In the Press
Newspaper Africa, December 2023
The Children’s Book Council, September 2023
Express, November 2023
CTV News, November 2023
Mail Online, November 2023
The East African, February 2023
The Citizen, January 2024
The Nation, November 2023
Citizen TV, Jun 2023
The Guardian, Jun 2023
UNEP, May 2023
3sat, 1st March 2022
Nomad Africa, February 2024
Sky News, Nov 2023
Mazingira Yetu, Jan-April 2023
Click to watch DW’S report on our heritage boat-building training centre in Lamu, 9th January 2023
All about shipping, 23rd September 2022
La Vanguardia, December 2023
WT Media Group, May 2023
ZDF, 1st March 2022
What design can do, 21st October 2022
France 3 Occitanie, 4th March 2022
ZDF, 28th February 2022
CNN, 22th April 2022 (watch from 2.33Mins)
The Star, 3rd May 2021
Afrik21, 24th February 2022
ZDF, 1st March 2022
Maritimafrica, 21st February 2022
African Business, 21st February 2022
World economic forum, 17th January 22
The Star, 16th November 2021
Malunde, 19th April 2021
ITV, 10th April 2021
VOA Indonesia, 30th March 2021
La Croix, 16th March 2021
UNEP, 12th March 2021
Nation, 4th March 2021
Canal+, 20th May 2021
UNEP, 19th April 2021
IPP Media, 10th April 2021
InfoNile Magazine, March 2021
UK Government, 17th March 2021
Baba Television Uganda, 14th March 2021
Anadolu, 4th March 2021
CNN, 4th June 2021
Independent, 27th April 2021
Mwananchi, 12th April 2021
Euro News, 31st March 2021
DailyXpress, 22nd March 2021
Daily Monitor, 14th March 2021
NTV Kenya, 6th March 2021
Citizen TV, 8th June 2021
Africa Science Focus, April 2021
Swara Magazine, April 2021
CGTN Africa, 2nd April 2021
AFD, 22nd March 2021
Insider, 15th March 2021
Geo, 8th March 2021
The Star, 4th March 2021
UNEP, September 2020
DAILY NATION, June 2020
Ocean Matters Podcast, January 2021
Xinhuanet, September 2020
Le Point, June 2020
ThinkTank, November 2020
Atlas of the Future, August 2020
Standard, June 2020
World Economic Forum, November 2020
World Economic Forum, July 2020
The Star, April 2020
YUMPU, March 2020
The World’s Video Wiki, February 2020
SAIL + LEISURE, August 2019
getaway.co.za magazine, July 2019
Marine Technology, July 2019
RSI News, 3rd July 2019
White horses magazine, June 2019
National Geographic, 2nd May 2019
Khuluma magazine, April 2019
UN News, 20th April 2019
World Ocean Initiative, 12th March 2019
UN News, 12th February 2019
IPP Media, 14th February 2019
Africa News, 13th February 2019
Macau Business, 13th February 2019
UNI India, 13th February 2019
KTV Online, 13th February 2019 - (swahili)
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 12th February 2019
Make A Change World, 9th February 2019
NTV, 9th February 2019
RFI, 6th February 2019
Africa News FR, 5th February 2019 - (french)
The Guardian, 30th January 2019
Deutsche Welle, 29th January 2019
World Economic Forum, February 2019
CNN travel, 29th January 2019
Le Monde Afrique, 28th January 2019 - (french)
Daily Mail, 27th January 2019
Japan Times, 27th January 2019
Spiegel Online, 27th January 2019 - (german)
BBC News, 25th January 2019
Aljazeera, 24th January 2019
China Daily, 24th January 2019
The East African, 23rd January 2019
All Africa, 22nd January 2019
Pulse, 14th January 2019
IPP Media, 13th January 2019
Times of Oman, 27th January 2019
Daily Nation, 23rd January 2019
Times of India, 21st January 2019
New China, 14th January 2019
UN Environment, 2019
Landscape news, 20th October 2022
SA Express
January 2019 - Floating on Flip-Flops, SA Express Inflight magazine
The Star
12th January 2019 - The first recycled plastic boat and its maiden voyage from Lamu to Zanzibar.
Why I love Kenya
December 2018 - Flipping the trend with “Kenya’s own world-famous dhow”
Daily Nation
December 2018 - Our boat builder Ali Skanda’s effort has been recognised by being identified as a kenyan hero.
France24
October 2018 - Kenyan volunteers taking the matter of plastic pollution into their own hands.
Al Jazeera
16th September 2018 - Film about the Flipflopi launch on the World Cleanup Day.
Reuters
15th September 2018 - The Flipflopi prototype sailed for the first time in the waters off Kenya’s Lamu island.
KTN News
15th September 2018 - Kenya’s leading TV station has been following the Flipflopi from the very beginning.
The Times
9th July 2018 - Triggering Africa’s Blue Planet Moment
ZDF Heute
5th June 2018 - How boats from recycled plastic help people, animals and nature in Lamu.
BBC News
3rd May 2018 - Using flip-flops to build a boat and clean the ocean
Surveyor Magazine
A floating vision of Plastic-Free Seas
Kenya Airways - Msafiri
Solving the plastic problem, in Lamu the local community is building a boat from recycled plastics and flip flops
Pulse Live Kenya
The World's first plastic boat is set to go on water in July
British Airways In-Flight Magazine
Article written by Ben Morison for the British Airways In-Flight Magazine which is brilliant.
Spiegel Online
Plastikmüll ist weltweit ein Problem. Einige Staaten ergreifen harte Maßnahmen im Kampf gegen die Umweltverschmutzung - in Kenia drohen sogar Haftstrafen, wenn jemand eine Plastiktüte nutzt.
Sky News
11th Nov 2017 - Sky News reporters Alan McGuinness’ excellent article and 2 minute news footage highlighting plastic issues and our “ingenious idea to put the plastic polluting our oceans to good use”
LCI (leading French TV News Channel)
6th Nov 2017 – this 4 minute segment broadcast nationally in France exposed the plastics problems faced in Kenya and on The Flipflopi Projects work to address them.
BBC
11th Nov 2017 – amazing coverage on the BBC website globally. The 1 minute clip was headline article on BBC News, and BBC Africa sections for a full weekend ensuring our story and key messages were viewed by millions of people worldwide.
Al Jazeera
12th Nov 2017 – Film and article by Al Jazeera journalist Catherine Soi who visited us in Kenya to learn more about the process we’ve developed to turn ocean plastics into our revolutionary sailing boat.
Reuters
10th Nov 2017 – we were very lucky to have Paris based Reuters journalist Siefried Modola visit us in Lamu in November. Thanks to his excellent article and photography
Fly-SAX Inflight Magazine
What ever floats your boat
CNN - Inside Africa
Reinventing the recycling business in Kenya
Fair Planet
World’s first: the plastic-only boat to fight pollution
What's Good Networks
Kenya’s Plastic Battle and how a Plastic Dhow is Setting Sail to Save the Ocean
Safari Link
A dhow made from plastic?
The Weekend (South Africa) - Quirky Flipflopi Dhow to Carry Plastic Message
A pioneering crew of environmental activists are putting their best foot forward with the flipflopi dhow, a vessel made entirely of recycled plastic - including a whole lot of flip flops - which they will sail 5,000km from Lamu Island off Kenya to Cape Town.
The Flipflopi Expedition featured in South Africa
When innovative Africans create a project that turns abandoned flip-flops and other plastics into a boat that can sail the seven seas, then you know that the circular economy is coming into its own.
#Plasticrevolution in Cumbria
This article by the excellent Sara Royle in the Westmorland Gazette, a regional newspaper in the UK, previews the Flipflopi Exhibition at The Hub in Sedbergh.
Flip-flop dhow to fight plastic waste in historic Lamu-to-Cape Town voyage
A one of a kind dhow in the world is set to make its maiden trip from Lamu to Cape Town, a journey of 5,250km, in January next year.
Ship on a mission to save oceans
From the Daily Nation - one of Kenya's leading daily newspapers.
Citizen TV interview Sam Ngaruiya
In June 2017 we were invited to attend a Kenya government organised 'Stakeholders forum' on the implementation of the impending plastic bag ban. Here Citizen TV interview Flipflopi team member Sam Ngaruiya.
China's official media press agency Xinhua report on the Flipflopi Project
Here Xinhua - the biggest and most influential media organization in China - report on the launch of our #Plasticrevolution campaign with our Kenya's celebrities film...
The #Plasticrevolution on KTN Business Today
On the 8th of May, we were invited onto the live ‘Business Today’ show on KTN.
The East African
Lamu plastic dhow sails to save oceans
Ben speaking on CNBC Africa
In May 2017 Ben had a brilliant opportunity to speak about business's role in environmental sustainability ( - and despite studio sound issues meaning he could not hear the questions - he got his point across)
Standard Newspaper
Opinion: Plastic revolution is here with us
Recycled plastic boat is set for its maiden voyage to SA
Preparations for The Flipflopi Expedition are on at a Lamu beach, where waste plastic and discarded flip-flops collected from Kenyan beaches and towns are being used to build a 60 foot boat that is destined to sail to Cape Town.
KBC NEWS
A Malindi based plastic waste company is set to build the first ever dhow made with recycled plastic and discarded flip-flops at a cost of 60 million shillings.
Project Aware
Beach Clean Ups with Kitty Inn
Nomad Magazine, 2017
Nomad Magazine
In the second issue of Nomad Magazine, we bring you our pick of private houses and explore the charm of Lamu Island with its distinct culture and rhythm that is quite unlike anywhere else on the Kenyan coast.
St Andrew’s Turi, 2017
Coast Week, 2017
Mediamax, 2017
ATC News, 2017
Komba, 2017
People Daily, May 2017