Packaging grown from the weed that chokes a lake.
HyaPak harvests invasive water hyacinth and turns it into biodegradable packaging and seed-embedded paper, replacing single-use plastic while clearing the freshwater ecosystems the weed suffocates.
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A weed that eats lakes, and livelihoods.
Water hyacinth is one of the world's most aggressive invasive plants. On Lake Naivasha it forms mats so dense they stop boats, choke fish, and block the nets that feed thousands of families. Authorities spend heavily just to clear it, and it grows back within weeks.
Meanwhile, the plastic the same communities rely on for packaging never breaks down. Two problems, one answer.
From the water to the shelf.
Harvest
Hyacinth is pulled from the lake with local crews, clearing waterways as a first benefit.
Process
The fibre is dried and pulped into a workable, plant-based raw material.
Form
It's shaped into packaging and seed-embedded paper that replaces single-use plastic.
Return
Used product biodegrades, and seed-paper can be planted, closing the loop.
“We decided to use one problem to solve the other. The lake gets cleaner, and the plastic gets replaced, by the very thing that was clogging the water.”
Joseph Nguthiru, Founder & CEO