Providing affordable and environmentally

friendly waste management services

Value Proposition

Situation:

• Nairobi: 2.5 million people without waste managementservices

• Severe health and environmental problems

Complication:

• Little recycling & no composting of organic waste

• Waste collection unaffordable for majority of citizens

Solution: Waste management as a social business

• Recycling and composting 90% of waste

• Affordable services to all income areas

Globally: 2.6 billion people without

waste management services

Nairobi: 66% of the population

without waste management services

Causing severe health and

environmental problems

No adequate waste disposal

TakaTaka Solutions

Nairobi-based waste collection and resource

recycling business

Founded in 2011

Operates three business units:

TakaTaka Solutions:

– Provides affordable waste collection services to all

income areas

– Recycles and composts 90% of collected waste

– Creates jobs in lower income areas for previously

unemployed youths

Business unit: TakaCollect

Taka Collect services:

Services for all income areas

Environmental friendliness as 90% and more of

collected waste is recycled

Modern collection infrastructure & trucks

Provision of different bins or bin liners to clients

Training of clients in waste separation

Clients:

Households

Businesses

Hotels & Restaurants

Shopping malls

Business unit: TakaCompost

Operates composting facility in Nairobi

Markets currently one product

Conducts trials on two test farms with organic

fertilizer

Business unit: TakaGlass

Special line of glass products made from

recycled glass

TakaGlass cuts, sands, and polishes the

bottles and repurpose them to make wine

glass, tumblers, and other stylish household

items.

Status quo

8,000 households served (32,000 people)

8 tons of waste collected per day

90% - 95% recycling rate

90 employees (60% women)

3 recycling points & 1 composting

plant

Upgrading to bigger composting

facility currently undergoing

Providing affordable and environmentally

friendly waste management services