Hellen Munyasa founded Helton Traders in 2022 with $3,000 (Shs11 million) from a United Nations Development Programme Fund. The company recycles plastic waste to produce polyester sewing threads.

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The plastic drawers may not be as durable as ... Use pegboards or slat walls to hang items like thread spools or ribbon. Repurpose items like mason jars or tin cans to store small items like ...

It also has a built-in light to enhance the light source while sewing and a thread rewind lever for refilling the bobbin from a large spool ... than one with a plastic frame.

What everyone's reading Less fancy versions were made from a discarded wooden spool of thread (back when they were still wooden – they’re nearly all plastic these days), with four nails hammered into ...

Multi-purpose: 600M(660Y) each spool. Single-Ply yarn is 50 weight, and our cotton thread is 3-Ply twisted bonded ( the actual weight is 30WT = Tex 33 for three plies) can be widely used for ...

Lummus Technology, LLC provided the funding for research on plastic waste pyrolysis oils at UT Arlington. Alexander Kaplitz does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any ...

University of Portsmouth provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Thousands of tonnes of plastic pollution could be escaping into the environment every year … from our mouths.

A report from the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration says workers at an East Tennessee plastics company who died in flooding from Hurricane Helene had time to evacuate.