{"id":40439,"date":"2024-03-05T08:18:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T07:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peggada.com\/cambodia-a-project-is-turning-tons-of-plastic-bottles-into-brooms\/"},"modified":"2024-03-17T19:07:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T18:07:51","slug":"cambodia-a-project-is-turning-tons-of-plastic-bottles-into-brooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peggada.com\/en\/cambodia-a-project-is-turning-tons-of-plastic-bottles-into-brooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia. A project is turning tons of plastic bottles into brooms"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The business started last year and has already given a new purpose to 40 tons of discarded plastic bottles in Cambodia. The brooms, which are more robust than normal brooms, are sold at affordable prices.<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Over the past 11 months, a team of workers has transformed around 40 tons of discarded plastic bottles (around 5000 bottles a day) into durable and affordable brooms in a small warehouse in Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital city. The idea for upcycling comes from Cambodian entrepreneur Has Kea, 41, who wants to reduce plastic pollution in his community.<\/span><\/p>\n

The process begins with Kea buying empty plastic bottles from collectors and garbage dumps. The empty bottles are then shredded into strips and grouped together in a machine, before being softened in hot water and cut evenly to be sewn with metal threads onto the ends of a bamboo stick. <\/span><\/p>\n

The warehouse produces 500 brooms a day, which are said to be more robust than normal brooms. These are sold for 10 000 riel (2.50 dollars) and 15 000 riel (3.75 dollars) each.<\/span><\/p>\n

“This also helps to reduce environmental pollution and encourages people to collect plastic bottles to sell to us at a higher price, which in turn can give them a better life,” Kea told Reuteurs. <\/span>Reuteurs<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to its environmental department, Phnom Penh produces up to 38 000 tons of all kinds of waste every day and about a fifth of it is single-use plastic that ends up in landfills and waterways. This business thus offers a sustainable solution to the city’s (and the country’s) waste crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n

Faced with a seemingly endless supply, Kea is confident about the longevity of his business and welcomes the entry of competitors into the market.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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She might have chosen to study Meteorology and Oceanography, but ultimately pursued Communication. And that's fine because if they don't get their weather predictions right, she wouldn't be the one to change that. She started by looking for sustainable ideas and projects for the university, and since then, she has never stopped (who stops, really?). She loves to watch tv shows, but she watches few because she is demanding. You don't need much to convince her to embrace new, \"greener\" habits and challenges.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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You can see more of Sofia's articles here.<\/a><\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t
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This article promotes an action that encourages the reduction of waste generation<\/strong> through prevention, reduction, recycling, and reuse.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\u27a1\ufe0f To discover more businesses that are aligned with Sustainable Development Goal 12 “Sustainable Production and Consumption” click here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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The business started last year and has already given a new purpose to 40 tons of discarded plastic bottles in Cambodia. The brooms, which are more robust than normal brooms, are sold at affordable prices. Over the past 11 months, a team of workers has transformed around 40 tons of discarded plastic bottles (around 5000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[540],"tags":[3751,3753,582,3752,2842,2117,2843,2892],"class_list":["post-40439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bottles","tag-cambodia","tag-plastic","tag-plastic-bottles","tag-sdg-12","tag-sofia-vila-flor-en","tag-sustainable-development-goal-12","tag-upcycling-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peggada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peggada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peggada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peggada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peggada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peggada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peggada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peggada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peggada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peggada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}