
Wecyclers aims to change that behavior by an incentive-based system that communicates through SMS and rewards people for recycling based on the weight of their trash. Earned points can be traded for rewards, varying from household goods to basic everyday items. Cargo bicycles are driving through narrow streets in dense low-income neighborhoods on a regular schedule to pick up recycling goods, which then will be sold to local recycling processors.
Wecyclers gives households a chance to create value from their waste, while empowering local community engagement which has been neglected for a long time because of issues of bureaucracy and human capital. The impact of Wecyclers seems to be big: not only is being dealt with the waste problem in slums, but it also has created more jobs for the local community. For this reason, Bilikiss has the desire to build a future economy that is based on waste. She believes this is possible not only in Nigeria, but also in other developing countries.
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