Lorna Rutto has made waste recycling big business

She quit a job at the bank to make millions from waste
Ms Lorna Rutto has turned waste recycling into a big business; and from being an employee now has created more than 300 indirect jobs. She won Sh500,000 from Enablis competition which she ploughed into her business by purchasing another machine.  She won the World Wildlife Fund’s Nature Award where she took home Sh1.3 million. SEED Award saw her win Sh700,000 . She’ll be in Paris this October to receive the Cartier Women’s Initiative Award, which has a Sh1.2 million reward. Her annual turnover exceeds Sh1 million. Ms Rutto has been a millionaire many times at only 27 years of age. read the full story: http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/She+quit+a+job+at+the+bank+to+make+millions+from+waste+/-/539444/1248630/-/155nw68/-/index.html

She is turning trash into cash
For Lorna Cherono Rutto what started as a science congress project in high school has now turned into an award winning environment-friendly business venture - Ecopost. She talks to WANGECI KANYEKI about her desire to stamp out the plastic menace. It was while in high school at Moi Forces Academy Lanet that Lorna developed a love for the environment and for the sciences through active participation in the Science Club.  While in Form Three, Lorna did her first recycling project that got her in the limelight at the National Science Congress. She collected broken plastic basins and heated them to the point of melting. She then poured them into bottle tops and moulded them into decorative earrings in which she pierced a hole and placed a hook. read on: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/InsidePage.php?id=2000030515&cid

 EcoPost www.ecopost.co.ke manufactures durable fencing posts using plastic waste, an environmentally friendly alternative to timber. Founded by Lorna Rutto in 2010, EcoPost collects plastic waste and manufactures fencing posts from it. ‘That includes any type of plastic that can go through the extrusion process,’ she says, ‘such as polypropylene and polyethylene—the material used to make those carrier bags that clog the landfills. We can recover and use all of these for our posts.’ read more: http://www.cartierwomensinitiative.com/candidate/lorna-rutto