Nelplast Eco Ghana: An Innovative Company Set to Recycle and Add Value to Plastic Waste

Founder and CEO Nelson Boateng gives an overview of Nelplast Eco Ghana, an innovative company set to recycle and add value to plastic waste.

“Nelplast recycles and adds value to plastic waste. We do not only clean the environment and create jobs, but we provide affordable building materials for the very low income Ghanaian. We have more than 300 waste collectors, mostly women, who collect up to 20,000 kilos of plastics and bring it to us on a daily basis. We scale it and then crush it, wash it if necessary, and feed it into an extrudor which has three heating zones since not all plastics have the same melting point. The paste that comes out of it is then put into a mold, pressed and turned into various products. The products that we produce have advantages over concrete because they are damp free and recyclable even after many years, unlike a concrete product”, says Nelson Boateng.

ABOUT NELSON BOATENG AND NELPLAST: Nelson Boateng is an eco-entrepreneur who has been running a plastic recycling business for years, producing different products from shopping bags, to bricks for roads, affordable housing and more. Nelplast Eco Ghana recycles tons of plastic per day to solve 3 major problems in Ghana: affordable housing, plastic waste and jobs. The company uses all kinds of plastic waste in production of building materials for construction, such as bricks for roads, building or roof tiles.

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