Gjenge Makers Limited

Long description

Gjenge Makers Ltd is a sustainable alternative affordable building products manufacturing company. Currently we are producing eco-friendly pavers and building blocks that are made of a composite of recycled waste plastic, recycled glass and sand.

 Currently we have partnered with different manufacturers of single use plastic for different beverage and pharmaceutical companies here in Kenya, from whom we collect (post industrial waste). This is amalgamated with the single use plastic that the waste collectors deliver (post-consumer waste) to us which we jointly use to produce the pavers and building block. 

Problem solving

The biggest cost implications in a construction project when you have deducted the cost of land is the cost of building materials. Furthermore, in Nairobi alone, an estimated 500 metric tonnes of plastic waste are generated in a single day and only a fraction of this is recycled. Thus, we decided to use this problem of single use plastic waste as a catalyst and formulate a solution to this problem by creating a sustainable and affordable alternative building material. It is from this inspiration that we fashioned our first product line of plastic pavers, that besides being durable are also very affordable.

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