Tag: WeCyclers

Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Wecyclers has created a new narrative in Nigeria’s recycling industry. The social enterprise came with a long-needed model for waste collection, enabling it to record massive growth and impact within a very short while.
https://qwenu.com/2019/05/17/qwenus-top-companies-changing-africa-wecyclers-disrupting-waste-recycling-in-nigeria/

Wecyclers, a Lagos-Based waste recycling company founded by Mrs Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola in 2012, has won the 2019 King Baudouin African Development Prize worth €200,000 (N104 million) for its development work in Africa.Herve Lisoir, Coordinator Africa and Developing countries, King Baudouin Foundation, told newsmen on Wednesday that Wecyclers won the prize for its contribution to solving waste management problems not only in Nigeria but Africa.

https://naijabizcom.com/2019/05/02/wecyclers-wins-e200000-prize-in-waste-management/

In what will come across as a rather unbelievable development, a school in Lagos state now accepts waste plastic bottles as school fees.
https://www.kemifilani.ng/2019/04/a-lagos-school-now-accepts-waste-plastic-bottles-as-school-fees.html

Nigerian waste management startup, WeCyclers, has won the King Baudouin Foundation African Development Prize receiving N81.4 million (US$225,000) in funding.
https://technext.ng/2019/03/25/recycling-startup-wecyclers-get-n81-4-million-winning-king-baudouin-foundations-african-development-prize/

The grant-cum-partnership will allow Unilever trade carbon footprints from its operations by helping to prevent the emission of C02 caused by improper disposal of its post-consumer waste products.
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/unilever-gives-n18m-grant-for-waste-management.html

Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola, an entrepreneur passionate about building sustainable models for waste collection in the developing world, took advantage of her education to make wealth from what many run away from, waste.
https://thecitizenng.com/how-i-became-a-successful-entrepreneur-bilikiss-adebiyi-abiola/

Mr. Adebiyi will succeed Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola, who has been appointed as the General Manager of the Lagos State Parks and Gardens Agency.
http://blog.wecyclers.com/2017/09/21/wecyclers-announces-appointment-of-new-chief-executive-officer/

Sometimes she gets truckloads of plastics from collectors. The next step is to get them sorted, packaged and ready to go into the marketplace. This is because there are many companies looking for them. For her, local landfill waste collection is only the beginning of a recycling cycle.
http://thenationonlineng.net/making-wealth-recycling

Bata Media Limited tells yet another story that is bound to speak to young, aspiring business leaders.
https://www.bellanaija.com/2017/02/our-focus-is-letting-people-know-that-waste-is-a-resource-bilikiss-adebiyi-abiola-speaks-with-mr-fab-on-under-40-ceos/

On her return to Lagos, she confronted a city with a major waste management crisis, producing 10,000 tonnes of refuse daily, much of which clog the city streets and leaches chemicals into the soil and groundwater.
http://thenationonlineng.net/amazons-turning-waste-wealth/

The idea for Wecyclers was developed while I was in the US as a student at the MIT Sloan School of Management, following a five-year career as a corporate software engineer at IBM. I was assigned to a study project to help people at the bottom of the pyramid (people living on less than $2 a day), i decided to work on waste with focus on its uses, collection and processing.
http://smileandmobile.com/2015/10/29/tech-female-spotlight-bilikiss-adebiyi-abiola-ceo-wecyclers/

Many of our customers are living in abject poverty and they love the incentives. Sometimes they say, “can I use my points to get a house, or a car,” but I tell them this might take you a lot of years of recycling! For some of these people their immediate problem is not waste, it’s survival. They aren’t thinking about “the environment”, and so the best way to train them is to incentivize them.What kind of impact could Wecyclers potentially have?

http://www.theafricareport.com/West-Africa/recycling-waste-can-create-500000-jobs-in-nigeria-wecyclers-ceo-bilikis.html