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Transforming plastic waste into useful materials

The project titled ?Transforming plastic waste into useful materials ? is an innovative initiative on the control of plastic pollution in Sierra Leone. Plastic pollution accounts for 80% of all marine debris found from surface waters to deep-sea sediments which further threaten marine ecosystems and affects food safety as fish represents 20% of the animal protein source for around 3 billion people. Waste Way Cycle sees this environmental issues and want to transform this harmful waste to useful products.

Main Objective
The main objective of the project is transforming plastic waste to useful material and products that will help minimize the environmental challenges in Sierra Leone.

Specific Objectives
1.To create sustainable Livelihoods
2.To promote resilience, reliable income, empowerment and promote sustainable environmental protection.
3. Promoting job creation for young people.

Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Waste Way Cycle

Country:

Sierra Leone

Area Of Work:

CapDev
Chemicals

Operational Phase:

OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)

Grant Amount:

US$ 20,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 27,889.00

Project Number:

SLE/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/CH/1/11/2022/42

Start Date:

12/2022

End Date:

12/2023

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

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Project Characteristics and Results

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

The innovation business of Waste Way Cycle Sierra Leone is transforming plastic wastes in to useful material and products for public uses.

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

The lessons learnt from the conversion of plastic wastes will be documented and communicated with stakeholders and young entrepreneurs who may acquire the techniques to educating their peers. It will be stored and retrieved when necessary. The economic impact of plastic wastes management will be populated through community sensitization. The plastic wastes recycling and management skills will be made into training modules that will be stored.

Capacity - Building Component

The organization has trained staff to implement the project

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

The organization shall promoting its products through various social media platforms with educative messages on plastic wastes recycling.

Gender Focus

The planning and programming initiative is purely inspired by young people with gender insensitive nature. The women will benefit from the sewing of the plastic wastes recycling equipment. The sewing will be done by women and aggregation collection will be done by the Youths. The weaving patterns of the plastic will be carried out by women.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

The project aspire to establish plastic wastes management and aggregation club in schools and community that will be managed by the community stakeholders as a job creation and sustainability strategy. The processing center of the plastic wastes recycling will be for the training of more young people that will work and manage through income generation approach. The products will be sale at affordable price as to encourage community to plastic as useful waste that can generate income and create sustainable employment.

Policy Impact

The project hope the duty bearers will draw inspiration from its activities to implement a nation wide policy on plastic waste in the two municipalities. This innovation is transforming plastic wastes into a lot of useful material and products and will result in minimizing of plastic wastes.

Notable Community Participation

This is project is fully working with community stakeholders participatory approach initiative as plastic wastes aggregation/ collection center will be established by the community stakeholders. The training of community people on waste separation and management skills. Mapping out strategic plastic wastes aggregation center.

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Empowerment

Number of CBOs / NGOs participated / involved in SGP project 5

Livehood

Number of individuals (gender diaggregated) who have benefited* from SGP project 2528

Biophysical

WHO-TEQ (Toxic Equivalency)/year reduction into the environment or elimination of U-POPs namely Dioxins, Furans and PCBs (Poly-chlorinated biphenyls) through the SGP project 5

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