DMDP - Fair Recycling - Inclusive and Formalised Plastic Recycling Ecosystem in Kenya Fair Recycling: an inclusive and formalised plastic recycling ecosystem in Kenya

The goal of the project is to integrate informal and marginalised waste pickers and refugeecommunities in a formalised plastics recycling value chain, resulting in increased income, decent jobs and safer work conditions. The project leverages the work of DRC and commercial partners to implement innovative and financially sustainable impact-interventions in the value chain, facilitating inclusive socio-economic growth opportunities and access to the formal economy for waste pickers and refugee-communities.
The project enables Unilever to access locally and fair recycled plastics of the highest quality, driving the transition to a localized circular plastics economy Kenya (SDG 12). Formalisation and growth of the Kenyan plastic recycling ecosystem supports Mr Green Africa’s work with waste pickers to create sustainable and decent jobs (SDG 8) and do a way that effectively reduces poverty (SDG 1) in a climate and environment-friendly manner (SDG 13).