EcoAct Managing director discussing environmental issues in Tanzania and how they are providing solutions through woodworking technology
EcoAct
Build and maintain strong team spirit
In order to clean up the city of its plastic waste, we have established a stable and profitable company and tackle the problem of waste pollution at the point of generation by attaching social, environmental, and economic value to plastic waste. We collect waste plastics from the streets and landfills, we also allow the community to exchange their waste plastics with medical insurance coverage, this helps us to collect enough waste plastics to manufacture plastic lumbers, this has helped us a lot to change the community’s attitude towards waste management.
EcoAct has simplified everything through socializing, doing factory parties where all factory workers participate and this makes them feel part of the company. Every Monday at the meeting there must be a representative of factory workers whom they elect to present the opinions to the management. We meet, discuss and consult and sometimes we give ourselves challenges to stay creative and design new and unique products. This enables them to participate in making the decisions.
When I was a fresh graduate I used to think that if you work for any company you are just a person to be instructed to do this and do that. When I got to EcoAct, things were different. There is no one to direct me on what to do. I personally just think about what to do before I am told what to do. So what I have learned is that you have to think a lot and you can't think alone. We, the staff are the ones who have to think before we are given orders.