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On the Lamu island, off Kenya’s east coast, 47-year-old Usmail collects plastic which he then sells onto the Flipflopi Project.
The NGO was founded in 2016. It upcycles the waste into boats and furniture.
Lamu is contending with mounds of plastic waste – some washed up on its beaches, others genrated by its residents.
“We started collecting plastics a while ago,” Usmail says.
“There used to be a lot of plastic waste in…
