ECO-CYCLE: RECYCLING
Kaduna, NigeriaKaduna, Nigeria
Year Founded:
Project Stage:
2015
Organization type:
for profit
Idea
Budget:
$10,000 - $50,000
- Ecology
- Recycling
- Climate change
- Energy
- Environment
- Green business
- Green consumerism
- Pollution
- Population
- Sustainability
Example: Walk us through a specific example(s) of how this solution makes a difference; include its primary activities.
This is a new start-up idea. Its operational principles may be entirely new in the system but its novel and innovative from where I come. By putting value and cash to trash or disposal waste in a continent experiencing explosive population growth, there will obviously be an increased demand and competition for scarce resources such as food, water, energy and minerals-recycling will help manage excesses.
• As the world turns toward a low-carbon growth path, new business opportunities, low carbon products and services already generated more revenue than the global aerospace and defense sectors in 2008, ac
Impact: What is the impact of the work to date? Also describe the projected future impact for the coming years.
• The impact intended is to a cost-saver through efficient and innovative waste collection and disposal methods, and a means of affecting the general community of decisions and actions that uphold environmental standards, livable surroundings, reduce pollution due to high industrialization and rapid population growth in the cities that leads to infrastructure overstretch and resultant aesthetic beauty ruin.
• Recycling companies continue to operate and expand. They wouldn’t if it doesn’t make economic sense.
• Job creation: in the U.S, recycling creates 1.1million jobs, $236billion in gross annual sales and $37billion in annual payrolls. I want to replicate that in Nigeria with our huge consumerism thirst and a vibrant youth demand for trendy, modern lifestyle and high living standards.
Spread Strategies: Moving forward, what are the main strategies for scaling impact?
• The pilot state will be Kaduna, where I grew up, and it’s the state capital and the biggest city by function. To establish mini-collection and sorting spaces/offices where waste/trash material which will be periodically collected from different neighborhoods radius gathered and transported to negotiated industries.
• Collectors will be compensated base on nature/type and weight of valued waste material supplied using scale measures after inspection.
• Every three (3) months spread schedule will be activated to move into fresh provinces of high activity.
Financial Sustainability Plan: What is this solution’s plan to ensure financial sustainability?
Revenue will be generated from the sale of sorted and packaged recycle-ready waste. Other financial vendors and from environmental sustainability organizational grants, World bank aid for green start-ups, United Nations aid for green enterprises, public-private partnership, public sector waste management agreement
Marketplace: Who else is addressing the problem outlined here? How does the proposed project differ from these approaches?
Revenue will be generated from the sale of sorted and packaged recycle-ready waste. Other financial vendors and from environmental sustainability organizational grants, World bank aid for green start-ups, United Nations aid for green enterprises, public-private partnership, public sector waste management agreement
Team
Samson Alhamdu Ibrahim is the ideator, originator and founder of this proposed project. Having mentors, specialist and experts on environmental management, industrial activity, social entrepreneurs I will partner with. Together with associated or similar organizations expertise advice and collaboration to make it an absolute reality and functional venture.
Samson Ibrahim is an experienced and trained urban and regional planner, environmentalist and a fervent sustainable development drive-agent practitioner