{"id":26225,"date":"2022-12-22T14:47:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T13:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plasticodyssey.org\/onboard-laboratory-session-4-bizerte\/"},"modified":"2023-03-28T18:11:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T16:11:43","slug":"onboard-laboratory-session-4-bizerte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plasticodyssey.org\/en\/onboard-laboratory-session-4-bizerte\/","title":{"rendered":"OnBoard Laboratory – Session #4 in Bizerte"},"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]Coming from all over Tunisia, 6 entrepreneurs spent 1 week on board Plastic Odyssey to participate in the OnBoard Laboratory.[\/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” padding_bottom=”40″ padding_top=”20″][vc_column el_class=”recrutementarticle_container”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1673445125648{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]<\/p>\n

Exchange and training with Tunisian entrepreneurs in plastic waste recycling<\/h2>\n

All eager to contribute to the protection of the environment through their activity, the group was particularly dynamic and motivated. Having first-hand experience in the field of plastic recycling, the exchanges were rich. We discussed the impact of legislative barriers to the development of recycling companies, the importance of market studies, and the different economically and environmentally viable products that could be made from recycled plastic using low-tech machines.[\/vc_column_text][vc_gallery interval=”3″ images=”20410,20412,20414,20408″ img_size=”full” onclick=”” enable_drag=”yes” direction_nav=”yes” control_nav=”yes” pause_on_hover=”yes”][vc_column_text]On the program of this session: theoretical training, practical workshops, prototyping of objects in recycled plastic and field visits.<\/p>\n

Presentation of the entrepreneurs<\/h2>\n

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Mohamed Karim Ourimi et Adel Neji, GSI – Green Solutions Industries<\/h2>\n

After several years of experience in waste management, Karim founded GSI, his own company. Adel joined him to develop the technical part.<\/p>\n

Green Solutions Industries<\/a> is a company that collects and grinds technical plastics from the automotive industry in particular. The activity of GSI aims to gradually diversify towards other types of plastics and to go further in the value chain of recycling: washing, drying, pellets.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column el_class=”shadow2 mt2″][vc_single_image image=”20402″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” qode_css_animation=””][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Salmen Neji, Recycl\u2019Up<\/h2>\n

Particularly sensitive to environmental problems and aware of the richness of plastic waste, Salmen founded Recycl’Up in 2021 in the south of Tunis.<\/p>\n

Currently the owner of a grinder, he transforms plastic into chips before reselling it and also processes cardboard and aluminum. In the future, he would like to create structures for solar panels or bricks made from recycled plastic.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column el_class=”shadow2 mt2″][vc_single_image image=”20404″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” qode_css_animation=””][vc_column_text el_class=”krack_list”]<\/p>\n

Houcine Messaoud, Proviltu<\/h2>\n

Houcine is an entrepreneur at heart. Since 2006, he has set up 3 waste management companies.<\/p>\n