Community for Impact
How can we develop a decentralized, low-tech, profitable and resilient industrial and business model to recover value from waste and improve mobility in low-income countries?
Themes
Modes of transport
Developing the business model
Building public-private partnerships
Deploying plants
Contributing partners
Deploy three additional pilot micro-plants in West Africa in 2023 and one pyrolysis unit in 2024.
Refine the decentralized, low-tech business model to make it profitable:
Bring waste recovery closer to where waste is generated to limit costly transportation.
Build machines that are simple to use, manufacture and maintain locally.
Containerize the units so the model can be relocated.
Adapt offsetting mechanisms to recognize positive social and environmental externalities through plastic credits.
Accelerate R&D into converting waste into fuel in order to deploy viable, low-tech decentralized pyrolysis units.
Combat plastic pollution and restore nature and biodiversity.
Unlock the potential of South-South cooperation and create opportunities for local entrepreneurs and sustainable jobs.
Deliver significant, measurable impacts on climate and biodiversity while promoting community inclusion.
Keep waste from being transported, so people can move instead.
