TURNING WASTE TO WEALTH: MEET BILIKIS ADEBIYI-ABIOLA CEO AND CO-FOUNDER OF WECYCLERS

Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola is the CEO and co-founder of WeCyclers. The company which was founded in 2012, uses low-cost cargo bicycles called WeCycles to provide convenient recycling services to households in slums across Nigeria.

Bilikiss initially developed the idea for her business in the US while studying at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She was also very interested in waste because as a Nigerian, waste is something she saw everywhere and she wanted to solve that problem.

WeCyclers was created out of a need to solve the problem of waste management in Lagos, where only 40 percent of the city’s garbage is collected. Bilikiss is a recipient of the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards for Sub-Saharan Africa in 2013 and Sustainia Award in 2014.

WeCyclers is a successful initiative that enables low-income communities in Nigeria to make money from the waste piling up in their streets. The company deploys a fleet of cargo bicycles to collect and recycle this unmanaged waste in Nigeria’s capital, Lagos.

Every week, these bicycles go around people’s homes picking up a variety of plastics, cans, and sachets. The residents receive points based on the weight of recyclables they collect, which they can redeem for basic food items, consumer electronics, or even cash.



Culled from www.lionessesofafrica.com



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