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Protecting our mangrove forests
In Siyu village, on Pate Island, part of the Lamu archipelago which is home to over 60% of Kenya's mangroves, the community and Flipflopi have come together to restore the ecosystem thanks to support from CMA CGM.
Siyu dates back to the 15th century and was once a thriving kingdom but now remains neglected. Our macrolitter study showed that some mangrove hotspots in this region receive up to 15 tonnes of plastic waste annually. This enormous build up of plastics is threatening this critical ecosystem and we are finding an overwhelming amount of waste scattered through the forests.
In less than twelve months, we’ve removed 30 tons of waste from the mangroves and replanted almost 9000 seedlings. As we mark this year’s world environment day with a focus on land restoration, desertification and drought resilience, let’s take a moment to remember everything is interconnected. Toxic chemicals from waste leeching into the mangroves is choking one of our most critical carbon sinks and entire ecosystems are under threat.
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The Flipflopi Renovation #8 - Interiors
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Have you ever thought about how traditional dhows look on the inside? This is where we sit, sleep, cook and host our guests on board, and today, we’re showing you how we put together the interiors of our traditional, recycled plastic dhow. Watch the remaining series and subscribe for more! #boatbuilding #sustainabledesign #recycling #lamu #circulareconomy #flipflopi #plasticrevolution
The Flipflopi renovation #7 - Its back in the water!
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After a year of improvements, Flipflopi Ndogo is back in the ocean for a water-test!! 🥳⛵️ Since 2019 when we launched Flipflopi Ndogo, she has sailed over 2,500 KM including circumnavigating the worlds largest freshwater lake across 3 countries 🇹🇿🇺🇬🇰🇪 From having Presidents and Royalty on board to students and musicians, the Flipflopi has been a consistent symbol of hope igniting positive chang...
The Flipflopi Renovation #6 - Sealing with welding
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Join us and support our work as a Flipflopi patron ♥️ www.patreon.com/theflipflopi One of the last but most important steps before bringing a boat onto the water: SEALING. The common/traditional technique is with "kalafati" (cotton material) that is stuffed in between the planks. The new technique we're piloting on our recycled plastic boats: PLASTIC WELDING. This is quite a process, especially...
Flipflopi Renovation #5 - Finishing the hull
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JOIN OUR LIVE LAUNCH ON 9th March 2024, exclusively as a Flipflopi patron ♥️ www.patreon.com/theflipflopi As Flipflopi Ndogo was the world's first recycled plastic dhow - a prototype - we're opening her up to asses, learn, improve and partly rebuild her using new, innovative techniques. LAST PLANKS WERE FIT and now we are just remaining with the finalising and sealing of the remaining gaps befo...
Restoring nature and protecting heritage in the remote village of Siyu!
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We’re half way through our one year pilot project in partnership with CMA CGM Group. It’s been an incredible journey removing 20 tonnes of plastics from the remote Siyu village and helping to restore Lamu’s mangrove forests together with over 150 community members in engaged in clean-ups and household waste collection. Plastics from this remote village, which would typically end up in the ocean...
The Flipflopi Renovation #4 - Filling in the planks
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Join us and support our work as a Flipflopi patron ♥️ www.patreon.com/theflipflopi As Flipflopi Ndogo was the world's first recycled plastic dhow - a prototype - we're opening her up to asses, learn, improve and partly rebuild her using new, innovative techniques. Plank by plank, cut by cut, screw by screw. The new hull is taking shape, only a few lines remaining to complete it. We’re getting r...
The Flipflopi Renovation #3 - Ndogo flips over ⛵️
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Join us and support our work as a Flipflopi patron ♥️ www.patreon.com/theflipflopi We flipped over! 🤸🏽 Just a couple of lines of our original planks remaining to be exchanged with our improved colourful material, until the new hull is complete! Who's excited to see the end result? #lamu #boatbuilding #dhow #innovation #madeinkenya #recycling
The Flipflopi renovation update #2
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Join us and support our work as a Flipflopi patron ♥️ www.patreon.com/theflipflopi As Flipflopi Ndogo was the world's first recycled plastic dhow - a prototype - we're opening her up to asses, learn, improve and partly rebuild her using new, innovative techniques. Here your weekly update: We turned her to one side to access the planks from the keel going upwards. Work in progress, one colourful...
Renovating our first recycled plastic sailing boat
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Join us and support our work as a Flipflopi patron ♥️ As Flipflopi Ndogo was the world's first recycled plastic dhow, we're opening her up to asses, learn, improve and partly rebuild her using new, innovative techniques. We're excited to relaunch Flipflopi Version 2 soon, with a completely new colourful face! In the meantime, we're catching you up and taking you on the journey of this process -...
2023 at the Flipflopi - a fantastic year
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2023 was a fantastic year for The Flipflopi. From forming new partnerships, co-authoring a children's book and reaching milestones on closing the loop on plastics in Lamu Island, check out our video for a glimpse and head to our newsletter linked below to see our top 10 highlights from the year. Highlights from 2023: rb.gy/q6fvrx Sign up to our newsletter: www.theflipflopi.com/sign-up Follow ou...
The Flipflopi School - Heritage boatbuilding with recycled plastic
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Heritage boatbuilding with recycled plastic. This is the title Flipflopi named the course we launched in October 22. But this course entails so much more: From environmental conservation, machine building and operation, circular economy and design, traditional skills as well as modern technologies, research and testing - we cover everything under the lens of how to use innovation and circular p...
EAC policymakers unite to beat plastic pollution
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Members of parliament and policymakers from all seven East African Community (EAC) member states met in Nairobi to explore ways to achieve a single-use plastic-free East Africa. Key issues discussed included how national laws and experience can help build a regional harmonized policy in East Africa for reducing single-use plastics, material alternatives and substitutes, plastic trade, and regio...
Plastiki by the Loko Band
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Following the success of Flipflopi's 2020 circumnavigation of Lake Victoria to advocate for a regional end to banning unnecessary single use plastics, a strong network of activists, artists and grassroots organizations was established working towards ending plastic pollution from source to sea. In 2022, through the support of the French Embassy the CASIK network of musicians toured the country ...
Tackling plastic pollution on Lamu Island, Kenya
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We’re building on the success of building the world’s first recycled plastic sailing dhow and established a Heritage Boat Building Training Centre to design and construct recycled plastic sailing vessels and traditional furniture based on indigenous heritage, knowledge and skills. With special thanks to UKAID SMEP Program and partners including SouthSouthNorth for supporting the project. Many t...
No time to WASTE
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No time to WASTE
Traditional Boat Builder, Siraji Mohamed talks about building more boats from plastic waste.
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Traditional Boat Builder, Siraji Mohamed talks about building more boats from plastic waste.
BAHARI MOJA WOMEN'S GROUP - PREVENTING PLASTIC POLLUTION IN THE WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN
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BAHARI MOJA WOMEN'S GROUP - PREVENTING PLASTIC POLLUTION IN THE WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN
Recap R&D phase #1 + JOIN US ⛵️
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Recap R&D phase #1 JOIN US ⛵️
Pieces Of Us
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Pieces Of Us
Pieces of Us Trailer
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Pieces of Us Trailer
Using 3D models to run tests on our sailing dhow
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Using 3D models to run tests on our sailing dhow
Tourism - let's do it better now!
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Tourism - let's do it better now!
Testing the process to solar cook plastic into boat parts
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Testing the process to solar cook plastic into boat parts
Okota Plastiki Competition
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Okota Plastiki Competition
Learning to deal with waste on Lamu Island
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Learning to deal with waste on Lamu Island
Building our solar unit to recycle plastic with the sun
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Building our solar unit to recycle plastic with the sun
Challenges & concepts to build a big boat from plastic waste
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Challenges & concepts to build a big boat from plastic waste
A Tanzanian Plastic Revolution
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A Tanzanian Plastic Revolution
How we built the world's first recycled plastic sailing dhow
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How we built the world's first recycled plastic sailing dhow

Komentáře

  • @augustusmartinezespinosa6896

    Bothers of precius plastic, hi reclicling BOPP-5

  • @mrMacGoover
    @mrMacGoover Před 28 dny

    Thd ribs and frame are way more dense and heavier than wood, therefore you must reduce the thickness of every one.

  • @mrMacGoover
    @mrMacGoover Před 28 dny

    9:13 Most traditional sailing boats and cargo ships had ballast stone in the bottom and cargo is loaded loaded evenly and as low in the hull as possible so this never happens.

  • @astrolipe1
    @astrolipe1 Před 29 dny

    I haved watch it so many times by now, we can't wait to start building ours. Thank you so much for the inspiration ! 💙⛵️🙏

  • @astrolipe1
    @astrolipe1 Před 29 dny

    We are ready to start our Flipflopi sailing boat models now! ⛵️💙

  • @esterobonito5075
    @esterobonito5075 Před měsícem

    No más plásticos de un sólo uso. Si a más veleros Flipflopi navegando por el mundo 🌎

  • @esterobonito5075
    @esterobonito5075 Před měsícem

    You guys inspired us, you can be sure of that. Thank you for that! 🙏

  • @esterobonito5075
    @esterobonito5075 Před měsícem

    We hope to be able to replicate here in Chiloé, Chile sometime soon. Keep up the good work!

  • @madhavaraop8787
    @madhavaraop8787 Před měsícem

    Good project

  • @esterobonito5075
    @esterobonito5075 Před měsícem

    Bravo equipo!!!....esa si es una buena tripulación. Excelente trabajo..... y el maestro Ali es el primero en saltar abordo 😂❤😊.

  • @JuliusOlala
    @JuliusOlala Před měsícem

    Team work.... congratulation guys, this is awesome 🎉

  • @JuliusOlala
    @JuliusOlala Před měsícem

    #inawezekana

  • @JuliusOlala
    @JuliusOlala Před měsícem

    I love it 💓, this will be the biggest expedition ever ❤.... the whole world is watching, may the Allah give us more strength to prove it to the world that every slight smart thinking can work❤

  • @JuliusOlala
    @JuliusOlala Před měsícem

    Votes of thanks to Flip flopi for standing up to beat the pollution made by plastic, I know it's challenging but it's good to prevent too, I'm fully in support of this❤✊🔥🙏

  • @JuliusOlala
    @JuliusOlala Před měsícem

    Votes of thanks to Flip flopi for standing up to beat the pollution made by plastic, I know it's challenging but it's good to prevent too, I'm fully in support of this❤✊🔥🙏

  • @esterobonito5075
    @esterobonito5075 Před měsícem

    Way to go and sail......and much more !!! 🤩

  • @davidcupples7622
    @davidcupples7622 Před měsícem

    You do this for the whole world. Bravo!

  • @MiQBohlin
    @MiQBohlin Před měsícem

    When people take the responsibility in their own hands on a local level - it’s democracy. Please keep on taking care of our planet.

  • @esterobonito5075
    @esterobonito5075 Před měsícem

    We wish we can help you build from here. Hope to start ours soon. Keep it up 👌

  • @esterobonito5075
    @esterobonito5075 Před měsícem

    Great learning by experience....keep up the sails!!! ⛵️

  • @esterobonito5075
    @esterobonito5075 Před měsícem

    Excellent initiative, keep on growing! 🌱

  • @AutoNomades
    @AutoNomades Před měsícem

    Wow super action from you !! But *CGM CGM* ..... Big boat mafia, linked with Macron's facist corrupted governement....

  • @Matty12787
    @Matty12787 Před 2 měsíci

    Hope you didn't pay much for that plasma cutting? Old mate controlling the height was unique but the cut's were terrible.. Although, can't expect a perfect job from from a homemade 'plasma table'. He was obviously, looking at the ground clamp, using a very cheap plasma torch..? Table was built well though besides the ability to control the height.

  • @fit-with-eaz2627
    @fit-with-eaz2627 Před 2 měsíci

    Ek is nommer 900 subscriber.

  • @BrilliantDesignOnline
    @BrilliantDesignOnline Před 2 měsíci

    Design idea: (actually, two, which will depend on your system design intent) 1) The focal point will tend to spot heat, so instead of projecting directly onto the rib form, create a larger outer round tube onto which the focal area will project, with the form tube placed inside of, and offset away from the focal point, and interstitial void filled with oil, so the oil will be directly heated by the focal point, and distribute the heat uniformly across the inner form tube, basically a tube within a tube with the center tube open at the ends. 2) Perhaps even better, use only the focal point tube, without an inner tube, filled with oil, themostatically circulated via hydraulic hose to an insulated reservoir tank, from which hoses distribute the heated oil to 'jacket' of the mold, which would allow you to create any shape you want, or just heat beams for softening for bending, 'remotely'. This way your 'parts' need not be positioned at the focus, but perhaps on a table or the ground. You would have to allow for a bit of expansion in the system, but a coil of 19mm copper tubing is cheap on Amazon. That way you use your reflector 'thing' to heat the oil, transfer the oil to mold with a 'jacket', and you could have a huge, long reflector, and direct the heat where you need it, via the oil, while upping your overall thermal mass.

  • @BRl_lTO
    @BRl_lTO Před 2 měsíci

    Great video thanks for sharing

  • @Upilful
    @Upilful Před 2 měsíci

    g

  • @simonmoody2649
    @simonmoody2649 Před 3 měsíci

    Elastic modulus if hdpe

  • @yonasgebrelibanos356
    @yonasgebrelibanos356 Před 3 měsíci

    It is a good job to come to south sudan

  • @astrolipe1
    @astrolipe1 Před 3 měsíci

    Great job, very inspiring !😊

  • @astrolipe1
    @astrolipe1 Před 3 měsíci

    Very colorful ! 🎉

  • @astrolipe1
    @astrolipe1 Před 3 měsíci

    Smooth ❤

  • @IsraelCorreaPerez
    @IsraelCorreaPerez Před 3 měsíci

    🎉 Much success! It is something that I was looking for if the plastic could melt with the sun and I already found you that it is possible! I will also make my design to share it from Mexico!

    • @luisar4103
      @luisar4103 Před 3 měsíci

      También estoy en eso. De reciclar plástico de la forma más ecológica ,es una buena idea utilizar energía solar. Sería genial compartir ideas del diseño, saludos de peru

  • @john7630
    @john7630 Před 3 měsíci

    The things are hiding only potato😂😂😂eating!

  • @iancormie9916
    @iancormie9916 Před 3 měsíci

    Plastic is by it's maturenot a rigid material so how Re you going to avoid creep changing the shape of your vessel. This is a serious problem in wooden vessels so it may be a problem here as well.

  • @MiQBohlin
    @MiQBohlin Před 3 měsíci

    Cool!

  • @rowantony505
    @rowantony505 Před 3 měsíci

    Decarbonation, mobility, efficient project, cheers from France

  • @Thefunnshow04
    @Thefunnshow04 Před 4 měsíci

    What is the name of the reflecting thing you use for making parabolic mirror

    • @BrilliantDesignOnline
      @BrilliantDesignOnline Před 2 měsíci

      I also would like to know the brand name of the self adhesive reflective material and where you got it...

  • @esterobonito5075
    @esterobonito5075 Před 4 měsíci

    Muy buen trabajo.....felicidades !!! 🤩

  • @MiQBohlin
    @MiQBohlin Před 4 měsíci

    Jippie! 🥳

  • @ArkitektonikOcean
    @ArkitektonikOcean Před 4 měsíci

    This is a great technique. Congrats !

  • @Doubledonky
    @Doubledonky Před 4 měsíci

    1 in 5 fish has plastic in their guts Solution let’s make all the boats from plastic and get the number to 2 in 5 Imagine if every shipwreck was a plastic boat Then we have the minister for tourism in 1 of your vids explaining how his dirty plastic filled country will be fixed if the lodges don’t use plastic because yea it’s the tourists fault all the plastic in every back ally and street and beach that’s all the tourists that btw spend almost 0 time away from the lodge. How many tourists is Kenya having 50billion a year ? Liberal whites saving the planet😢 help us all we are doomed and channels like this have good intentions but make all the problems so much worse.

  • @MiQBohlin
    @MiQBohlin Před 4 měsíci

    What temperature do you use for the welding?

  • @kingothetown
    @kingothetown Před 4 měsíci

    How many tons of glue does the 60tonnes of plastic need to form this ship?

    • @TheFlipflopi
      @TheFlipflopi Před 4 měsíci

      We don't use any glue to form the plastic for the boatbuilding. So that's 0 tonnes :) Or did you mean something else?

  • @elloohno1349
    @elloohno1349 Před 4 měsíci

    Wonderful work! 🤩👏

  • @elloohno1349
    @elloohno1349 Před 4 měsíci

    Wow ! that is so super cool! I love the colourful squares from the flipflops too :D

  • @MiQBohlin
    @MiQBohlin Před 4 měsíci

    Wow! Whisky plank is in place! 👌🏽

  • @AdricM
    @AdricM Před 4 měsíci

    Maybe also look into fiberglass to cover the sides not facing the sun.

  • @eugenetswong
    @eugenetswong Před 4 měsíci

    CZcams recommended this. Thank you for being mindful of the microplastics. Congratulations on your innovations thus far.

  • @jolyondarker7740
    @jolyondarker7740 Před 4 měsíci

    Who are the worst plastic polluters in Lamu?

    • @TheFlipflopi
      @TheFlipflopi Před 4 měsíci

      The majority of plastics are - Plastic bottles (PET) from the hotels, restaurants and shops. We can't process them locally, so we need to transport them to Nairobi or Mombasa. - Magunia (raffia bags) which are used for transporting all sorts of things. Those are very tricky to recycle into good quality products, too - still researching and testing this. - Jerry cans/oil cans (HPDE) which are used for cooking oil, water or engine oil. These are great to recycle and what we mostly use for our boats and furniture. And then there are obviously many other items like foils or nappies that appear in less volumes but are some of the worst as it's so difficult to process them

    • @MiQBohlin
      @MiQBohlin Před 4 měsíci

      @@TheFlipflopi Make some videos about this - how to make use (or not) from the different fractions. I presume that could help to change the consumption?