All you need to know about TakaCycle
Why does Takacycle exist?
The urban waste crisis is currently at a critical stage. We are generating more waste than we can recycle or process. The lingering crisis does not just affect a particular geographical location, it is a global threat. And the strategies that have been employed by the existing waste management sector seems not to be effective.
Africa, the fastest-urbanizing continent experience Urban waste crisis with cities face huge problems of inefficient solid waste collection and management that leads to health problems, environmental risks and climate change threats. An estimate of 2.2 million deaths each year are attributed to unhealthy environments. And, it’s still climbing.
What can we do to change this? How can we make a difference?
What we are trying to do with TakaCycle is to accelerate Sub-Saharan Africa rapidly growing cities transition to smart and sustainable waste management. Our solution is our smart waste collection model and rewards-for-recycling platform that help, teach and incentivize households, commercials and organizations in low-income communities to fight against Urban wastes Crisis and capture value from their wastes. TakaCycle with sustainable mean of sorting waste together with the community and operating by using big data and a simple gamified Mobile App technology, we will create a 10x better product and service than the incumbent systems and do it so at a lower price.
What We Do
We provide efficient, reliable, affordable, novel and environmentally-friendly waste collection, management and supply of raw material to the local recycling and manufacturing industries in densely populated urban neighbourhoods. We collect your waste like every other waste collector and collect bulk waste on demand by using our TakaCycle mobile app. Instead of taking waste to a landfill, we sort the waste together with people at their households, commercials, organizations and institutions by using the bags for organic, plastic, paper and e-waste we have given to them and sort waste in trucks during the transportation process to be delivered in our site or our partners, and then recycle 95% either ourselves or through our partners into new products or energy. And we create something more from wastes either new products or energy ourselves or through our partners.
Why We Do It
We strive to make Sub-Saharan Africa rapidly growing cities like Dar es Salaam in Tanzania a cleaner and healthier place to live by collecting, incentivizing and educating people on 3R waste management strategies reduce, reuse and recycle waste into new products or energy. Our offering is to enable our customers to be green and environmentally-conscious, and contribute to a good environment that will benefit people, animals and the economy alike.
This is really important for the future of our Africa rapidly growing cities waste management.
Why did we call it TakaCycle?
The platform was named TakaCycle because of three major reasons;
- Word “Taka” means “Waste” in the Swahili language.
- Word “Cycle” was proposed because of the Circular Economy concept aimed at eliminating waste and the continual use of resources. Cycle inspired by 3R waste management Strategy Reuse, Reduce and Recycle.
- Combination of “Taka + Cycle =TakaCycle” a word which carries a unique environmental message to accelerate African rapidly growing cities transition to smart and sustainable waste management by using Circular Economy concepts and digital technologies.
To know more about TakaCycle, visit: https://takacycle.com/
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