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East African Packaging Solutions Ltd is a pulp and paper processing company whose core business is in the processing of and selling of corrugated boxes. It is in Njeru Buikwe District in Jinja Uganda. The company was established in 2008 and employs 236 people among them 210 men and 26 women.
Sugar Corporation of Uganda Ltd (SCOUL) is a sugar processing company under the Mehta Group. The raw materials for the company include sugar which is obtained from out growers and from the factory farm. The company is in Kyoga Water Management zone in Lugazi and faced a lot of challenges with water management.
Tucked in the city of Ghana is Blancomet Recycling Limited. Located in North Industrial Area, opposite Kasadjan Construction Limited. Blancomet recycles nonferrous scrap metals and used lead acid batteries. This is done by sorting, refining and then exporting these products to make money.
Atlantic Recycling International Systems is a privately owned Limited Liability Company duly registered under the Company Act of Ghana. Atlantic Recycling’s area of business is to train, collect, recycle, and market E-waste from businesses, household and landfills at their recycling facility located in Atlantic Phone Building, Clerk street, Osu in Accra, Ghana. The company recycles information communication technology (ICT) products and small electronic devices such as phones, tablets etc.
Safi Sana Ghana Ltd is waste resource social enterprise based in Accra, Ghana that uses a circular waste treatment model to support local communities and protect the environment. The company has been in commission for the past 6 years and is leading a revolution to tackle Ghana’s sanitation challenges while also, generating energy to supply to the national grid.
Building contractor-turned bio digester, entrepreneur Ambrose Kofi Tsekpo is a man on an upward trajectory in environment conservation terms.
George Annan was sitting outside his house in the port city of Tema in Ghana one rainy day. Outside, the streets were flooded, and the rains were not letting. In his thoughts and looking at the insane amount of coconut waste strewn all over the place, especially on the roadside, an idea was born.
For Emmanuel Atsu, the CEO of Apisco's Best Gari And Energy Solution Centre in Ghana, nothing gives him more satisfaction than ensuring his community’s best delicacy is not only served but served well. The company specializes in gari production using improved stoves to make the environment green, and green the business.
When you first meet Matilda Payne, she comes across as an unassuming and focused go getter. Unbeknownst to many, she is also a heavy hitter in the world of sustainable development.
“I hate waste. That is basically what it is,” says Matilda, an irony given that she depends on it to make a living. “Every time I see waste, I try to figure out what to do with it to turn it around so that it does not become a hazard to the environment.”
Ouedrago Albert and Brothers is a member of Association Jeunessse Solidaire pour le Developpement Veritable (AJSDV), from Ouahigouya commune in Burkina Faso.
AJSDV was established in 1997 and employs a total of 13 people with ten of those being men and three women.
Anatrans is a cashew processing factory that is situated in Bobo-Dioulasso, city in the South East of Burkina Faso, and the second largest city in the country, after Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital. Anatrans was established in 2009 and has an employee capacity of 1171.
After discovering how to turn cashew shells into renewable energy the enterprise has never looked back.
The Government of Mauritius was developing and implementing a voluntary Green Agricultural Certification and eco-labelling scheme known as MauriGAP to motivate the supply of safe and high quality locally produced food while promoting more sustainable crop production. However, to motivate sustainable food supply, the government initiative was not adequate, and the market pool needed to be enhanced to motivate planters to practice more sustainable agricultural practices.
For Herman Agathe, a young entrepreneur running an integrated farm in Roche Bon Dieu, Rodrigues Island, Switch Africa Green could not have come at a better time. Through the project, Herman was trained at the Centre de Formation Agricole Frère Remy, in sustainable consumption and production practices in different aspects of farming straddling horticulture, agricultural practices and poultry farming, pig rearing and all related integrated farming activities among others.
Tucked in the island of Rodrigues is small community of young people and mentors. At a glance this passes as a school, home or a community centre. Animal sheds on one corner, beehives, organic gardens on another and structures made of wood and concrete spread across a vast compound. Looking closely though, this institution teeming with young people doing different chores and with youthful life does not look like a school but rather a huge home. Welcome to Centre de Formation Agricole Frere Remi.
Many young people in some parts of the African continent turn to waste management as an ad hoc or extra job to make small money when they are struggling with unemployment, a South Africa entrepreneur has identified a silver lining in a rather stormy sky.
The SwitchAfrica Green team visit to Burkina Faso for an Orientation Workshop and Award Ceremony.
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A strategic partnership between the European Union (EU) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) is laying the foundational bricks upon which to build an inclusive green economy. Through an evolving series of projects dating back to Rio+20, the partnership is getting everyone - from governments to business to individuals - to embrace the principles of circularity.
Intricately designed accessories on display in an exhibition stand in Nairobi portray craftsmanship infused with an African touch.
Decorated with images of the big five, the Kenyan flag and beautiful landscapes, the handcrafted leather products are a true celebration of Kenyan beauty. Jacob Mwangi, proprietor, Palm Prints African Artifacts, has gone beyond just churning out aesthetically appealing leather products, but also taken a step towards environmental sustainability.
The community in Adaklu produces and cooks cassava (gari) for their own consumption and for sale. They cook the gari and sell it as a processed product. They have been using traditional cook stoves until SAG introduced more efficient community stoves emitting less smoke.
This has resulted in better quality gari while making smoke-related diseases are a thing of the past. Notably, the cooking time has also significantly reduced.
Cassava is one of the major foods consumed in Ghana. It is a major contributor to food security and livelihood in rural areas. Cassava is normally processed to flour using thermal energy before it is consumed or traded. In addition, the consumption of this product in schools, urban and rural areas across the country coupled with recent high demand of the product in other West African countries, makes the product a viable business venture. The community in Adaklu produces and cooks cassava (gari) for their own consumption and for sale.
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