'We handmake wooden sunglasses from offcuts'

Name: 'We handmake wooden sunglasses from offcuts'
Uploaded: 2018-04-13T10:22:44.000Z
Duration: 2 min 56 s
Description: South African sunglasses entrepreneur Alistair Barnes recycles paper and timber to make his frames.

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A small-scale manufacturer in Cape Town is taking recycled paper and offcut timber and turning them into over 80 varieties of wooden sunglasses.

The BBC's Africa Business Report went along to meet Alistair Barnes, founder of Ballo, to find out more.

Business

13 April 2018