Mr. Green Africa is a Kenyan company collecting hard plastics from collection points and hubs to sort, flake, wash, pelletise and sell to recyclers, including food-grade packaging. They were planning to scale up to a larger recycling factory supported by a best-in-class sorting hub, and decentralised collection hubs. SweepSmart supported them in the design of the new sorting and collection hubs. 

What's great about it? 

• Integration with plastics recycling for the optimum plastic waste sorting and preprocessing inputs into the recycling process.
• Possibility for food-grade recycling and dealing with a variety of different plastic input scenarios, from low- to high-value plastics.

Plastic Whale fishes plastic from Amsterdam's canals, with boats from, huh, the fished plastic! They want to bring their creative circular concepts to upcoming economies, starting with a circular plastic business model in West Africa, from collection to recycled products. We support in building the collection and sorting system.

What’s great about it?

• Involved from initial consulting stage until project delivery.
• Sweepsmart’s first project in Africa.
• The collected plastic will be recycled to make new products through an offsetting model.