EcoPost is a company located in Kenya that manufactures plastic lumber from recycled plastic waste and sawdust. It employs people in marginalized areas to collect, sort, and provide plastic waste for manufacturing. EcoPost has created over 500 jobs, recycled over 2 million kilograms of waste, manufactured over 30,000 building profiles to provide housing while saving forests. Their products provide a sustainable alternative to timber for construction in impoverished areas of Africa.

1. ECOPOST
Social Approach to Waste Collection
And Recycling Plastics

2. ECOPOST
ECOPOST, located in Kenya, manufactures eco-friendly
plastic lumber from plastic waste and sawdust. Integrating a
commitment to environmental excellence with a business wide
approach to sustainability.
EcoPost’s products are designed especially for impoverished
areas in Africa. Once manufactured the profiles/boards can be
put together to build whatever size house necessary for a
family or a communal area. Materials found on site like straw
and cardboard can be added into the spaces between EcoPost
boards for more insulation against very strong wind and to
provide thermal and sound insulation.
EcoPost profiles and boards are easy to work with just like
timber, and can be assembled into houses by joining them
together with nails or bolts.

3. In just 3 years of operation EcoPost has:
• Created 40 direct and 500 indirect jobs for the people in the marginalized
areas who collect, sort and provide the waste we require for
manufacturing.
• Withdrawn and recycled over 2 Million kilos of waste that would have
otherwise been dumped in open areas, rivers, clogging our sewers and
even encroaching people’s homes.
• Manufactured and sold over 30,000 profiles which have provided a
suitable alternative to timber and thus saving over 350 Acres of forest
while generating Millions of Kenya shillings in Revenue Per Annum.
• Prevented over 2.5 Million Kgs of CO2 emissions from the environment
further mitigating climate change.

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To advance to its full potential, EcoPost needs to secure:
• The flow of raw material. Set up more collection yards for
purchasing waste material.
• Funds to purchase adequate plastic and sawdust waste from
the marginalized youth and women groups who will be
collecting and selling the waste to the collection yards, other
labor and electricity.
This business is a for-profit
operation. Currently operating
100% through revenue from
sales of products (sales of
posts worth $US 250,000. )
EcoPosts profitability stands at
25 – 35% of the capitol
employed.