Cycling out of Poverty is setting up self-sustainable solid waste management systems with bicycles: the bike2clean concept. Private waste collection and recycling enterprises in Uganda, Burkina Faso and Kenya collect solid waste at household level with carrier tricycles and separate the different types of waste (or separate at household level, depending on sensitisation). After separation the waste is recycled according to the opportunities. In some cases it could be sold to factories or it could be recycled in-house to be sold as a new end product (e.g. compost, souvenirs, plastic chairs and tables, methane gas etc.). The income from selling the solid waste and the new end products with bicycles will pay the youth employed in the enterprise and other costs, like the maintaining of the bicycles and other materials in the process.
• Target group: garbage collectors and households
• Period: Since 2011
• Supported by: private donors + UN-Habitat + HGV-B + http://fietsen4fietsen.nl/
• Local partner organisation: BSPW and AVO
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