Tons of garbage are getting washed up on the beaches of Kenya (Africa). Old flip-flop slippers are a big part of this mass of trash. See how useful the trash can be!
A small company called Ocean Sole from Nairobi (Capital of Kenya) decided to take all the washed up flip-flop slippers and recycle them! A total of 400.000 kilograms of rubber waste is getting recycled a year.
They make toys for kids, individual gifts, big sculptures useful things (door-stoppers, pens, notebooks, …) and a lot more out of them. This is a good solution to reduce the pollution of the beaches and it also can satisfy some kids. !
The flip-flops are picked up on the Kenyan beaches and then washed and sorted by colors. The flip-flop slippers will be cut, glued or shaped in different products. For example a key-chain or a small elephant. Also big giraffes or other big animals are being manufactured. See
Each flip-flop product has a small story. Caused by currents the slippers probably came from Indonesia or further. Now don’t throw your old flip-flop slippers into the ocean and hope you’ll get them back as a little lion, but maybe take a look at the nice products they already made.