Wecyclers — Cash for Trash in Lagos
Cargo-bike collectors reward Lagos households with points and prizes for their recyclable waste.
Africa · Western Africa
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Cargo-bike collectors reward Lagos households with points and prizes for their recyclable waste.
A Kenya-headquartered mini-grid developer builds and operates solar-powered mini-grids that bring first-time electricity access to rural Nigerian households and businesses.
Hinckley turns the 100,000-strong army of informal e-waste scavengers around Lagos into trained, protected, paid collectors, and is building Nigeria's first lead-acid and lithium battery recycling lines.
Some Niger Delta villages have not known a fully dark night in sixty years, because the gas flare at the end of the road never goes out.
A factory in Minna, Niger State, stitches washable period kits that women sales agents now carry to 21 African countries.
Nigeria's oldest conservation NGO is restoring degraded forest around the Omo Forest Reserve while paying local communities to grow the trees.
A tomato farmer with no refrigeration has about two days to sell everything. A solar cold room at the market turns that into twenty-one, for fifty cents a crate a day.