Joseph Nguthiru 🇰🇪

Grateful 🙏

@HonKangata Interesting to see water hyacinth🪻in Muranga County. Time to shine? @HyapakEco 💚

Nginyi Dam Bridge Kakuzi Mitubiri Gatanga. Congrats Hon Muigai Mca Community Projects.

@MakeItKenya Asante 🙏🙏🙏

👏👏 @_nguthiru

@smeblupages @AFRICARENA @HyapakEco Let's goooooo 🚀

Guess who we spotted at the @AFRICARENA Nairobi Summit? @_nguthiru , the UN Younch Champion of the earth and founder of @HyapakEco #Africarena #Innovation #Startups

Quite a journey @JeffBezos 🌟

Founder of HyaPak, @_nguthiru turns invasive water hyacinth into biodegradable alternatives to single-use plastics. 🌱 Jopseh is a @UNEP 2025 Young Champion of the Earth. Think you could be the next Young Champion? Apply by 31 March: buff.ly/aOMovfh

One day, the responses to this question will mention doctors, scientists and engineers... And our names will be spoken of 🙏 • We're just getting started 😤

@PesaWall @HyapakEco innit 🙌💚🥳

Kenyan start-ups and companies in the waste management sector:

A dream come true for Joshua Weru 🇰🇪 Coming from a rugby background, he will join fellow IPP alum, Uar Bernard 🇳🇬 on the @Eagles, and will currently be the lone Kenyan in the NFL, paving the way for others 🙏 #FlyEaglesFly

HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE 🫨 Sabastian Sawe becomes the first person ever to break the 2-hour barrier in official race conditions, storming to a historic 1:59:30‼️ @KejelchaYomif, on his marathon debut, also breaks 2 hours with a stunning 1:59:41 and @jacobkiplimo2 clocks 2:00:28, also faster than the previous world record 😤

@OkayAfrica Thank you so much for sharing our story 🙏💚

Another brilliant African innovation 🌍✨ 🇰🇪 Kenyan engineer @_nguthiru is creating plastic alternatives from water hyacinth that look and feel like plastic but naturally decompose. A powerful idea for tackling plastic waste across the continent. Do you think solutions like this should get more support? ⬇️ 🎤 Zee Ngema #OkayAfrica #JosephNguthiru

@refinedng @HyapakEco Thank you so much🙏❤

For Monday Spotlight: Meet Joseph Nguthiri ( @_nguthiru ) Kenyan water and environmental engineer turning fast growing water weed into biodegradable plastic alternatives through his startup, HyaPak (@HyapakEco). For years, water weeds have disrupted lakes, damaged fish habitats and affected local livelihoods in Kenya. While many saw a nuisance, Joseph saw an opportunity. In 2022, he founded HyaPak, a circular economy startup that transforms weeds harvested from Lake Naivasha and other Kenyan water bodies, including Lake Victoria, into biodegradable packaging products. Instead of letting the weeds block waterways, he turns them into packaging bags, biodegradable tree seedling bags that can be planted directly into the soil, and other eco-friendly materials that break down naturally. His work also creates jobs for local communities involved in harvesting the plant. By 2025, HyaPak had removed over 8 hectares of the weed from Lake Naivasha, helping to restore the lake’s ecological balance. His work has earned international recognition, including the United Nations Environment Programme Young Champions of the Earth Award (2025), Obama Foundation Leader (2023), and a place on 40 Under 40 Africa. A reminder that some of the biggest problems can become solutions with the right ideas. Africa continues to produce innovators changing the world, and Joseph is one of them.😌 Follow @refinedng for more stories on Black excellence!

@BeyondIntrst Thank you🙏🙏🙏

Kenyan startup turns invasive water hyacinth into biodegradable packaging

@Billionair1w @Kibet_bull @ArapTilingi @Eng_F_Ngeno Thank you so much🙏🙏🙏

Fellow Kenyans lets celebrate Joseph Nguthiru. Kenyan engineer Joseph Nguthiru turns water hyacinth into biodegradable plastic, reducing mosquito breeding grounds, cutting plastic waste, and creating green jobs for the community. @Kibet_bull @ArapTilingi @Eng_F_Ngeno

@vhotumimashaba @WithoutHistory @madibenglocalmu @DouglasMaimane Got a better idea. How about we show you how to do it and you guys do it in a way that directly benefits your local economy and environment? ☺💚🇿🇦

@WithoutHistory @madibenglocalmu x @DouglasMaimane Let’s harvest this invasive plant species around the Hartbeespoort Dam and sell it to the inventor who has developed a way to convert it into plastic. We can use the profits to build our own manufacturing plant to produce this plastic.

African inventor makes biodegradable plastic using an invasive plant. In the process, he reduces malaria and provides green jobs for the community.

@__cj_1_ @GideonGradishar @Joe__Bassey @grok @HyapakEco Jambo!! 🇰🇪🥳

@_nguthiru @GideonGradishar @Joe__Bassey @grok @HyapakEco Engineer ,jambo

Kenyan engineer Joseph Nguthiru turns water hyacinth into biodegradable plastic, reducing mosquito breeding grounds, cutting plastic waste, and creating green jobs for the community.

@dido_lumanyika @GideonGradishar @Joe__Bassey @grok @HyapakEco Thank you for your concern. On energy, we use solar drying for raw materials & our machines run on Kenya's grid (which is approx 94% renewable) Ofc, we don't YET have the capabilities to lobby as big companies We're not perfect (we're a startup lol 😂) but we do our best 🙏

@_nguthiru @GideonGradishar @Joe__Bassey @grok @HyapakEco What are the energy input costs to process the hyacinth. Is the production process really "clean"? What is the outlook given the oil industry's plastics lobby and what hinders scaling at the moment?

@Joey_Lyakim @GideonGradishar @Joe__Bassey @grok @HyapakEco @NSE_PLC Thank you so much @Joey_Lyakim. I really appreciate your kind words🙏🙏

@_nguthiru @GideonGradishar @Joe__Bassey @grok @HyapakEco Should IPO into the NSE very fast so Kenyans can invest into your work. Expand and create more employment opportunities. @NSE_PLC should be looking out for such innovations and incubate them into the NSE.

@JoyceMatogo @GideonGradishar @Joe__Bassey @grok @HyapakEco Thank you🙏 Mixed. One of our use cases is in fresh food packaging to preserve the freshness of fruits and vegetables during transit. We've not designed for cooked food though... YET We do this in Kenya at the moment, though we plan on sharing our technology to other places too

@_nguthiru @GideonGradishar @Joe__Bassey @grok @HyapakEco Amazing. Is the packaging safe for packing consumables? Where are you selling them?