What is Waste Free in '23?
WasteFree23.org is an all-volunteer international NGO that researches, promotes and trains people on safe, sustainable, and profitable waste management processes. Our mission is to empower 2 billion people to eliminate unmanaged household and agricultural waste.
With training, they are empowered to manage their community’s waste, creating jobs and retaining all the benefits of recycling within their community.
Waste Free '23 Impact Data
Stats Last Updated On: 01 August, 2024
WasteFree23 empowers individuals, community-based organizations (CBOs), and communities to become waste-free through education, training, and support for recycling and upcycling. Founded in 2022 by concerned community members and waste pickers in Nairobi, Kenya, WasteFree23 is dedicated to developing practical waste management solutions that can be implemented by the world’s poorest communities, aiming to reduce pollution and create sustainable livelihoods.
The Problems
Waste Free ’23 Solutions
WasteFree23’s dedication of developing practical solutions suitable for implementation by the 1 billion poorest people worldwide has led to a holistic municipal waste management solution.
Holistic municipal waste management greatly reduces the cost and improves the efficiency of eliminating the burning, trucking, and dumping of waste. Simultaneously, a holistic solution is more readily adopted by communities and has far more benefits for communities than typical material-specific management solutions.
WasteFree23 provides the following services and benefits to the participating teams:
- Research of best-known methods for municipal waste recycling and processes.
- Development and distribution of training materials for workers, managers, and communities.
- Identification of and application for funding and grant opportunities.
- Management of the peer-to-peer networks and crowdsourcing platforms to benefit all individuals and communities working to be waste-free.
We hope to spread the Waste Free in ’23 Initiative worldwide!
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