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That Kenyan boss is awesome. This dude's job is to throw plastic into a machine, and she's like "This is the guy who starts our production. Without him, we are nothing!". Awesome mindset.

It's amazing that it's mainly regular people/citizens that could do something that most huge and powerful corporations, don't even try or care to attempt doing to preserve the Earth. Kudos to them, I hope they're successful in their endeavors.

"It either works, or it works." Words from a great man.

The woman running the brick business is incredible. I'd kill to work for someone with that much respect for their employees.

If you really think about it, we can never, ever get rid of anything, it just takes on another form. I'm so inspired and proud of these young people doing what they can to help eliminate garbage waste from our earth and form it into useful things.

Seeing all these young minds working together for a major issue brings me hope for humanity

Well done the two South African ladies. I'm South African living in the UK and came here for my husband's medical problems, but the doctor made a mess of the operation and what was a hip replacement caused him to be in bed for 10 years and not interested to help. I miss my country every day and at 72 to see young people thinking outside the box is heart warming. Thank you

This is so inspiring, it shows that it isn’t impossible to get our trash under control. The business case for reforming trash into new products or different products is both sustainable economically and environmentally. You just need people with guts to start businesses involving trash.

This brick girl/woman is amazing!!! Props to her. Wishing her success that she definitely deserves.

As a Nigerian, I just have to say that Kenyans are worth emulating! They are really an amazing peaple!

These are great people turning garbage into useful things. There is so much creativity and inspiration in people. Society needs more of these people to transform the planet.

Here in our place the Philippines, we use coconut shells as charcoal. We don't pulverize and reshape it. We just char it and use it as a fuel. It's a good fuel coz it generate more heat than charcoal made from wood.

Alhaji's story is amazing and his coconut briquettes are the perfect product for his region and potentially many more. I wish him nothing but success.

It's great to see people finding solutions to problems instead of spending their lives creating problems for others.

Recession is often the result of external factors, and it appears that the United States is losing its grip as a federal reserve currency. With a decreasing ability to control inflation and a reduction in stock and oil trading, it seems that a new multilateral world order is on the horizon.

Terrific to see such ingenuity to resolve major environmental concerns. The world is good hands if this incredible mindset is prolific in the younger generations. My only concern is the process involved with the coconut shell bricks, I just hope what ever ‘secret ingredient' is added will not be harmful for the environment or human health, particularly as it burns and is unavoidably inhaled despite the minimal smoke claims. I sincerely wish for their own respiratory and general health these great people would wear high filtration respirator masks when working with plumes and fine dust, even products that produce any form gassing. For all their fantastic work, the last thing they need are health issues developing.

I get what the expert is saying about road abrasion. But the Kenya bricks idea could be used for driveways and walkways, areas where vehicles aren't causing such abrasion.

I banned single-use plastic bags in Kenya in 2017. It was a bold decision. It’s encouraging to see these inventors & entrepreneurs from various countries that are using local solutions to combat plastic pollution. Let’s celebrate them & support them as they continue to improve their techniques.

Small changes cannot change the world themselves, but small changes are what add up to become big changes that have the power to change the world. I am so proud of them, especially seeing how eco-conscious they are at such a young age.