Disposal of plastic waste in Kenya has always given the authorities, including the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA), a headache.

The waste, which includes polythene bags and other non-biodegradable plastics, has now become a health hazard.

Such plastics are often dumped in different landfills across the country.

However, one man in Eldoret Town is now collecting the waste and turning it into valuable products.

John Macharia Kamau, who lives in Yamumbi in the outskirts of Eldoret, now makes prosthetic legs, arms, stools, engraved tablets (plaques) and plates among other products.

Macharia collects the plastic waste in Kipkenyo dumpsite in the outskirts of Eldoret town every day.

He then put the plastics into a metal tin and smelts them into hot liquid.

"After collecting enough plastics, I come and put them into the metal container and place it on fire outside my house. It then smelts into hot liquid," Macharia said.

He then molds the hot liquid into a leg or arm for amputees. He does that by pouring it into a tin in the shape of the product he intends to make. He also makes plates and flower pots.

"In fact, there was a friend who went to the hospital and after being amputated, he needed about Sh120,000 to get artificial leg. He didn't have the money and I made one for him. The man is now happy," Macharia says.

"Recently my cousin who is a driver got an accident and her arm was chopped off. This one I have made is hers."

He also uses the liquid to make different types of plaques after which he engraves on them words of encouragement, protection of environment or any other writings that customers want.

"I normally get orders from different occasions and people. Some wants plaques for graduation or with Christian writings to be hung in their houses. The business is paying off and in the year 2011, the mayor of Munich City in Germany came here and he bought one. He was amazed by my work," he says.