Ecobarter

With a global consumption rate of 500 billion- 1 trillion plastic bags per year, and a measly recycling rate of 1 in every 200, sustainability of our extract-manufacture-use-dispose behavioral pattern is questioned.
Ecobarter operates recycling banks in under-served areas, where the various streams of waste are then harvested. The cartons/paper, plastics, aluminum, metals are baled and sold to recycling factories while the upcycling arm of Ecobarter re-purposes the plastic bags into hand-woven fabrics.
So far, Ecobarter runs a program, where we go around on scheduled days to collect sorted and single stream recyclables from registered households and businesses. over 15 tonnes of recyclables has been collected in 2018 and 20 local women form Kuje and Kado kuchi areas of Abuja have been trained on how to hand-weave waste plastic bags into fabric.