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True to its vision, the For-Profit Start-up named Mister Green Africa Ltd. should focus on the professional disposal and recycling of plastic waste in Kenya, and on bringing people to work on a regular basis. Expertise from Linz was obtained for this remarkable business idea: Keiran Smith and Karim Debabe finally found the missing links in Professor Reinhold Lang of the Institute for Polymer Materials and Testing and later in Professor Erik Hansen of the Institute for Integrated Quality Design (IQD), in order to score points in terms of material quality and, ultimately, marketability of the recycling products.

Social-oriented, professional circular economy  

"Our findings show that the informal recycling sector, properly and professionally designed, can go hand in hand with social and socio-economic improvements for the working people," explains Melanie Wiener. In order to successfully establish this model in other places, care and sustainability are required, so that the vision of a "model of a socially oriented circular economy", which combines the aspect of "people at the center" with state-of-the-art technology, is also fulfilled.

Read the whole article of the Kepler Tribune (by Dieter Hönig)