How Flip-Flop Art Helps Clean Kenya's Beaches | World Wide Waste | Business Insider
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- Опубликовано: 16 авг 2022
- Flip-flops are one of the oldest styles of shoes in the world, and today they are the most popular. We make over 1 billion of them every year, and one company in Kenya turns these old sandals into colorful works of art.
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My thoughts- this needs to stop. These people are causing more pollution
My mom brought home a giraffe made by them years ago. It still sits on her desk and I remember her talking about how it was made. She visited the factory and saw them working on other sculptures. So neat to see how that giraffe was made! Not to mention the larger scale sculptures which she could only describe to me. They are so beautiful and well made considering the materials were nothing more than trash hours before.
Do you know the name of the factory?
I don’t remember the name she told me when she got hers, but the video is about Ocean Sole in Nairobi Kenya. I doubt there are two companies doing this work so it has to be the same place.
Ocean Sole
@@boyka1231 чм
I would like to get a giraffe??? Any way too get one without going to Kenya?
I really love this type of business model. It's tackling multiple issues. It's cleaning up the beaches and repurposing material, it's helping the wood carvers pivot to a new job to sustain themselves, it's giving others without the skills a means of earning a living by harvesting the flip flops, it's bringing awareness to damage of purchasing and feeding the demand for foam flip flops.
Also props for them actually wearing masks while sanding. Health concerns can often be ignored in poor areas.
This was beautifully written 🙂
@@hannahsutherland5518 thanks! this is something important to me.
I sincerely believe that profit and sustainability doesn't have to contradict each other. In fact, it just makes so much more sense to create businesses that can consistently provide value to all parties involved! But the thirst for power flips it all around where large corporations are driven by profit, regardless of how short term or at other long term costs. Money is just a tool, it's the means to an end, not the end itself! Money is not evil, greed is.
AND they repurpose the flip flop shavings into mattresses that they donate to a refugee effort in Northern Kenya. Wild 🤯
It also helps lower consumerism rates! :)
@@wing3789 I love this! I 100% agree! I work in finance and this is something I try to do all the time!
If I actually decorated my house, I’d have a bunch of these. The colors actually make me smile.
Too much use of ‘actually’
I’m glad you enjoy the art though, so do I :)
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@@madeleineprice3556 yu yu
Great art from waste@
@@madeleineprice3556 Actually I feel the actual original commenter actually used the actual word 'actually' an appropriate amount of actual times, actually
Love how nothing is gone to waste in the work process. The flipflops? Turned into art. The extra bits? Matresses for those in need. Even the talented workers, who might otherwise have struggled in the current world now have a new medium to practice on. Awesome work.
flip flop matress gotta be uncomfortable 💀🪦
@@thejeffertonshow929 I think it`s more like a base mattress used with other things to soften up. Or like a mattress to have one hikes. I have this ugly ass grey brown hiking matress, probably made from the exact same material as those flipperz. Much rather have one of these colorful ones.
So when people throw that ugly crap away because we move away from the Ronald MacDonald colours what will we do with the waste then? It's a fashion trend. That's entirely it.
and the sanded away foam? right back into the ocean.
@@CandiceGoddardike the trend of ‘modern can only be white *everything’?* Because *that* trend was ugly AF
These people are mad talented. I love the Africans who protect their lands and animals from poachers and climate. I would love to see Africa one day but its so big! Sincerely, an Armenian.
Hard work & talent. Talent alone rare leads anywhere.
Me too! I would love to go see some of the nature reserves and view all the different cultures from country to country :)
No need to visit all of it😂
@@tanet It would be cool, tho 😄
Just start with a couple of countries! Kenya and Tanzania would be a great start as they are adjacent to each other and have amazing beaches and safaris!
This is some insane upcycling & value addition. The artistic component is really commendable
I just fear that all the particles that are created during the process will enter the environment.
@@AriesSupertramp True. The sanding process especially produces a lot of microplastics.
@@AriesSupertramp leaving them in the ocean will cause much more damage.
@@AriesSupertramp it’s all done indoors, I’m sure they know what they’re doing
@@MrMaboboz they can literally take those plastic bita and put them into mattresses
there arent words for how much i love this. they don't seem to be overworking themselves, theyre doing what they love without the splinters, AND cleaning the environment? not to mention theyre repurposing product instead of chopping down trees to make new ones.
you can really compare trees are a renewable as you can plant more trees to replace the ones you cut down
@@redschafer7804 Trees take a lot of time to grow though.
And if you plant monoculture lands with one specific kind of tree, that's harmful too.
So we can't really plant+grow as fast as we can chop down.
@@MinishMilly not as long as you think most pine trees only take a minimum of 5 years to grow to maturity thats not a long time at all and i'm sure that in other parts of the world there are trees that can grow even faster.
your lucky if you can get them them to live maybe ten years before the pine bark Beatles and other pest kill them. ya i used to sell them for 4H projects you have some that grow slow and might live a long time and other like the eastern yellow pine tree here in the US can grow a foot a year they get really tall really quick so it really depends on what you going to to use them for as to how long you have to wait before you can cut them down.
Not the first time hearing about this but glad for the reminder of how creative and resourceful Kenyan people are. Nobody wants this to wash up on their beaches but definitely the saying, 'One mans trash is another mans treasure' is being applied here.💯
Do you watch Jim Nduruchi
As a Filipino, I’m so sorry for our garbage reaching your beautiful beaches!!!!! Kenya is very innovative, so creative. Hopefully we can stop fighting (within our nation) and heal both our mother nature and people.. 🙌
Halaa fellow netizen nagulat nga rin ako 😮
tbh every beach ive been to has lots of trash. I always pick up my own and others trash. Why can’t people stop littering? 😭😭😭😭 Its so embarrassing that our trash reaches other countries and they have to fix our messes…..
Why are you sorry? Apparently they are able to use it for their benefit.
Grabehan naman yung from Philippines? Anlayo naman masyado nun lol
@@kamote1935 napaghahalataan na di ka nanood or nakinig minention na nga philippines sa video pabida ka pa sa comment section lmao 😂
This makes me proud to be a Kenyan. Well done guys. God bless you
That is so true. I love seeing Kenyan artists, companies and environmentalists being represented 😊
Be happy and proud to be kenyan what a blessing everyone has great blessings but this is a very pretty beautiful 😍 one and the mattresses they make from the sculptures shavings is cool also
@@oceansole you people create beautiful things😍
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As a fellow African from Algeria, this makes me proud too. Well done to all of those involved in this type of environmentally, yet prosperous businesses !
This is an amazing way to make something out of trash! I hope this is something that inspires others to do things like this to help the environment in their own way!
Do you watch Jim Nduruchi
Sorry, I have to disagree. The business adds more pollution by using all that glue and power for the electrical tools. Plus, the bits and pieces especially the rubber dust that mixes with the soil, that too are very harmful. Imagine the diesel fuel the trolley burned just to deliver the life-size toy car. I say just collect the waste as they are and recycle it.
@@edisontesla3932 Collect it and recycle it...? This is literally what recycling is.
@@CaptainBread_ Recycling in the sense of re-processing them to form fresh materials as they were before being turned into flip flops. The one in the vid is repurposing and as can be observed, the bits and pieces turn into bite size pieces snacks for the unsuspecting fish, birds, and land animals plus the dust particles will mix with the soil.
@@edisontesla3932 not only that, but it’s not really cleaning anything up. The trash is still there taking up space . Only difference is it looks like an animal shape or something. It doesn’t help at all
This is a small detail, but I’m really happy to see the workers wearing masks when sanding down the figurines! Protect them lungs
until I noticed that they aren't wearing hearing protectors devices.
@@keslyajennifer Yeah. The speaker left the area because it was so loud.
I've seen these sculptures plenty of times but never learned where they were from or how they were made. Thank you for this peek into how it is keeping a skilled trade alive while making art out of what was considered useless waste.
I just went on a vacation to kenya and now I’m in dubai going on the airplane today
@@elmidahiradam
didn’t ask
@@windowschips lol …
@@windowschips didn’t ask for your opinion
@@elmidahiradam didn't ask for your response
I really wish they set up a shop here in Brazil, this is such a great idea. We do have a massive flip-flops problem and those sculptures work really well as shop decorations because they fit our country's vibe. I'm also sure tourists would love to buy those, they are such cute souvenirs!
set one up yourself then
Simmmm
concordo!!
Do it, see what it takes... !!!
I’m all for ir, I have tons of broken slippers here, I will learn a little more about
I would like to express my deepest gratitude to these people. Just imagine how they helped nature during the years of work there. It's just incredible! It's just a dream when people's business saves nature. If I see such a figurine, I will definitely buy it.
I can't even explain how awesome this is, that near zero goes to waste here and that they just decided to 'do' this for the better and instead of wood carving which is harmful to the environment. Huge props to these people
Wood carving is not harmful. This is.
I love how clever humans can be when they think outside of the box. These artisans don’t have all of the bells and whistles that other artists have, yet they’re end product is exemplary. Great job, everyone 👏👏👏
I love how vibrant the models are.
Their*
"they're" is short for "they are".
We aint that smart to know the effect if out actions sadly
Using old cultural art techniques while reducing waste! Wow, I'm so very happy for these people
Well, it doesn't necessarily reduce waste. It just reduces how much waste sticks around in the natural environment.
Reducing waste is a problem for the corporations/governments/same thing of the world. They only care about money, not Gaia, our living planet.
@@scootergrant8683 Only if you declare their art as waste, otherwise it is a reduction of waste.
@@cidar4750 Yes. Art is waste, ecologically. Any plastic man-made thing is adding waste to the system, if not now, then 100 years later. Turning plastic rubbish in to plastic rubbish scrupture serve no other purpose other than making you feel better.
@@dickiewongtk Then we have a different definition of waste.
This is amazing. Not just cleaning up the beach, but taking an ugly thing that screws up the world and making it beautiful. It may be a small difference but it’s an inspiration to the rest of the world to do more.
PS. My only problem with this is I feel bad for all the people who lost their shoes
This is incredible. The most impressive artists to me are the ones who somehow manage to transform waste and other low cost materials into something beautiful. It's almost like real-world alchemy.
As a Kenyan, I am proud on how creative my people can be!
It sounds more like Globalization is destroying your beaches.
I'm not Kenyan, but I grew up with many and I am so proud of the ingenuity and generosity of a people who have (like all of Africa) been taken advantage of repeatedly but still managed to show the world they cannot be beaten.
@@Goldphool I agree!
Indeed, what is a machine building industry compared to this unbelieavable creativity. LOL.
as a human and cosmopolitan i deeply admire them✨i did nothing for the cause to be proud of them neither i consider myself to be a part of their labor just because i am also human🙈i think it is slightly offensive tbh
those people are wonderful..♥️✨the work they do is delightful🌻
I’m glad they were able to transfer their skill from wood into a waste product. They have some mad skills!
@@oceansole What happens to the powder you create? looks like only the cut and or shred pieces are used in mattresses.
@@FunSkipping no companies produces goods without waste materials.. at least the waste materials they've collected from the beach are reduced to tiny portion and they put them into the properly land fill or proper waste seggration areas.. it's better than us just watching youtube..
I wish this video was longer! I can not thank these people enough! From the collectors, to the washing process, to the artists! THANK YOU!
This business needs to go world wide....may Kenya and Africa prosper someday🤞♥️
And centuries of colonial roadblocks too.
We are prospering but the western world loves stealing from us
Not in the nearest future though
@@nicholasbyram296 and several hundred years of colonization and exploitation by europe and murica
@@yuppy178 come on stop accusing the West. They are even now helping african countries without condition, unlike the Communist China where it offers you loans and moneys and even them offering you tnemselves to build your project and in the end you can't pay the debt and then in just a blink of an ehe they are now controllig some parts of your country!!! How about that huh?!!!!
This is hands down my favorite World Wide Waste video. I just love seeing what they have done to turn waste into treasure while keeping people employed. Looked like many of the people working there are very happy and proud of the work they collectively have done.
AMAZING!! Kenya just works.Trash is literally turned to treasure. From repurposed flip-flops to clothes that help make high quality furniture to tires that become tree planters . Seems like there is a whole culture/industry based on saving the planet and that is very commendable
This is so wonderful ❤️❤️❤️
Your impact on reducing waste, the opportunities you give to people for making money, and just the pure talent of your artists. 🙏🥺
I really like how the kids are the brains behind this whole idea that is now generating revenue, reducing waste and creating employment. It goes to show that kids think out of the box and their creativity should be encouraged and supported even more. I'm from Kenya and I remember when we used to play with toys that we constructed ourselves. We made toy cars from milk cartons and used bottle caps as wheels. At the farm we made bigger toy cars from molding a frame out of twigs and branches and using flipflops to make the tires. I remember using cigarette rappers as currency and using it when we played with marbles, that was our version of monopoly back then. We were young and creative. I wonder what happened.
Another one is the flip flop expedition, a whole functioning sailing boat that was built in Lamu from flip flops!
I still find it ridiculous that poorer countries can do so much for the environment but the best richer countries can do is ban plastic straws and just making different environmental problems by replacing them with metal or silicone straws.
I really hope these types of businesses take off or at least emulated by other countries just so that we can do the most we can to help the environment. I've already seen disposable party plates made of leaves, edible utensils and paper made from elephant poop.
It isnt the best they can do, it is the most they feel like doing. In poorer countries they tend to live right next to the problem, they see it every day. But in america for example, you dont really see it unless youre looking for it. Though it tends to be bigger projects on the grand scale like 4ocean and team trees.
I bet if you looked a bit you could find a few organizations with benefit to the environment in wealthier countries. If you mean to compare governmental actions like laws to a private company that's comparing apples to oranges.
Unfortunately this is real😓, they are really making efforts for the environment💔
Ban plastic straw wrapped in paper, now its paper straws wrapped in plastic
@@ThisIsSolution wait for real?
I think these are wonderful! Finds a creative way to use what otherwise would've been waste, gives these talented artists fresh materials to work with again, lets the collectors earn a bit of much needed extra income, creates materials to fill mattresses for those in need, and lets people buy a colorful piece of art to display!
That is amazing to me. I love that they are turning it into art and useful things.
Whoever thought it up is a genius. I'm glad it's helping to clean up Kenya's beaches
and turning the flip flops into something wonderful.
This could be an inspiration for us Pacific Islanders, hope we could cope with these types of programs. Thanks Kenyan brothers and sisters, big love from Fiji.
One of my eyes is crying, the other is laughing. It's sad to see so much garbage, but the ingenuity of these people is fantastic and adorable. I hope the western world will also be able to wake up one day.
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ c r i n g e
The western world doesn't create most of this trash. It's mostly Africa, India and China.
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ bruh
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ “joyful songs”
Something like “killing in the name” by Rage against the machine?
If I ever get to visit Kenya, I won't go home without buying one of that master piece.
This entire concept is amazing and the end products are beautiful. So many talented artists. I LOVE this. ♥️♥️♥️
I felt guilty about creating trash and was impressed by the art that could be created out of it.
This is incomparably better than any avant-garde art.
This IS avante-garde art!
theres nothing wrong with avant garde art made with trash as well. As long as something of no use becomes something of value
its incredibly easy to make complicated and bizarre art using trash thanks to its wide variety of textures depending on what you look out for. the more ways people experiment with it the better
My problem is this is generating massive amounts of microplastic, they can't do anything with the powder from them sanding away at flip flop material, and that shit ends up in everything.
@@FunSkipping My thoughts too
@@FunSkipping Good point. They should set up some extractors where they're sanding that immediately suck it up as they sand.
Then at least it won't go back out in the environment. I'm sure there's something that could be made with it too. Maybe even new sandals. Or another type of art.
But if it's just left in the ocean it eventually breaks down until it's just tiny particles anyway.
At least this way they get a lot of that out of there & they did say they have a shredder for the bigger leftover pieces to make mattresses with for refugees.
What an amazing organisation! There's really a lot of thought that goes into every aspect of the business. I do hope that the workers are getting paid a fair wage esp the wood carvers for their talents and I hope they can offer more to the collectors in the future too, 30 cents a kilo for a light product doesn't seem much. Overall I'm very impressed and inspired by the beautiful products. I hope they can expand abroad or other countries are able to follow the same model.
I was thinking the same thing. They sell these for a lot of money in comparison to how much they pay their workers. I wish the woman who started it would turn it over and make it an employee owned business so they could really thrive.
I hope they have been provided with some NIOSH equipment because the dust isn't something to be taken into the lungs.
@@getin3949 agreed
This is so heart warming! I love African people. I had many friends from Africa, and they are childish, energetic, they know how to make money with discipline and also how to have fun. They like no other people in the West. They are definitely from special clay. Peace be upon you my friends. Thank you for the value you provided to the planet!
This company is amazing. I hope this could be done worldwide. So happy :D
they are soo inspiring. they dont even cause the pollution at their beaches but still they feel responsible for that problem and the idea behind it is just great. lots of respect to the workers and artists. i hope i can have one sculpture for myself some day
@@melissaschmitt2487 I couldn’t agree more.
Had a smile on my face this whole video. Beautiful art, and I like to see the workers with good tools and masks. Amazing job Kenya!
Same! Couldn't help but smile. This is awesome and if it wasn't for this video, I wouldn't have known this exists!
Well said same
Must include ear protection as well
This is truly incredible. Their talent is amazing and its so clever how they create the colourful sculptures. All this while also helping the environment 👏
This is so wholesome. I'm sure all the animals in the ocean are very grateful for this group of talented artists!!
This honestly makes me so happy, I love the beaches and it sucks to see them all reduced to nothing more than a garbage heap. I’m glad such wonderful people exist to do so many kind hearted things
This is so unique. I would love to purchase a sculpture like that!! they are colourful and lively. Really great. Also, instead of wasting natural resources like wood to create sculptures, they're using discarded flipflops and helping the environment and cleaning the earth!! Lovely work 👏👏👏
I bought one from their website!
@@rachelcorwith8481 what is the name of the website ?
@@xa-1268 ocean sole 🙂
Kenya had also banned plastic shopping bags. Not sure if they're still banned.
This is the kind of content I love being recommended. So wholesome, so inspiring ♡
This has actually inspired me. I think I plan to go door to door at the college dorms to collect plastic bags and use them in my own art from now on
Amazing! We need more projects like this around the world. To bring awareness about the environment to provide jobs to people and to maintain the traditional and also new art going
we also need to minimise the unnecessary buying
@@essech that is #1. I'm looking at you Americans.
These sculptures are truly amazing pieces. It's heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time. The problem of pollution, and somehow they transformed some of the problem into beauty and artistry.
Wow, these artists are SO TALENTED at carving! Beautiful! Upcycled garbage into art is a wonderful thing.
How Beautiful & Creative!! Nice way to clean up their beaches!! I Love to hear these people talk!❤
This is an amazing way to repurpose flip flops. A few years back, I had the opportunity to speak with some of these artists, and they all said that they don't want people to think that they appreciate these flip flops. They would prefer that the flip flops didn't litter their beaches and destroy their environment.
This isn't some cheap skilled product - these artists are so skilled and make such beautiful statues. And the it's also noble. I hope more of us buy these. If love to by the giraffe!
This is super cool. Have the utmost respect for the people who collect, prep and create those amazing pieces. They are doing something that is helping the environment. That is a real solution and nature appreciates it.
Business perspective, good business, no problem with supply, quite popular and only worried about payroll and other expenses.
Humanitarian perspective, helping the environment, love it!
Artist perspective, I saw the Giraffe's face and I could personally say it's of quality.
Gold mine of an idea.
Kenya 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪my beloved beautiful country how I miss you! it is 6 years since I left and every single day I mention my country because it is my home! I miss the white sand beaches in the coast to the busy life of Nairobi ! I actually miss shopping in Gikomba, muthurwa …. I miss taking the noisy matatu that boom with music ! I miss shopping groceries at mama mboga ! I miss the sun ! I miss being among people and not get noticed … I miss seeing the beautiful artwork displayed in the streets! I miss eating mutura, maindi choma , Kitheri, Omena , mukimo, mabuyu , … the list is endless..I miss home and I hope I will come back soon ! In the meantime I pray for peace ! Be peaceful our fellow Kenyans and take care of our beloved country ! Lots of love from 🇬🇧🇬🇧
We don’t want you back. You leave us and say all these nice things. Why leave if you love it so much. It’s people like you who give our country a bad name.
Go to visit 😀
Wewe Rudi huku😁
Hehehe I have some business to finish first before I come back!
It’s shameful that “we” allow so much wasted crap to just float away thinking that it just disappears for us.
I’m glad to see that they are doing something creative with it but I fear that with all the sanding and carving they’re creating tons of microscopic
plastic/foam as a byproduct.
I’m glad to see people working to keep the beaches clean also, but in another way it’s sad that they need too.
Yes, also when they are sanding the plastic, even though most are wearing masks, some of that is still being inhaled, getting into their eyes etc. I don't like how they play some upbeat music in these "inspiring" videos trying to distract from the huge pollution problem human beings are causing. The sculptures are nice, but flip flops are just a tiny portion of and enormous pollution problem fueled by greed.
What we know now about microplastics really throws a huge wrench in many upcycling products.
@@chihirostargazer6573 They can just wear eye protection and then there is no way micro plastics can get into their bodies, so this really isn’t a big problem. There’s ways to stop micro plastics while sanding getting into every other part of the body as well.
@@ewancook and then the micro plastics go where? To the garbage? Into the environment? They are already everywhere...in water supplies, in food, even in salt you use to season your food. It's not good to mess around with micro plastics... what we need to do is stop using and producing plastic as much as possible and recycle the plastic we already have in a safe manner to ensure it doesn't get into the environment.
@@chihirostargazer6573 y’all always find a problem w everything smh
That is amazing even the leftover shavings are repurposed!
And this is a quite sustainable material source to make art because otherwise these sandals would become litter and they turn it into art
Absolutely amazing I’m a flip flop/sandal lover. I personally use them for a long time even fixing them if one side of the strap breaks off, but this is an amazing reuse of the emense amount of flip flop waste.
Seeing these people enjoying their job and when theyve finished a project theyre cheering, i love that. These people seem to be loving what they do, and it has such a creative outlet as well as improving the envoirement by taking harmful trash out of it. I want to support this! I think i'll save some coin for one of their lovely creations ^w^
A huge respect to the workers there who are risking their lives cause of the toxic dust of these sandals 👍🏽 .They have beautiful lands and they know how to keep it clean. India must learn......
Do you make art?
Causing off cut bits and dust so much more pollution
@@MrJohnestall in the video they say bits are pressed into mattresses
@@noyoucannot yea but people like John only look for things to criticize. That’s the only value they contribute to society
@@jm2307 i don't think so, let's be kind to each other
Perfect example of one persons trash is another persons treasure .. Soo beautiful & smart ✨❤
I reckon this is one of the best videos I’ve watched on RUclips so far. What an uplifting and reforming video and process.
That is absolutely incredible and I want one! This company is 100% legit down to the smallest safety precautions, I was worried they were sanding these sculptures without dust masks or respirators and I'm happy to see they are in fact wearing masks. A work environment that cherishes creativity and even health/safety all the while producing products that quite literally are helping the environment to provide jobs to the unemployed.
Simply incredible and inspiring, I will most likely try to buy one online if I have the money.
So amazing how they are able to turn a problem into art!
The sculpures look so beautiful, they're helping to keep the oceans and environment clean and employing hardworking and talented artists.
Hope more places like this can be setup all over the world.
Do you watch Jim Nduruchi
@@irenedavo3768 no? and i wish i hadn't googled that name...
Collecting waste, producing microplastic out of it by sculpting their art. I'm not sure, if that's really helping the situation.
WOW ! WHAT AN ART!!! I'M SO OVERWHELMED TO SEE THIS .
Love these sculptures! So beautiful, a a great use of waste materials. And it seems like they would be very safe to have around children, too. :) I especially love the lion designs with the individual flip flops firming the mane. Clever!
This is so cool, and a solution to multiple problems! Cleaning up the beach, providing an alternative material for wood carvers to protect trees, using the scraps to make mattresses from refuge camps, and of course generating business and tourism and a whole new economic niche. Not to mention a beautiful way to show of Kenyan culture. Positive for the world in every way
I have no words for how amazing this is, I'm an artist and seeing how colorful and beautifully sculpted each peace is magical, I wanna buy a small one for my bedroom :)
I’m glad you’re making a difference, neyrobi kenya, and I’m glad I shared this 4 years ago.
Never heard or seen this before. This is amazing. These people do fabulous work.
As a Canadian. This is really inspiring and informative. Sometimes it's hard to get an in understanding of amazing things being done across the world, and this helps put things into perspective for me. This is amazing!
I LOVE IT. I love the colors and how it reduces flipflops showing up on the beach. The tiny plastics from the sandings is a problem but besides that, i would love to learn how to make these or buy them 🥰
I was thinking that too but I'm sure they have a method to collect it
Well it won't reduct what shows up on the beach but it will help combat these flip flops remaining on the beach for too long.
It doesn’t prevent flip flops from showing up on beaches. Not producing as many flip flops would reduce the amount of flip flops washing up on beaches.
They use the shavings as fill for mattresses they send to refugees.
That isn't viable for the tiny shavings mentioned above.
This is so awesome!
Took trash from others and turned it into something beautiful.
One of my favourite videos online. What beautiful art they create, absolutely in love. ❤
The ingenuity that went into this is amazing. It's really encouraging to see so many initiatives coming from Africa regarding recycling plastics into bricks, art and other usable products.
This is by far the most beautiful art I've seen from waste. So colorful! It will be a great view in places like Parks🥰
My friends and I purchased the coolest cat from a gift shop nearby in Karen, Nairobi, Kenya two years ago, and we've been following the company ever since. Your purchase provides jobs, beach cleanups, and snacks for workers. Its such a great example of a sustainable business.
These are the news that cheer me up, that make me have faith in the future. So many wonderful people doing wonderful things for all of us!
This is amazing it's unfortunate that this is the issue that we're having with flip flops but the fact that they can actually turn it around and do something positive with it is absolutely beautiful. Hard-working people I wish they could be paid more for their time effort and talent.
Such talent-incredible! My eyes were glued to their artwork the whole time, but when I saw the car my jaw dropped!
The fact that they pay hardly any cost of materials (except 31 cents per kilogram for collecting) is amazing as well. I think more things should be made out of our waste.
This is so amazing! I love people and how innovative they can be ❤
This idea is just Brilliant!! Making beautiful things out of trash is one capacity which is really needed in these times. 💜👍👍👍
mesmerizing colour patterns, beautiful and accurate vivid shaping... those sculptures are incredibly well done
Amazing people for a great cause! Kudos to all involved 👏 Keep up the good work!!
The greatest business. Thank those beautiful people for saving us
Crafting wonderful things from garbage while ridding the land of pollution is incredibly thoughtful.
More power to your elbows!
This is very impressive and I admire their talents and creativity. I just hope that they have some sort of a vacuum to deal with the dusts. Large plastic trash can be harsh for the environment but micro plastic is going to be a huge health danger to us human and animals as well.
And your nostrils when you work in that, speaking from experience.
What a question to ask. We removed lead from solder to protect Africans who burn circuit boards to collect the copper from the traces. Of course they don't have any vacuum or fume extractor. Therefore the EU will soon make new regulations for flip flops so they can be reworked with less dust and nicer colors for artworks.
How beautiful and interesting idea this is! Well done to these artists that make these awesome things! ❤
I love seeing fellow african countries care for their country’s environment! I hope someday that people in my country Sudan can do the same 💯
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these people are doing a much better job than the other trash repurposing you havs featured. they're cleaning up a lot of really harmful trash, including probably a lot of collection from the ocean (because flip flops float and collect on the shore), which is very environmentally helpful and otherwise quite rare in trash recycling, they have created jobs for a pretty large number of people, those people are now no longer contributing to problematic logging to get carving material, and they're making really good products with a whole lot of skill. it also aounds like they compensate trash collectors better than collection of trash normally pays, since they can afford it and seem to be able to use as much material as they can get, having many carvers employed and very wide distribution. I was wondering what they would do with the waste, and they said that they're making mattresses for refugees, which sounds like it might be a really good use. at least it's probably suitable for using almost all of the foam waste.
and I'm not religious, but I bet some of these guys were VERY happy when the pope was gifted one of their products! :)
P.S. who is the goofball who decided to make the narwhal? xD
This is actually worse for the environment. All that micro plastic is going to get washed away into the ocean and be uncollectable. It's going to get into fish and other animals bodies as they eat it
The art is so beautiful. The artists are very talented too!
The idea is great! I just hope they handle the micro plast/plastic dust they produce with the grinders and carving tools properly. Otherwise it's worse than just leaving the sandals at the beaches. This is due to micro plast being much harder to handle and clean up. Also it's much more damaging to nature. Overall this could be so much worse than doing nothing. But maybe their handling of the seemingly huge amounts of micro plast produced is not shown in the video. But ofc I'm glad that people are trying! Makes me happy
Exactly my concern
I thought the same
I don’t understand. The flip flops will disintegrate into micro plastics at some point, whether it’s now or a few thousand years from now. The sun and waves will very quickly wear the flip flops into something unusable in the ocean. Whereas, once those flip flops get into someone’s home and out of the elements, they will be saved from that breakdown… for at least a little while. So you have the choice between the sun and the grinder, a marine animal’s stomach or someone’s home. If anything, neither option is worse than the other. It is very possible that the sculptures and the sandals will end up in the same place and in the same condition, no matter what. It’s just a question of how much time it will take.
What is the solution to micro plastics? How can these artists ‘handle’ it? I do believe it’s less damaging to make use of the sandals rather than let them disintegrate in the ocean, and, perhaps, sink to unretrievable depths. Maybe one day the sculptures and all other plastic can be shot into outer space. 😭
@@KatieKat861 Hm I don’t want to shoot down the great initiative at all and these artist are greatly skilled. Such beautiful work. But I am sure that leaving the sandals behind might be even better than grinding them up into dust that blows out in nature. The best would be to just collect them and deliver them at some centralized governmental waste instance :)
Again- I do not know much about this, since I am not educated within environment. These are just my thoughts. I think it is pretty obvious though, that the grinding part of the process is worse than leaving the whole piece of plastic in nature, if the leftover dust is not properly handled
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This is fantastic !!! Beautiful art !! And loving Mother Earth at the same time. I make slippers and sandals from offcuts of fabric that got discarded by an upholsterer and leftovers from my own sewing and crochet, and I use old flipflops, when I can get them, as the soles to these shoes. But I never thought to look for them on the beach ( I live in the Eastern Cape, South Africa ). Time to go beachcombing. Well done to all those amazing artists.
That's a great idea as well! :)
turning in 50 flip flops gets you a typical nairobi worker's daily wage? that sounds like they're actually compensating quite well compared to what people normally get for trash collecting in poor countries! and flip flops might even be easy to collect, since you may be able to find spots on the ocean shore where a lot of them wash up due to persistent currents and winds.
The average person earns a dollar a day, so there's some context.
This is so beautiful! When I went to Kwale in Mombasa, Kenya, i didn’t notice any lone sandals at the beach. But maybe I was just too mesmerized Indian Ocean. Ive been to nastier beaches on the west coast of America. Id love to go back to Kenya again. It’s soooooooooooooooo beautiful (the countryside and the city). and this is an AMAZING effort. Next time I’ll purchase this art when I visit again. I also wish the Kenyan government supplemented agricultural and recycling efforts more.
That is absolutely incredible! I just love it. Thank you.
Thank you Kenya! You truly are a role model for the world to see. Beautiful art. ♥️
Thank you, I feel personally honoured with all the comments here. Proudly Kenyan! Proudly a global citizen!