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Do Away With Plastic in Schools. #dawpis

place Ghana + 3 more

#dawpis

Plastic sachets have become a big problem across Africa because of the lack of recycling initiatives and waste management infrastructure. Plastic Pollution Whether you take a stroll in the neighborhood near your school, at a local park, or along a nearby beach, there’s a good chance that you’ll see some plastic pollution along the way. Straws, plastic water bottles, and plastic bags belong to a gr

Overview

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Updated April 2025
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2019

Established

3

Countries
Students upper
Target group
As a green business our goal is triple fold; to recycle water sachet bags and thus provide an alternative waste management solution to the plastic menace, to provide an affordable alternative to Efiewura bag (To curb plastic pollution and reduce the effects of climate change) and to provide employment and thus a source of living to many unemployed youths. As the world is emphasizing on reducing

About the innovation

Why did you create this innovation?

Plastic sachets have become a big problem across Africa because of the lack of recycling initiatives and waste management infrastructure. Plastic Pollution Whether you take a stroll in the neighborhood near your school, at a local park, or along a nearby beach, there’s a good chance that you’ll see some plastic pollution along the way. Straws, plastic water bottles, and plastic bags.

What does your innovation look like in practice?

We used Sachet Water Bags to produce Lunch Bags, BackPack and also educate students the importance of not throwing plastic but rather recycle plastic in a different product that can benefits the community. Therefore, education to students on the importance and opportunities available in plastic recycling. Using plastic Sachets bags collected from students and environment as treated and wash with alcohol then sew the plastics pieces into a sheet of fabric form, these sheets are then cut into patterns to be sew into a durable accessories like Backpack, lunch bags, pencil case etc. These products are ecofriendly Bags created or made from Sachets water Bag be sold

How has it been spreading?

The aim of this project is to enlighten students on the available job opportunities that can be found in plastic. The project is called Do Away with Plastic on campus #DAWP is a pilot project using the Home Economics Department, three classes at Ofoase Senior High Technical School with three volunteers. Plastics are not an Environmental, Incineration, landfill and ocean problem. They’re a people’s problem. Believe it or not, this is reason for hope. Because people are the problem, that means we are also the solution.

If I want to try it, what should I do?

Sources out for plastic recycling sachet bag that will be used to produced those articles like #lunchBag #BackPack

Implementation steps

Weaving of Sachet soccer net
1) First of all you hang your rope.
2) Cut the sachet bag into two equal parts.
Weaving Sachet soccer net
3) cut the Wielded edges of the sachets to a circular sachets bags.
4) process of weaving.
Weaving Soccer net
5) The firs role, you take one circular sachet and create a knot to the desired length.
6) Take two circular sachet and create a knot with one circular sachet bag to get two.
7) Take another two circular sachet and add it to one from left and right to creat a Diamond shape.
8) work on this process till you get the length

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