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Halar Industries Limited is a wholly Kenyan owned enterprise dealing in plastic processing.
In consideration of the current and emerging policies being adopted by the Kenyan government and the Ministry of Environment regarding plastic waste management, the directors of the company decided to heed their call and invest in plastic waste management programs with a view to being in the forefront in formulating economically viable and sustainable waste management systems.

THE GOAL:

The goal of the company is to create an opportunity for sustainable economic benefit to all through gainful effort.
This will be achieved by ensuring the benefits generated by the enterprise have a discernable trickledown effect such that every person involved in the process right from the individual scrap collectors to the retailers of the reprocessed and re-molded products stands to gain a small percentage and with that an opportunity at sustainable self-employment.

THE STRATEGY

The way forward to achieving the goal of the company is to demonstrate, to both formal and informal dealers of waste materials, with definite action.

First, the existing opportunity and the possibility of monetary gain from the collection and supply of plastic waste.

Second, effectively transfer technology at the ground level to mobilize the collection, sorting and distribution
of plastic.

Third, provide to the localized dealers at either no cost or at drastically rebated costs, necessary machinery to
undertake washing, crushing, etc of plastic waste, and with that an opportunity to add value and profit of the
waste.

Four, hire at our cost, technical and management personnel to evaluate, solve, and educate everyone involved
with problems occurring at the entire set-up both within the company premises and outside at the dealers to
keep the entire process flowing smoothly.

Five, to educate and train factory staff to differentiate materials like PP, HDPE and LDPE, which also come in
different grades of Injection, Blow and Film, methods of sorting and teaching processing methods for each kind
of material.

Six, to identify product types for each material and carry out feasibility surveys for sustainable production and
salability, and to source moulds for the products.

Seven, to market products aggressively at prices below products made from virgin material to create a film
market, conclusively reducing dependence on virgin products and thereby preventing to an extent more new
waste to eventually end up on the streets.

Eight, the company is running a fully-fledged workshop to design and build machinery for running specific processes and to overcome specific operational problems. These kinds of machines are not readily available at
affordable cost on the market.

THE BENEFITS

The most important benefit of the success of this strategy will be to the end-user of the product, at it will keep the surroundings clean and also ensure incidents of their animals dying from complications after ingesting plastic will be drastically reduced. The end-user will pay less for the product, will not incur loss through death and reduction of animal herd and live in a clean incident. The government will make direct savings of foreign currency because of the tonnage reprocessed and re-used will directly reduce in equal tonnage the usage of virgin material which is 100% imports. To create systematic disposal methods, at some point within our strategy, the general public will have to be educated on effective disposal and this will eventually benefit the civic authorities in managing waste collection. The government will get more benefits in terms of foreign currency through our company, because we are also exporting our goods to Uganda, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda etc.