative effects to the environment, humans and marine life.
Around the world, one million plastic bottles are purchased every minute, while up to five trillion plastic bags are used worldwide every year. In total, half of all plastics produced are designed for single use purposes. From the 1950s to the 1970s, only a small amount of plastic was produced, and as a result, plastic waste was relatively manageable.
Plastics including micro plastics are now ubiquitous in our natural environment. They are becoming part of the earth’s fossil record and a marker of the Anthropocene, our current geological era. They have been given their name to a new marine microbial habitat called the “plastisphere”.
Over the past few years we’ve noticed a ban on plastics but still are available in the society.
Since plastics don’t undergo decomposition like house waste, they tend to cause problems in the soil aeration and later fumes produced from burning them affects the climate in one or two ways.
Plastics are really hard to deal and can’t be controlled that easily since they’re depended upon entirely from water storage to plastic shoes, they play a major role in serving the large population in the world but when it comes to controlling them it becomes an issue.
Most are found dumped in waste dumps, causing foul smell when burnt and in turn producing carbon emissions that affects the climate.
After working out and combating plastics, I came up with the idea for plastic control after observing plastics are recycled again to produce plastic end product that still has no help to humans. With my idea in creating something more useful from plastic was to come up with plastic floor tiles that come with different color varieties for beautification of walk paths and children’s playgrounds, on further improvements plastic building bricks and plastics roofing tiles i.e. houses will be built using plastic bricks and also plastic roofing tiles i.e. replacing the ancient roofing house tiles.
Plastics control have become a major problem in the modern world, ferried a thousand kilometers away to be dumped. With this idea in mind and put in consideration plastics waste collected, we’ll have some major positive impacts on the environment from air pollution to agriculture production due to proper soil aeration.
Fumes from burning plastics will be contained in fume chambers and air pollution won’t be observed, with this acid rain will be controlled.
Plastics we’ll be recycled before waste being dumped to the dumpsite hence saving up waste congestion and time when it comes to recycling since plastics don't undergo decomposition like house waste.
Plastic end products that we'll be acquired after recycling process we'll be used to produce roofing tiles, walk path tiles and plastic bricks which won’t have negative effects to the environment.
Plastics recycled will melted using the traditional plastic method which is cheaper and reliable.
Plastics are a threat to the whole world population both humans, animals and marine life. Since they won’t decompose as house waste, they tend to air pollution and soil aeration problem.
With plastic control, it’s going to serve and help the whole world in general, plastic house waste I.e. plastic spoons and forks, plastic shoes, jerrycans and other plastic materials we’ll be recycled for production of useful and a NO-NEGATIVE effect to the environment.
Within the production sector, most people and available population that have experience and no experience at all are going to get employed in the production industries where plastics we’ll be transformed into more useful end products.
In offering the solution to plastic control, we have prototypes that we’ll help in production process, in the making of plastic floor tiles, plastic bricks and roofing plastic tiles which we’ll be produced from the waste plastic recycled.
Since Africa is a third world country, most companies prefer an already running and established startup in order to partner up and make profits as soon as possible. This has become a problem in implementing this plastic control idea. Until I came across MIT and decided to shoot a shot based on plastic control idea, this being a global problem. I believe mit we’ll have a chance to go through this idea documentation and solve the plastic problem.
- Other: Addressing an unmet social, environmental, or economic need not covered in the four dimensions above.
- Concept: An idea being explored for its feasibility to build a product, service, or business model based on that idea.
We all know plastics are recycled to produce plastic end products which don’t have any help to humans, why?. Because they still end up in polluting the environment again and destroying soil aeration, fumes from burning plastics causing climate change problem and also breathing problems to humans.
With this concept, plastics recycled will be used to produce end products that don’t have negative effects to the environment i.e.plastic roofing tiles, plastic bricks and plastic wall paths.
This concept will change the market and new construction measures will be taken in place to ensure eco friendly environment.
With the Plastic control concept.
- Creating of job opportunities within third world countries.
- Climate control through plastic recylement.
- No effects end plastic products will be produced.
- Improve on economic through imports and exports of plastic end end products that is plastic roofing tiles, bricks and walk paths.
This concept requires old and traditional technology to produce end plastic products, a plastic melting machine, to melt the plastic to aqueous state where it will be easier to convert to desired shape for making the bricks, roofing tiles and walk paths with this in mind it will provide an easy environment to work on.
- Ancestral Technology & Practices
- Manufacturing Technology
- Kenya
In the production sector, a number of employees are needed in order facilitate the production sector and also to operate the available machinery that we’ll be producing plastic end products.
When it comes to marketing, a larger population we’ll be served in construction sector and beautification process of walk paths and roofing tiles.
A total number in the production line probably might be needed is not less than 100 people to get employed to work in the production line, this will in-turn reduce the high unemployment number within third world countries.
Problems facing currently include:
- Lack enough finance to start and run the concept
- Lack of support from government
- Lack of right lead to facilitate this concept
- Lack of proper machines to produce plastic end products
- Lack of proper means to collect plastic garbage that is truck moving to collect plastic garbage and deliver to the production line.
- Lack of finance to pay the population that we’ll be working in collecting the plastic garbage.
- Lack of proper clothing in collecting plastic garbage in dump site
- Lack of proper public training on the negative effects of plastic to the environment.
At this stage, Am not working or partnering with any organization, the concept is to get funded and implement the idea in controlling plastic waste to a more useful end product.
This concept has the ability to sustain itself in the long run business operation. At the start of its operations, it has to get funded, the second stage is get funds from selling the end products produced this will be achieved either through selling of end products to local available market or exporting abroad to international markets.
Since this concept helps in control of the environment and combating pollution problems, grants from NGOs and Governmental institutions will be of other ways to sustain the business.
With the end products produced at the end of the day that is plastic walk paths and plastic roofing tiles, a service contract with the government to construct houses and government buildings, hospitals and schools will be put in place to ensure the business sustain such itself in the long run operations.
