Cleannovate

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

When William Ruto started off on the campaign trail for his quest for presidency, he carried the hopes of many people. Many cast their ballot in his favor because he seemed believable. He seemed to connect with the ‘ground’ in ways his main opponent couldn’t. He brandished his faith as badge of honor that lured many religious folk to his fold.

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Cleannovate

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Plastics generate interest because they are easy to make but very difficult to degrade leading to a plastic solid waste catastrophe. Most plastics are a by-product of petroleum refining, which make their presence a guarantee as long as we use fossil fuels. Some might say that we can recycle plastics into other products like building blocks, diesel etc However, is this form of recycling- also called chemical recycling- really sustainable?

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Cleannovate

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

The thing with beef tallow is that it turns waxy immediately it’s removed from the flame. Wax, as we know it, it hard. And that’s exactly what we are looking for when we want to make bar soap. Combine hardness with good foaming, and you have a superb soap bar that can serve you for ages. And that’s what we shall be talking about here.

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Cleannovate

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Now, try poking your nose into a cauldron of simmering beef fat and you’ll understand what the title of this article means. Beef tallow is a superb product but has that distinct stink that seems to be worse than that of normal beef. This reality prevents many people from utilising this product. But this shouldn’t stop us from enjoying this golden niceness.

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Cleannovate

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I called a connection who would link me up with a unique butcher – one who sells beef fat. The next day, I linked up with him, bought some meat then he led me to a backstreet to some ladies who sold beef fat. They named their price and I thought it was a good bargain so we struck a deal. I bought 5kg of white beef fat most of which is derived from around the organs like kidneys.

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Cleannovate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Potato chips colour our parties. They are the go-to meal when we just want that fast filling, sumptuous and easy to fix snack. A few of us like to cook potatoes with the skin. But for those of us who peel them, where do we dispose of these wastes? Well, there are a few places where peels could find use. Composting them helps return their nutrients back to the soil… Incorporating them into animal feeds helps enrich livestock diets.

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Cleannovate

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

You sow those seeds and after 3 months, 6 months or a year, you get a bumper harvest. “I’m smiling all the way to the bank,” you say. But is this all you can reap from your crops? After making money from the produce, what about converting the waste into valuable products to make more money? UPCYCLING Upcycling is about taking what’s considered as not valuable and converting it into what’s valuable.

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Cleannovate

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

It’s OK to dream. But it takes more to start moving towards achieving it. Too often do we let ideas bounce off our heads without action. But have you ever thought of picking up and running with that one idea to its logical end? Well, it’s good to be a think tank – churning up those ideas per minute. But it’s better to pick one or two and create something out of it.

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Cleannovate

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Upcycling is an inescapable phenomenon when thinking about sustainability. But what’s upcycling in the first place? Let me attempt to explain… SPENT TYRES A brand new car tyre could cost around USD 50 in the Kenyan market. So what if – in a worst case scenario – this tyre is roughed up within a span of a month or two (given the bad state of our roads)?

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Cleannovate

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

There’s a saying,”What goes round must come around.” And this reality is best illustrated by composting. We’re all affected by the stuff we dispose around us. But we have two choices… The worst case scenario is that stuff – waste – makes our environment a living nightmare. Picture rubbish strewn all around our neighborhood.

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Cleannovate

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Biogas is simply natural gas derived from rotting organic waste. These include kitchen waste, fresh livestock manure, human faeces among others. Biogas production heavily depends on very minute players in this great energetic gallery. BACTERIA Bacteria used to convert organic waste into biogas are mainly derived from runinants. Their guts have the right mix of biology that breaks down complex stuff like cellulose into simpler substances like methane – natural gas.

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Cleannovate

AUGUST 27, 2024

The circular economy isn’t just about generating value from waste. It’s also about making the best out of the worst – pollution. And environmental pollution doesn’t come packaged worse than toxic heavy metals. TOXIC HEAVY METALS These substances are not only toxic. They also cannot be destroyed or degraded. They are in their simplest form and that’s the form in which they can do maximum damage.

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Cleannovate

AUGUST 26, 2024

You might not believe it but this article is about my business plan. I’m willing to share it with others simply because the market has room for all of us – the bottom line is how the product is packaged.

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Cleannovate

AUGUST 15, 2024

What if we were to produce products with health benefits using principles of circular economy? Better still, what if we extract health-boosting substances from what’s discarded as waste? The circular economy avails to us opportunities to exploit in this regard. Here are some few. BEEF TALLOW What happens to excess fat from animals after slaughter?

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Cleannovate

AUGUST 11, 2024

Phosphorus is a unique substance. It’s one of the three most important macronutrients needed for agriculture yet it’s the only one among the three that is mined. Most of global phosphorus is mined in Morocco and the Western Sahara Republic – which Morocco has laid claim to for decades.

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Cleannovate

JULY 25, 2024

The police land-rover stood imposingly next to her. A male police officer grabbed her, manhandled her and tossed her in the vehicle. She tried to make her views known… ‘YOU KILLED MY SON. NOW YOU ARE ARRESTING ME…’, she yelled.

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Cleannovate

JULY 17, 2024

Look… I do not agree with the leadership of President William Ruto… He has allowed cronies and tribesmen to mismanage government agencies… He doesn’t seem to have clear numbers about our debt and what ought to be paid… He seems to be letting police agencies abduct people with some of them losing their lives… He […]

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Cleannovate

JULY 15, 2024

Look… I do not agree with the leadership of President William Ruto… He has allowed cronies and tribesmen to mismanage government agencies… He doesn’t seem to have clear numbers about our debt and what ought to be paid… He seems to be letting police agencies abduct people with some of them losing their lives… He […]

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Cleannovate

JULY 9, 2024

I walked into a government testing lab for some analysis. I expected the cost to be Kshs 2500 per sample. However, the government official told me that this time, he would charge me Kshs 2000 per sample. I was elated…at least he was giving me a generous discount because I was a repeat customer.

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Cleannovate

JULY 7, 2024

Are there any modern day prophets? In the first place, who were the prophets of biblical days? A scan through the old testament of the Bible reveals a struggle…the plight of the nation, Israel. A nation that had been chosen by God yet themselves chose not to follow this God who had chosen them.

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Cleannovate

JULY 5, 2024

In 1986, a tragedy took place in the Cameroonian village of Nyos. The village was located close to a lake by the same name, Nyos. Now, Lake Nyos was on the surface, an ordinary looking lake surrounded by mountains in the scenic Cameroonian countryside.

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Cleannovate

JUNE 23, 2024

You’re standing in a queue waiting to be let into an establishment. There is commotion, a melee and a scramble. This is an event you’ve coveted for ages and here’s a chance of a lifetime to be part of it.

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Cleannovate

JUNE 20, 2024

‘A hundred shillings a kilo’ was the answer. I was at a butchery near our local slaughterhouse inquiring on the cost of beef fat. The butcher stuck to his price, though I knew that if I came prepared with the money, he would back down a bit.

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Cleannovate

JUNE 19, 2024

It was my first experience with e-commerce and the product did not dissapoint. I had just received a Google Chrome notebook which costed less than you can imagine. It could flip over and convert into a tablet and had a touch screen besides other functionalities.

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Cleannovate

JUNE 14, 2024

I offloaded the sack in my storeroom. Now I had fuel that could last me for weeks. You see, charcoal is our most common fuel in Africa. And as an ardent African, I would not disappoint. The charcoal sack weighed probably slightly over sixty kilos.

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Cleannovate

JUNE 12, 2024

‘We buy used motherboards’, the gentleman stated. At that point, I tapped the shoulder of one of my students as I hinted to him about this business opportunity. As a lecturer, I occasionally expose my students to industry and this was such a time.

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Cleannovate

JUNE 9, 2024

I drove the nails through the roof, descended from the ladder and entered my living room. I had been nailing some solar panels onto my roof. I checked the battery, inverter, charge controller and the multiplug connected to the lights and other electronics. I was satisfied.

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Cleannovate

JUNE 5, 2024

I once stumbled upon a video of a guy making fun of a friend who had been eating rice and beans for nine days in a row. Well, probably he had been enjoying the best burgers or pizza or fine dining. So that made him quite surprised about the friend’s predicament.

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Cleannovate

JUNE 4, 2024

I’m just from teaching a class of environmental chemistry. So what I’ve done over the three hour class period is to share my presentation for about an hour then allow a group to present some work they’ve been researching on for about 3 or 4 weeks.

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Cleannovate

MAY 26, 2024

Consider the individuals enduring the pressures of life, navigating through challenges and adversities. Envision men and women striving to secure employment… Struggling to make ends meet… Facing difficulties in their marriages… Juggling demanding work responsibilities… Endeavoring to meet others’ expectations… Struggles upon struggles.

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Cleannovate

MAY 26, 2024

Picture this: you’re standing at the edge of a rickety, old bridge. The planks are rotting, the ropes are frayed, and every step you take sends a shiver up your spine. Welcome to the bridge of toxic relationships and addictive habits. It’s a marvel that you’ve made it this far without tumbling into the abyss.

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Cleannovate

MAY 19, 2024

I remember when the prices of edible oils skyrocketed in an instant in my nation, Kenya. Consumers were out of options since the big players in this sector have such an iron grip on the market. Well, the government tried to intervene and to some extent, prices seemed to stabilise.

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Cleannovate

MAY 18, 2024

A quick visit to your local butchery reveals a very unique type of waste – animal fat Most of it is possibly sold to pet owners or thrown away altogether. But what if this fat forms a raw material for manufacturing of something we use several times in a day?

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Cleannovate

MAY 17, 2024

I’ve always toyed with entrepreneurship ideas. I’ve tried some out with a measure of success (and equal measure of failure) while others have just lingered in my mind. I often note down ideas that cross my mind on my phone, notepad app… and it’s been helpful.

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Cleannovate

APRIL 2, 2024

Batteries, often overlooked in discussions about AI, play a pivotal role in powering the devices that are shaping our future. From smartphones to autonomous vehicles, the seamless integration of AI relies heavily on advancements in battery development.

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Cleannovate

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In our world, taking care of the environment is super important because things have become really urgent. Businesses can actually make money while also helping the planet. Imagine a big city with tall buildings – it looks cool, but there’s a problem.

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Cleannovate

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Introduction:Take a deep breath – if you can. In the midst of our bustling urban jungles, indoor sanctuaries, and industrial landscapes, the air we breathe is far from pristine.

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