A Kenyan woman is harnessing her country’s mounds of plastic waste to create both new jobs and bricks that are stronger than concrete. Close-up of the sturdy recycled bricks being produced by Kenyan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nzambi Matee is pretty proud of how tough her bricks are, and the secret, the Kenyan entrepreneur says, is that they are not made ...

Discover the true scale of the plastic pollution crisis and explore the latest breakthroughs in recycling and repurposing plastic waste. From fashion brands crafting apparel with recycled materials to ...

Cape Town – Nzambi Matee has created a lightweight and low-cost building material that is made of recycled plastic with sand to make bricks that are stronger than concrete material. Matee's company, ...

What are we doing to continue helping the planet? Nzambi Matee, an engineer originally from Kenya, developed a process to turn hard-to-recycle plastics into super-strong pavers. Matee, 29, is the ...

Nzambi Matee hurls a brick hard against a school footpath constructed from bricks made of recycled plastic that her factory turns out in the Kenyan capital. Nzambi Matee, founder of Gjenge Makers, a ...

Using her ingenuity and engineering skills, Nzambi Matee found a way to help the environment by converting plastic waste into building materials. In 2017, Matee opened a factory in Nairobi called ...

Dr Julia Ravey and Dr Ella Hubber both have a love of science, but it turns out there’s a lot they don’t know about some of the leading women at the front of the inventing game. In Unstoppable, Dr ...

NAIROBI, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Nzambi Matee hurls a brick hard against a school footpath constructed from bricks made of recycled plastic that her factory turns out in the Kenyan capital. It makes a loud ...

Dr Julia Ravey and Dr Ella Hubber tell each other inspiring tales of pioneering female inventors – the stories they wish they’d known when they were starting out as scientists. Show more Dr Julia ...