Just 1km from Siachilaba Business Centre in Binga District, is a couple that figured out how to build a strong fence for free, which at the same time revolutionises how to manage waste and preserve the environment.
At Saimwinde 2 Village in Siachilaba, Mrs Violet Mombe and her husband Misheck, have fenced off their homestead using the opaque beer plastic containers from Delta Beverages' Super range, popularly known as Batai Munhu.
The imaginative way the 'rubbish' has been stacked up to make a picturesque fence is eye-catching.
While they did it because they wanted a strong fence without spending money, environmentalists are sure to approve wholeheartedly at the weather-proof fence that uses plastics which if not disposed of properly, can pollute the earth for more than 500 years.
Recently, the Mombes innovation got recognition during a national clean up campaign at the business centre for the ingenious way in which they manage the waste that is found strewn around places such as Siachilaba that have bottle stores and bars for leisure.
At these leisure spots especially in the rural areas, Super is the alcoholic beverage of choice for the average villager and it is drunk by the gallons.
Thereafter, these plastic bottles are strewn all over the place, causing littering and environmental pollution.
Globally, plastics have caused a waste crisis as they take hundreds of years to decompose.
They are also a huge threat to livestock and marine life as ingesting them can be fatal.
According to the United Nations Environment Programme, around the world, one million plastic bottles are bought every minute and these days about 400 million tonnes of plastic waste are produced every year.
What is worrying is that only 10 percent of this is being recycled and in Africa where recycling plants are few or sometimes do not exist there needs to be alternative ways in which to reuse and repurpose plastics.
In rural areas such as Siachilaba, such inventiveness and interventions like Mrs Mombe and her husbands fresh approach to plastic waste disposal have been encouraged.
Woodlands are deteriorating at an alarming rate as trees are cut down to fence homesteads in rural areas.
The Mombes' new fangled design is a lot cheaper than buying standard fencing and may be a revolutionary way to save trees and dispose of plastics safely.
A visit to the Mombe's homestead revealed that the couple had fenced three quarters of their property. There were many more plastic bottles they collect, simply by picking up discarded rubbish, perhaps thousands, being readied to take their place in the fence.
Mrs Mombe said she collects the plastic bottles from the business centres around the area and the process of fencing was labour intensive as she started around September last year.
"I saw value in the used plastic containers for making a boundary fence for my homestead. I would go to the Siachilaba Business Centre and collect these Batai Munhus and I collected about 10 000. Eleven of them make a pole as I stack each of them onto each other.
"The first plastic bottle, you don't cut it but leave it like that, and the next one you cut it from the end and then do the same for the next bottles and you don't cut the final one at the top of the pole.
"Thereafter you build your wall like that until you get to the height that you want. I started this wall in September last year," said Mrs Mombe. She said the plastic bottles are in short supply as some people are now using them to store homemade alcohol.
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"However, the challenge is that finishing up the project is a problem because the plastic bottles are now hard to come by.
"Although I have collected some of them, there are people this side who use them to store seven days (home brewed alcohol)," said Mrs Mombe.
She said the process was saving the environment as it lessens deforestation.
"If I was using sticks to fence my homestead, it would have caused a lot of deforestation, so this is an alternative to what we used to do.
"This is because the plastic bottles cover a lot of space and are durable, because I think I will re-fence, after two to three years, depending on how they fare with the weather," said Mrs Mombe.
