These colorful toys and animal shaped masterpieces are made from 100% recycled flipflops!
Ocean Sole, an organization in Kenya, that cares about the ocean, its ecosystems and marine wildlife found a creative and productive way to save the coastline from pollution.
Sounds strange but thousands of flipflops that are washed up in waterways of Kenya put in real danger the ecosystem.
Sounds strange but thousands of flipflops that are washed up in waterways of Kenya put in real danger the ecosystem.The thousands scattered rubber soles on beaches of Kenya are swallowed by fish & other animals and obstruct turtles reaching the sea.
The artisans of Ocean Sole found an interesting way to protect their environment from the flipflops.
How? By transforming them into colorful masterpieces in the shape of elephants, giraffes, lions, rhinos, dolphins, sharks, turtles. So the people in Kenya stopped throwing away the flipflops and started cleaning the beaches and making masterpieces, sending this way a message to the whole world.
Love the colors!
Now in workshops in Nairobi work over 100 individuals.
What a wonderful way to preserve the natural beauty of the planet!
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Now this is turning trash into treasure!
Mzuri sana! Very good. A wonderful initiative. Thanks for sharing. (And a lovely week ahead)
wow.. this is simply amazing!
As always your posts are amazing! Loves from Argentina ♥
Thank you!
Amazing !! Shots, showing vibrant colors and culture
Wow such a goo cause and they are so pretty!
Can you buy them?
Yes, all the sculptures they make are for sale.
These people are soooo gifted!!! The figures are absolutely adorable 🙂 Thank you for bringing it up – I never heard about it before!
Speaking about plastic recycling: do you know the work of Dave Hakkens; he is a big activist in home plastic recycling, i.e. he builds (and sells) machines with which everyone can create sculptures from plastic at home. In other words: don’t stop with the recycling by adoring the work from Kenya. Let’s take them as a role model and recycle a bit at home, too 🙂
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