Ecoplastile (Accelerator)

Company Description: EcoPlastile is a tech enabled (mobile app, web, USSD, location and agent based) waste management, green materials social enterprise that addresses the challenges of urban waste management (plastic pollution), chronic youth unemployment, deforestation, climate change, and indecent housing while improving access to health and education services especially for the marginalized communities. Ecoplastile has started from Uganda it's pilot market with expansion plans to other countries like Rwanda, Kenya, South Sudan, DRC Congo and the entire East African market. Ecoplastile has launched, “WasteInsure” a digital micro waste- health insurance program which uses garbage as a financial resource in exchange for health and education insurance using a handy phone. WasteInsure uses both a mobile application, web, USSD and agent based platform that allows people to use a mobile phone anywhere any time to exchange plastic for health insurance cover. With this program, the community and uninsured poor slum dwellers and other low income households are able to pay for health cover, drugs, and other health bills by using plastic garbage as payment to an insurance scheme. After plastic has been collected, Ecoplastile uses an innovative, chemical free and energy conserving plastic extrusion processes