EWB International – Ethiopia

Meeting Time

Wednesday 7PM

Project description

The EWB Ethiopia project is a stage 3 project that is working to reduce plastic waste in the Simien Mountains National Park in Debark, Ethiopia. Due to the amount of waste in the parks, they are currently storing plastic waste in large pits then burning the waste when the quantity is too high, which is harmful to the local ecosystem. As such, the project is focused on three major points: plastic collection, shredding the plastic, then molding the plastic. The plastic will be collected from the camp sites, dried, and shredded, before being molded into a product which will be sold into the local community to maintain the project.​

The team has constructed the plastic shredder and has completed testing. The plastic collection cage and injection molder are being constructed for testing in Spring 2024. The team is travelling to Ethiopia in Summer 2024.​

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