{"id":26166,"date":"2023-03-13T21:45:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T20:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plasticodyssey.org\/recycling-plant-guinea-bgs-recyplast\/"},"modified":"2023-11-23T15:05:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T14:05:33","slug":"recycling-plant-guinea-bgs-recyplast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plasticodyssey.org\/en\/recycling-plant-guinea-bgs-recyplast\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Factories: Launch of Guinea’s First Micro-Plastic Waste Recycling Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”center” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” row_negative_margin=”disable_negative_margin” z_index=”” el_class=”headpage_article”][vc_column el_class=”toptobottom”][vc_column_text]After more than two years of joint work, Plastic Odyssey and BGS Recyplast have unveiled a containerized recycling plant capable of producing pavement from plastic waste.[\/vc_column_text]<\/a><\/span>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” z_index=”” anchor=”more” el_class=”article_content pb2″ padding_bottom=”40″ padding_top=”20″][vc_column el_class=”recrutementarticle_container”][vc_column_text el_class=”pt2″]We first met Mariam,<\/strong> the entrepreneur and founder of Binedou Global Services<\/strong>, in Paris in December 2021. She came to France thanks to a networking mission organized by the French Embassy in Guinea<\/strong> and contacted us by email.[\/vc_column_text][qode_elements_holder number_of_columns=”two_columns” columns_proportion=”33_66″ custom_class=”mt2″][qode_elements_holder_item vertical_alignment=”middle” horizontal_alignment=”center” advanced_animations=”no” item_padding_600_768=”0 0 30px 0″ item_padding_480_600=”0 0 30px 0″ item_padding_480=”0 0 30px 0″][vc_single_image image=”23051″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” qode_css_animation=”” el_class=”sk_img_radius sk_img_200″][\/qode_elements_holder_item][qode_elements_holder_item vertical_alignment=”middle” horizontal_alignment=”left” advanced_animations=”no” item_padding=”0 0 0 30px” item_padding_600_768=”0 0 0 0″ item_padding_480_600=”0 0 0 0″ item_padding_480=”0 0 0 0″][vc_column_text]Mariam Keita is one of the winners of the 2019 Women In Africa Initiative (WIA) competition<\/strong>. We have since exchanged several times to set up a collaboration, and we had already introduced her in our article last year<\/em><\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/qode_elements_holder_item][\/qode_elements_holder][vc_column_text el_class=”mt2″]<\/p>\n

First Phase: Research and Development<\/h2>\n

BGS Recyplast<\/a> (Binedou Global Services) has been based in Conakry, Republic of Guinea, since 2018. It produces about a hundred road pavers per day using plastic waste collected in the city. Since their meeting, Plastic Odyssey and Mariam have been working hand in hand to develop and expand BGS Recyplast’s existing recycling activity.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”14612″ img_size=”full” qode_css_animation=”” el_class=”mt2″][vc_column_text el_class=”mt2″]“We quickly organized a mission to Conakry, Guinea, to assess the local waste management situation, learn about the context, and observe the working environment of BGS,”<\/em> says Tom B\u00e9bien<\/strong>, head of development for the Local Factories solution<\/a>. Jean-Baptiste and Tom traveled to Conakry for about ten days in February 2022, a very fruitful mission where they met ministers and advisers to the prime minister to discuss a future collaboration.<\/p>\n

This was followed by the implementation of a project to develop BGS Recyplast<\/strong>‘s activity, imagining the technical device but also and especially the associated economic model. It is necessary to improve efficiency, automate production, optimize safety, build a financial plan, find partners, and meet the many challenges that Mariam and the Plastic Odyssey team had to overcome.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”22782″ img_size=”full” qode_css_animation=”” el_class=”mt2″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Recycling Plant<\/h2>\n

During the summer of 2022, the first Plastic Odyssey containerized factory was born, containing all the necessary equipment to transform Conakry’s plastic waste into three formats of pavers in a semi-industrial way. These recycling machines, ready to be used, have a production capacity of about 600 pavers per day, six times more than before.<\/p>\n

The container left for Guinea in October 2022, after being presented during the departure of the expedition<\/a> in September 2022 on the esplanade of the Mucem in Marseille.<\/p>\n

After many adventures (bribery, scams, customs delays), the container finally left the port of Conakry in mid-December. It traveled about forty kilometers to reach the production site of BGS Recyplast, located at KM36 in the suburbs of Conakry. A 50-meter crane is needed to position it in its final location.<\/p>\n

The container and equipment are finally in place, and a several-day training is conducted by the Plastic Odyssey teams to transmit all instructions on the use, safety, and maintenance of the machines. Production and recycling can thus start immediately.[\/vc_column_text]

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Low-tech Machine Presentation<\/h3>\n

This containerized micro-factory contains all the machines and tools necessary to transform Guinean plastic waste into pavement, including:<\/p>\n