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Young Builders Challenge Season 2 Green Economy - Startup / Early Operations

A business that turns Malawi's plastic waste into affordable construction blocks

by Prince Charela
Current votes: 27
Rank #9 · Top 2 advance
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Our business will manufacture affordable and durable construction blocks using recycled plastic waste and locally available materials such as sand. We will collect plastic waste from households, businesses, schools and communities, sort and process it, and use it to produce plastic-sand construction blocks for building applications. The business will create value from a waste material that is often thrown into...

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