Startup Life Show With Ande Lyons

Serial and social entrepreneur Ronald Mugaiga has a powerful, purpose-driven mission for his Ugandan startup, Ecomak Recyclers.To build eco-friendly products solving waste pollution, poverty and unemployment while mitigating climate change and creating jobs for marginalized women and youth.Ecomak Recyclers is a social enterprise developing eco-friendly, durable and long-lasting building plastic bricks and blocks from post-consumer plastic waste using a chemical free and energy saving extrusion technology.The plastic bricks are an affordable alternative to conventional bricks, and they solve the challenges of plastic pollution, unemployment, poverty and indecent housing. Ecomak’s plastic bricks and blocks are 2 times stronger and larger than the conventional bricks, have zero breakages once used, require low maintenance, do not rot, are termite resistant and are 30% cheaper than the conventional concrete and clay bricks.Ronald holds a BS in Biosystems Engineering, a Diploma in Environmental Management and was