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Water hyacinth covering Lake Naivasha, the subject of CNN's feature on HyaPak

Featured · CNN

This alien plant is lethal for the environment. Now it’s being turned into a plastic to regrow forests

CNN follows the bioplastic from Lake Naivasha’s choked shoreline to Kenya’s 15-billion-tree reforestation plan, with HyaPak already exporting to the US and Germany and the lake’s fishers harvesting the weed for income.

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BBC 2025

The story, as others have told it.

This alien plant is lethal for the environment. Now it’s being turned into a plastic to regrow forests

People Fixing the World: The weed turned into plastic

Turning an invasive weed into a biodegradable material

Kenyan fishermen find new value in the weed that strangled their lake

Climat : quand la jacinthe d’eau, plante invasive, devient une richesse

Kenyan start-up turning an invasive plant into biodegradable packaging

Water hyacinth in Kenya becomes a circular-economy feedstock

Upcycling invasive species: a novel biodegradable alternative

Young innovators redefining sustainability, from the ground up

Joseph Nguthiru, Young Champion of the Earth