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Over 381 million tonnes of plastic wastes was generated in 2015 alone! In a metropolitan like Lagos,over 1200 tonnes of plastic waste is generated on a daily basis.The average American generates an average of 0.5 kg of plastic wastes daily;that is equivalent of a standard shoe! I grew up in a third world country that prioritized rapid industrialization above environmental sustainability with the end result of highly unacceptable levels of toxic industrial wastes and effluent emissions. This realization first dawned on me when I paid my first visit to a popular neighborhood in Lagos which is just one of the many regions which have become a municipal waste nightmare as a result of solid wastes such as plastic pollution. From the clogged waterways to considerable deaths of aquatic animals, displaced people and increased exposure of humans to varying level of diseases, particularly respiratory problems, I began to feel the hardship they had experienced for many years. Then, it looked like I could do nothing significant about this; I however learnt over time that it was well within my capacity to help the situation in the least.I also realized that this menace spans from my community in Lagos to countries like South Africa,India,Brazil and even to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia,thus,not only a Nigerian problem but a global one.

Our solution is modular shoes (recycled from plastic wastes) which enables you to change as many as shoes as possible with same sole just by changing the flaps,thus significantly reducing the global carbon footprint and cost of wearing at least an extra shoe.With our solution,we would creating millions of jobs on a global scale from the least of the dump picker,manufacturers and government.Global impact of carbon footprint would become negligible,wastes generated from these shoes would be used to produce same shoe;thus resulting in a circular economy

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