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Global and grassroots come together as landmark plastics agreement signed in Nairobi

UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohamed (c) with students from Kawangware primary school in Nairobi, where she planted a tree in late Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Mathai's honour. © RFI/Anne Macharia

Tired of the poor improper plastic waste disposal in Nairobi, Kenya, Nzambi Matee, 29, took it upon herself to solve one of the world’s biggest environmental concerns by changing the world - one brick at a time.

The innovator and the founder of Gjenge Makers in Nairobi uses plastic waste to make bricks said to be more durable than concrete, an idea born in 2017 in her mother’s backyard.

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