Innovation for a green Industrial Revolution | Kudakwashe Dhliyawayo | TEDxBorrowdale скачать в хорошем качестве

Innovation for a green Industrial Revolution | Kudakwashe Dhliyawayo | TEDxBorrowdale

KUDAKWASHE DHLIWAYO is a social entrepreneur, chemist and green business consultant who is passionate about green innovations, technology and entrepreneurship. She is working on rubbish problems. Her business is called Vital Recycling and its quite methodical in its approach to environmental sustainability. Perhaps Kudakwashe’s interest in plastics came from her education background. She holds an honours degree on Applied Chemistry from NUST. She said when she worked for the manufacturing companies for more than a year, she saw them poorly managing their waste and she decided to come up with a solution to help them do better job. That’s how Vital Recycling was born. The amount od plastics recycles in very low, only an estimate of 11% of 198 000 tones of plastic is recycled in Zimbabwe according to the environmental Management Agency in November 2018. In research conducted by the Institute of Environmental Studies in 2014, Zimbabwe generates 1.65 million tonnes of waste per year and an estimated 12% is plastic. This is a matter that demands attention, upgrading our waste management services in Zimbabwe is imperative if we are to recover plastic waste for recycling. This is where his talk topic: “Innovation for a green Industrial Revolution” emanates from. She is now known as the plastic doctor. Kudakwashe Dhliwayo is a social entrepreneur, chemist and green business consultant who is passionate about green innovations, technology and entrepreneurship. She is the founding director of Vital recycling. A waste management and recycling company whose mission is to build environmentally sustainable economies through the use of innovation and technology in waste reduction, reuse, recycling, customer service and education. She has worked in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry and has experience in drug-products research and development. She has in-depth understanding of how industrial activities and other waste management issues contribute to the degradation of the environment and climate change. She is therefore passionate about applying innovation and technology to solve some of the biggest waste problems Africa has today. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx