Sargasso Reclamation

About Us

Sargasso Reclamation hails from Malindi in Kenya, a 1400 year old city from the Swahili-Zanzibari culture. Today Malindi is a coastal Tourism destination of 200,000 people and the region of Malindi and our neighbouring towns have a role to play in the fight against ocean waste. Malindi has the size and industrial capacity to boast a recycling sector, and our region has a growing plastic footprint of its own, the estuary of a large river that flows from densely populated inland regions, and a natural coral reef ecosystem in the shallow seas off our coast. Our trade winds also mean that on some local beaches large amounts of plastic wash ashore from the Indian ocean garbage patch, with packaging from Malaysia, Mozambique or Dubai.

Mission & Vision.

Our Mission

To create a healthy, price competitive recycling sector in East Africa, using international innovations to boost sales prices for recycled plastics in the market. To then leverage this position to strengthen the sectors stability by sharing our windfall across stakeholders, fostering firm financial foundations, lifestyle stability at pride of work across the value chain, thereby insuring that ecological regeneration is not reliant on global commodity price

Our Vision

A key weakness of the fast-growing recycling sector in Africa is low margins mean bad deals for investors and workers that stifle development for an ecologically foundational sector that has benefits across the biosphere. By leverage ocean plastic markets and in time other sources of added value, we are creating a healthier recycling sector for Africa that can fully leverage market mechanisms to solve the crisis..

Are you Ready? Join Us in Our Recycling Efforts

How It Work?

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Sourcing

Malindi, Kenya is near a coastal garbage gyration that is one of the largest off the African coast. It has a long-standing infrastructure as a fishing port. This makes it the perfect location for collecting marine refuse that can be recycled. In 2020, we identified the opportunity of collecting for fishermen, and as the economy rebounds expanding to sourcing plastic caught every day in their fishing nets off Malindi. We purchase today from out of work fisherman, which both keeps plastic out of the ocean, and helps to grow the local economt

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Production

Sargasso produces reclaimed ocean plastic flakes by washing, shredding and bailing the bottles we purchase from local fishermen. In 2020, we identified the opportunity of collecting for fishermen, and as the economy rebounds expanding to sourcing plastic caught every day in their fishing nets off Malindi. We purchase today from out of work fisherman, which both keeps plastic out of the ocean, and helps to grow the local economy.

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Going to the Market

Because of the international trade infrastructure that is being developed in Kenya, and a fast growing local market it standard plastic recycling, we are able to offer both ocean-bound plastic in a recycled form, and plastic credits linked to ocean-bound plastic sold on recycling markets. Please reach out if you are looking for a cost effective partner in either regenerative strategy. We worth within relatively impoverished fishing communities, buying plastic from the beach sourced from the friends and family of fishermen, and hoping to source plastic from the deeper ocean in the future by leveraging our network with fishing captains and boat owners.

testimonials

Hear from our clients and stories of Impact and Transformation

Sargasso Reclamation delivered custom 3D-printed parts that were both durable and sustainable. It’s a smart choice for businesses that care about the environment and quality alike

Allamu

Product Manger

We’ve partnered with Sargasso Reclamation to handle our PET waste, and it’s been a game-changer. Not only is our plastic footprint reduced, but we also see value from materials that would have otherwise been discarded.

Mr Green Kenya

Site Superviser

Our Partners

TURNING THE SCARS OF TODAY INTO PRODUCTS OF TOMORROW.