 Good morning. Good morning greetings from Africa. My name is little Kennedy. I'm an architect and founder of eco hub at Eco hub woman's waste is another man's affordable eco house I'm here to share to share with you my love story in 1996 I fell in love I fell in love with waste by the age of 15 I'd lost my virginity to waste making a makeshift motorcycle all from waste that is me right there at 15 years old so imagine 105 degree day in a tinsheck as I joined as I lost love and ended the relationship I joined the world in dumping waste at landfills, which are now contributing a 4% To global warming and climate change. So now imagine a hundred and five degree day in a tinsheck That's like living in a sauna. So that's what 1.6 billion people out there are living in Our solution is simple. We'll use the first problem to solve the second problem So what we're gonna use is recycle plastic waste to make equa bricks equa bricks that will make our eco houses It is these eco houses that will help house the 1.6 billion people out there who are living in adequate shelter Of course, we'll start up with Africa, especially my country, which we have about 600,000 Vatwana who are in need of adequate shelter and move on to South Africa and our neighboring countries Strategy is to empower the community we'll have in cycle recycling Incentive rewards program system whereby you give us your waste We give you almost like equa bricks from there will move on to piloting our project then by July 2018 We should be mass producing what July 2019 Exporting regionally and expecting about the gross revenue about 12 million dollars Competition is a healthy thing. So we have strategically placed ourselves right at the top to offer houses at more than half the price of our Typical Competitors in addition to having quick assembly three to five days versus 40 45 days as well as empowering the locals But such a vision will be crazy without a hard-working and dedicated team so with me I have two award-winning graduates who are formerly my students and In both environmental science and architectural field in addition to that I also have a marketing and sales personnel as well as a structural engineer. I Must say the journey thus far has been great from getting my job in July to now being offered opportunity to pitch at Slash 100 and bring the African heat to here What we need is about 650,000 which we spread out in faces in addition to mentoring and advice Please join me and In my love story and help me reunites myself with with waste and give love hope and dignity to the 1.6 billion people out there Who are in need of adequate shelter? One man's waist another man's affordable eco house. Thank you very much Thank you Thank you. I love the mission Could you explain more the cost and process of the production of the eco bricks? They start it starts off with collecting of the waste from the waste We put it into our factory and our factory will have Extrusion machines so the waste will be palatized, but we'll be using plastic waste So the HDPE and the PP will be palatized and combined with wood flower So it's based on existing wood plastic composite technology, which has been around for more than 20 years Okay, then from there it goes through a mold which will produce the eco bricks Great, and so per Eco brick, do you know the the cost of producing that? pay Pay equal brick we'll be looking at In dollars that we have all pretty much about $10 Thank you. Thank you Is there any way to sort of defend this sort of in terms of IP or patents or something like that? Yes, we have The trademark approved we have the industrial design approved Then we've now put in for the utility model after that we're moving up to the patent But but if someone else comes in for example and and has another, you know, you can get plastics from anywhere, right? Is it is it purely sort of an execution race on that side the actual production or the actual sort of Process is hard to sort of defend in that sense. Oh, thank you for that The patent is more to the design of the eco brick because it's a flat peg eco brick That's where we are really eyeing the patent because we are basing it on existing technology So our patent is really on the eco brick. Thank you Thank you. Thank you