http://designinafrica.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/recycling-in-nairobi/ Sat, 01 Jun 2013 18:53:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://designinafrica.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/recycling-in-nairobi/#comment-482 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:49:22 +0000 http://designinafrica.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/recycling-in-nairobi/#comment-482 U’r prob. looking at the situation from your well tool eqqiupped garage. They DON’T have tools – and they DON’T have power for them too..

]]> http://designinafrica.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/recycling-in-nairobi/#comment-430 Sat, 03 Apr 2010 02:47:41 +0000 http://designinafrica.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/recycling-in-nairobi/#comment-430 It takes an amazing mind and a lot of determination to make something from what looks like nothing but refuse. I’d love to get my hands into those piles. Obviously a lot of those pots can be used for cooking or storage and the flat sheets might make moderate shelter (albeit noisy shelter when it rains) or flooring for inside a home. The trick is to use the things that cannot be reused so simply.
Useless appliance wires can be used as very strong, durable rope or cord and several of those gears and pulleys could come together to make a makeshift rolling cart. I notice a rusty saw blade that, given some finagling, could be put to use cutting something or even just holding things in place. Some of this may sound lame but if it can be used for something, then it’s doing better than just sitting there.

]]> http://designinafrica.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/recycling-in-nairobi/#comment-154 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:06:44 +0000 http://designinafrica.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/recycling-in-nairobi/#comment-154 Making something out of nothing is more honorable than making nothing out of something.

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