00:00Gamifying waste. What's the best way to recycle trash?
00:04Waste collection is easy.
00:07So when we are doing garbage collection, we can do that, right?
00:12Ibrahim Doka hasn't played the recycling game very often.
00:16The point is to find the most environmentally friendly ways to dispose off household waste.
00:25I learnt about the three colors and their meanings.
00:28The first one is black, which means that when you collect garbage,
00:32you separate the good ones from the bad ones, such as pampas.
00:39The second one is green, which means organic in English.
00:46And the third one is blue, which means plastic bottles.
00:50This new knowledge helps him in his job.
01:00Ibrahim Doka is a garbage collector in Kibera, Kenya's largest informal settlement.
01:05Here, in the middle of Nairobi, around 200,000 people lived in cramped conditions.
01:12There is no functioning public waste disposal, but various small-scale initiatives are trying to get the mountains of waste under control.
01:20Environmental activist Sam Dindi works with them.
01:23He invented the game to show how much can be achieved with recycling.
01:29This is a circular economy pathway that was inspired by the snake and ladder game that I used to play when I was young.
01:36So I thought, for the last six months I've been thinking of a game that is entertaining, rewarding and educative, that will help people understand what circularity is all about.
01:50Sam Dindi has been active in Kibera for around 10 years.
01:55In 2018, he launched a major clean-up along the Nairobi River and Motoyene River, turning the former garbage dumps along the banks into green meadows and play areas.
02:06He strongly believes in involving locals. It's the only way of ensuring sustainability.
02:11I visited Copenhagen and I saw their city was so clean.
02:23And during my visit, even when we were visiting the suburbs, I learnt that one of the key things towards a clean city is addressing our attitudes and behaviour towards waste.
02:35Instead of just throwing around that bottle, you take it to the right bin.
02:42You sorted your waste at source.
02:44So by doing all that, the waste management value chain becomes a little bit easier, even for the authorities.
02:54To raise more awareness here in Kenya, he works with local organisations.
02:58In Kibera, he cooperates closely with the association Greenship for Development.
03:05We have almost 10,000 to 20,000 households in Kibera.
03:11So, we have a lot of waste that is generated, and hence, everybody is a waste generator.
03:16And due to that, to the amount of household that we have, you can imagine how many people we have in Kibera.
03:23So, waste is a problem in Kibera, and we need a solution, and we as youth of Greenship, we are taking an innovation to deal with our own waste.
03:33In a new development, the initiative not only organizes waste disposal in the neighbourhood, it also recycles part of the collected plastic.
03:40After it's been washed, the plastic is shredded.
03:45The shreds are then pressed into moulds to make, for example, paving stones or game mats, and coated with an adhesive.
03:53It's a process that shows locals how a circular economy works.
03:57The association has found that more gets recycled now that they are buyers for the processed plastic, like activist Sam Dindi, who has already bought around 50 game mats for other projects.
04:07Increased demand has pushed up the price, especially for PET bottles.
04:14Let's say, for the pets, we have where we can sell it at a kg at 20 shillings, and before it was a kg at 15 shillings, 14 shillings.
04:24So, at least there is an increase in price.
04:27So far, Sam Dindi has mainly funded this project with the help from donors.
04:32The National Environment Management Authority of Kenya, NEMA, is also aware of his game now.
04:39The game is designed in a way that it is very innovative and engaging to the players.
04:43And this helps to reach out to sectors that will find it normally difficult to be able to participate in the conventional awareness creation,
04:53where you pull people probably in a workshop or in a meeting, because this creates in a bit of critical thinking.
05:00The winner gets a small prize from the game leader, roughly 60 euro cents.
05:05But even those who lose, win something. More knowledge of the environment and how to protect it.
05:11Given some money is expected.
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