Sisters Kekeletso & Kedibone Tsiloane’s Green Construction Company Aims To Fight Plastic Pollution! Ramtsilo Manufacturing & Construction (RMC) is a South African company that has created Circular Green Economy in the Plastic Recycling and Building Material Industry with their invention of the plastic brick. It was founded by sisters, Kekeletso Tsiloane who is also its Managing Director and Kedibone Tsiloane who serves as the company’s CEO in 2013.
RMC provides sustainable and innovative solutions to the plastic pollution pandemic in South Africa by using different kinds of plastics such as non-recyclable plastic to make bricks; this allows them to generate a sustainable income through waste recycling.
“The reason we do what we do is that we know it will create sustainable jobs for people in our communities and also we can help clean the environment with recycling,” Kedibone said on her and her sister’s love for green living and how their eco-friendly business solves the plastic waste problem while providing a sustainable housing solution.
The sisters had a breakthrough in plastic recycling technology in that they created a brick with recycled plastic. These bricks are innovative because they provide a solutions to different problems at once, such as solving the issue of having cracks on walls due to water that enter bricks and helping eradicate plastic pollution.
“One of the challenges that we faced and still are facing, is sometimes not being taken seriously, people questioning whether we would be able to deliver the work. We are not just black females, we also look young so that creates a barrier,” said Kedibone in a recent interview.
Ramtsilo Manufacturing & Construction has achieved a lot since its inception such as coming first in the Sasol Enterprising Women Program and winning an investment into machinery from the Department of Small Business in the Free State and plans to achieve even more in the coming years.
