Seven programmes working together, not apart.
Collection feeds sorting. Sorting feeds recycling and composting. Education keeps waste separated at the source. Every programme below supports the others.
Door-to-Door Collection
Our core service: scheduled, weekly waste collection from households across six Kasarani villages, on fixed days communicated in advance. Households are asked to keep organic, recyclable and general waste separate so that what we collect can actually be processed rather than landfilled.
A modest, transparent weekly fee covers fuel, protective equipment and fair collector wages, with any surplus reinvested in expanding the route to new villages.
- Kasarani & Sunton
- Mwiki
- Roysambu
- Zimmerman
- Hunters & Githurai
- Two more villages in assessment
- 01
Segregation at source
Sorting organic, recyclable and general waste before it's ever collected.
- 02
Home composting
Turning kitchen scraps into usable fertiliser in six to eight weeks.
- 03
Safe e-waste handling
Why electronics shouldn't go in general waste, and where they should go instead.
Recycling Education
We run practical, hands-on training rather than lectures: waste audits and sorting games in primary schools, composting demonstrations in residential compounds, and short briefings for estate committees moving to segregated collection.
Three primary schools currently run our full curriculum with a termly pupil-led clean-up. We are actively recruiting more schools and estates for the coming term.
Community Clean-Ups
On rotating Saturdays, volunteers join us to clear riverbanks, footpaths and informal dumpsites that scheduled collection alone can't reach. Recyclables recovered during clean-ups go straight into our buy-back stream; everything else is bagged for proper disposal.
Clean-ups pair practical work with a short conversation about the collection schedule for that area, since a one-off clean-up only stays clean if households have somewhere to put their waste afterward.
- Mwiki riverbank footpath
- Zimmerman drainage channel
- Githurai market perimeter
- Hunters public footpath
- 1
Sort & clean
Separate plastic by type at home and rinse it roughly.
- 2
Bring it in
Drop clean plastic at a fixed buy-back point on collection day.
- 3
Get paid
We weigh it on the spot and pay per kilogram, in cash.
Plastic Buy-Back
We pay Kasarani residents a small fee per kilogram for clean, sorted plastic, funded by the sale of baled plastic to licensed recyclers. It turns recycling from a favour into a transaction worth doing consistently.
Buy-back points currently run on fixed days in Kasarani, Roysambu, Sunton and Githurai. Check the collection route on our homepage for this week's schedule.
E-Waste Collection & Safe Disposal
Phones, batteries, radios and other electronics contain heavy metals that are hazardous if burned or buried informally, but genuinely valuable if handled properly. We collect e-waste free of charge and pass it to licensed handlers equipped to dismantle it safely and recover reusable material.
There's no minimum quantity and no fee — a single dead battery is as welcome as a full box of old electronics. Drop-off is accepted at any buy-back point on its scheduled day, with a dedicated collection round in Zimmerman every Thursday.
- Phones, chargers & cables
- Batteries of all types
- Radios & televisions
- Small appliances & computer parts
- 01
Small businesses
Scheduled packaging waste collection for shops handling higher volumes than a household.
- 02
Eateries
Sealed-container collection of used cooking oil, swapped on a fixed weekly visit.
- 03
Markets & institutions
Shared organic waste points for markets, and buy-back access hosted by local churches and mosques.
Commercial & Institutional Partnerships
Businesses, markets and institutions generate waste that doesn't fit neatly into a residential schedule — higher volume, different rhythm, sometimes a different material stream entirely, like used cooking oil. We work with each partner directly to design a collection arrangement that fits, rather than forcing a residential model onto a commercial problem.
A simple commercial rate card is in development so we can extend this to more businesses without disrupting residential routes, which remain our core priority.
Community Outreach & Barazas
Before collection ever starts in a new village or estate, we hold an open community conversation — a baraza or similar gathering — so residents can ask hard questions and shape the schedule and fee structure before anything is finalised. We've kept this practice for every expansion since our very first one.
This programme also covers support for larger community events — weddings, funerals and gatherings like Kasarani Day — that generate a short-term spike in waste our normal weekly schedule isn't sized to absorb on its own.
- Pre-expansion community barazas
- Event & large gathering support
- Wedding & funeral collection on request
Not sure which programme fits your household?
Tell us where you're based and what you need, and we'll point you to the right service or schedule.