Fisher Folks saving Marine Lives

Fishing Folks bringing Plastics caught at Sea for Cash

1. Plastic Waste at Sea and on Beaches

2. Protecting Marine Life and raising income for fishing communities by cleaning baches and bring back trash caught at sea for cash which will be recycled by my company. Through public awareness, community gathering, schools and churches. Setting up collection points to buy back the trash. Giving health insurance and social security to people involved in the project.

3. Protected Marine Life, clean Beaches, create job opportunities, raising income. The elimination of trash burnt at the beaches will reduce CO2 emmissions.

It is a process of solving a challenge because I am the first and only person paying for trash collected at beaches and brought back from sea. Enrollment of Trash collectors in health insurance and social security scheme (pension).

Due to the high unemployment especially in coastal areas people are willing to participate in our project which provides them with an income which exceeds the minimum wage by 100%

Money transactions to collectors are made through the mobile money system offered by Telecom companies.

Before machine works are added Plastics have to be washed, sorted by type and colour.

Collected Plastic Waste is recycled at my plant through the following technologies:

a) Agglomeration

b) Extrusion

c) Pelletizing

d) Shredding

Extension of project to 3 other coastal communities in the Greater Accra Region.

The areas will be Tema, Prampram and New-Ningo all in the Greater Accra Region

Contacting fishing communities through their Chiefs and Elders to pave the grounds for the project

Extend Project to all coastal communities in Ghana, Western Region, Central Region, Greater Accra Region and Volta Region.

Set-up Collection point or "Buy-Back-Centres" for all recyclable Waste.

Each collection point will be equipped wit a 20' Sea Container, weighing scale, table and two chairs

Set-up centralized Pre-Processing Plants for Plastic Waste to reduce volumes for economical transportation.

The Pre-Processing Plant will be equipped wit and Agglomerator and a Plastic Shredder

Training of people to operate the Pre-Processing Plants

Targeted Communities will be reached through Chiefs, Community Leaders, Schools and Religious Leaders.

Customers or Beneficiaries will be retained through our transparent payment system for trash collected.

Collectors of plastic waste can create an income which is more than 1005 of the actual minimum wage. Managers of collction points get a guaranteed wage plus 10% value of plastics collected

Health Insurance and Social Security are incentives retaining our customers.

So far 86 persons are enrolled in the project. They are benefitting from secure regular income as well as health insurance and social security.

Since unemployment in the coastal regions is over 50% the people working for the project have now a respected status in their community

Training for all people involved will be done on a regular basis explaining also som hazardous elments they might be confronted with

I am aiming to increase the number of people involved in the project to 150 in the next 12 months.

In three years approximately 500 people will benefit from this project, Managers of collection centres, Trash collectors, Fishing folks

We are confident to realize the numbers mentioned because we obtained the knowledge through 20 years of experience in a profitable recycling industry.

Our Team has the following:

Managerial skills

Advocacy / Training skills

Social communication skills

Technology know-how in Recycling Activities

Our Team is working with a positive mind taking always the profitability of the project as our first priority

We are operating for profit and cross financing the pilot project through our existing recycling activities.

We are positioned for long-term sustainability, profitability and expansion due to the value addition of the waste materials collected.
Recycled materials are sold to manufacturers for profit and expansion.

Our involvement in Recycling Activities for almost 20 years has given us the necessary skills to remain in business

We are applying to Solve helping us to replicate our project in all coastal communities in Ghana and beyond.

Solve can advance our work:

Acces to Finance

Knowledge Transfer

Technology Transfer

Training

Main factors:

Attitude of people

Lack of Finance

Solve can help through advocacy programmes, drawing competions in schools, awareness campaigns,advertisements - Media, Posters, Flyers, setting up collection points and Pre-Processing Plants for Plastic Waste