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We sincerely appreciate your donation. You can also contribute easily via M-Pesa Paybill and be part of creating lasting impact.

 
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Terms of Use

Effective Date: 20 May, 2023
Last Updated: 8 April, 2026

1. Acceptance of Terms

Welcome to Twende Green Ecocycle.

By accessing or using our website, services, or programs, you agree to comply with and be bound by these Terms of Use. If you do not agree, please do not use our website or services.

2. About Us

Twende Green Ecocycle is a social enterprise based in Mombasa, Kenya, dedicated to combating plastic pollution through recycling, innovation, and community engagement.

3. Use of Our Website

You agree to use this website only for lawful purposes. You must not:

  • Use the website in any way that violates applicable laws or regulations
  • Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our systems
  • Disrupt or interfere with website functionality
  • Upload or transmit harmful or malicious content

We reserve the right to restrict or terminate access if misuse is detected.

4. Intellectual Property

All content on this website, including:

  • Text
  • Images
  • Logos
  • Graphics
  • Videos

is the property of Twende Green Ecocycle or its licensors and is protected by applicable intellectual property laws.

You may not reproduce, distribute, or use our content without prior written permission.

5. User-Generated Content

If you submit content (e.g., testimonials, comments, photos):

  • You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, and share it
  • You confirm that the content is yours and does not infringe on any rights
  • We reserve the right to remove content that is inappropriate or unlawful

6. Programs, Services, and Participation

Participation in our programs (e.g., cleanups, training, recycling initiatives) is voluntary.

By participating, you agree that:

  • You do so at your own risk
  • You will follow provided safety guidelines
  • You will respect other participants and the environment

We reserve the right to deny participation where necessary.

7. Donations and Payments

If you make a donation or payment:

  • You agree to provide accurate and complete information
  • Payments are processed through secure third-party providers
  • Donations are generally non-refundable unless stated otherwise

8. Third-Party Links

Our website may include links to third-party websites.

We are not responsible for:

  • Their content
  • Their privacy practices
  • Their terms of use

Use of third-party websites is at your own risk.

9. Disclaimer of Warranties

Our website and services are provided “as is” and “as available.”

We do not guarantee that:

  • The website will always be available or error-free
  • Information provided is completely accurate or up-to-date

10. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Twende Green Ecocycle shall not be liable for:

  • Any direct or indirect damages
  • Loss of data, profits, or opportunities
  • Issues arising from use or inability to use our website or services

11. Privacy

Your use of our website is also governed by our Privacy Policy.
We encourage you to review it to understand how your data is handled.

12. Changes to Terms

We may update these Terms of Use at any time.

Changes will be posted on this page with an updated date. Continued use of the website means you accept the revised terms.

13. Governing Law

These Terms of Use are governed by the laws of Kenya.

Any disputes arising shall be subject to the jurisdiction of Kenyan courts.

14. Termination

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate access to our website or services at our discretion, without prior notice, if these Terms are violated.

15. Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding these Terms of Use, please contact us:

Twende Green Ecocycle
Email: info@twendegreen.co.ke
Phone: 0741027140
Location: Mombasa, Kenya

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Twende Green Ecocycle (“we”, “us”, “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal data is handled in a safe and responsible manner.

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This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, interact with our services, or engage with our programs.

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Twende Green Ecocycle is a social enterprise focused on combating plastic pollution and promoting sustainable waste management through recycling, community engagement, and circular economy solutions.

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Email: info@twendegreen.co.ke
Phone: +254741027140
Location: Mombasa, Kenya

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We recover ocean-bound and community plastic waste and transform it into high-quality materials, reducing pollution while creating value.

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To address the plastic waste problem in the informal settlements while contributing to education development by providing affordable and durable school furniture as we strive to promote sustainable development, create job opportunities, and support economic growth for the local community.

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We design every solution with the planet in mind, ensuring long-term environmental restoration.

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We innovate to eliminate plastic pollution, strengthen circular systems, and create sustainable products that serve communities.

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We collect and transform plastic waste into durable, eco-friendly products such as school furniture, helping reduce pollution while meeting community needs.

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From coastal cleanups to structured waste recovery systems, we ensure plastic waste is diverted from landfills and oceans back into productive use.

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Our vision is To become Africa’s leading circular economy enterprise, where waste is reimagined as a valuable resource and every school, home, and public space is equipped with sustainable, locally made furniture.

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With a strong commitment to innovation and impact, we aim to scale circular economy solutions that divert thousands of tonnes of plastic from the environment, empower coastal communities, and redefine how Africa sees and uses waste.

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Vision: To become Africa’s leading circular economy enterprise, where waste is reimagined as a valuable resource and every school, home, and public space is equipped with sustainable, locally made furniture.

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Our furniture is more cost-effective than conventional wooden alternatives, making quality accessible to more schools and communities.

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Through strategic engagement with policymakers and institutions, we ensure that evidence from the ground informs national decision-making for a cleaner, more sustainable future.

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We drive meaningful change by working directly with communities to raise awareness about plastic pollution and its impact on our environment, especially marine ecosystems.

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We showcased our recycled plastic school desk to King Charles III during his visit to Kenya.

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Try a small experiment. Ask ten people on any Mombasa beach who decides what happens to the ocean in front of them. Then count how many of the answers begin with “we.”

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I suspect you will hear a lot of “they.” They are bringing something called the Blue Economy. They are measuring carbon in the mangroves. They are the ones who passed a law about bottles. The pronoun is not rudeness, and it is not apathy. It is an accurate description of where the decisions are made and who is standing in the room when they are.

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The ocean is being decided in at least three places at once. In Blue Economy plans, which promise investment in ports, fisheries and tourism along a coast that has waited a long time to be taken seriously. In carbon markets, where a hectare of mangrove can become a financial product that someone in another country buys to balance a ledger. And in waste law, where the question of who pays for the plastic that ends up on the sand is slowly being answered on paper. Each of these has real merit. Each arrives with good intentions. That is exactly the problem, because good intentions do not require chairs for anyone else.

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Nyali Beach, Mombasa. Kenya.

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To see how this goes wrong, look north. In Merti, in Isiolo County, a Pulitzer Center-supported investigation by journalists reporting for Africa Uncensored examined what happens when a large carbon project lands on land that people have grazed for generations. The Northern Rangelands Trust, an organisation that supports community conservancies, built a rangeland carbon project that now covers more than two million hectares of northern Kenya, and credits from it were reportedly bought by companies including Netflix and Meta. In Merti, residents say the conservancies arrived without proper consultation, and a retired chief told the reporters there had been no transparency in how they were set up. In 2023 the dispute turned violent and conservancy offices were burned. Residents took the matter to court, and a judge ruled that the conservancies in Merti had been established illegally, without the public participation the law requires. Separately, a carbon certifier suspended the project.

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The Trust tells a different story, and it deserves to be heard. Its carbon director denies that it issues guns to conservancies and says that police reservists fall under the Kenya Police Service, not under the carbon project. The Trust has maintained that communities were informed and that the project has wide support. A 2023 report by Survival International alleged that the project had been developed without the free, prior and informed consent of the people whose land it covers, an allegation the Trust rejects. The story also records the argument that the cattle raids villagers link to the conservancies are the work of criminal networks, unrelated to carbon. Nobody should pretend the picture is simple. But a court did find that the process was wrong, and that is the part I cannot stop thinking about.

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What struck me most is what the people who went to court did not say. By their own account, they were not against carbon money. Their objection was to how it arrived: already planned, already signed, explained afterwards if at all. That distinction matters more than any argument about whether carbon markets are good or bad. A project can be ecologically sound and still illegitimate, because legitimacy is not a property of the carbon. It belongs to the process. Consent is not a feeling a project has about itself. It is something other people give, in public, while they still have the power to refuse.

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Part of what makes these decisions so hard to contest is that they arrive in a language most people were never taught. Carbon accounting runs on baselines, verification periods and crediting cycles. A mangrove inventory is expressed in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent over twenty years. None of it is mysterious, but none of it is explained at a landing site either. One voice in a Deutsche Welle documentary on the northern project says that nobody there knows about carbon, even as credits from that land were being sold. When a deal can only be understood by people who already have lawyers, consultation can become a ceremony: a meeting is held, an attendance register is signed, and the register is later produced as proof that everyone agreed. Translation is therefore not a courtesy. It is the first form of power-sharing. A fisher who can read the terms in Swahili, and has someone to ask about them, has already been moved from the footnotes to the table.

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There is a pattern here that the coast should recognise. In carbon deals and in grand marine plans alike, the benefits tend to be announced in capitals and in other countries, while the costs are paid on the shoreline: in a closed fishing ground, in a rule that criminalises what a family has always done, in a promised share that never quite appears. Ask of any ocean project who benefits and who pays, and then ask whether those two groups ever met.

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Now bring the Merti story to the coast and notice what changes, and what does not. Kenya’s Constitution treats the land between the high and low water marks as public land, held by the national government in trust for the people. That sounds like protection, and in some ways it is. But there is a catch in how public ownership works in practice. A community that owns land can say no, because the land is theirs. A beach belongs to everyone, which makes it very hard for any particular person to claim the standing to refuse. A resource owned by everyone is decided, in practice, by whoever arrives with a folder.

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Kenya has tried to answer this, and it deserves credit for trying. The Climate Change (Carbon Markets) Regulations, gazetted in May 2024, require carbon projects to pay an annual social contribution to host communities. The strongest consent language, as lawyers who have studied the rules describe them, attaches to projects on community land, while blue carbon projects are classed as public projects because of where mangroves and the foreshore sit. I am not a lawyer, and anyone relying on this should test it with one, but the pattern is worth noticing: the place where the sea meets the land may be the place where the formal safeguards are thinnest. Then there is the arithmetic. Analysts have warned that a percentage of proceeds means little until you know what it is a percentage of. If wages and costs come out first, a project can comply perfectly while the money reaching the village shrinks toward a rounding error. The law gives the headline. Governance decides the decimal places.

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Meanwhile, there is a group of people who are supposed to have a voice already. Since regulations introduced in 2007, fishing communities along the Kenyan coast have organised into Beach Management Units, legally recognised groups of fishers, boat owners, traders and others who share a landing site, created precisely so that people who use the sea can help manage it. They are a serious attempt at the question this column asks. So is the European Union-backed Go Blue programme, launched in 2021, which says it puts coastal communities and their needs at the centre of its work. The intentions are not in doubt. The research on how such structures work in practice is sobering. A 2024 study on the south coast found that community-based management can reinforce existing inequalities, with women’s leadership resisted and their work undervalued. A Kenyan study of small-scale fishers and the Blue Economy found that engagement matters but is constrained by limited resources, institutional barriers and power imbalances. Even something as practical as a boat is a governance issue: the shortage of boats and equipment has pushed fishers into renting from intermediaries, often at high cost, which is part of why a European-funded programme has been delivering boats to coastal counties. A seat is not a voice, and a voice is not a vote. You can be formally included and still be effectively decided about.

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None of this means carbon belongs nowhere near the coast. The honest counterexample is Mikoko Pamoja in Gazi Bay, Kwale, which began in 2013 on about 117 hectares of mangrove and is widely described as the first community-run blue carbon project in the world to sell credits for local benefit. It supports around 1,350 families in two villages, and its sibling, Vanga Blue Forest, covers 460 hectares. According to figures presented by a Kenyan development organisation before the projects expanded, community development funds were a little under a third of Mikoko Pamoja’s annual revenue and a little over a third of Vanga’s. These are modest sums, in the low tens of thousands of dollars, spent on water, school facilities and replanting mangroves. What interests me is not the amount but the machinery. Benefit sharing was settled at the design stage, before the money arrived. The activities are posted on noticeboards in the villages, where anyone can read them. A research institute sits on the steering committee to report on the results. Notice what made it work. It was not the carbon. It was the noticeboard, and the fact that the people who live beside those mangroves were in the room before the first credit was sold. It is also small, and small projects are easier to keep honest. The real test is whether the model survives scale, and the arrival of larger buyers with faster timetables.

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Plastic puts the same question in a more practical form. Scientists at the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, working from Mombasa, have counted what lands on our sand. In their first study of the Kenyan coast, across six beaches in Kilifi, Mombasa and Kwale, plastics and foam were the most abundant litter, and local products made up about 88 percent of what was collected. Food packaging accounted for roughly 91 percent of the branded litter. The same institute has estimated, extrapolating from its surveys, that between 1.6 million and 12.9 million plastic items pile up along the Kenyan coast every day, which is the kind of number that makes a Saturday cleanup feel like bailing out a boat with a teacup. A later audit on Mkomani beach in Mombasa found that PET bottles were the most common kind of packaging. The researchers’ own conclusion is almost an indictment of the national imagination: because so much of the litter is local, a local solution to waste management would considerably reduce the problem. The ocean is not receiving a foreign problem. It is receiving ours.

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Kenya has begun to say who should pay. The Extended Producer Responsibility Regulations, in force since November 2024, make producers responsible for the packaging they place on the market, and in Mombasa a pilot with the producers’ own organisation, Kepro, is working with 1,000 households to separate their waste. Recyclers there say that cooperation with waste pickers and the county has created jobs for young people. Yet in August this year, a coalition that included the Kenya National Waste Pickers Association and several environmental groups urged the government to make producers’ obligations more binding and to formally integrate and pay waste pickers within the systems producers fund. Read that again. The people doing the physical work of the law are still asking to be counted by it.

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It would be too easy to stop there and blame companies. Communities carry their share. A study in Gazi found that 55 percent of residents admitted to littering despite the 2017 plastic bag ban, and the researchers concluded that enforcement has to be combined with solutions that communities drive themselves. That is not an argument against involving people. It is the strongest argument for it. You cannot hold a community responsible for the sea while excluding it from the decisions about the sea.

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I say this as someone whose organisation has run more than eighty beach cleanups and has spoken about waste and ocean pollution with more than 8,000 people, and I would do both again. Picking up plastic is honest work, and anyone who has stood on a littered beach at low tide knows the satisfaction of a filled sack. But a beach cleanup is perhaps the one public event in which those who did not make the mess are most likely to be holding the bag. A cleanup that never asks who produced the bottle, and who decides what happens when the next tide delivers another, is a very sincere way of staying out of the decision.

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There is an objection I take seriously. The climate crisis is real, the sea is warming, and mangroves are disappearing faster than committees can meet. Is it not irresponsible to demand forums and consultations while the shoreline erodes? This is the argument every fast project makes, and it should always be examined for who it benefits. Urgency is the most reliable solvent of consent. It is also, to be fair, sometimes correct. But the lesson of Merti is that speed bought by skipping the room is borrowed, not saved. It came back as burned offices, a court judgment and a suspension, all of which cost more time than a few honest meetings would have. A project that cannot survive being explained to the people it affects was not ready to be built.

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That is why a story from Isiolo belongs on the Kenyan coast. Not as a scandal imported from the north, and certainly not as a verdict on any single organisation, but as a set of questions that travel well. Who signed? Who was asked? Where does the money go, and who gets to read the receipt? Questions travel better than conclusions, which is why we are taking the reporting from Merti, translating it into Swahili and plain English, and turning it into short videos and infographics for three forums in which fishers, waste workers, young people, civil society and county officials can argue about it face to face. A Community Voice Lab has enabled coastal residents to document their own experience of how the sea is decided, so that the record of the coast is written partly by the people who live on it. Whether that changes a single decision is not something a four-month project can promise. What it can do is make sure that the next time someone arrives with a folder, a few more people know which questions to ask.

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The ocean will outlast every agreement ever signed about it. The tide does not read contracts, and it does not care who held the pen. The open question is whether the people who live beside it will be in the room when the next one is drawn up, or only in the footnotes afterwards. So before we ask whether a project is green, let us ask who signed for the sea. If the answer is not “we,” the colour does not matter.

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There is something different about this year’s Our Ocean Conference. Something that changes the nature of the conversation before a single delegate takes the stage.

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It’s happening here. In Mombasa. On the shore of the Indian Ocean — the same ocean that has been quietly absorbing the consequences of our plastic economy for decades. The world’s ocean leaders are not flying to Washington or Oslo or Athens this time. They are coming to the coast where the problem is visible, immediate, and personal.

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That matters more than it might seem.

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We are Twende Green Ecocycle. We were born from these shores — from the place where the Indian Ocean meets Kenyan communities, where beauty and plastic waste exist uncomfortably side by side. We are a social enterprise based in Mombasa, Bamburi, and what we do is not complicated to describe: we collect ocean-bound plastic waste, we process it, and we turn it into furniture. School desks. Lecture hall chairs. Durable, affordable pieces that go into classrooms in communities that need them.

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That’s the loop. Plastic that was heading for the ocean becomes a desk in a school. A desk that will outlast any wooden alternative, survive pests and water and the hard use that comes with children who have nowhere else to sit. Two problems, one solution.

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But the reason we are writing this now — the reason this moment feels significant to us — is that the 11th Our Ocean Conference, running June 16 to 18, 2026, is the first time this global gathering has ever set foot on African soil. And it is landing in our city.

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Let’s be honest about what the plastic crisis actually looks like from where we sit.

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Africa generates 17 million tonnes of plastic waste every year. Less than 10 percent of it is recycled. The rest goes somewhere — landfills, open burning, drainage ditches, rivers, and eventually the ocean. Kenya alone generates over a million tonnes of plastic waste annually. We are not a marginal contributor to this problem. We are inside it.

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And Mombasa sits right at the end of the pipeline. Plastic that enters a river in Nairobi, hundreds of kilometres inland, does not stay in Nairobi. It travels. It finds water. It follows the drainage systems down toward the coast. By the time it reaches the Indian Ocean — our ocean — nobody who dropped it can see where it went. There is no feedback. No consequence visible to the person who created the problem. The communities on the coast are left holding it.

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This is what ocean-bound plastic actually means. It is not plastic already floating in the sea. It is plastic that has not yet arrived — but is on its way. The window to intercept it is real, but it is short.

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We work in that window.

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What we have learned — from the ground, from doing this work, not from reading about it — is that the answer to ocean-bound plastic is not cleanup after the fact. You cannot fish enough plastic out of the Indian Ocean to solve this. The ocean is vast and plastic is relentless. The answer is interception. Catch it before it gets there. Give communities an economic reason to treat plastic as a resource rather than waste. Build systems that pull plastic out of the environment and give it somewhere better to go.

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That is precisely what we do. We recover plastic from coastal areas and community hotspots — the places where pollution is most severe, where waste sits uncollected because formal systems haven’t reached. We process it. We manufacture from it. The desk in a classroom in an underserved Kenyan school is made from plastic that would otherwise have entered this ocean.

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We are not just cleaning up. We are rerouting the pipeline.

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The Our Ocean Conference, since its founding in 2014, has generated over 2,900 voluntary commitments — pledges from governments, businesses, and institutions — worth roughly $169 billion for ocean protection globally. That is not nothing. Commitments made at this conference have expanded marine protected areas, pushed back on illegal fishing, funded ocean science, and kept the pressure alive on a global plastics treaty.

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But there has always been a gap between commitment and implementation. A gap between what gets announced in a conference hall and what actually changes on a shoreline. We know that gap well. We operate inside it.

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What is different about OOC11 — what we believe makes this edition more significant than its predecessors — is the location. Hosting this conference in Mombasa forces a reckoning. The delegates will arrive at an airport in a city where plastic pollution is not a future risk or a distant concern. It is outside. It is in the waters they may choose to swim in. It is in the fish that local communities eat. The problem is not being discussed from a comfortable remove. It is everywhere the conference happens to be.

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There is a kind of clarity that comes from proximity. It is harder to be vague when the evidence is sitting on the beach.

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We showcased our recycled plastic school desk to King Charles III during his visit to Kenya. Former US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power has described our model as “a practical circular economy model that turns pollution into opportunity for communities.” We have been recognised among 100 innovators shaping Africa’s Blue Economy. We have been featured on WION International News.

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We mention these things not to impress. We mention them because they point at something real: a circular economy model built here, on this coast, by people who live with this ocean, is drawing global attention. Not because it is exotic. Because it works.

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The model is simple enough to explain in a sentence. Ocean-bound plastic becomes raw material. Raw material becomes furniture. Furniture goes into schools that cannot afford the wooden alternative. Communities that participate in collection earn livelihoods. The ocean gets less plastic. Students get desks. That is a circular economy. Not a theory. A thing that is actually happening.

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The global plastics treaty — the legally binding international agreement that would finally set real rules around plastic production, chemicals, and accountability — is still being negotiated. The last major session ended without consensus. The next round is expected later in 2026. The Our Ocean Conference is not the treaty. But it shapes the pressure around it. Every commitment made in Mombasa this June raises the floor of what countries and corporations believe they can get away with. That matters.

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And yet, the treaty — whenever it comes — will not solve this by itself. Treaties do not collect plastic from the shoreline. Policies do not process waste. Commitments do not manufacture desks. Those things require organisations, people, and systems actually doing the work.

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We are one of those systems. Based in Bamburi, Mombasa. Working in the communities closest to the water. Turning the plastic that this ocean does not want into something the next generation does.

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The Our Ocean Conference comes to the shore where the problem lives. That is not a small thing. For years, the conversation about ocean plastic has happened far from the places where ocean plastic is actually a daily reality. This June, the conversation moves. It comes to us.

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We will be there. Not as observers. As people who have been doing this work before the cameras arrived, and who will still be doing it after the delegates go home.

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If you want to understand what it looks like to intercept ocean-bound plastic before it reaches this ocean — to close the loop between waste and value, between pollution and possibility — we are here.

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Come find us. Or reach out directly.

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info@twendegreen.co.ke

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+254741027140

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The ocean is not somewhere else. It is here. So are we.

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There is something different about this year’s Our Ocean Conference. Something that changes the nature of the conversation before a single delegate […]

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Twende Green was identified as a key stakeholder and innovator in Mombasa’s food system as part of a four-year, IDRC-funded research project exploring sustainable and just food futures across three major African cities.

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The project, linked to the Seeds of the Good Anthropocenes initiative (goodanthropocenes.net), spent four years identifying and profiling food system innovations in Accra, Mombasa, and Cape Town. Through a series of interviews and workshops with diverse stakeholders, researchers worked to envision what sustainable and just food futures could look like in each city and map out the strategies and pathways needed to get there.

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The research was led by a collaborative team spanning Stellenbosch University, the University of the Witwatersrand, Ensign Global University, McGill University, the University of Guelph, and Stockholm University, bringing together African and global researchers in a shared inquiry into how cities can transform their food systems.

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As part of the Mombasa case study, Twende Green was recognized as a key actor shaping the city’s food future. Our work is rooted in sustainable agriculture, community empowerment, and green innovation, but it extends beyond the land. Mombasa sits on the edge of the Indian Ocean, and we understood that a just food future here could not be separated from the health of the sea. Twende Green is actively working to protect ocean health and marine life by tackling one of the coast’s most urgent threats: marine plastic pollution. From recycling and community clean-ups to awareness, advocacy, and policy, we worked to keep plastics out of the ocean, safeguard marine ecosystems, and protect the coastal food systems that so many families in Mombasa depend on.

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The Kenya engagement culminated in a networking reception held on 30 September 2025 during the WIOMSA Symposium at PrideInn Paradise Beach Resort, Convention Centre & Spa, Mombasa. The event marked the official launch of two key research outputs from the Kenya case study, the Kenya Seeds Booklet, showcasing community-led food system innovations, and the Workshop Report, capturing insights from stakeholder engagements conducted throughout the project. The reception brought together food system actors, researchers, and community innovators in an evening of connection and shared reflection on the future of food on the Kenyan coast.

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On 29 October 2025, the research team then brought together food system change agents from all three regions for an online knowledge-sharing session. The event presented findings and comparative insights from Accra, Mombasa, and Cape Town and opened space for dialogue on collective strategies to advance food system transformation across Africa. Twende Green was among the Kenyan stakeholders invited to participate and contribute to that conversation.

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Being part of this research was a recognition that the work happening right here in Mombasa mattered, not just locally, but as part of a wider African story of innovation, resilience, and the reimagining of how we grow, share, and sustain food. On land and at sea.

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Download the free booklet here

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Twende Green Ecocycle was recognized among 100 innovators shaping Africa’s Blue Economy by Catapult Ocean and its partners, highlighting its impact in addressing marine plastic pollution.

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The recognition showcases the organization’s commitment to transforming ocean-bound plastic waste into sustainable products while advancing circular economy solutions along Kenya’s coastline.

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Being included among leading innovators across the continent reinforces Twende Green Ecocycle’s mission to protect marine ecosystems and build scalable, impact-driven environmental solutions for a more sustainable future.

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Twende Green Ecocycle was featured on WION International News for its innovative approach to combating marine plastic pollution through circular economy solutions.

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The feature showcased how the organization collects ocean-bound plastic waste and transforms it into valuable, eco-friendly products such as school desks, while promoting sustainable practices within coastal communities.

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This global recognition provided a platform to highlight Twende Green Ecocycle’s mission of protecting marine ecosystems and advancing circular economy innovation in Kenya and beyond.

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Twende Green Ecocycle was featured on KTN News for its leadership in organizing large-scale beach cleanups along Kenya’s coastline.

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The segment highlighted the organization’s efforts in removing marine plastic waste, mobilizing local communities, and raising awareness on ocean conservation. Through these initiatives, Twende Green Ecocycle continues to demonstrate the power of collective action in protecting marine ecosystems while promoting sustainable environmental practices.

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This feature underscores the organization’s role in driving grassroots climate action and advancing solutions to marine plastic pollution across coastal communities.

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Along Kenya’s coastline, marine plastic waste has become a visible and growing challenge. At the same time, many schools—especially in underserved communities—continue to face shortages of basic learning infrastructure like desks and chairs.

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At Twende Green Ecocycle, these two issues are addressed together through a practical, solution-driven approach.

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The organization collects plastic waste from beaches and surrounding communities and recycles it into durable, eco-friendly school furniture. This model connects climate action directly with education—transforming environmental waste into tools that support learning.

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The impact is straightforward but meaningful.

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By removing plastic from the environment, Twende Green contributes to cleaner coastal ecosystems. By converting that plastic into furniture, they help improve classroom conditions for students who would otherwise lack proper seating. The result is a clear example of a circular economy in action—where waste is not discarded, but repurposed into something of value.

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This approach also creates opportunities beyond the product itself. Community members, especially young people, are involved in clean-up efforts and awareness activities, building a sense of responsibility and participation in environmental solutions. At the same time, schools benefit from longer-lasting furniture that is resistant to water, pests, and wear—common challenges with traditional materials.

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Importantly, this work demonstrates that climate solutions do not have to be complex to be effective. By focusing on locally available materials and community involvement, Twende Green shows how practical innovation can respond to both environmental and social needs.

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The connection between climate and education is often discussed in theory. At Twende Green Ecocycle, it is applied in a tangible way—linking cleaner oceans to better learning environments.

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It is a model built on a simple idea:
what we remove from the environment can be reinvested into the future.

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Twende Green Ecocycle was featured on the KBC Evening News under the “Young and Industrious” segment, highlighting youth-led innovation and enterprise in Kenya.

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Check the recording here

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The feature showcased our work in transforming plastic waste into valuable products through circular economy innovation, demonstrating how young entrepreneurs are driving practical solutions to environmental challenges while creating economic opportunities.

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This national recognition by KBC underscores Twende Green Ecocycle’s growing impact as a youth-led social enterprise committed to sustainability, innovation, and community transformation through waste valorization.

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Twende Green Ecocycle was featured in Nation Media Group for its innovative work transforming marine plastic waste into practical, durable school furniture, including eco-desks and chairs.

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The feature highlighted how the startup collects plastic waste from coastal communities and upcycles it into affordable, long-lasting furniture that supports education while reducing environmental pollution. Through this model, Twende Green Ecocycle demonstrates how circular economy solutions can directly address both waste management challenges and social needs in underserved areas.

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Based in Mombasa, the innovation showcases how locally driven climate solutions can create green jobs, reduce plastic pollution, and improve access to learning infrastructure in schools.

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This recognition underscores Twende Green Ecocycle’s growing impact as a leading social enterprise advancing sustainability and circular economy innovation in Kenya and across coastal communities.

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Twende Green Ecocycle was featured among leading youth-led innovations showcased at the Africa Union Climate Innovation Hub during the Africa Climate Summit held in Nairobi. The recognition highlighted our commitment to tackling marine plastic pollution through circular economy solutions that transform waste into value.

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As part of the Mombasa Plastics Prize-winning innovators, Twende Green Ecocycle presented its model of recycling marine plastic waste collected from informal settlements into durable school eco-desks. This innovation demonstrates how environmental challenges can be converted into opportunities that support education, sustainability, and community development.

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The showcase brought together young innovators from across Africa working on bold climate solutions, providing a platform for collaboration, knowledge exchange, and engagement with policymakers, development partners, and investors.

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Twende Green Ecocycle’s participation at the Africa Climate Summit reinforced its mission to build a cleaner and more resilient future by reimagining plastic waste as a resource for positive social impact.

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