Sur les rives du lac Naivasha, d’\u00e9pais tapis de jacinthe d’eau \u00e9touffent la vie aquatique, bloquent la lumi\u00e8re du soleil et ravagent les p\u00eacheries locales. Mais pour l’ing\u00e9nieur kenyan Joseph Nguthiru, cette plante envahissante est devenue une opportunit\u00e9 de lutter contre la d\u00e9gradation de l’environnement et la pollution plastique.<\/p>\n
Nguthiru est le fondateur et PDG de HyaPak, une startup qui transforme la jacinthe d’eau en alternatives biod\u00e9gradables au plastique, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des produits \u00e9cologiques tout en soutenant l’emploi local.<\/p>\n
\u00ab\u00a0La jacinthe d’eau est la plante aquatique la plus envahissante au monde\u00a0\u00bb, explique Nguthiru. \u00ab\u00a0Elle d\u00e9truit les \u00e9cosyst\u00e8mes aquatiques, affecte la p\u00eache, l’irrigation et augmente m\u00eame les risques de paludisme.\u00bb<\/p>\n
L’innovation phare de HyaPak r\u00e9side dans ses sacs de semis biod\u00e9gradables, plant\u00e9s directement dans le sol et lib\u00e9rant des nutriments en se d\u00e9composant, acc\u00e9l\u00e9rant ainsi la croissance des plantes et \u00e9liminant les d\u00e9chets plastiques.<\/p>\n
\u00ab Nos produits ont la m\u00eame texture et les m\u00eames performances que le plastique, mais se d\u00e9composent rapidement, ce qui r\u00e9sout deux probl\u00e8mes \u00e0 la fois \u00bb, explique-t-il.<\/p>\n
\u00c0 ce jour, l’\u00e9quipe de Nguthiru a arrach\u00e9 plus de 8 hectares de jacinthes d’eau du lac Naivasha. Leurs efforts lui ont valu le prix Jeune Champion de la Terre 2025 du Programme des Nations Unies pour l’environnement (PNUE).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sur les rives du lac Naivasha, d’\u00e9pais tapis de jacinthe d’eau \u00e9touffent la vie aquatique, bloquent la lumi\u00e8re du soleil et ravagent les p\u00eacheries locales. Mais pour l’ing\u00e9nieur kenyan Joseph Nguthiru, cette plante envahissante est devenue une opportunit\u00e9 de lutter contre la d\u00e9gradation de l’environnement et la pollution plastique. Nguthiru est le fondateur et PDG […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":80,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"topbottom","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economie-africaine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}