- admin@kwatutrash4cash.com
- Livingstone, Zambia
Kwatu Trash for Cash is a Zambian waste management initiative founded in 2020 through a German-Zambian youth exchange program. It focuses on addressing environmental challenges while enpowering communities economically. Based in Livingstone, the project engages youth aggregators and over 600 collectors to gather recyclable materials, raise awareness, and promote sustainability, benrfiting both the environment and the local economy.
To create a sustainable waste management system that cleans the environment, empowers youth, and promotes recycling for economic growth.
To achieve a clean environment through sustainable waste management systems that promote recycling, environmental conservation, and create economic opportunities for communities.
Conducting school programs and community talks to promote proper waste management practices.
Organizing and executing clean-up activities in local neighborhoods and surrounding areas.
Empowering women and youth by purchasing recyclable materials to provide them with economic opportunities.
Collecting and transporting recyclable materials to Lusaka for processing and repurposing.
Raising awareness and educating over 1,000 schoolchildren about environmental conservation and stewardship.
Collaborating with local communities to improve recycling efforts and support sustainable practices.
Youth aggregators
Trash collectors
School Children
Over 600 collectors, including women and youth, are incentivized to gather recyclable materials, making waste collection both an environmental and economic activity.
This provides an economic incentive for participants, encouraging widespread collection of recyclable waste.
Once trash is purchased, it is transported to the aggregation hub, where it is carefully sorted into categories such as plastics, paper, and metals.
Recyclable materials are transported to Lusaka, where they undergo further processing and recycling.
As a former Eco Club President at Hillcrest School, I am immensely grateful for Kwatu Trash for Cash's transformative impact. This initiative has reduced waste, empowered our youth, and fostered a sense of environmental responsibility, significantly improving our community and inspiring everyone involved. Thank you, Kwatu Trash for Cash!
I,Hassan Mokhtar, personally believe that trash for cash a very helpful and caning organisation that really helps to encourage more and more people to keep our environment safe and properly take care of it as well as helping in the destruction and prevention of poverty in various communities so I would like to thank them for everything their doing for our community.
