GREENHILL RECYCLING Value for waste

Greenhill Recycling is a social enterprise that addresses poverty, unemployment, and climate change challenges by using plastic waste as a currency to exchange value. Leveraging technology, our business provides people living in indigent communities with the opportunity to capture value from their waste to live healthier, longer lives. Our users earn ‘GREEN POINTS’ for every plastic waste deposited with us, which can be redeemed for cash, as health insurance, school fees, utility bills, groceries or fund to start up a micro business. Recovered plastics are sorted, pre- processed and sold as raw materials to produce polyester fiber used in the textile industry, food grade plastics, car parts and other useful products. So far, we have diverted over 35 million post-consumer plastics from ending up as marine litter into recycling value chains, achieved significant behavior change in over 3000 users and created jobs for over 30 women and youth through recycling.