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plastics is everywhere in Ghana and this guy decided to recycle plastic into something meaningful if I say something meaningful I'm talking about pavement block that he used plastic to construct also he's building a whole house with plastic have you ever seen anything like that before I mean it's my first time but let me know in the comment section if that is your first time of seeing plastic being recycled into a whole house brothers and sisters are you ready to see this young man I'm more ready than you but like the video and come with me the most inspiring young man in Ghana how are you good I mean are you young though I'm very young I'm a young guy like you a lot of people are talking about you I was in Somalia when people started telling me that hey you need to go back to Ghana and talk to this guy brought an inspiration thank you that the most creative guy in Ghana right now thank you the most innovative man no young man in Ghana thank you thank you it's good to see you too my name is Maya though and can you tell me your name and where you I mean what do you do in Ghana why is it everyone is talking about you I'm Nelson bought it is this for me it's for you it's for you you have this yeah all right thank you yeah you know what a lot of people are talking about you that's why I'm here I know you already because I did a whole research about you but people out there don't know who you are so tell us something about yourself I'm Nelson bought it and I'm just the funder in CEO of neoplast echo Ghana limited where we see plastics to be available resource another third to the environment if properly managed whoa I mean you're born and raised in Ghana born and raised in Ghana a shaman boy I was raised school everything in a shama you never left Ghana at all I've left Ghana for some courses and some I mean how long I mean I did you I mean leave our broad just to get your money and come and start whatever you're doing here no no I started everything fresh from Ghana so how did this all start okay so I was working with one Chinese company at the age of 13 I was already working which is sadly back then but I need that to help my parents take care of my siblings so for me for me that day I was posted to the recycling department that is where I got my experience on working with plastics so from there now you own this huge factory brought I mean you're not a magician right so definitely I need to know how did this all start okay so it it was a family company then but there was misunderstanding between the family so they decided to sell the company around 2012 and they they came up with the news that anybody who will be able to find a potential buyer will get 5% of the total sale value for nearly for me I got a deal so the money I got I just bring it here set up my old factory and then I came along with the workers that lost their job to start a new factory your co-workers you came to this place with them yes that's incredible so most of the people here they are my co-workers you see why everyone is saying that your inspiration so let me know yeah I mean definitely use plastic to turn into what what do you do to pay them blocks and Lego bricks for building affordable housing yes because we want to see every ordinary Ghanaian ending between five minutes one thousand also own a house that is what the company vision is how much will it cost to own a house with house built with plastics okay so one bedroom house kitchen hall combined when we do we build to the roof we do the doors is 60,000 then when you are doing all the inside finishing is 90,000 Ghana cities affordable yeah but I mean I just want to understand yeah what is the inspiration behind of you using plastics to do what you do okay so you know according to the UNDP report Ghana generates about over one million tons of plastic with annually and only five percent is ever recycled the rest land itself in the drainage the sea and it costs a lot of problem lives and properties are lost you can remember the June 3rd 2015 what happened a second all the problem was attributed to plastic bags manufacturers we also have the problem of housing in Ghana we also have schools and the trees in Ghana we also have a problem of unemployment so nail plus is using the problem of plastic waste to solve the other three problem thereby solving four problem as a go genius thank you no one ever told you that I'm hearing about yours is most powerful if you think he's genius do me a favor like the video share the video so that the world will hear his story you know what before you take me to the factory you have something to tell them before you take into the factory oh what what what what I would say is we should see every problem as an opportunity people are saying plastic is bad yes plastic is not good it's political environment that we should be we shouldn't forget that we cause the plastic to be there because the plastic back manufacturers just produce and kept them in their warehouse they gave it to the retailers and we as an end users we use the plastic and just throw them on the street when it took the gutter and cause flood then we blame the plastic no we should blame ourselves for not properly disposing of the plastic waste so so this is the raw material that we're using is actually from Nestle Ghana limited your waist they normally crashed and bring it to us at no fee for it to be used in the production of the Lego bricks for affordable housing but before Lego bricks what were you doing before I was doing I was actually recycling only the pure tassachi into pellets then I will sell them to the poly bag or the shopping bag manufacturing what they call it manufacturing company but that very I decided no the profit is going to them so why don't I do the shopping bag my since I am all I know is about plastic so I brought in some machine and started doing the poly bags but during 2015 where the government was trying to put a ban on poly bag manufacturing company because they believe we are the cause of the flood that okay then then with a lot of lives were lost and what you call it properties I also felt bad anytime they said plastic bags is causing this problem it's cause that problem so I asked them what would I do which would be more sustainable and put that that wouldn't go out there to pollute the environment anymore but also to help solve the problem of plastic waste so yeah you know what I want to see how the is it is a construct or more how the motor breaks me for the pavement our technology is sand poly extrusion because we use plastics and sand together and the color is dead for beautification maybe the customer one red black green and other color yes we have women to among us we train women on how to operate the machine currently we are 64 workers working directly we run shift and over 300 indirect workers and they are about 98 percent women they go out there to pick the plastic from the environment they drain away and they like it so much because this time they are not going to look for one type of plastic with any plastic they lay their hands on they collect it bring it to us we scale and pay them according to the weight I think the least person is getting 50 ganas a day I mean what kind of plastic do you use all kinds of plastic with a set of PVC pipes because the PVC pipe doesn't burn well with the sand and in its production it really do some dangerous fumes yeah so we don't include some are getting 150 cities the least person it depends on the plastic that you can bring to us like they have the my my collection of the capacity of taking about 20,000 kilos of plastic waste from the environment but we as a company can produce only 3,000 kilos due to a nap machine to process all these plastic waste no it's only one part of it from China that I don't like I told you I started very young and I was following my master's they built machines so that is where I acquired my knowledge for so this is a big shop plastics all kind of plastic with sand and color the color to give some vegetation to the product it to be fed into the shooter the shooter has three eating zones why we use three things of because we use all kinds of plastic waste and they all have different melting points so as they travel through the lines they come out as a piece we scale them rather than uniform tall size and then it will be placed in a mode with a cooling system around it then press and I don't I don't impress so between 30 seconds to 60 seconds we just won't put out so how many breaks can you put this in the day between 18 to 1,500 depending on the size and the shape that we are producing that's like within 12 hours or 24 hours 22 hours because we are one hour break I think even after going through the cooling process is so hot yeah oh wow it takes about six hours yes and what is the weight for this 6.5 kilos yes because we have heavy cars that will dive on it if you are doing for a lighter road then we go for 4 or 4.5 kilos the heavy road yes so you get a model the design everything done locally yeah I forgot to tell you this you know everything that you are seeing in there started with this drum this drum yes this is how we started producing the blocks I was actually putting the plastic here set fire beneath when the plastic get melted I just put my son in it then I'll stay with a shovel or anything that I leave my hands on but then the the community were giving a lot of complaints because the film that is coming out was too much and also the product that we get from this process is very weak because when you bend plastic for a very long time they lose the abounding properties and therefore when we just hit the ground with a little foot it to just break and also the smell was very bad because you bend a plant and the scent can stay for a very long time for years so from this now we have to sit down do a lot of research and build on a studer with now you are not seeing any films you can work in there without much films coming out I voted myself the only thing you see here that is outside is the hydraulic press that's it that is it the stories inspiration on thank you I really want to see the house that you built with plastics I'll take you day thank you I'll take you day I will take you day thank you so my this is the house build with plastics 13,400 kilos of plastic waste built with plastic waste are you kidding me yes you mean this is built with the bricks that they were that they were producing the factory so this is a house made up of plastic 13,400 kilos of plastic waste mainly from agates and beaches and the floors they also made up of plastic waste can I say genius once again yeah how much will this cost this when we built fully with a roof and the door 60,000 gonna see this but with the interior everything wearing plumbing wear kitchen cabinet 90,000 gonna say you know building for people in the country we are we've started taking some orders and this is the first one but we were actually selling it for people living in swampy areas to be used as their foundation blocks then they can continue with their normal concrete blocks but this is the first house how hard it is to convince guardians in general that you can build a plastic from the beginning it was difficult but because when I started people were like this won't work but in my mind I know everything is possible if you push everything is possible tell me some of the challenges that you faced when you started this the area guys were laughing at me that this guy is crazy how can you use plastic from the gutters how can you build a whole house with this how will you put your electrical wires plumbing work the kitchen cabinet I said everything is possible when you push forward everything is possible when you push forward that's why I want to push into the room just to go and see what he has done sorry yeah it's not my room but I'm so blown away that's a half you go in let's go come in come in so if I don't tell you this is plastic you will never believe we just did the interior finishing with POP and other chemicals and I think it is just about 0.5 mm so very thin just to cover the block work because most Garnier don't really like the block work design so I did that to just to cover it and this house is not built by a mess you know I build this house I'm not amazing with my workers every Saturday and the area guy student we arrange them like Legos who are you man I'm nails and what in you build a machine now you build the house what else have you built that so many things because where I grab like my grandfather he will let you do everything like then we there's not much money so may seem work we will just stand you looking at you everything is here then we do it next time we will not call you again we do it by ourselves that is how my grandfather works what is that one coat that keeps you moving Wow people bring plastic waste to me they will tell you because of you I can put food on the table for my family you can't stop the challenge is big that I can't stop when you remember those things you can't stop there the woman will carry their children on their back they will tell you I miss you come and we didn't want to be out today I can eat when you hear those stories you can't stop even if it's hard you can't stop we have a water people were wondering how would I put the plumbing works I have water I have electricity everything works here everything works perfectly here but is it safe it's safe because people are thinking is plastic there will be films no plastic will start generating heat at a temperature of let's say 100 degrees Celsius we have not even record 50 degrees Celsius and this product is made up of 70% Sun only 30% plastic which serves as the bonding property in the product and there is a hole or groove in between the bricks which doesn't allow the heat from outside to come in and also maintain the temperature of the room so there's nothing like films I mean like there's something that people don't even know that fire can be quenched with Sun with Sun if a car catches fire now and there's no fire extinguisher the first thing that comes to our mind is go and get Sun so that is why we made the Sun contain more than the plastics brother I have so many young Africans watching people that look just like you if you have a message to them what would that message be what I would tell the youth is there is good thing in every bad situation the bad situation here is we talking about plastic being a problem for me Nelson and my company we don't see plastic to be a problem we humans are the problem for our improper disposal of plastic waste in the street the plastic never flies to our beaches we carry them there they never fly to our genie we carry them there so we need to change our attitude of disposal see plastic not to be a problem because people talk less replace plastic with paper do you know what it takes to produce one sheet of paper the amount of water you need when it gets wrought on the soil the gas is that you release to the soil you have no idea they treat that to be cut down plastic not because I need plastic to work because they can't burn plastic totally we use all kinds of plastic if you burn plastic back I can go in for used computer cases fridges I can use them for anything so me not because I used plastic we should know that the plastic is better than the paper we are the problem is we need to change our attitude of disposal period do you believe that it's possible in Africa it's possible to make it in Africa or we have to go abroad before we make it or do you think that the youth of Africa can make it right you can make it let me tell you one short story when I was when I finished this those that came in new in the area they say hey China people are now doing things so I was in here laughing wow then it's good if they appreciate China and it's indirectly a Ghanaian like me who built it the mold everything is by myself designed nothing is from outside and this very September I'm introducing the roofing sheet I was supposed to do somewhere August but something came up so I'm introducing a new roofing sheet made up of plastic weight to further bring the cost down I want to see every Ghanaian every low income Ghanaian owning a house that is my vision that is what I want to achieve the very low income that is what I'm targeting not the big ones the low income Ghanaian because the real estate companies they are building for millions we can't afford we did we can't afford so this is what I want and mind you don't say it's plus or it's cheaper this house will stay forever than the concrete house it will not crack because it has the ability to expand and contract when it's a quick what is the last five hundred years plastic day five hundred years to start degrading so is the product because the product is made yes but then we are gone if you can have somebody come and have a look at it and tell the story you believe Africa is the future Africa is the future let's believe in ourselves let's buy into our own product that is how China started you can bring Benz to China like that then you need to pay more important duties you need to use what you have improving and this is just the beginning now I've built the house I'll stay here whatever I need to improve I'll do it where should we see Nelson what in the next 10 years you see Nelson but in being one of the top recyclers in the world that is what we want to achieve you want to see Ghana clean of plastic mainly by nail plaster that is what we want to achieve are you getting support from the government or Ganyas in general for government I have the minister of works and housing visiting us some few weeks ago he has given his promise because he was saying the government is embarking on affordable housing so he will he will push our product to that project because he believes we are doing 70% locally made material so he will ensure that our material is being used for such projects for now we can go one floor all I need to do is to redesign the corner mode to make it bigger to receive more concrete an iron roll to carry so iron rods in the in the corners we can do we can do the bigger beams but lack of finance I can't do that research I can't do that machine now because it's very expensive doing one mode one would cost me about 70,000 Ghana cities and this house I tried more than seven times so I've spent a lot of money to get to this you tried more than seven times together right that is why we can go in there is no aircon but the room still feel cold it's a different technology altogether that is why you can stick a ceramic tile on a plastic wall it's a different technology altogether we've done a lot of research and a lot of money have gone into this and I'm somebody I won't stop until I get it right I say my house sell my car until I get it right I won't stop that is my character if you had a chance to change one thing in Africa what would you change our mindset our mindset is the problem we see good coming from abroad to be better than what we have here that is why we are still suffering even if you see and you think it's not good stay there be there improve it it to surely get better if I would have stopped this you wouldn't see this thing yet if I'm listening to what people are saying they are laughing at me what are you crazy you pick plastic from the gutter you want to build a house now this is the house like I said mean Nelson I won't stop until I get it right that is me I want to say thank you so much for talking to me but are you selling no this house I'm not selling this is my showroom my office my residence but now we are building for people people are pleased or that we are building for people I just want to say thank you so much for talking to me and I wish you all the best and I will also love you to build one for me so I will when would I be very soon I'll give you a very big discount thank you so much