{"id":183434,"date":"2024-02-23T11:23:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T17:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/a-kenyan-start-up-turns-plastic-waste-into-solar-powered-freezers"},"modified":"2024-02-23T11:23:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T17:23:30","slug":"a-kenyan-start-up-turns-plastic-waste-into-solar-powered-freezers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/a-kenyan-start-up-turns-plastic-waste-into-solar-powered-freezers","title":{"rendered":"A Kenyan start-up turns plastic waste into solar-powered freezers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-kenyan-start-up-turns-plastic-waste-into-solar-powered-freezers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Kenyan company is proving the saying: \u201cone person\u2019s waste is another person\u2019s treasure,\u201d still rings true.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On a February morning, a group of women on a Mombasa beach pick up plastic waste that will serve to build freezers.<\/p>\n<p>The waste is sold to company Kuza Freezer where employees first break it down into pellets before moulding it into cold storage units.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Kenyan company is proving the saying: \u201cone person\u2019s waste is another person\u2019s treasure,\u201d still rings true. On a February morning, a group of women on a Mombasa beach pick up plastic waste that will serve to build freezers. The waste is sold to company Kuza Freezer where employees first break it down into pellets [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}