The World We Want Foundation

3W are finding effective ways to advance social and environmental change.

Trash, or treasure? Giving plastic a new life

With the support of 3W, the T3 Plastic Recycling plant has grown into an innovative approach to poverty alleviation through environmentally sustainable employment opportunities, while encouraging responsible business practices.

Every year, billions of plastic bottles are incinerated, stuffed into landfills, or discarded into the oceans. The T3 Recycling Plant challenges this massive problem. Located near the Kenyan capital, T3 is the country’s first plastic recycling plant of its scale, setting a precedent to possibilities of alleviating poverty while offsetting environmental degradation.