RECO / Resource Collection Project
Poor waste management in Mombasa County is an entrenched problem with long term effects on communities and their environment. This comes down to poor physical planning and lack of working recycling approaches. But more fundamentally it is a social problem thanks to negative attitudes around handling of waste. The bad practices people have in regards to disposal of waste for instance is largely responsible for the environmental pollution.
Big Ship’s waste management component is founded on 1) Conducting awareness and education on best practices and 2) Facilitating capacity building in resource recovery within the waste value chain.
And as far as the waste value chain is concerned, some of what is usually considered as waste material is not really waste. Most of it is in fact a resource, which can be recovered, processed and brought back into the economy for consumption. Thus we refer to our operations in this regard as Resource Collection!
- Achievements on best practices awareness and education
- Youth trained on Attitude and Behavior Change (ABC)
- Schools involved in the Waste Management programs
- A developed ABC concept
- Achievements on capacity building facilitation
- Resource collectors (RCs) serving thousands of households
- RCs linked to transfer facility
- Waste recovery operations activated