Our Products
From Waste to Useful Products
At Kakuma Eco-Bag, we keep it simple and sustainable: we use locally sourced khaki paper to create affordable, eco-friendly packaging that’s used every day by our community.
Our product range is diverse and designed to meet the needs of local businesses and households. We make envelopes, shopping bags, popcorn bags, book covers, gift boxes, cake boxes, and medical packaging.
We go beyond just packaging
- We reuse production waste.
- We turn it into charcoal briquettes.
- Our people get cheap local fuel.
- We help reduce deforestation.
We're creating lasting solutions
- We create sustainable solutions.
- We create for today.
- We protect tomorrow
See Our Production Process
When we say crafted by hand, we mean it.
Beautiful products for beautiful people
We take pride in crafting beautiful products that serve our customers long enough and don't harm the environment afterwards. All made by hand. Right here in the community!
We're building something different here
Every product replaces plastic. Every product supports a young person building a future they can actually count on. The packaging we create isn’t just about holding things. It’s about holding space. For possibility, for income, for dignity. We’re proving that sustainable can be affordable and local doesn’t have to mean second-rate.
A Rich Collection Just For You
Explore our wide range of affordable, eco-friendly packaging solutions designed to support your business and personal needs.
Shopping Bags & Gift Bags
Durable paper shopping bags and gift bags designed for retail and decorative use, offering eco-friendly strength, and customization options while helping businesses reduce plastic use and packaging costs.
Popcorn Bags
Lightweight, grease-resistant popcorn bags ideal for vendors and events, providing convenient, affordable, and environmentally friendly packaging for snacks and takeaway food businesses.
Medical Packaging
Clean, practical paper packaging suitable for clinics, pharmacies, and retail outlets, supporting hygienic handling, affordability, and environmentally responsible alternatives to plastic packaging.
Retail Packaging
Reliable paper bags designed for weighing, storing, and selling dry goods, offering strength, affordability, and sustainable packaging for shops and market vendors.
Cake Boxes
Food-safe paper cake boxes designed to protect baked goods during transport, offering sturdy structure, clean presentation, and eco-friendly packaging for bakeries and home-based vendors.
Book Covers
Protective paper book covers made for schools and learners, extending book lifespan, reducing replacement costs, and supporting environmentally responsible alternatives to plastic covers in classrooms.
Envelopes
Strong khaki paper envelopes suitable for offices, schools, and institutions, providing affordable, recyclable packaging for documents, letters, and records with consistent quality and local availability.
Folding Paperboard Packaging
Folding paperboard packaging designed for lightweight products and presentation, offering sturdy structure, easy assembly, recyclability, and cost efficiency for retail, gifting, promotional, and packaging applications.
But there's
more
Whatever remains from our production process goes into art, bio-degradable litter bins and fire briquettes.
Nothing Goes to Waste
Fire Briquettes
We turn production waste into charcoal briquettes. All of these products are made from recycled paper waste and are sold within the community at an affordable price.
The people behind the products...
We’re young people from refugee and host communities in Turkana County. We’re the ones who were told opportunities don’t exist here. We’re proving that wrong every single day. Some of us are in our twenties. Some younger, some older. We come from different backgrounds, different countries, different experiences. But we’re united by what we’re building together.
Our legacy
Kakuma Eco-Bag was built on the belief that local challenges deserve local solutions. By turning waste into opportunity, we have created jobs, reduced plastic use, and strengthened community-owned production in Turkana. Our legacy is one of youth empowerment, environmental responsibility, and lasting local impact that continues to grow with every product we make.
Have questions, need custom packaging, or want to partner with us?
We want to hear from you. Let’s build something great together!