General News of Tuesday, 26 March 2019Source: www.ghanaweb.comMeet the Ghanaian entrepreneur who turns discarded car tyres into furnitureplay videoJeffrey Kwabena Yeboah working on some of his furnitureJeffrey Kwabena Yeboah is a young entrepreneur who makes coffee tables, arms chairs and other types of furniture from recycled tyres which he collects from landfills sites and second-hand dealers. He said the idea of making tables came when a client he met wanted a table which is different from what is already in the market. After roaming the streets Accra, Jeff could not get the exact table that his client needed until he saw that some people were burning car tyres at Dzorwulu junction then he got the idea of making a table from the car tyres. Some tables made out of car tyresHe noted that the only means Ghanaians depose car tyres in Ghana is through burning but most people do not know the harmful effect associated with the burning. “I am taking car tyres off the streets, I am taking car tyres from gutters, I am stopping car tyres from being burnt and I am stopping car tyres from generating mosquitoes.”Jeffrey Kwabena Yeboah is currently a final year economics student at the University of Ghana, Legon.

Source: GhanaWeb March 26, 2019 04:52 UTC