Creation of employment
Creating plastic waste value chains by paying waste pickers per kg of plastic collected has created enterprising youth and women groups that have been able to eke a living as well as enhanced savings through micro finance facilities resulting in improved living standards.
Classifications
Category
Education, training and other capacity development activities
Sustainable livelihoods
Scale of implementation
Subnational
Phase of solution
Implementation
Enabling factors
Trained community groups have been able to become champions on circular economy as well as becoming agents of change through beach clean-ups as well as maintaining waste collection points.
Lessons learned
The creation of employment must be complemented with training on the circular economy. This two lessons must complement one another in order to create a platform where circularity is accepted, understood and implemented.