Arena Recycling Industry (Accelerator)

Company Description: Arena Recycling Industry is a social business that collects plastic waste from beaches in Dar es Salaam and produce building materials such as Eco-Bricks, paving block and tiles out of recycled plastic waste for construction of affordable houses, toilets and other buildings in rural areas. Our solution not only contributes to plastic-free beaches and waterways, but also helps bridge the water and sanitation gap by constructing water tanks and latrines with our eco-bricks. We educate and promote the change of behavior in waste disposal, by involve community recycle’s into logistic and improve their income by buying collected plastic waste from environment, the collected plastic waste is then sorted according to plastic waste composition (density) melted and mixed with sand to produce bricks covered during courses.