What is the name of your organization?
REVIVISCENCE VERTE
What is the name of your solution?
Waste Track
Provide a one-line summary or tagline for your solution.
Waste Track: a smart, digital solution for transforming urban waste into sustainable resources in the DRC.
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo
In what country is your solution team headquartered?
COD
What type of organization is your solution team?
For-profit, including B-Corp or similar models
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What specific problem are you solving?
Waste Track is tackling the critical problem of poor urban waste management in Goma, DRC. The city generates over 3,500 tons of waste per day, 80% of which is organic, but less than 30% is properly collected and treated (source: UN-Habitat 2022). The rest ends up in streets, gutters, or lakes, leading to major health risks, soil and water pollution, and massive greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
This problem affects over 2 million people in the Goma and Bukavu regions, with direct impacts on their health, environment, and livelihoods.
Among the aggravating factors: the lack of source separation, a lack of awareness, inefficient collection services, and the absence of a sustainable recovery system.
Our solution acts directly on these causes, by digitizing collection, facilitating intelligent sorting, locally recovering waste, and actively involving the population in an inclusive and sustainable circular economy.
What is your solution?
Waste Track is a smart and environmentally friendly digital solution dedicated to the management and recovery of urban waste in the DRC. It combines a mobile application, a digital platform, and a waste sorting and recovery unit based on artificial intelligence.
Through the application, citizens can report waste, schedule its collection, receive advice on eco-friendly actions, and track the environmental impact of their actions. The platform connects all stakeholders in the system (households, collectors, municipalities, recyclers) and facilitates the traceability of waste flows.
Our smart sorting unit uses AI (computer vision) to automatically identify, sort, and redirect waste to the appropriate recovery channels. Organic waste is locally transformed into biofertilizers, ecological charcoal, black soldier fly larvae, and biodegradable pots, while plastic and metal waste is sold to recycling companies.
Waste Track thus helps reduce waste at source, create local value, involve the population and reduce environmental impact in a sustainable, efficient and inclusive manner.
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
Our Waste Track solution directly targets low-income urban households, waste collectors, farmers, local SMEs, and municipal authorities in the city of Goma, DRC.
These populations are poorly served by current waste management systems, which are often nonexistent or ineffective. Working-class neighborhoods suffer from chronic waste accumulation, causing disease, flooding, and degrading living conditions. Collectors work informally, without equipment or security, and farmers lack affordable natural fertilizers.
Waste Track provides them with concrete and tailored services:
- For households: access to a regular, traceable, and educational collection service via an easy-to-use application.
- For collectors: formalization of their work, with remuneration, training, and equipment.
- For farmers: quality organic fertilizers at low prices.
- For youth and women: green jobs in the sorting and recovery chain.
- For authorities: reliable data for waste management planning.
Acting on multiple levels, Waste Track improves public health, creates local economic opportunities, and strengthens the environmental resilience of vulnerable urban communities.
