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Marta Uetela

Green business of the year
Business:
BioMec
Country:
Mozambique
Member:
ideiaLab
Age:
27
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Marta’s business could sit comfortably in either the category for green business or business for good – as it’s a green business doing social good!

The idea for Marta’s innovative business followed a tragedy after a friend was in a car accident, Marta witnessed the difficulties he had in accessing prostheses.  Seeking a green and sustainable solution to this led Marta and her co-founder Munir Zaad to create the first prosthetic based on waste plastic collected from the sea. 

Because BioMec reuses plastic waste – like ghost fishnets and PET bottles – not only is it helping remove plastic from our oceans it also allows for competitive pricing. This widens access to this product in a country where 90% of the amputee population can’t obtain prosthetics. BioMec is striving to change that.

BioMec is a community effort and involves the fishing community from their local beach, where they collect and exchange ghost fishnets, creating a circle where the community gains additional income and awareness, and BioMec gets the raw material to work with. 

They are now conducting a pilot with over 700 users in Mozambique and Angola and expect to transform around two tonnes of plastic residuals into prosthetics over the next eight months.

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