Plastics waste recycling center

 Plastic waste pollution is a world’s problem we are seeking to address. Plastic pollution is the most widespread problem affecting the marine environment. It also threatens ocean health, food safety and quality, human health, coastal tourism, and contributes to climate change. Plastic waste is fast becoming a widely recognized problem. 

Ngasu Animal Welfare Foundation (NAWF-CAMEROON) is passionate about plastic recycling and changing the wider perception introducing a holistic management training center for recycling of plastic waste in to wealth and now is the time to address due to alarming global pollution.

 It innovative and scalable because plastic waste recycling training centers are not common therefore, the plastic waste pollution which will turn in to valuable products such as plastic boats, the making of paving tiles,the construction of plastic bottle houses, making of bags, bangles, use for home gardening such as hydroponics agricultural system will make the world.

The challenge we aim to address is plastic waste pollution in Douala, Cameroon. Plastic waste management is a huge issue in Africa and Cameroon’s economic capital, Douala, is no exception. In 2017 the city of Douala produced about 422.821 tons as plastic waste (above 2,000 tons of plastic waste a day) of which roughly 5% is collected and only around 2% recycled in the local formed such as paving tiles,  bangles, chairs, lamp coverings and plastic bottles as a gardening tool.

Statistics have shown that 80% of plastic waste bottles on the earth come from developing countries in poverty and Cameroon is not an exception. The unemployment rate in Cameroon is at 4.00%, and around 40 % live below the poverty line, according to Trading economics global macro models and analysts, 2020. Cameroon of a total population of about 23.4 million, at least 9 million Cameroonians live below the poverty line. Douala the economic capital of Cameroon of a total population of about 4 million, most youths and women live below the poverty line with less than XAF 930 per day (approximately $1.9 per day). 

Building a plastics recycling training center and teaching young people in poverty to become recycling entrepreneurs.This project focuses on collecting plastic waste bottles in exchange for incentives or rewards for people living in poverty in Douala, Cameroon. This implies for every kilogram of plastic waste bottle recovered and handed to NAWF-CAMEROON, the individual will receives cash payment, a reward for cleaning up their local communities. Our innovative approach will alleviate poverty by engaging marginalized waste collectors, the waste will be transported to the training center warehouse, where sorting will be carryout in use according to the various waste and the training practicals. We will trained as follows;

• Trained 100 trainers from Women’s Initiative that will cascade training to remote rural communities
• Developed a pilot programme that will inspired people around the world and provided proof of concept for a sustainable business turning plastic waste into wealth .
• The trainees will acquire practical knowledge on innovation production of high quality paving tiles, plastic bottle fishing boats, bags, bangles and other products from plastic waste.
• The training process will be on 3 months for each batch.

Ngasu Animal Welfare Foundation (NAWF-CAMEROON) have targeted 5500 internally displaced persons in Bonaberi Douala who can't afford food for their family due to the ongoing anglophone crisis in the Country. We have trained 670 vulnerable women on bangles, bags and home gardening using the plastic waste. On this process, we have many who are interested in engaging in the training especially girls but we are limited in infrastructure and human resources. The plastic waste pollution is alarming in the city of Douala so after being trained they now do their personal collection and recycled the waste in to valuable produce and market. This have generated income and improved livelihood.

We are requesting for funds to construct a plastic waste recycling training center to scale up capacity whereby will have high profile resources persons who will train this vulnerable persons on plastic waste bottle fishing boats, high quality paving tiles, construction of houses with plastic waste bottle.
Witnessed the personal growth and development of many IDP's very impressive recycling entrepreneurs. This will inspired people around the world and provided proof of concept for a sustainable business turning plastic waste into wealth

The challenge we aim to address is plastic waste pollution in Douala, Cameroon. By not having even basic recycling system and relatively simple
equipment in place, the opportunity to create value from our waste is
lost. Construction of a plastic waste recycling center to train recycle entrepreneur for free. We are targeting 100 communities with high pollution, each with a target of 5500 trainees per batch.

Collecting plastic waste bottles in exchange for incentives, becoming recycling entrepreneur through skills acquire in the training center will mitigate pollution and improve living standard of hundred of vulnerable women and jobless youths.

The only recycling firms we have in the city of Douala-Cameroon are shredding firms with limited tone of plastic waste required in a month. The construction of a recycling training centers where waste will be converted into valuable products will go along way to mitigate plastic waste pollution. The process start with collection of waste with incentives being given to the waste collectors and the transportation of the waste to the training center, women are pay for sorting and the training of the vulnerable persons for free to become recycle entrepreneur. This will generate income to many and have a mindset shift on plastic waste pollution. The project is one of it's kind in Cameroon and many vulnerable communities with high pollution rate will be involve. We are not competing for we are to set the pace and help speedily to reduce pollution turning waste into wealth via different skills acquire in the training center.

Hardware will be the new technology turning jobless and vulnerable people into professional recycle entrepreneur. Here, we deploy physical training 30% lectures and 70% practicals on the various recycle products. Our technology is man-power and human resources to transform waste material into wealth via entrepreneurship.

Our business model, the plastic waste are collected as sensitization for the  reduction of waste pollution and now we transform them into valuable products for marketing such as chairs, bangle,bags, boats, paving tiles just to mention the few.

NAWF-CAMEROON intend to open a sales point for the plastic waste manual recycle products.

In Cameroon there are many graduates with no professional skills. The creation of the recycling training center will be applauded as many will learned how to use waste and earn a living. We are focusing on vulnerable persons using adult educational system but all persons are accepted. The center will create jobs and make many into become self employ which intends mitigating the plastic waste pollution in the city. Creating an awareness of the value of waste as a center of mindset shift and income generating many will engaged in the solution.

Activities:
-Construction of recycle training center

-Sensitization and collection of plastic waste

-Collection of plastics waste from clogging drains, streams and canals through hand picking.

Steps involves in collection

-Set up a cleanup crew of about 50 volunteers, those clean/collect and deliver plastic waste to collection point

-Register amount of received plastic waste per day by the volunteers.

-Sorting and reuse of the waste material

-Training of the vulnerable persons

Output:

-Building a training center will take 1 month for the construction

-Creating awareness for the collection of plastic waste with incentive

-The collected waste will be sorted to have the ones for immediate training

-184 IDP's and vulnerable women, youths per batch, after every 3 months will gain skills for the production of chairs,bangles, bags, plastic boats, paving tiles, construction of houses with plastic waste bottle etc.

Steps involves in collection

-Set up a cleanup crew of about 50 volunteers, those clean/collect and deliver plastic waste to collection point

-Register amount of received plastic waste per day by the volunteers.

Expected Outcome

• Building a plastic waste recycling training center will train environmental ambassadors that will promote the mitigation of waste via recycling.
• Creating thousand job and reduce unemployment rate of vulnerable and idle youths through the training and transformation of waste to other produce  

•  Innovated with the production of high quality paving tiles and other products from plastic waste.
• Increased capacity of community members to engage in participatory clean up campaigns and natural resource governance;
• Create partnership with the municipal councils for the collection and recycle of waste via the training center
• Collection of about 2700 ton plastic waste a week in the city of Douala.
• Proper disposal of plastic waste in the trash bins and free movement of water bodies without dumping.
• Developed a pilot programme that will inspired people around the world and provided proof of concept for a sustainable business turning plastic waste into wealth

We are having 1,833 trainees for every 3 months and 5500 recycle entrepreneur in a year. We will be producing 27,500 direct trainees from the training center and 4,000 from 100 women communities leaders trained to become trainers to their communities. As a multiplier effect many of the Douala city dwellers who are idle, jobless especially girls, youth will full engaged in the recycling exercise since the training center is free. Therefore, NAWF-CAMEROON is envisaging a total of 1.8 million vulnerable Cameroonian to be part of the project and help mitigate the high plastic waste pollution.

Ngasu Animal Welfare Foundation (NAWF-CAMEROON will developed a pilot programme that will inspired people around the world and provided proof of concept for a sustainable business turning plastic waste into wealth. The building of recycling waste training center will transform millions of lives in Cameroon through training of becoming recycle entrepreneurs, marketing of the recycle products. Training of 5500 vulnerable persons in a year with innovative products such as plastic waste fishing boats, paving tiles, chairs, bangles, bags etc. This will empower the women and youth which intern generate income and improve their livelihoods. The training center will drastically reduce plastic waste pollution are thousand will engage in collection, transportation, sorting, marketing of recycle products. Also,unemployment rate will be cut since collection of waste is free and the training center is also free.

About 100 communities will be empower in the training indirectly

Project Approach.

-Creating an innovative waste recycling center with a warehouse for storage.

-Introducing an incentive cash payout per kg of plastic waste collection method.

-Training vulnerable women on using plastic waste bottle for home gardening tools, producing bangles, bags, making chairs, paving tiles, boats etc

-Working with pupil and student on environmental consciousness. Kids gardening and seed germination centers in plastic waste bottle in different schools.

-Sensitization campaign on holistic management of plastic waste and it’s hazards through TV, radio, schools, churches.

-Collection of plastics waste from clogging drains, streams and canals through hand picking.

A budget of $ 35,780 us dollar for the buying of land and construction of the recycling training center is a current barrier, hire of experts in their various specialty of the various recycle product, we also have market barrier since the recycle product is new product in the market in next year. legal document by high ranking will delay for months before signing the center for operation.

NAWF-CAMEROON is on negotiation for the secure of community land for the training center and we are lobbying for partners and funds for the construction of the training center.

We have meet and make some arrangement with resource persons and experts on the various training.

Market center will be created to supply the recycle products from the training center that will attract more buyers.

Legal permit will be sign through the Ministry of Environment and Nature Protection and the Municipal Council when the project is discuss and it's relevance. .

Ngasu Animal Welfare Foundation (NAWF-CAMEROON) is a non-profit organization but in collaboration with Environment and Food Foundation (E2F) and the government body to enhance the awareness and success of the project.

Full time staff =10

Part time staff =6

Volunteers=30

1) Frida Etakah Ndip

-Masters Natural Resource Management 

-Monitoring environmental issues

-5years Experience

2) Bate-eya Neville Ashu

-Master Agriculture in crop science

-Director of Young Farmers Training Center for 6years

3) Tiku Claude Ngasu

-Senior Veterinary Consultant

-Project Writer and Implementer/Field Supervisor

-Founder/Director of NAWF-CAMEROON

-7 years of working experience

4) Agborbock Stanley Eyong

-Bachelor in Environmental Science

-Director of Center for Vocational Training

-5 years working experiences

5) Ashu Ndip Etaka

Bsc Accounting

Reportage and financial auditor

3 years working experience

6) Achare Elvis Ayamba

-Msc Aquatic Engineer

-Planet Hero

-Director of E2F

-5 years experience

We are collaborating with Environment and Food Foundation on sensitization campaign and the collection of plastic waste bottle in the city of Douala, we are partner with the municipal council for the collection of waste.

Key resource;

-Plastic waste bottles

-Resource persons/trainers

-Trainees

Key Activities;

-Collection plastic waste bottles

-Weighing of the collected plastic waste

-Transportation with cargo truck to the training center

-Sorting

-Practical training and recycling of the plastic bottle to useful materials.

Type of intervention;

-Services and distribution outlet

 Value proposition;

-Create jobs

-Reduce poverty

-Recycle entrepreneurs

-Promote market base solutions to poverty

Surpluses;

Creating a recycling market center

Revenue;

-Donation

-Grants

-Member contribution

Partners and key stakeholders;

Ministry of Environment and Nature Protection

Douala City Council

Environment and Food Foundation (E2F)

Young Farmers Training Center

NAWF-CAMEROON solicit for donors and funder to build a recycle training center. This center is going to train 1000 vulnerable women and people with disabilities with unique products such as paving tiles, fish plastic boats, bangles, hand bags,etc the output of the products we regenerate income into the center during their training practicals.

The training will be done 3 months each and free of charge for the training. We are targeting the most vulnerable communities and the product will be market through NAWF-CAMEROON RECYCLE MARKET CENTERS.

We will also promote the product by reducing the prices to make affordable for all and create more awareness of making plastic waste into wealth thereby mitigating the plastic waste pollution.

The reason for the center is to turn thousands of vulnerable people into plastic waste recycle entrepreneur.

The challenge we aim to address is plastic waste pollution in Douala, Cameroon which is also a world's problem.Before pursuing dedicated plastics management solutions, Ngasu Animal Welfare Foundation first focus on holistic plastic waste recycling training center to scale up the mitigation of plastic waste pollution.

We are applying to solve for the following;

• To reduce the pollution rate of plastic waste in the entire communities starting with major cities.
• To create thousand jobs to the unemployed youth and vulnerable women through pickers, sorting, collectors etc .
• Building a plastic waste recycling training center and teaching vulnerable women and young people in poverty to become recycling entrepreneurs.   

• Construction of a ware house of plastic waste for storage, sorting and recycle.
• Diverting waste plastic from the residual waste going to incineration (creating a carbon neutral energy source) and landfill.
• Trained 40 trainers from Women’s Initiative who can now cascade training to remote rural communities

Business model; We need partners to assist in the appropriate and further training of trainees in the training center. Thereby, increasing the out put with diversification of recycle waste product.

Product and Services distribution; We need more market outlet for the distribution of the products produce from the center.

Funding and revenue; We are startup organization so need partner's organization with financial assistance to enhance the growth of this project for the successful run of this training center.

New Earth Foundation, organization fighting waste pollution like the DOW company. We will like to partner with for sponsorship in to our work and collaboration.

As a humanitarian organization, NAWF-CAMEROON has trained refugees and IDP's on social inclusion in Cameroon for two years. We wish to advance the work.

NAWF-CAMEROON is training youths with technical skills to build on their entrepreneurship. We have identify the problems of many youths in Cameroon so we are helping them out with skills for job creation.