AYIKA
About Solution
More than 70% of roads in rural Africa are bad. This has
resulted in lack of visible growth and poor educational growth among rural
dwellers. Without a good road, most rural dwellers are cut off from the cities.
Most Agricultural foods, produced in the villages cannot be transported to the
cities due to lack of roads. Most of these foods are wasted, resulting in post-harvest
loss.
Also, young children are unable to go to schools in the cities
due to bad roads which is one of the reasons why rural dwellers in Africa are
poorly educated.
Realizing that waste generation in Africa is over 260 thousand
metric tonnes daily, we design a solution that uses abundantly available
plastic wastes and sand to build interlocking tiles which are used in laying
roads.
The design allows the mixture of both plastic and sand using an
electrically fabricated turner under specified temperature. The mixtures are
then transferred into moulds for cooling and storage.
The Interlocking tiles are thereafter used to solve the problem
of bad roads. The solution allows quick repair of roads due to the fact that
it's easier to remove a bad portion compared to repairing a bitumen paved road.
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