Meet Onndinadaho Rasilwela, the South African student who turned sugarcane and maize waste into biodegradable plastic

Meet Onndinadaho Rasilwela, the South African student who turned sugarcane and maize waste into biodegradable plastic

​Representative Image of biodegradable plastic made from sugarcane and maize waste (AI-generated image) Onndinadaho Rasilwela, a chemical engineering graduate from South Africa, has won top honours at the 2026 Green Youth Indaba for developing a biodegradable plastic from agricultural waste. A member of the Tshwane University of Technology’s Student Women Economic Empowerment Programme, Rasilwela received … Read more