This project aims to tackle period poverty in Nigeria through the enhanced production and sales of safe, recyclable sanitary pads, empowering girls and women by addressing menstrual health challenges. It supports women’s dignity, rights, educational outcomes and economic opportunities, by…
The project From Beach to Big Bags (FBBB) aims to address challenges related to plastic pollution and urban waste management. Amongst others, the project will establish a value chain for producing big bags using recycled polypropylene collected by informal waste…
This project addresses challenges and opportunities for supporting the micro, small and medium (MSM) sized enterprises that suppliers of recycled textile in Panipat, India. The Green Weave project aims to strengthen the sector and sustain green practices by developing commercially viable…
Although 70% of Uganda’s population is employed in agriculture, low farm productivity results in their collective contribution of only 24.1% to the country’s GDP. Yhe situation is further exacerbated by environmental degradation and climate change. As waste management is a…
Household organic waste makes up over 60% of municipal waste but is currently un-valued, un-collected, and a source of pollution. This project thus creates an urban waste collection system in Kakamega, Kenya, to feed 4,000 tonnes pa of household organic…
This project addresses the environmental challenges faced in San Andrés, Colombia, by replacing single-use cups with reusable ones in the local chains of food & beverages.
In Colombia, 1,250,000 tonnes of plastic waste are generated annually and up to 74% of packing ends up in landfill. To address this issue, Dynatest, MacRebur, and CEMPRE Colombia evaluate the feasibility of using the less recyclable parts of this…
The Fair Recycling Project, funded by Danida Market Development Partnerships (DMDP), has successfully established an inclusive and formalized plastic waste recycling ecosystem in Kenya. By integrating informal and marginalized waste collectors, including Kenyans and refugees, into a structured recycling value…
Bangladesh is facing a significant plastic waste problem. Each year an estimated 800,000 tonnes of plastic waste are generated. Most single-use plastic generated in Bangladesh ends up in landfills, the local environment or the ocean. The challenges of single use…
Plastic with Purpose (PwP) project’s vision has been to cultivate plastic waste recycling as a profitable venture while reducing the flow of plastic waste into natural environments in coastal cities of Vietnam. The tangible project objectives included (1) Increasing the…
