The Recycler, a firm that offers professional waste management and recycling solutions for waste streams in Tanzania, has won the 2016 Sankalp Africa Awards top prize after beating more than 250 enterprises from across Africa for impact and commercial viability of their waste management businesses.
The Recycler won the award in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on February 25
for its role in overcoming waste management challenges in Tanzania.
"We are truly honoured to have been chosen as the Sankalp Award Winner
from among the many deserving finalists,” said The Recycler founder and
CEO Matthew Haden.
He said “Dar-es Salaam is a beautiful city, however we have an enormous
waste management issue, it is not uncommon to find plastic, rubber, tin
cans, glass bottles and even used syringes on our beaches, rivers and
forests.”
According to him, The Recycler not only reduces and recycles the waste
materials by collecting them from the source or point of origin but also
provides gainful employment to hundreds of informal waste collectors,
one of the most under privileged communities in Dar-es Salaam, by
purchasing weight-based wastes from them.
Founded in 2014, The Recycler is a recycling company that offers waste
management services to large companies, collecting and processing their
recyclable waste for sale to up cyclers.
The company has also set up recycling collection points throughout Dar
es Salaam and is researching large-scale bio-gas, waste to energy,
insect-derived protein and informal collection networks.
Speaking on behalf of a panel of judges from Skankalp, Intellecap CEO,
Nisha Dutt, said they believed that The Recycler would not only create
long term benefits for the environment, but also had immense potential
to create sustainable economic returns for all stakeholders.
“Matthew and his team set an excellent example for the kind of
enterprises that Intellecap is trying to identify and nurture in the
region,” said Dutt.
Intellecap is a pioneer in providing innovative business solutions that
help build and scale profitable and sustainable enterprises dedicated to
social and environmental change.
Sankalp Forum was initiated in India in 2009 by Intellecap to create a
thriving ecosystem for business-led inclusive development. Over the past
eight years, it has built one of the world’s largest impact enterprise
focused platforms that has supported over 900 social enterprises with
connections to over 400 investors, mentors and business support
providers.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
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