As part of our agenda to prevent plastic waste from ending up in the environment and landfill sites in Ghana, Mckingtorch Africa is partnering with institutions, communities, schools, churches, event centers and households to separate plastic waste which can be solved or given out to actors in the waste management sector for recycling. Since 2019, […]
Knowledge is power but nothing beats empowering young people with the ability to change their own world by allowing them to use basic tools to create relevant solutions that changes their lives and those in their communities. That is what we are about at MCKINGTORCH Africa. During the STEM Festival worked with amazing young people […]
Team Activity and Bonding Exercise For Company Employees. Nothing beats using what is considered as waste recovered from the environment thereby protecting the planet and using innovation and creative skills to turn them into relevant things that can go back into our homes and offices. Our upcycling sessions has become de-stressing activities for companies and […]
University Of Ghana,Legon Botany Department now has two of the Mckingtorch Africa lovers bench made from 100% recycled plastic waste recovered from the streets of Accra. The Botany Society of the university chose sustainability when they decided they wanted to have two lovers benches at the department for students. #sustainability #environment #climatechange #recycling #bench #earth […]
We had our last beach waste recovery program this weekend as part of a partnership with Turntabl as the company engaged us to have an upcycling team bonding activity with their staff followed by a beach waste recovery program supported by the Tema West Municiapal Assembly at the Sakumono Mighty Beach front. We recovered 200kg […]
As part of a The Basel, The Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions Basel Convention Coordinating Center for the Africa Region Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation Melcom Ghana Marina Shopping Mall Max Mart Supermarket program, Mckingtorch Africa got selected to produce 2000 reusable bags made partly from pure water plastic waste bags recovered from […]
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY WORKSHOPS AND TRAININGS We had a great session this week with a beach plastic waste recovery program and a plastic waste upcycling session where 10 kids and their parents participated in making relevant items from various plastic waste materials and had a tour of the Mckingtorch Africa facility and an orientation on the […]
In the last couple of months, we have worked with Guinness Ghana Breweries a major partner to recover over 2 tons of plastic waste from two communities including Alogboshie in Achimota and Gbawe at Mallam where community members worked in teams to recover plastic waste and exchanged it for various prizes.The recovered plastic waste went […]
27,000 PLASTIC WASTE BOTTLES WOVEN INTO BEAUTIFUL TREES With over 500 volunteer engagements and 3 months of fabrication we have successfully installed 15 bottles trees in 3 regions in Ghana including Greater Accra, Ashanti Region and Volta Region. The fabrications used 27,000 waste bottles. There will be over 20 million experiences with the trees within […]
Our CEO Mckingtorch Makafui Awuku worked with his students at Academic City University College to develop some sustainable circular solutions for managing the plastic waste generated by the institution with a strategy to recover what is generated, document it using a global market place app for plastic waste, evaluate the waste bill of the institution […]
Up-cycling training for kids. Onsite waste segregation with Mckingtorch Sankofa Borla Bins,environmental sanitation advocacy and exhibition and sales of arts and products from plastic waste. Some of the wonderful moments from the Netherlands Embassy Fuse It 3.0 event over the weekend. Book us for upcycling training for communities, schools and organizations today.