PLASTIC FANTASTIC
A plastic gavel for a strong resolution
 The president of UNEA brings down the recycled plastic gavel to mark the plastics agreement (Photo: UNEP) |
What better way than recycled plastics to drive home the message at an assembly to end plastics waste! The recent UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) saw the president and environment minister for Norway, Espen Barth Eide, seal the draft resolution – to put an end to plastics waste – with a gavel made out of recycled plastics.
Nzambi Matee, whose company provides sustainable and affordable building options in Kenya, used plastic bottle tops collected from the Dandora landfill in Nairobi to make the gavel.
At the end of the assembly, it was gifted by Norway to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), which will – as is customary, we’re sure – induct the soon-to-be historic gavel into the Hall of Symbolic Recycled Objects of Relevance.
Nzambi Matee, whose company provides sustainable and affordable building options in Kenya, used plastic bottle tops collected from the Dandora landfill in Nairobi to make the gavel.
At the end of the assembly, it was gifted by Norway to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), which will – as is customary, we’re sure – induct the soon-to-be historic gavel into the Hall of Symbolic Recycled Objects of Relevance.
08.04.2022 Plasteurope.com [250045-0]
Published on 08.04.2022