Visit Ghana 2022: Environment360

collection truck at the courtyard of Environment360

The morning of the 2nd day in Accra started with a 40minute drive to the northern outskirts of Accra (Uber, Bolt and a couple of local initiative work like crazy: I never had to wait more than 4 minutes for a cab!!). This is where the office of Environment360 is situated. It one of the organisations that help the informal waste pickers organise themselves. We met them in our first visit to Accra as well (see blog #9).

In the mean time things have changed; some of the organisations haven’t survived, some have grown to a more industrial scale and some grown to a stable size and kept their social focus. Environment360 is an example of this last scenario; now capable to easily provide the maximum need of plastic for a production line (500 tonnes annually) and they have created their own workshops to empower women and help them build their business.

This meeting also introduced us into the world of Plastic Credits. Environment360 is involved with the Australian organisation Green Collar that runs a plastic credit program. credits are given for plastic being worked up from dumping towards reuse. Environment360 gets credits for seeing to it that the plastic doesn’t end up in the environment. With Unibrick that plastic can make a real jump: it won’t be incinerated (and become CO2) but will be used as a new product and in large quantities. This will be a large increase in credits!

link: Environment360